COUNTRY JOURNALISM.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2156, 29 January 1891, Page 1

COUNTRY JOURNALISM.

The following amusing tale is from the pen of " Telemachus," in the Argus:—Country editors, as is gener. ally known, lnve to be advisers-general to all their subscribers. Any question is regarded as fair, and if a satisfactory reply is not received the subscriber is apt "to reflect: " Well, I don't know what I keep paying up to you for j can't tell me a simple thing like that. I'll have no more of you." Careful also must the editor be that he does not make mistakes or mix matters. " I lost two thus in one day," says a. oor fellow in much tribulation, " and through this cursed, locust and other plague. Do you see? 'A' wrote: • We hare got twins, we have, and we want to know how to get them over their teething.' Teething twins are serious troubles when mixed up with harvest work and grasshoppers, and I took trouble to consult competent authority and get him a sound answer. 'A' was tha man with the twins. 'B' wrote about the grasshoppers, and I gave him also sound advice; but then [ put the answers to the wrong letters, and when they got the paper 'A* (twins) read: ' Cover them carefully with straw and set fire to them, and the little pests, after jumping about in the flames, will speedily be settled'; while 'B' (grasshoppers) found himself advised as follows : ' Give a little castor oil, and rub their gums gently with a bone ring.' " He has lost two subscribers through that little mishap in Victoria; what would or would not have happened to him in Colorado ?