Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1884 — His Circulation was Good. [ARTICLE]

His Circulation was Good.

Newspaper men are sensitive. Not concerning their dress, their piety, or their ability to pay a debt, but of their circulation. You may say that he dresses like a tramp, and may thrust insinuations at that sensitive organ, the nose, and smiling benignly he will forgive you, but let fall an innuendo besmirching the circulation of his journal, and all ties of friendship which may have hitherto existed between you are severed with the passionate sw’oop of the knife which so well knows war in the extreme. There is Colonel Harquies, for instance. He rather likes personal abuse, and upon his private life severe criticism has no more effect than an autumn drizzle falling on the back "of a hard-shell turtle; but you must not hint that his paper does not carry in its hip pocket a wad of great influence. Several days ago the Colonel was taken violently ill. He raged in the delirium of high fever, and his wife, becoming alarmed, sent for two prominent physicians. When the medical gentlemen arrived the editor was almost wild, wallowing in a tragic daze. One of the physicians approaching, took hold of the Colonel’s arm, and, turning to his companion, said: “Circulation very poor.” “What!” exclaimed the editor, springing up, “poor circulation! Why, confound you, I work sixty quires. Get away from here, you scoundrels,” and, with loud imprecations and demonstrations of violence, he drove the medical men from the room.— Arkansaw Traveler.

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