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Show H j Tfie Plural Editors and The Hj Fussy Springtime. H H I The irresistible witchery of budding spring is Hn apparently coursing lavishly through the veins ot H i the country editors, and the pages of the rustic H j weeklys aie carved and scintillant with literary H ! abiasions and pithy paiagraphs. Unless the sea- HB ( ' son of adolescense soon passes or its beflowered BH I j serenity Is interrupted with a few earthquakes B 1 I and hurricanes, it is to be feared that the bucolic B t ! wit granery will overflow and infect the new and B 'I tender spring vegetation. B j An Idaho journalist concludes a sulphuric de- HH . J i scription of a basket ball game between the Sec- B j ond Year High School team and an aggregation B j , designated as the Hobos, with the following beau- H ;i tiful double distich: B j The Second Year's, with all their pomp and might, B 'i Thought they'd knock the Hobos out of sight. B v But the Hobos were all wide awake BB And the Second Years found it hard to undertake. B ji & & Jt m An editor at Preston has also apparently been H -j taking some spiing tonic and is probably feeling H a good deal better. He voices his sentiments in H - j r these breezy paragraphs: H jjj The Prospector has many good things in store H n for its readers. H jl Don't despair. The fact that the editor is in HH U Loon Creek and the printer flew his kite of course H Ji has weight. H U Be patient, we'll get there; you'll get your H I money's worth and then some. You're lucky to be H 'i alive. Don't kick, we've got troubles of our pwn, H ! don't tell us yours. B '' .i? vt Jt V , j The versatile genius who steers the destinies H id , of a Rigby, Ida., paper is also suffering from H i Springiticus and poms forth the following grace- H ful indictments anent the season of buds and H 1 1 I bards: B A The fields are being plowed and the farmers B I are busy. B fi A snow and wind storm last Sunday. B I1 ! Tne lamljs are Iresking in the warm sunshine. B j The chipmonks have put in their appearance B again. B The geese, turkies and ducks are laying, and B the hens are setting. B The lobin and the lark are with us once again, B and the magpies are building their nests. H 1 W d vS M In the bright hiatus of the spring sunshine, B tne rlltic pencil destroyer can even see merit B in his erewhile much abused fellow craftsman, as B witness the following graceful and Chesterfield- B ;, Ian compliment from a Preston scribe: B ' John Suffer edited tho Repubicer this week. B Quite an improvement. H i Jt Jl t! m Whatever else may be said of the rural editor, B he is usually long on gratitude, and will faith- B fully acknowledge receipt of any donation that B reaches his sanctum, from a patchwork pillow B from the Woman's Quilting Bee to a sample of B one of Uncle Si' parboiled pumpkins. A Mont- B I poller editor thus acknowledged a telephonic B I courtesy: B ' , Sunday evening ourself and wife, through the B courtesy of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone B company's local office, were privileged to hear B Mrs. Annie Hood of Fairview, Wyo., sing the fl 5 beautiful Scotch balad, "Annie Laurie," over the H 'phone from the Republican office. Thanks very, to the 'phone people. Mrs. Hood is a lovely sing- H'" er and we enjoyed the treat very much, for which B she has our thanks. B v 5 a& H I Still the path of the editor is not one long H j orchid-embanked lane of felicity, as note the tear- I 1, ful appeal of a Fllmore (Ida.) bulletin maker: What's the matter with the merchants of Millard Mil-lard county? Not one of them has an ad in the homo paper. Don't you know the people want to know what you have to sell, and that you are still doing business at the old stand. Our rates are but living ones, and a neat ad generally bring good results. W tV tV The editor of a Utah journal, while more for tunate in the lariating of ads. fiom local merchants, mer-chants, apologizes for a lamentable lack of news. It might be a good idea to keep this item in the form and let it run ior a few more years: Says he: This office has had a good run of job work the past two weeks, and not mucn attention has been given to making the paper particularly newsy. & & & Occasionally a Millard county editor secures some remunerative ads., enough, probably, to keep the editorial departments well supplied with, writing writ-ing fluid and pencils. A recent one reads thus: "Boarders taken by the day, week or month. Those who do not pay promptly will be taken by the neck." c5v O tv There is no occasion ior discouragement among the country editors. Lay on, O mighty manipulators manipu-lators of the gleaming excaliber or letters. Soon the springtime will be over and you will "come out of it" rejoicing ana rejuvenated. Maybe some day im the golden future, a cyclone cy-clone will strike your village witn Illimitable velocity, ve-locity, and as It tumultuously recedes, your fast-moving fast-moving pen, dipped as it were in Nature's thunderbolts, thun-derbolts, will draw a picture so imperishably vivid that you will be flared before the literary world in Miltonic proportions, and your name will not only become a classic but will go hurtling and sizzling adown the ramparts of unutterable renown to a flnal and glorious lodgment upon the tablets of eternity. Even so, adios! A. N. |