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Show ' 2L.0T OF COUNTRY EDITOR IS HARD. iPreacher Enumerates Various ','' Afflictions Former Has to Contend With. Elder John P. Galvin, pastor - of the Christian church of Fairfield, Fair-field, 111., in a series of sermons on the different trades and occupations oc-cupations of life, recently delivered deliv-ered a sermon on "The Newspaper." News-paper." Among the many good things he said were: "What am I doing for it? Kicking because it's not blowing my tin horn? But how much of myself am I lending to the paper by speaking a good word for it whenever I have a chance? Re ally how much of my personal influence in-fluence can its editor depend upon? up-on? Much, or is it little? If I grow a big cabbage I want him to publish it, but I may hear item i after item of news about other j people's cabbages and I never drop him a line about them. Now as he is not almighty enough to be in all places at the same time, why not help him by making Fnews for his paper? It's rather a mean thing to take everything and to give nothing back but faultfinding. If we never feed the cow, how can we expect any milk, and can we blame bossy if she kicks the milker and the bucket? All in all, I find that our country papers are doing their very best for every part of , the county- -even a hundred I times more than any of the large I city papers can possibly do. I "The city daily or weekly can- not deal with those, to them, V small items which interest close 7 nefghbors. J3ut the county pa- t l W persitell jus a'LboutJthem, iancu 1 ' .-UrsTiftm the '"first 'tfaby 'down! i , J, to gadren truck, and the visit j fjj? Mrs. Sallie Howcomerso made a ft Pitchfork Creek. W "In fact, the magic of the Hk county paper sets far-off neigh- Hg bors in close gossiping contact B just a rail fence between. And m where can the preacher find a H more willing agent than this H same county newspaper? It B gives him free ads. for his ser- B mons and lectures, etc., etc. t "And how many times its puff B has inflated the cash balance of B the church social? And he has H to pay for his ice cream and cake B besides. V "Talk about men working for glory? Why half the editors of 5 the country papers only share of glory is like that of the man who saw the father of his nation I afar-off, there being a gulf fixed 8 between the two places. Yes, ft his glory is like some of those 6 weird pictures of Dore. And af-B af-B ter he has spent an hour or so B patching up the spelling and jm punctuation of some hasty broth-B broth-B er's article or letter so as to make decent reading out of it, he feels like he had a mouhtful of must- I ard and sour dock when the said I brother goes around telling every I one how the said editor has I ruined his beautiful effusion. I Job had boils to contend with, i but the country editor has to try I and satisfy men and women I afflicted with an elongated dose I of a twisted conceit. Job prayed I that his enemy might write a 1 hnnk. hut if I could ever pray for the affliction of a man I didn't t 1 like, I'd pray he might be an I editor of a country newspaper. I It would keep him hot through 1 the day, and he wouldn't have I much sleep at night. Sp- my I heart goes out to the, country 1 editor. May his paiuup list I grow as fast as the gourd of I Jonah, only with a better stay- 1 ing quality, and may his days H1I1J M.I. ! m ! be long in the land, and may his shadow never grow less, and, if we can, let us send him to congress." |
