STOP MY PAPER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 105, 21 April 1876, Page 4

STOP MY PAPER.

An indignant farmer entered the; office of a New Jersey paper and ordered his paper to be stopped, because hje differed in his views regarding the subsoiling fence rails. The editor conceded the man's right to stop bis p'nper; but he remarked coolly, looking over hie list, — " Did you know J;im Snowders down at Hardscrabble?" " Very well," said the man. " Well, he stopped his paper last week because I thought a farmer was a great fool who did'nt know that timothy was a good thing to graft huckleberry bushes, and he died in four boura " ; " Lor, is that so ? " aaid the aatoniahed granger. * ' Yes; and you know old George Erickson, down on Eagle Creek ? " 11 I've heard of him." " Well," said the editor, gravely, "he stopped his paper because I said he was the happy father of twins, and congratulated him on his success so

late in life. He fell dead in twenty minutes. There' are lots of similar cases, hut it don't matter; I'll just cross your ' name off, though you don't look strong by (he color of your nose." "See here, Mr Editor," i«d the subscriber, looking somewhat alarmed, "I believe I'll jest keep on another year, 'cause I always did lika your paper; come to think about it, you're a young man, and some allowance orter be made." And he departed, satisfied that he bad made a very narrow escape from death.