AN EDITOR WANTED A DOG.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1676, 30 September 1887, Page 3

AN EDITOR WANTED A DOG.

An editor In Beading (U.S.) advertised the other day that he " would take a good dog In payment of one year's subscription for his paper." The next day forty-three dogi were sent to the office. The day afterwards, when the news had spread into the conntry, four hundred farmers sept two dogs apiece by express, with elfjht baskets foil of poppies, all marked "0.0.D." (cash on delivery). In the meantime the offer found its way into the neighboring Stateß, and before the end of the week there were eight thousand dogs, tied np with ropes, In the editor's front and baok yards. The assortment Included all kinds, from bloodhounds down to poodles. A few hundred broke loose and swarmed on the stairways and In the entries, «ftd stood outside the sanctum and bowled, and bad fights, and sniffed under the crack of the door, aa if they were hacgry for "some editor." And the editor climbed out of the window, op the water-spout, and out on the comb of tha roof, and wept. There was no Issue of the paper for six days, and the only way m which the friends of the eminent journalist could feed him was by sending lunofeeon up tQ him In b I oons, At last somebody bought a barrel or areenlo and three tons of beef, and Solsoned the dogß, and the editor came own, only to find on bis desk a bill from the Mayor for 8000 dole., being the municipal tax on dogs at 1 dol. per head. The enterprising journalist is not offering the same inducement to subscribers now, and he doesn't want a dog.