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OFFICE NwVonrt Iln n;:
THE NEWSPAPER BUSINESS.
What a Well Known Western Editor
and Publisher Has to Say About It.
Col. Aikens, editor of the Milwau
kee Ect itiitg Wisconsin, in referring
to the newspaper business, says: The
Average newspaper reader thinks he
could improve the newspaper he
reads, if he were the editor. It is
Terj common for editors of Jong ex-i
perience men who have devoted a
lifetime to the profession to get let
ters from subscribers offering advice.
No doubt the editor needs advice;
but as a rule an editor, fit to be in
position, knows better than any one
reader what should go into his pa
per. The rea lers of a newspaper are
a community, and their wants nud
tastes are broader than those of one
man, hence the acute editor will find
his war to the satisfaction of the
greatest number. In this course he
will circumscribe himself only by a
regard for truth, right, and public
good. He is, however, constantly
tempted by the largo sale of purely
nasty and immoral papers, to in
crease his at the expense of decency.
lut only on the ground that the dev
il is the best paymaster can this
course be justified. Edit a paper
within the bounds of decency and
right, and the
best test of the edi-
tor's work is the sale of his wares
the number of his readers. Edited
r nii1Cr ,nMr,i
becomes a tract, aud people dou't
buy tracts the benevolent societies
give them awav.
' Another rmmilar fallacv with re-
! gard to newspapers is the very gen- J
I eral belief that fabulous fortunes are ',
j made by publishing them. Of course j
j everybody knows that n it much (
j money can be made in printing a j
i small paper in a country town; but ;
we speak of prominent papers in
great cities. It is a common remark
that we hear with regard to Chicago
newspaper fortunes. There are five
principal newspapers in Chicago and
we understand from most excellent
authority that there has been no
monev made In them for the past
year. We know the newspapers
have uot paid expenses the past year.
The difficulty has not been with the
papers, for they have been good. It
is the lass of advertising. Business
has been dull and merchants and
manufacturers have not attempted
to expand by advertising. In the
United States are printed some six
thousand publications. We do not.
call to mind twenty men who have
made fortunes in tho buiiuess. So
we repeat, it is not a money-making
business.
Perhaps the worst popular fallacy
with regard to newspapers is that
generally entertained that newspa
pers ought to be printed and pub
lished in tho interest of ths conituu
nity particularly the indigent por
tion of the community. Church3,
poor-nouses, asylums ana an sorts
of charitable enterprises run to the
newspapers for gratuities, as a child
runs to its mother for help. Politi
cians, office-seekers and scalla vag,
generally count on the unpaid sup
port of newspapers. Now a news
paper, to be worth anything as a
business, should be printed in the
interest of its" proprietor just as
much as a merchant should run his
business in his own interest alone.
This popular fallacy has been large
ly bred by the establishment of par
ty and personal orgaas, that live by
begging for support, and other
newspaper mendicaucy.
Another very common fallocy that
has possession of the average mind
is that an advertisement of one's
wants and business inserted in a
newspaper, is patronage, in a sort of !
generous
sense. The fact is that
the publisher of a first-class newspa
per usually charges less than the
cost of the white paper covered, for
the insertion of an advertisement.
So, if there is any patronage in the
transaction, it is ou the part of the
publisher. A stranger picking up a
paper from an unknown city, judges
of its business and general reputa
tion for enterprise more by the ad
vertisements than bv the editorials.
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THE IIOnniDLE HOPPERS. v,
Another Letter from the Devastated
Districts of Kansas.
It may interest you to learn how
we Kansas sufferers are getting along,
or whether it is as bad as reported in
the papers. Let me tell you that
anything you have read, would only
give you a faint idea of the reality.
The month past has been one of
hard fighting every day. To-day we
have concluded to yield, and lay
down our war implements. I wish
you could l ave been here for the
last week, not that I wished you to
suffer on the battle field, but tolearu
some of the tactics of a grasshopper
war. Neighbor Pardee, next south
to me, has 20 acres to small fruit and
garden, his only dependence for a
living. The enemy has completely
riddled him to-dar. He has caught
many bushels with a sort of net, one
!end stretched over a barrel hoop,
which he swings in his hands, taking
from one to two quarts at a swing,
! till it gets too heavy. He the pounds
! his captives with a board paddle un
: til they yield. Most every family
j have different modes of slaughter.
