Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-06-26

ture Of the day You will rarely find in one o
these old papers q story with formal plot, suei
NJ MS we think we must publish now at least once q
week Essays, after the British model some
70 narrative of stirring event amongst the Indians
o. n terrible catastrophe wonderful discovery
D The poetry was pretty much all of a sentimental
y Kind, rarely reaching the poetic standard of news
n paper poetry now. AS TO news, thirty days, OF
perhaps forty days, from New Orleans TO New
,, York or Boston, three days from Boston to Mont
4 pelier, five or six days from New York to Mont
peierl The newspaper had TO be made up often
s from such papers the Hartford Courant ana Wor-
. cester Spy, and consisted of extracts taken from
. the foreign papers of England and France Every
i little event was given in detail We now, would
condcnse in half dozen paragraphs all the news
. they would give us in a weeks issue
r There has been great advance in that respect !
!, but can remember one point in which am very
: sure the printer of 1920 had very great adVah'
tage over YOU Of these days, and that was IN get
= ting moe Just reward for their labor Than you
do. Not that there plenty OF money IN those
davs,-therc was but little of it for long time.
can remember when there were but two banks IN
the State. Money was not plenty. Now and then
we got hold of pistareen, ninepence, or four
pence halfpenny. But can tell you what they
did get literally they got two cords of wood,they
got four bushels of corn, they got twelve bushels
of oats, and tcenty-f ouT bushels of potatoes, and
sixteen pounds of butter, for years subscrip
ton can remember when my fathers cellar was
the village of Montpelier could they have them
now Why, he mad to feed them to the hogs Of
ten he had from six to twelve barrels of cider at a
time, enough wheat, rye and corn to fill large
grancry, yard filled with eight foot wood, pota-
foes and vegetables of every sort-quite different
pay from what we get now, but infinitely better
He could support his family and supply many of
his neghbors You cannot do it now.
| OF the men who were engaged in the press OF
whom have already named, there are, think,
but two now living. One of them is Samuel Swift
one of the best and purest men who ever lived in
| Vermont or anywhere else and the other is Sim
con lde, who retired from the Claremont, N H.
Eagle about year ago.
cannot precisely recollect my first experience
| as an editor 1t was either in 1924 when was
twelve, or in 1928, when ! was sixteen years of
age II was during the compaign of Adams and
| Jackson. | disiked jackson and was a very ar
dent Adams boy. / was then in the office of the
Republican, Essex N. Y. office, where l was
"devil." My impression is that both of the pub
fishers of The paper were absent either election
eering or attending muster, as one of them q
military man. aad tina; on that account they in
tended to omit the publication of the paper that
week, Both being absent, was the publisher
editor printer and devil of the concern 1t struck
me as very singular that no newspaper should be
issued that week. and / went to work to see if |
could not get ont one l wrote some, set up,
and composed much of the rest at the case Ii
nally, got up enough to fill the inside of the pa
per, with the addition of what advertisements
expected ought to so in. | had never "made up"
a page of newspaper, but knew Just what
ought to be done. / made it up, got it upon the
press without picing it, but what to do next, did
not exactly know. / mistrustcd my abilities, and
must get out of the serape somehow. Gen. ii. H.
Ross, who was at that time candidate for Con-
gress had his Office under the Republican office
took the "proof' 10 him, and asked him what |
should do with it. The General soon came in
rosy-Gced, literally beaming with smiles, and
patting me upon the back, said T" Print it, boy
print it, boy!n And did.
On my return home l had no idea of being
printer. wanted to 60 through college but my
father thought he was too poor to send me: but
the truth was he had the hypo went to study
ing law, and pursued the study until a cousin of
about my age, who had the charge Of my fathers
office, suddenly died. and my father requested inc
to take his place for short time, which did
with nc intention of making Il permanency
but there stayed, and thus, by accident, rath-
or providentially, was thrown into the business
which pursued for the rest of my life until now.
Another word, and l speak more particularly
now TO practical printers who find but little time
to devote exclusively to writing. My advice is.
II you desire to write an article of value, be sure
TO think about il when You can. and think about
it Il good while. Think of it il you have an hour
OF leisure, and the result will be that every man
who does this will make good editor, infiu.
entail editor, editor whose power will be felt
and acknowledged
There is another practice which / always re.
GREETED l never adopted-the practice of Thorn
as Richie. His habit was. whenever he had
fact which he thought would he important or use.
full TO him at any time, to jot it down. fla
thong hit occurred to him that at any time could
be made valuable, he put it down. In convcrsa-
ton, if he heard any one express an original
thought or idea, he set it down. Do not under.
aGn Iat IL .Ia,
DRY every fact, thought or suggestion which YOU
may think will be of value at some future time:
bat lay them aside, SO that you can find them
when they are wanted.
Another suggestion, hope TO see one more i'm.
provcment in the mechanical appearance of our
newspapers, and that is in the adoption of the
Quaker-like simplicity and neatness of the En-
gsh press. If a man wants prominence given to
hisPdverscment, give it in pure White space and
make him pay for ii, and thus give all readers
practical lesson in neatness and good taste.
In respect TO editorials, do not fancy the idea
OF having leader every day or every week Write
less and talk less, and write better and talk better
hope editors and publishers will make themselves
greater power by giving us fewer editorials and
better encs If it takes week to write an EDITORIAL
give week TO it. You ought to aim Mt a higher
standard, aim at higher dignity, higher power,
that you may be more useful men in the world in
which yo6 live
editors sometimes get mad. If that needs must
be in the future it has been in the past, only
question of bad temper, have this one word Of
advice TO give-Never vent your wrath upon
yourfrienHs. Reserve your assaults for the enc
my, end all your friends will back you.
1--WE regret to be compelled for want
of space, to omit the excellent remarks
Of Hon. c. w. Willard, of Montpelier,
and also the highly pleasing Poem by
John Cain, Esq, of the Rutland Courier.
They will keep, however, and we shall
probably fad room for them next week
FRIDAY MORNING. SESSION.
The Association assembled pursuant
to adjournment, and the unfinished bust
ness was taken up. The report of Luz
Their Q. Greene, Treasurer, was read and
accepted The Secretary read letters
from George p. RoNcll of New York,
and George H. Bigelow of the Burling-
ton Times.
q q Rpnpaipt Dresantod tho raror+ &c .