ANOTHER VIEW OF IT.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2868, 3 June 1882, Page 3

ANOTHER VIEW OF IT.

There 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 were more jealous of each other than any other class, that they never bad a good word for each other, &c. A long haired youth, with solemn look, spoke up, and heaving said lie had 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 youhg 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 if I let the “ Trombone’* publish my poem first there would bo 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 largo 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 be putting bread in his mouth and clothes on his back. So owing to the love 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 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 significantly nodded their beads and winked at each other.—American paper.