They commence traveling about 10
o'clock a. m. , if the sun shines, and
i Z nIon tne side of tne lence or
j ,ea-e- 1 nave Iour Pus U"S zxo'
aim lwo Ieet u?eP- uieo rc lwo
Holes in me uoiiom
if . 1 ii
from 3 to 4 feet
deeP wilh an 8-i"ch post augur, put
' "P n boarJ on the back siJe and a
! 16-foot board, one foot wide, for a
! winS. with 0,10 cn1 to 4l,e Pitc1'-
1
inese nojes win nu aoom iwt
each day, without any effort of our?;
but if we desire to drive them, two
or three hands, with bushes, or any -
thing to : swing in the hand, can
catch all we desire to handle. At
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first we poured in hot water an
killed them, then bored them ou
out lue o.ior wus ery uhj.iui.
now we jam lui'in iit anur,
then bore them out without cooking.
r
S uie large farmers have done busi
ness on a more extensive scale, and
taken from. 10 to 23 bushels per day.
Bjt itV of no use; we can go back
six or eight rods from the pit and
drive tbeni in, and before you can
dispose of them, the ground will be
covered the same as before, and all
the satisfaction you get is in know
ing that there are so many dead.
The people are almost panic
stricken. Thoy have used every
means to get seed, and the prospect
never was brighter for good crops.
They have geueially worked hard,
and lived poorly. There are but few
families that have any meat, but by
selling a little butter, get some once
a w.-ek, but now some of the prairies
are as bare as in winter, and as the
crops are nearly all destroyed of ev-
f ery kind, the prospect is tnat there
will be nothing for cattle to eat in
I ten days. They have eaten the corn
oome oi tue neiguucis sum un-j
corn that they can see the rows in
the morning, but none at night. If
the hopper should go away as soon
as the 15th or 20th of next month,
we might get corn after
that, if we had seed, but there is
none in this country, and nothing to
buy auy with. But, you kuow, it is
an old adage that "it is always d irk
est just befcre day " So we will
hope for tho best, and trust in that
Power that has brought us thus far
safely through life, for the future.
Filvh Reed in the Adrian IIVcAVy
Time.
Jones gave a lawyer a bill to be
collected to the amount of $30. Call
for it, after a while, he inquired if
it had been collected. "Oil yes,"
fiajd tbe lawyer, " I have it all for
you." What charge for collecting?"
"Ob, said the lawyer laughing,
"I'm not going to charge yua why
I have known you ever tince you
were a baby, and your father before
you; $20 will be about right," hand
ing over $10. "Well," said Jones,
as he meditated upon the transac
tion, "its darned lucky he didn't
know my grandfather, or I shouldn't
have got anything""
HELPLESSNESS VS. STRENGTH.
The constant experiences and ob
servations of every day life so com
pletely refute the theory that woman
should be educated to dependence
and helplessness, that it is incredible
how it finds favor even with the
most 6tupid.
The superficial gallantry of which
we hear so much, and which we are
solemnly told that women will for
fait when Ibejufcto. generally disap-
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pears in me nour oivxiremiiy. j.i
this is not the fact, why is it that the
large number of victims in marine
and other disasters are women? But
one woman was saved from the
wreck of th Schiller," while a
number of men escaped. When the
"Atlantic" was wrecked last year
upon the rocks of Nova Scotia, not a
single woman escaped. Whe l the
Catholic Church at Holyoke, Mass.,
was burned, we are tld that among
the sixty -six victims, there were but
seven men. So it is in every case.
"Yes; but the strong bore down' the
weak," you would say. True; but
we thought your theory was that the
strong protected the weak. The lit
tle commonplace gallantries very
pleasant it may be which women
can live without, most tncuarc ready
and willing to grant. But in stfrn
emergencies, the first and last
! thou-ht is for gel.
So it is in all
transactions of life. There is not the
slightest discrimination in favor of
t women which they cannot very well
afford to do without. Traveling
fees, hotel charges, butchers' and
grocers' bills are the same, whether
nn:1ii1-m.nni.wnm(n Tl, 1,1.
lorJ ci;alges tne same rent, and the
j WOO(1 umn ft ,ittle more for hi3 vootl
1 if ft womau is so "helpless" as not to
j kcow the aifference betweeu a cord
j and a half-coid; and so it is in allvolt ngainst what is pure Your
j things else. The law of the world KWaerers, who are sucking
i is Kelf-protection, and it were as easy j l)utt8 of biliiarJ cues all ni.rbt
j a .1.1. r "j o
, to escape Jrom tne aws of cravjta.
j tion as from ilic necessity ot intelli-
gent self-reliance. This false gos -
j pel of feminine helplessness is one
! of the strongest allies of human mis-
i erv: and women should I anish it j
from their lives and in its place
substitute that of independent self-
reliance, and thev will have that;
which will fail them not.
