HOW EDITORS LOVE EACH OTHER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1110, 31 July 1882, Page 4

HOW EDITORS LOVE EACH OTHER.

Thebe were several men clustered around the stove in the back room of a Galveston Saloon, aud somewhat or other the subject of newspaper came up for discussion. One man said that editors were more jealous of each other than 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 ■aid he had some experience with editors and he found them the reverse of jealous of each other; that a Texas editor was always willing to deny himself comforts for the benefit of a brother editor. “ Where did it 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 1 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 if I let the ' Trombone 1 publish my poem first there would be a deadly encounter. 1 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 then went 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 be putting bread in his mouth and clothes on his back. So owing to the love the two editors had for each other I could’nt 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 a frost bitten nose drawled out: “ Yer never tried them editors with a cash advertisement, did yer!” The poet answered in the negative whereat the audience significiently nodded their heads and winked at each other.