The individual who attempts to injure a
paper by his own profanation blasphemy
or obscenity, should remember the edit
or has rights that must lie respected. In
this connection an incident related by
Sir Edwin Arnold may be recalled. On
the occasion of a reception tendered
that distinguished poet and journalist
by the Press Club, of Now York, last
week, Sir Edwin state! that while in
Massachusetts he read the speech of a
public man who, in alluding to the local
paper, remarked that "he didn’t care a
damn” for it. Sir Edwin thought what
he, as editor of the London Telegraph,
would write if an English speaker had
spoken that way of his paper, and hi:
looked curiously in the MassachusettE
journal the next day to s»-«* what it would
say. He vas immensely pleased with it*
answer. It merely remarked that tlu
price of the paper was two cents, and il
the honorable so and so hud that amount
of money, and would bring it to the office
he could get a copy without the expen
diture of any profanity, but that if Im
didn’t have the two cents, no amouut o:
,,
Till Si n siijnes t < all!
STATE JOTTINGS.
Caspar's new marshal is Tom
McGrath.
The Cheyenne Commonwealth
" j will . publish an evening edition,
• making four dailies nt the capital.
A Cheyenne policeman tried to •
make two girls in the gallery of a •
- theatre takeoff their hats. The
hats stayed on.
F. H. Fall, editor of the New-!
castle A’rtrs, wad appointed clerk i
of the Weston county court, vice '
L , Monroe, resigned.
