Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-10-08

constitutes model newspaper. Several
have answered by asking the question If
we didn't have anything better to do
than to bother editors with such silv
conuDdrums as that. Those answers
were thrown into the waste-basket but
we have selected few which We present
TO the public All are distinguished by
singular frankbess and great purity Of
style:
SAMUEL BowLEs.
SIR: The province of the model news
paper is to ''pitch in." Let not your
right hand know what your left is doing !;
and il you have conscience, pluck il
out, lest it may make you go back on
yourself in the time Of severity and
trial. The model newspaper, like the
plratical craft, should be the enemy Of
all other crafts, and run her jib-boom
into the stern OF her opponents whenever
opportunity presents itself. Family Sc
crets should be respected, and personal
abuse should not be indulged in. BY
observing these rules man may print a
model newspaper, and enjoy the friend
ship of the Vice-President and other
high officials.
THE BOSTON POST.
DEAR SIR: The Post is the model
newspaper of the day. Its policy is to
protect virtue, expose fraud, tell the
truth, shame the ID and Wendell Phil
lips, and hasten the completion OF the
Boston postofficc, so that the Boston
Post building can havea fair show for
rents. G. G.. G..
TIE TRAVELLER.
SIR: My ideal OF newspaper is one
which has an article damung the Prus.
sian barbarlans aud giving them Hail
Columbia i'll every sentence but, in
order not TO offend the godly by using
strong language, and thereby decreasing
the circulation, it is well enough to ar
range IN another cOluun a moral or plous
article, whose beneticent tone shall give
character to the whole sheet, and lake
away the sting of profanity.
ED. TRAY.
TIE ADVERTISER.
SIR: The only thing The public cares
about is editorials. These should be
printed in the largest type, without
headlines III order that lively curiosity
may be excited i'll the reader to learn
what the editor is driving at. When
the aforesaid reader becomes vigorously
interested, the article should be cut short,
and another editorial begun, followed up
aud concluded in the same way. In this
manner newspaper may be made
model sheet. IL is well enough to print
the news of the day to fill up the space
not taken 10y advertisements. Truly,
Ed. AD.
FROM HORACE GREELEY.
DEAR -: The Republican Journals
all tell the truth the Democratic news
papers are liars. The more damned the
greater the circulation. The editor, like
every one else, should root hog or die.
Protection is the lite Of American indus
try. Every editor should buy land aud
tell what he knows about farming. No
editor should run for office, Office be
bowed. Any man who don't agree with
this is villain who lies wickedly and
wllllully.
Above all things the editor should be
mild, temperate-avoidlng strong express
sions. Yours, He.
FROM J. G. BENNETT.
DEAR OLD Boy: Ii | were 10 point
out model newspaper 1t would be that
humoer ol 'he HeTof" winch contained
an account OF the end OF the Ahysslnan
war and death of King Theodore. The
IFtOu"e Is now making weak copy oil
the stupendous ente. prise by giving a
daily report OF the little sciimmage now
going on on the continent. But It's no
go. Queen Victoria pntfed the Herdhrs
enterprise 10y gIaciously responding to
our private telegram announcing Theo,
dore's death. Now, don't care d.
about Qheen Nic-bu', newspaporalily
considered, that hote was big thing.
haze mentioned The fact once OF twice III
the Heratd With regards,
.J. u. BENNETT.
W. c. BRYANT.
RESPECTED RlEND UomcrS Ltd0
If embodied IN the newspapers OF to-day
inc advertisement. woulj make lem .
precious deal more respectable and inter
rsling than lhey now are. The TELEGRAPH
is a humbug. NV friend Greeley be-
lieves il is an editors duty to root or die
1 would give more for an editor VIII,
could successfully con,eId with III,
Greek root than whole regiment Of