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 SOME LAST WORDS.

By virtue of his long service in the newspaper ranks, the longest now in the business in the county, and the longest in continuous service as editor on one paper ever in the county, the author may be presumed to know some- thing of the character and work of the gentlemen with whom he has been associated, and it gives him pleasure to write favorably of the writers and printers of the county. His intercourse with his editorial brethren has been on the whole pleasant, and nothing has occurred to mar the friendship formed. He has had some lively tilts at times, and the Weyands, Eutan, Porter and Curtis, and some of the numerous editors on the "Star," have made him step lively to their editorial music, but as he had a paper of his own, the fun was not all on one side.

The reporters who prepare daily the local happenings for the readers, deserve the highest praise for their fidelity and correctness. Readers of papers usually judge them by the errors they make. It is so easy to criticise, that when a mistake of any kind happens, condemnation soon follows, and very often without any effort to understand the circumstances, or ascertain the cause. The facts used are gathered from people who know them, or are supposed to know them, to be true. The reporter meets Mr. Jenkins, whom he knows to be a man of absolute truthfulness and honor, who tells him of