TWO AFFECTIONATE RIVALS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1089, 20 June 1882, Page 4

TWO AFFECTIONATE RIVALS.

Thebe were several men clustered around the stove in the back room of a Galveston saloon, and somehow or other the subject of newspapers came up for discussion. One man said that editors wore more jealous of each other than any other class, that they never had a good word for each, other, &c. A long-haired youth, with solemn look, spoke up, and heaving a sigh, said ho had had some experience with editors, and he found them the reverse of jealous of each other; that a Texas editor was always ready to deny himself comforts for the benefit of a brother editor. “ Where did that happen ?” “ It happened in a Western Texas town where I lived,” sighed the young man. “ I dashed off a little poem of ten or fifteen stanzas about ‘ Beautiful Spring.’ There were two rival papers in the place—-the Bugle and the Trombone. I had heard that the editors were deadly enemies, and sighed to shed each other’s gore, and I was afraid that if I let the Trombone publish my poem first there would be a deadly encounter. I finally resolved to have it appear simultaneously in both papers. When I called on the editor of the Trombone, he said the editor of the Bugle had a large family, and that he would prefer it to appear in the Bugle, as personally he loved the editor of the Bugle. I went then to the Bugle man, and he said that the editor of the Trombone was his warmest personal

friend, and he would be glad if I would let him have the poem, as it would put bread in his mouth and clothes on his back. So, owing to the love these two editors had for each other, I couldn’t get my poem into either of their papers, and it hasn’t been published yet. I never saw men so anxious to help each other out of distress,” and once more the long-haired poet sighed like a bellows. There was a pause, and an old man with frost-bitlen nose drawled out : “ Yer never tried them editors with a cash advertisement, did yer ? The poet answered in the negative, whereat the audience significantly nodded tl eir heads and winked at each other.—American paper.