The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1871-11-02
An Extraordinary success.

vi HARPER WEEKLY Tor the pres.
ent week 100000 cnpiss have been
ordered. Ono buu-c-tbc American
News Company-ordercd considerable
over $4,000 copies the New Eng
'and News Company, of Boston order.
cd 10000 copies the Western News
Company whose place Of business is
Chiea,o, ordered from the ruins If
their office 80, 900 copies. Thus thesr
three house. alone ordered over l20,.
900 copies.
To produce 10 time this extraordin
ary edition the forms or pagea which
contain Illustrations are olecirotyped.
and four different casts are lakcJ
Of them. to bc worked on as many
rapid stcam-power presses, which are
kept going night and day during Gv"
days. The plain sides are printed on
other aud more rapid presses. 1t is
probable that no other house in tho
country could print, in the required
time. such an edition which is really
equal, the Supplement being reckoncd,
to $50 ,000 copies Of the paper.
For some time past the circulation
Of Uarpcr's Weekly has been SO stead
ily and rapidly increasing that the
publishers have been unable to keep
tip with the demand, and on number
Of occasions have not been able TO Gil
tho actual orders received TOR it.
This success OF Harpcr's Weekly is
an evidence OF the manner 10 which
the American people appreciate true
courage and indcpc cudencc in n journsl
The Weekly has made incessant war
upon the Tammaoy Ring, regardless
Of the fact that its course procured its
publishers tho enmity Of the corrupt
leaders among the Democrats, who
took their revenge, not only 10 this
city, but in California aud else where
by excluding tho excellent school
books of Msssrs. H,rper from the COM
mon schools. Bat that which dis
pleased the corruptioni,'s has won for
llarpcr's Weekly the confidence of the
great public, aud has been one Of the
features which has brought the paper
to its prescott extraordinary circulation
Its conductors have aimed not TO
make it only molel illustrated paper.
giving promptly and in the best style
accurate AMI artistic pictures Of the
leading events Of the day, bu, they
have also made. a journal conducted
on sound and just principles, faithful
to liberty, to honesty, and sound
morals, aud independent 10 tho trucst
sense of the word. Its editorials are
always able and Thoughtful, and its
literary matter 10 IN valuable as its A..
tis,ic work
The low price at which, in these
days. the best productions OF artists
and writer's are furnished to the public
ia curious shown by such a Journal as
Ilarpcr's Weekly. IL We count the
Weekly with it's Supplement, which is
now regularl y given, each humber con,
tains the equivalent of SO pages Of
HARPRRs MAGAZINE. or Of an octave
volume of 800 Or 400 pages printed IN
open type. And yot his mass Of
matter, illustrated by tho most pop
ular artists. is sold for ten cent?. On.
ly very large circulation could re-
munerato a publisher for such all out
lay az is represented 10 the pictures,
editorials. tales and other literary
matter of every number of Hsrper's
Weekly.
HARPER's MAGAZINE is only second
in its circulation to Harper's Weekly.
It's regular monthly sales now rea,h
over 10000 copies.
1t is certainly an extraordinary fact
that. reck ming the population Of the
United States at 40,010,000. and the
combined circulation Of HARPER 5
WEEKLY and MAGAZINE at 400, 900,
it would seem that one 10 every hum
drsd 10 the population actually buys
either the Magazine or the Weekly
What an immense educational power
this is and how fortunate to the
couutry that this great influence is
10 the hands Of able, conscientious
aud patriotic men !-Nep York Times