New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-10
CITY ITEMS.

"CopY."-This word hss somehow csme to be the
peculiar property Of the Devl-the printers Devil
we nesn-aDd the special terror Of weary editors.
But has significance the world over, If one will
only think Of it,
Copy" murmur the happy mother with her hrst-
born on her knee as che fuishe. FOR the housandih
time, the peruss Of the little meaningless face with
it's uDspecuaiive eyes But she reads in it than
the negbbors dream Of She in il "s Book Of
Beauty" With it, fathers brow, its mothers lips,
there it lie, the sweetest copy III ell the world.
Tie child is a man-the young mother lettering,
old woman and az she looks up with dim and fsdog
e,es into the face ~ her long absent son again enc
murmurs copy-just as bis father looked, years and
years age"
That man is struck down like some strong tower,
by ga touch from heaven" aud they lay him gently
in the bosom Of the earth The mother lie there;
he wee al only rob, and she is widow" and as
the fwel ing turf hides hin from all eyes, she throws
up her old hands despairngly, and sgts 40 passes
"sway the only copy this wide world contains
When the great and good 60 on before, and we
stepd gazing up into Heaven and we turn sadly to
the places left vacant, and think who remains 10
fill them, We cannot repress the thought, and it s
copy still
And 70 it il, all over the world; smiling, they whs-
per it; Triumphant. they utter it. weeping, they
breathe it.
WHY DON'T You ADVERTISE To those who are
complaining Of The severity Of the times, address
this inquiry: Why don't you advertise 1t is Just
tie thing help you out of your d.ficulties-to
lieve you Fl ON existing embarrsssmeDts-tosaveyo u
There is no nstske about it, and the concentrations
which have been made within your own observation,
within the lest seven years, by those who have ad
vertsed extensively prove the fact that advertising
is the road to fortune. Do you cay ysu have not
the neens TO meet the expense, and cannot afford TO
do it You cannot afford not 10 do H. There IS the
difficulty. Ii you have not the make haste to
get ihem--send lot Of mu-ty goods to auction-or
try your credit. Your increased sales aud additional
profits will enable you not only to pay your advertis
ing bills hut save you from destruction and inspire
confidence in your creditors and the public. But
should THE expectation not be fully realized yon can
hardly be wore off than you now are. nothing
"risk nothing win" You know that large fortunes
have been made by advertispg-and you also know
that 10 man ever advertised extensively aud thor
ouelly that did not succeed. Those who doing
business niue, advertise or fail Ii is that advcr
Using may not save oil who embarrassed for there
are some which erea advertising, however potent,
cannot how save; but it will save many-all who are
not hopelessly in.oveDt-it will save hundreds who
are doomed to certain failure without it. There
is no senss in standing idle-nO sense in brood
ing over existing il.-tbe tue way is to commence
war upon tleu-and do il through the means ADD
agency Of the Press which is truly and emphaticaly
"tbe mighty lever of me business world" and you
know it, Advertising is the grand remedy. Cast
"your bread upon the waters" and in short time it
shall return 10 you again. We ask no man 10 adver-
tise for the sake of the Press, but for his own sake
to save himself from bankruptcy, and his family
from penury and want. The Phadelphia merchants
and manufacturers are advertising vastly more thsu
ours are and the consequence is their trade s better
than ours Many Of cur business men appear to be
paraly we'd they are pa,c-struck aud trembling in
their shoes. They are wondering what is to become
Of them. instead of laying hold Of the lever which
alone can save them-ruin stares them In the TACO
To all such we say NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at oncei let
it be the fret thing you do If you are too jar gone
il may not save you 1t is, in fact the only toins
you can o and hope to weather the Storm then DO
abou, il at once the engine can be set IN motion.
The experiment is worth trying, is it not 1t the
last chance Of the business whs are in dis ress
for more and better customers. Why should any one
hesitate TO resort to it
TyPoGRIPHIcAL SocIETY.-At the half yearly meet.
ing Of the New York Typographical Society, on Sat
urday ey enins the folo~ing officers were chosen for
the ensuing year: President, FRAscIs A. TEALL
Vice-President John VaBhorn; Treasurer James Nd
rine, reelected; Secretary Henry Clay Lanius, re.
elected Trustees, George Matber, reelected. and
Robert H. Johnston; Dire ctors Of the Primers Free
Library, Jane, Marine, Charles McDevts and George
ParsOBe, reelected.
1t appears from the report Of the Secretary thst
fifteen persona have been proposed for membership,
eight have been initiated, and three have died during
ID. past six months II also appears that the Society
has o4i NE mhers If whom 81 are free. The S.'cety
has expended during the past six months, the sum
of sG2 IS for sick benefits and other contingent e1-
pepses.
The Treasurer Of the Chidren's Aid Society &C
kpowledges the following receipts from Aug. IS to
Sept. 25, 1854
W T. Lober IS; little son of Mrs s. C. Zinsel Csnsds
West IS cents; " A H.ine. slo John X Myers $40; Csc
w. Mclean subscription, SO; Young - 30; Drake
Mills SO Friend John Peek Brooky 81; W Holmes,
Conn. IS; for N-wsboys Logging House. NJ hhshhsid'
62S-totsl es4 IS
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