The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-20

Picture or tho HeraId's Columns
Tho Dainty Dishes Spread Before
King Public.
Inc aim OF the perfect newspaper to reflect
from its pages daily the doings, the homes. the
wishings and the wonderings of the world ia
one that requires widespread system con-
slant forethought, liberal means and able
execution in every particular According to the
degree in which it possesses these necessaries
1t approaches or recedes from realization of
that aim. System alone enables the journal
TO seize and transmit tho fresh news which
crops out all over the globe and which
would shrivel and wither in day if
the hand was not ready to pluck it
and send it to market. The forethought
necessary requires as nice calculation of
circumstances as that which furnishes us
with our weather reports from the Sig
nal Bureau. There must be as careful calcu-
lation as to whittier the currents of news are
tending as the Meteorological Department
exercises in regard to the course of storms
Tho lack of means is, unfortunately for nu-
merous excessively well-intentioned journals,
serious drawback to prosecuting their
ideas. The matter, however, of selecting
the ablest heads and hands for particular
classes OF work depends so completely on the
possession of the other three great requi-
sites that it will only tell in the live
newspaper In combination with them
The difficulties in the way of triumphing
over all the stumbling blocks which lie
everywhere before the struggling journal
are things which the public can but
dimly appreciate, and, sooth to say do
not care much about studying. The
citizen who devours his paper with his break
fast no more troubles himself about how the
news was collected than he does about the his
tory of his box of sardines. He relishes both
without question. If, however, for moment
he were to look metaphorically behind the
words he is reading, and follow each item back
to its starting point, he would, doubtless,
be repaid for the trouble it cost
him. To glance in this way through
the columns Of the HERALD would astonish
him in the variety Of intelligent labor dis
played i'll every separate paragraph. Words
lie before him penned under the burning
African sun, far up the windings of
Old Nile, amid savage, barbarous hordes.
Let him follow these words on their way
what lies between the correspondent and the
headquarters of the journal. AS sung of Bruce,
he would see in fancy,
The Arabs lance, the deserts gloom,
The Whirling sands, the red simeon.
Or further South. on that mysterious Cont
nent where the unconquerable Living
stone wanders in all the glory of his
heroic research among the wonders of the
chain Of lakes, or piling up observation upon
observation Of the primitive peoples that in
habit the vast countries that surround them
It is not an easy junketing journey
that the HERALD's standard bearer enjoys
in pushing from Zanzibar to distant Ujiji, the
path over which the welcome news Of Living
stones safety has already come back to us,
and over which the full details Of his travels
and discoveries are being borne by our
correspondent to an expectant civiliza-
ton. You can change the scene with
glance Of the eye over continents
and oceans, and, looking on another
column, see the natural marvels Of
the South American Continent spread out,
as the mind drinks in the history of the
Agassiz expedition. The bare shores of
Patagonia tell the story of their rocks; Juan
Fernandez, the famed island home of Alex
ander Selkirk, is sketched the empire Of the
Incas lies before the eye Of to-day; the
great domes Of the Andes rear their snowy
heads to heaven. mere naming of the lead
ing scenes will not, however, tell the applica-
ton Of the four essentials Of news collection to
laying them in print before the reader. Besides
this comes the regular news Of every impor-
tant event over the wide reaches of South
America; republics in revolution, an empire in
peace, the tide of trade and the
shiftings of commerce. With just.
glance of the eye the reader
is by Lake Leman, with the Alps rising far into
the sky, and the home of Calvin, the retreats
of Rousseau, voltaire or De Staal almost in
sight. But it is not to think of these more than
in suggestion that the reader finds himself
there, for the words are in his ears of men in
whose keeping is the friendship, perhaps
the peace, Of his own great coun-
try, and another which styles her
self the Empress Of the Seas"
These are the strong points that will attract
him. Yet they are only the more brilliant
flowers in his bouquet of news. There are
hundred things Of interest beside, without
which he would feel like botanist who
had nothing but passion flowers to study
rare, indeed, but only one line to the volume
Of Linneus. He must hear by the HERALD
special what Maryland thinks of Greeley,
what Massachusetts, thinks of Grant He is
all impotence with diplomatic secrecy until
he reads the treaty correspondence in full in
the HERALD. He must know Brigham
Youngs last cunning move; he would be