"The gods help those who help
themselves;" those who will learn to
manage their own affairs can have
what is better thangallan try com
petence, or at least independence
and while dependent ones are help-!
lessly giving vent to unavailing
serrow, or appealing to others for
aid in tho hour of calamity, those
who are able to help themselves will
quietly place their own hands upon
the helm and direct their barks into
smooth channels. "To bo weak is
to be miserable," and this without
remedy or qualification. Strength
of men is a thing to be desired above
all things, to be proud of, to be
prayed for as a guide through the
rough places in life. A foolish fling
of words from the weak-miuded may
perhaps serve to annoy, but they
cannot daunt one who knows full
well the invaluable aid which
strength of mind furnishes. What
we want is more strong-minded men
who do not seek to make wemen be
lieve that their chief charm lies in
their helplessness; more strong-
minded women who prefer strength
. . .
of purpose and independence to i
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cuuy.uy UDjiemieuce. sua. . .
Cobarn in fh Neic Northwest,
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Definition of Bible Terms.
A shekel of gold was $8 00.
A talent of silver was $538 32.
A talent ot gold was $13,809.
A piece of silver, or a penny, was
thirteen cents.
A farthing was three cents.
A mile was less than a quarter of a
cent.
A gerah was one cent.
A eyha, or path contains seven
gallons and five pints.
A bin was one gallon and two
pints. A firkin was seven pints.
An omer was. six pints.
A tab was thrc pints.
He Knew His Age.
In the times when the political
warfare between Whigs and Demo
crats waxed hot and relentle there
was a town out West in which the
two parties were bo equal in num
bers that the variation of a single
vote, one way or the other might
be a matter of most seiisas conse
quence. Of course on both sides
sharp eves were open and watchful.
A young man came to the polling
place on election day and offered his
vote. It was his first appearance in
the character of an elector, and he
had the independence, or audacity,
to differ -politically with his father.
His father challenged his vote.
"On what grounds? demanded
the presiding officer.
"He ain't twenty-one."
"I am twenty-one," asserted the
youth.
"No you ain't," permitted the fath
er; "you won't be twenty-one till to
morrow." "I say I will" cried the youth.
"I was born on the 12th day of No
vember. It is down so in the old
Bible."
"Then it's a dod-rotted mistake,"
said the old .man. "You weren't
born till tho morniu' of the 13th of
November, I can swear."
"How can you swear?"
j "How?" repeated the father, iu-
j dignantly. "Goodness
j wasn't I thai?"
gracious!
"Well," leturned the son, with
proud defiance, "wasn't I there too?"
The young niau voted. Uwton
Courier.
Female Society.
All i.jen who avoid .female society
have dull perceptions, and are stu
pid, and have gross tastes, and re-
club
the
call
fnmnlii cnMiiiv itiwiiw.l Ii-it t-ir ie no
j uniuslJirillg. to, a vokel; beauty has
; no cuavms for a blind man; music
. does ,)ot please a 1oor beaat( .ho
i a tt,A yrnnm f.., ,.,u
UUli UIJU II UUU kl'(lV I1UUI UUIillJ
i er, but, os a true epicure is hardly
ever tired of water, sauce aud brown
bread ami butter, I protest I can sit
for a whole niht talking to a well
regulated, kindly woman about her
daughter Fanny, or her boy Frank,
aud like the evening's entertainment.
One of tho greatest benefits a man
can derive from woman's society is
that he is bound to be respectful to
ner
The habit is of great good to
your morals, men, depend upon it.
Our education makes us the most
eminently selfish men in the world,
and the greatest benefit .that .comes
to a man from a woman's society is
that he has to think of Homebody to
whom he is bound to be constantly
attentive and. respectful . Thackeray.
Another Cancer Cure.
