Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1893 — RUNNING A NEWSPAPER. [ARTICLE]

RUNNING A NEWSPAPER.

Jim Jonet, he was an editor; that la, ho tried to Be; He bought himself a hand press, an' he started in to see Jes’ what there was to editin’, but when he’d canvassed 'round, Some fifteen hundred editors tn that same town he found. They all knew more about it than Jones could hopn to know; They told him: -You must run her, Jones, jes' so an’ ho an' sol Be sure an boom the Baptists, they’re bound to help you out. An’ give the good old Methodists a big salva tion shout I . _ - Give every man a notice; be sure an' put it down Whenever Major Jinks is seen to perambulate the town; Putin a few free locals for all the stores, an’ give Each m in a free subscription, if you want your sheet to live!" Well. Jones he done jes’ as they said, for fear they'd make a row: But the more be tr'ed to please ’em all, the more they told him how! Until at lust he took his book an' laid it on the shelf: Then run the paper lu the gro ind, an’ follerod it himself. —Atlanta Constitution. The hay acreage of the United States is larger than all England and Wales. Until 1840 Europe produced 8 per dent of the world’s wheat; mon 50 per cent.