The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-11-27
GMPORIA NEWS.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1874.
eNIY a COUNTRY 1VEELIxV-

IL is only q country weekly! Yea
hat is all. But do those who Al,
ude to it with an intentional sneer
never reflect upon the duties and
mission performed by the poor. oh
azure country weekly, which Is as |
much, nay more, to its few hundred |
readers in the country as Ia the great |
metropolitan daily TO its thousands |
of readers in the city. Oh, no. they |
never think of placing any .estima-
lion upon the worth of a country |
paper it has none within the narrow !
limits of their superficial and con.
iractod brains. They will not ad J.
init of the utility of any form of
newspaper save one Which Is cram
med full of telegraphic dispatches,
giving the minute details Of some
revolving and nauseating social
scandal; the hour at which the
Chamberlain of the Imperial Palace
at Ispahan put his Most Serene and
MightyHighness the Shah to bed :;
that the savage Calais of AbyssInia
had abiured the tenets of the
Coptic faith, and had bowed down
in alteration at the shrine of Mecca's
prophet: that the poor unofrendina
Papuan of the Celebes was being
slaughtered by the Dutch invaders
from the neighboring isle of Macas-
sar, and so on, III an infinite variety
of detail, all of which is read with
an avidity that betokens the impor-
lance of these things 10 q city gem
tlemaG. But the financial, CONNER
cial, agricultural, religious, and So
cial condition of the millions of his
fellow-citiZens residing without The
environs of his mighty empire OF a
few miles in area is a sealed book
he has never opened its pages TO in
quire within he KNOWS nothing oil
it; put him 10 the test and you viii
find he knows more about the con,
dition of the Berbers of Northern
Africa than he does about the PEG.
pie in the ncighbOring county. W.
turn away from the contemplation
of this human superGciality, o
which there are thousands, to turn
to the practical aud common sens
man, who wishes TO be informed al
to the pursuits, condition and pros
poets of the people of his own i'm
mediate state and county. lie find
in the rural paper the information
he seeks. The country organ is q
him the camera lucida, which faith
fully portrays all that occurs IL i
in great mesure the reflex of tn
character of the people comprizin,
the county wherein il is published
But what is the interest which eve
he derives from il, compared TO tina
which is felt and entertained by In
country people themselves 10
everything to them. In il is foun
news which they alone, probably
can appreciate and understand, in
formation regarding their friend
and neighbors, the condition of tn
crops and market quotations, whic
TO the farmers and the tradesma
in the country is of primary impor
lance, matters of local considcratio
wherein they are Interested, and
hundred and one different thing
which effect and interest them, bot
privately and publicly. Tn
country organ performs anothc
function which can only be efIcctu
ally done by il. AS medium rn
advertising IL offers facilities whic
arc unsurpassed. by IL the farmer
the laborer, and the mechanic b,
come acquainted with the good
and wares of the tradesman the
learn where they can purchase wins
they desire, and at the lowest priC
es. The county newspaper, is TO
county what nutritious food is to
convalcscent; IL helps TO build il II
and develop all that ia good in i
The county that is without one
like n waste plain without elevation
from which person desiring to e.
anime the surroundings can maL
no obscrvation.-San Matco (Cal
Times