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Show An Editor's Commission. Says the Littlefield, (III.) News Herald: Not long ago a man enmo into this office and stopped his paper because ho said it was always printing a lot of things about tho same people and ho said he was sick of it. Now' when something goes wrong with tho country tho government appoints a commission to investigate and And out what Is tho matter, and tho first thing a commission investigates Is the man who mode tho holler to see if the holler was a reasonable holler. So wo appointed a commission con-' con-' slating of ourselves to investigate this mam "WV jirtt fulhrwxfti the . . man's career ver since we knew him. The first thing that happened to that nan was that ho was born, but he 'ind nothing to do with It. However, we mentioned him, although his partita par-tita wore entitled to tho credit. When to was in his early twenties ho got married. Wo mentioned that, includ-ig includ-ig tho name of tho bride, the prcach-r, prcach-r, etc., in fact we "mentioned evory-f.hing evory-f.hing but tho preacher's fco, which was not worth montionlng. Wo iwvcr mentioned tho fact that ho never won any premiums at tho county fair, becauusa he never exhibited anything. any-thing. We never mentioned his namo in the list of committees, because he never attended anything. We novor mentioned his namo in the list of donors, because ho nover donated as much as a doughnut. Wc certainly havo bsen treating this man shamefully, shame-fully, but we will agree to run a nlco obituary when tho time comes. |