There were several men clustering
around the stove in a Galveston saloon,
and the subject of newspapers came np
for discussion One man said that ed
itors weie more jealous of each other
than any other class, that they never
hod a good word for each other, etc.
A long-haired youth with a solemn
look spoke np, and, heaving a sigh, said
bo had some experience with editors,
and found them the reverse of jealous
of each other; that a Texas editor was
willing to deny himself comforts for the
benefit of a brother editor.
“ Where did that happen 7”
11 It happened In a western Texas
town whore I lived,” sighed the young
man. “ I had dashed off a little poem
ol fifteen stanzas about ' Beantful
Spring.’ There were two rival papers
in the place the ligle and Trombone,
I had heard that the editors were dead
ly, 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 simul
taneously in both papers. When 1
called on the editor of the Trombone he
said the editor of the Bugle had a largo
family, and that he would prefer it
would appear in the Bugle, as person
ally he loved the editor of the Bugle.
