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Show PROBLEMS OF THE SMALL TOWN NEWSPAPER MAN. ' The editor of the Kansas Cit) Ktnr received n sort of friendly letttr from n country editor the other day, just a i brotherly epistle, not intcndid for publication Hut the Knnsna Citv mini thought it too good to be allowed to perish in nn inside pocket, and re queried permission to print, it in his columns. The countrv editor n plied I lint he didu t rccnll exnctl) what he hud written, but to go nliend that iverv mnn ought to be willing to bnve nil) letter he wntei given to Ilia public it the public will stnnd for it. S the ICmiMt City editor printed tin Idler from tho count r) editor nnd it hits been going tho rounds ever sinee Jtwill continuo to go tho rounds because be-cause it is worth n good don! to have such communications inndo pubhi Hero H is in full "I know evcrjlwd) in tho whole (ounlr) nmndnbout b) his first name There tiro n thousand things to make lifo n jo). Tho )oiingitcre in school come to tho office for my opinion in difficult things in their lesions. I fur urn out Ihc contents of stacks of nl fnlfu nnd prnirio ha) for fnrmerw I nm thn court of last resort when it comes to prices of corn nnd entile nnd bogs during Cleveland's ndministrr lion. I nilvise widow women nlmul their nffnirs. I lend tho ehronienllv inieeuiiious sums ranging from fifty cents to three dollars nnd always get it back. I head tho list nnd help carry tho paicr to tnko n subscription for romeone in distress. Our office gets tho frenk vegetables nnd big com nnd fine fruits. Wo never got nny knocks. No one ever comes round to tell us whnt to print. Our town tins no iomts. Wo have ono drug store nnd It sells no boorc. If our druggist should invest in n government license bo knows nnd his wife knows, becnuso I told him nnd ho told his wife, Hint nn item would bo mndo of such n license being granted. "Tho only wrangling I ever have fs with tho preachem. This town lins sir churches count them six. nnd there is only room for one. All tho prr;ich era nro on tho freo lint. Hut I hnnll) ever nttend church nnd when they bring nround n half column of dniio nbout their particular church, 1 take it nnd boil it down to n singlo para graph nnd Hint make them son. And they Mild tho preiiding elihr nround, whin he mines Jo (own tiwtnlk to me I nnd to uduiouish mu Hint 1 nm wasting n wonderful oimortuuitv to do nali work lor thu aflisler. And I coinei baik bv telling the presiding elder! Hint our paper is doing morn to mnke thu town a decent little hamlet in u wick than nil thn pn'mhent do in ii J cur. "The last ono to haul inn over the coals demanded demanded to gnow whv I did not ntliiid ihiirrh, und ii told him. Told hint of tho chun.li ryhlon low n of the makeshift as-tor as-tor we have hnd for Iwintv-fivo enrn if the pitiable mm) of having a )nung man who could not grow n de-cmiI de-cmiI bonrd nnd wirt linrdly dry behind be-hind tho cam from college, undertaking undertak-ing to tell grown men who hnd met n Ct-od innnv plinsta of life its teuipln-tions teuipln-tions nnd wnkedness and sin how to live on riundn) nnd through the week lived his life apart from tho pommnn henl of mm nnd women who have ttinla and henrtnrhes nnd joy, nnd sorrows. A little country town like this needs n man n man for n spiritual ndviser. A mnn like that (.nil ono (hurrh in n town could do mi immense nmotint of good "Of course, u nung man mut bo-(in bo-(in Komewhen', but he should begin in million work in n city when he meets sin und alinmo nnd crime nnd pnvorl) in nil its hidenusnoas, nud Iht n he would probably bit qualified to pi out nnd prcncli to count r) pen plu." |