The Arkansas banner., 1848-12-19
RAISlaG THE WIND.

that We have heen eagsgsi In maguzire publishina we have seen more than one operation that might, with great appropriateness be cssed under the head of f"kaisDg the Wiadi' aud we have more than ding money in advance to any and every body who choose to issue prospectus Tor new TnaRazne.- Every year VIC have abstch of new annou ncements in this ns, and every year the deas public, unwarpsd by former experience, gels (des rvediy we had a- most said) taken in. Bat read ihe article and let 'word 10 the wiss' bo ell aafsclent.--PusLtsHEs LApY's BooK
 'Imust do something said ashabby-genteei look ing individual, leaning back in his ehaiS. and lifting his eye. to the ccalIng. And SO must r. WIS the response of friend, who initiated the movemsnt of tbs krsi speaker Os closely as if ho had been his shadow. Before six months passes, unless some good for tune turn up sIail be completely out at tho el. bows and pockets as any poor devil in the lana.' Ditto. But Dick, something muH be done-- Can't we hatch up moncy-i -inaki z scheme Other people drive ahead at one piaguy thing or another and why no, we Set your brain 60 work end con coet something. We're no fools
 Richard Hsndy, the individual addressed. swung himself back aud forth for some minutes the hind legs of hs chair. wIh his eyes still upon the ceiling Al last he said ss he let his chair come 10 it's true pos ton on the Aoor-Ili tell you wist VIC might do, Harry
 'Weil, speak out Anything that promises to oEay7'
 Start III Agazine.'
 Folly The country has more now ,asn if can s3siain.'
 I'm not so sure Of,hat. The public are always ready for some novelty
 sIt won't do. Eve seen the rise and fall birth and death of too many magazines and newspapers to have any faith In them. Those that successful keep the field In spite of new competitors. Godey has the lead. and being backed up by large subscrp. ton ists and large capital, Is able to present arac
 lions aud excellencies uRattanable by any work that has not al least fifteen twenty thonsand sub scribers-a number that ne new magazine can hope 10 get
 can make raise on new magazine at least, ana 1t may 6e psrmsnent. Everything must be In small
 Nonsense You can't begin to start a magazine on less than three or feuI hundred dOilsrs. and T you 'ye got to suk that, and twenty times much bssIdes, before you reap cent of profit on the cir cnlsiion. know. I've het my fingers burnt once, : and understand lhe whole thing like a book T don't care il you do. I've been thinking a5ou, a magazine for q week tea days past, Snd em satisfied that it will pay
 'AnI am just as well satisfied that 1t won't pey
 The des is DO fsctiy tidIcuous to who knows as much about such matters as to I we were to send out flaming prospectus" said Handy, promising all sorts oi exceences and
 novelties, and affirming thai ample capital to carry out the scheme was pledged and, moreover, were to offer magazine for say one-hnf oi the p.!ce at which Godeys Is published, don't you | ilk we could induce the country press to copy tho thlug , extensively Y
 IT VIC promise them an exchange
 Very well Now, don't you think thai with such prospectus spread before half d. million ot people, there would bo found few hHndreds ready is srad their two oT trs dollars la sSsahee 'Evea before the thing went ,s psesa' l No doubt of it'
 Nor have L Now. don't yoa begin to tskOl'
 Harry, as he was called, or Henry Jeakns. bright. ened up considerably.
 sI ilnkI 4o fip fRaid 10
 With thousand or two dollars in hand we could 20 with the enterprise if it promised to pay wel , or--you underestimate: Exactly. That view Of the didnt strike me. Then yoa agree with me that new magazine
 Is the thing T
 : T do, mos emphatcally.' Hhat shall we call it 2
 Some grand, fourishiug name. of course . 'How wou!d'The Peisdes do ! 'Tlo crandileqaent Tine OTion,' Inen ?? ! Ditto. No, no; il won't do 10 go up among the stars It must be something for the ladies 'rha Peach B!Osson, would be petite and fanc'fai Too much so. Let me sec. An I've got It. 2 'Ths NYfor of Tasie and Gen of FGn,y,' l 'tspsiaI That do exactly
 And a CT repeating the title of the proposed maga- zine until it sounded familiar, the discussion pro- ceeded to the character appearance, and gene rai
 conduct of the york; if it should ever See the light In due time the prospectus was hammered out by jout effort of these worthless It promised every
 thing. possible and impossible that could he thought
 of; abused and criticised, by implication, all the
 popular and successful magiIines in the field. and promised 10 be much superior 10 them as sunlig superior to lampight- All the best writers and
 artists iu the couuuy were announced as under en- ] gagemeni, some of tdem exclusively for The Mir
 TOT cf Taste and Gem of Fancy 3 T gues. that will do what was the mutual atir. | nation of Handy X Jenkins, when ihe precious ! affair hal received it's last touch. | fara n
 spot which consideration drew rather seriously upon the pockets of the firm, the prospectus Of he
 Mirror ol Taste and Gem of Fancl' saw the ligl't
 in three or four widely circulated newspapers and
 from lhence made its way lato the country papers
 far and
 That's just the thing said one, who read the brilliant proposals I like that said another; and I Il have that, said third. some stopped he La l d, s Book some cut Graham, aud some stopped Pe- terson. Handy and Jenkins soon experienced pe- culiar pleasure In going to the posi-oif every
 morning, for letters from ui parts began 10 How n most of them containing Iefnittances for the new magazine.
 People are gulls. and no mistake,' said Handy, on receiving one morning larger nunioer oi remit tances than usual for the new work. I never doubted that, returned Jenkins How } much have we rec i've In all
 About two hundred do lars Shall we go on r q don't know It will take all that to get out the ' first number
 Yes, and more too. But there is no time to be lost 1t will bs as much the bargain. now, for us to get by the first of January and I'm afraid anyhow. of the impression our first number WI 1 make. We can't begin 10 cone uP to our Prosrec' . tus
 .No. nor can any anybody else. Bat il will look too bad to cut and run without even making s ieint.'
 , That's true. think we'd better try 10 get up a number-one some now This was finally agreed upon, and the first nurn- Der Of The Mirror of Taste and Gem of Fancy saw , the light.
 It's pretty we'll ascertaned fact. that Mir. Godey
 no natter what his feelings might have been under the influence of he prospectus. were not troubled
 with either nightmare sieepessness after the nst
 number made it's appearance , s,ill the press landed 'The Mirror Of Taste and ! Gem of Fancy a briliiant-star in the magazine