The Difference

"Ï ou can tcll the people if you want to rtll up your paper, tnt 1 am going to start a shop liere to Manufacture and repair wagons and carrlajtea," Bid a fellow to a news paper publisher. "Would yoi liketo have t a standing advertisement ? said tbe editor. "Oh, I only want an item," was the response. "Would you like to subscribe tor the paper ?" "W el), uo, I'in takiiiR all I can read now ; I niay take yours when some of them run out. The next day the editor wanted two ne spokes put in bil boggy wheel and the dash board lixed up, and he went to the shopkieper and said: "Yon can fix this bugjry it you want a job to keep you busy." The 9hopkeept;r looked it ov t and said: "The spokes will bn Itftycenti each ttnd the ilash a dollar, mnkin two dollars for the necessary repair?." "Hut said the ecribe '-I don't care to p:iy anythinr for it; 1 thoiight you mlght want a job just to rill up your time- just an item you know." But'the gbopkeeper was indignant, and said witli a curve of his spine: "Do you think I urn a fooi to work for iiothinft? P'ye tliink Ican buj iron, and wood, and coiil, and rent a shop, and keep tools and do work for nothing?'1 "Oh, excuse me," said tht publislier, "but I own a jrintinjt oftlw type and fumiture whtcli cost huiidret!s of dollars. I have to buy paper.ink, etc. and pay cash for hired help, coal and al euch necessarie?. I have a circulation o over two thonsand copies, whicli coet me many dollars each issue, and onl' yesterday you liad the male cheek anc audacity to ask that I teil tliose 2,000 t:mi ilies that vou were in business, readv to