Another man ha discovered an
"infallible cure" for cancer. His
name is Charles Yardley, and he
lives at Pittsburgh. We know noth
ing about Mr. Yardley or his plant,
the virtues of which he no highlv ex
tols, but there may he something iu
it. He writes as follows: "I want
to tell you how I cured my cancer
last summer without pain or money,
E.ght years ago a cancer came on
mv nn5i Tt. in-pw ftlntvlv nt. firaf
i . . . . r . . .
tfor teveral years, but the last two
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years it grew very fast and it finally
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began to eat my left eye. I hod
spent hundreds of dollars and tiied
doctors far and near nithout any
relief. Last summer I drank Wild
Tea, putting the tea grouuds ou my
cancer every night, as a poultice,
and in six weeks ray cancer was
cured. I am sixty-two years old. I
have given this remedy to several
persons having cancers, and kuow
two that have been cured siuce.
Wild Tea grows over the States get
erally, always on high land." Ee-
! clianqe.
"Lemrao die now," gasped an
Ohio farmer. "I've lived to see a
woman git thirty-ono yards of cloth
into one dress, and I'm ready to pull
up stakes ov;."
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SAVE THE SLOP.
Let every one who owns a garden,
whether in town or country, bear in
mind that the waste water,- highly
impregnated with ammonia and oth
er valuable fertilizers, that annually
goes to the gutter, would make many
a man rich. Now that every well
arranged kitchen has a sink, with a
waste water-pipe' attached, the latter
should in every instanco have its out
let in some portion of the vegetable
garden. A tank not necessarily'
large, should be (he reservoir for re
ceiving all the contents, aud if no
higher than the surface of tho sur
rounding ground, and covered with
a neat board floor, it will not prove
unsightly. The center of the gar
den is the proper place for its loca
tion, and a small force-pump will At
all tims enable us to use the liquid
portion of the contents. The sedi
ment, which will mostly settle to
the bottom, thould be taken out
as often as it interferes with tho
working of the pump, and immedi
ately composted as an incomparable
manure for vines. 'Alter a reasona
ble length of time it becomes as
mclow and rich as pny one could de
sire, and causes, the richest tint of
green to spread ovex the melon and
cucumber leaves. Indeed, for Lima
beans there is no fertilizer so well
adapted as this. The liquid portion
of the contents of tho tank may be
pumped up, aud by the aid of inex
pensive wooden trough", can be con
veyed to any portion of the garden
where it is needed. Tho celery,
treated to an occasional dressing of
this, will outgrow any plant ever
seen in the garden.
In early Spriug, however, is the
season when its virtues are most
needed. A sprinkling over the seed
beds of cabbage, celery, &c, will
prove equal to the best "home
made" liquid manure. The overflow
pipe (for there must be such an ar
rangement) should lead iuto a neatly-kept
gutter, and on either side of
this, if one or two rows of strawber
ry plants should bo set, there sill bo
an astonishing growth of foliage fol
lowed bv a surprising crop of fruit.
The best arrangement of this kind
is where there are two tanks, con
nected near the top by a short pipe.
The waste water, sediment and all,
runs into the first of these, when the
solid portion sinks to the bottom,
while tho liquid fills tho tank, and,
passing through tho communicating
pipe, is held by the second tank.
Over the latter should be lustered
the pump for the convenience of us
ing the stimulating fluid; but in tho
first tank will accumulate all the
solid matter, which may retain there
in for some time, or until it should
fill the vessel and retard tho passage
of the wat tr in the communicating
pipe. As this contrivance has been
successfully tested by some of tho
most practical gardeners of my ac
quaintance, it should come into more
geneial use, as the idea of a person
purchasing several dollars' worth of
manure for his garden when he has
an almost inexhaustible supply.with
out cost, at his very door, is timply
ridiculous. Chester.
Sneer, if you will like a fool, at the
suggestion of reform, morals, relig
ion; every man knows that all there
is of true life is personal virtue and
and rectitude of character.
If I were styldeuly asked to give a
proof of the goodness of God to us, I
think I should say that it is most
manifested in the exquisite differ
ence He 1 as made between the souls
of women and men, so a to create
the possibility of the most charming
companionship that tbe mind of roan
can imagine. Authur Help.
Who says angels must all be young
and splendid? Will there not bo
some comforting onee shabby and
tender;whoseradiancedoos not dazzle
nor bewilder; whoso faces are wornr
perhaps, while their stars shine with
a gentle, tremulous light, noro
boothing to our aching, earth-bound
heart.i than the glorious radiance of
brighter Kp'riU?Mfo Thackeray.