The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-12-05
T" Please Notices.

"Please Notice.,
As New Year approaches, We have, along with
the balance of the country press, we presume,
the usual inundatlon of magazines, mammoth
wseklies, children's papers, ct i'd genus omne, of
useful, useless, psrnicious or simply trashy pub
licatiens from the larger cities, proposing in
some cases, with amazing liberality, that If we
will insert advertisements for them to the amount
of ten times the worth Of their publications,
they will condescend to exchange with US; in
other cases begging favorable notice" without
even offering On exchange, and in other cases
impudently demanding . grstuitous puff, on
account Of the assumed charitable. moral or re-
formatory character or tendency of the publica-
tion. Our usual rule has been land we think it
ought to be the rule of the country press gener-
ally to cast all such publications with tieir beg
ging proposals into the waste basket, without
further consideration; but a. this has been COM
planned of as ill-natured and uncsurtsous, We
shall relax the rule so far to-day as to pick up
half dozen of publications that have dropped,
with the usual "Please Notice. on our table out
OF ts-day's mail.
"koua AUBURN Iades"-This is little page
monthly, about the size Of our supplement, issued
by the managers Of the Mount Auburn Institute,
q school for young ladies, near Cincinnati. It's
contents seem to be made up Of little stories and
essays read as exercises in schsol by the pupils
1t costs 81 year, and We are asked to notice it
PROBABLY by way of helping the school, in which
we, Of course, feel deep interest.
"7he Boys IN Blue" is an 8 page weekly, about
the size of the FREE TRADER, Just started in
Cincinnati, and intended to interest the soldier
Politically its staple is the siokening "loya cant
which has nearly gone out Of fashion, and mis-.
cellsnsously it is trashy to degree 81 year
is charged for this publication, and we are asked
to puff it ont Of friendship for the soldiers.
"7he Independent" New York, has been en-
larged by the addition of \ column to each page,
and asks the country press to proclaim the fact.
Said paper claims to have the largest circulation
OF any weekly in the country, and to enjoy q
revenue making its fixtures and good will worth
half million Of dollars. Can't the Lsdependent
afford to pay for its advertising like any other
honest business concern?
""The Church Ur,ion," also of New York, and
like the Independent, professedly devoted to rsi-
gion, but in reality to the advocacy of nigger
politics. also claims our aid in extending its cir.
eulation. Having constitutional aversion to
hypocrisy and deceit, We must decline to assist
in the dissemination, under the name of religion
Of tho gospel of hate.
"Herrys Auseum" is . little monthly of o.
octave pages, issued by Horace B. Fuller, Bos
| ton, and intended mainly for the delsctation O
children Price $3.50 year. Its staple is sto
riss about those good little children that always
die, ending with the usual page or two of enig
mas, anagrams, puzzles, &c. 1t is publication
of the class of, but inferior to
"7he Little Corporal" published by Alfred L
Sewell, Chicago, which comes to US much On
lsrged and improved in form and Typography
and is, indeed, the model publication of its kint
in this country. Price the same as heretofore
81 year.