Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1875-05-14
The Making Of Newspapers.

The Making of Newspapers.
1t does not require many years service
in journalistic harness to demonstrate the
hard truth that, in the language of the
sch0olmcn, it is easier to conceive OF ex.
cellence in the abstract than to achieve 1t
In the concrete; or, in the language OF
common sense, it is much easier to tel!
how q thing "a newspaper. for instance)
should be made, than it is to make it. Ab-
Stractly. it seems 70 Se the simplest OF
tasks to conduct . journal which shall serve
none but high moral purposes especially
that of enriching its publishers and making
them famous when put to the test of
practical experience it is found that there.
are Few things so difficult of accomplish
ment
The tyro in Journalism always makes
large promises. He will advocate nothing
but giltedged morality; NO word that the
most fastidious can object to, shall ever
sully his columns he will prove himself
to be the moral hero for which the wait.
ing journalistic ages. from Caxt0n down.
ward, have longed for, and died without
the sight of; and so ON.
But there is q common cause which
produces the inevitable effect of bringing
q journalistic tyro to grief. A man feels
that he il brimful of Thoughts that
breathe and words that burn," and that if
he can only catch the eye of that fabled
public which ''aiways recognizes genius"
his fortune will be quickly made. But
how is this metaphorical orb to be caught?
To his surprise-not unminglcd with DIS
gust-the public does not rush in crowds
to be enrolled as subscribers 10 his publ
cation, and he begins to entertain private
fear that the public is great anil unap.
preciative beast And then the fledgling
journalist resorts to tho numberless ques-
tionable methods 70 win success that have
been unsuccessfully employed by thou
sands of other fedglings before him.
They begin by undertaking the cost and
overestimating the profits of the newspa-
per business, and as the premonition of
financial loss begins to dawn upon them
they founder deeper and deeper into the
quagmire of questionable expedients.
Perhaps the mos: disheartening trial in
the career of the inclpicnt journalist is in
that period-usually an early Onc-in his
career, when he finds the fabied stone Of
S,syphus becoming sad reality, in the
treadmill return Of publication day. The
hour comes when the gilded harness chafes
sorely; when the full fountains Of thought
and inspiration with which he commcn-
ced are dried up; when the eagle wings
with which he began his flight. show dis
couraging signs of moulting. and become
too weak to bear him up TO the ether Of
his ambition. and when he finds himself
sinking down, down, to the common, dull
plodding of earth and common things.
Happy for him, then, if he can be trans
formed into public cart Horse, and so he
saved the fate of writing himself down an
ass.-American Newspaper Reporter.
No Onions this Spring.
detroit Free Press
A little bit of a man, wearing bilious
looking plug hat and speaking in child
like tones, was conducted out, and His
Honor looked up and inquired:
"Whyfor, thou scedling?"
I'm q prisoner, but Pm entitled to be
treated with rcspectv' squeaked the little
man. standing on his tip-toes and growing
red in the face.
Respectfully, your obedient servant"
replied the Court, waving his hand around
and letting it gently drop upon seek-no-
further.
II won't be made fun of tell you
won't!" squeaked the prisoner.
"Fun! fun !" repeated His Honor. "Slr,
this is serious world, with four pounds
of heart-ache 10 one old-fashioned grin.
No, sir-I see no fun here The charge
is being drunk and raising row-a very
serious thing"
''Who says got drunk ?" squealed the
little man; "who says raised great
row? 1t is conspiracy to get me out Of
the neighborhood."
Prisoner at the bar" said His Honor.
when the evidence was all in, nov is tho
time to make Fourth of July speech if
you arc ever gong to make one. II you
have any evidence hurl 1t at mes''
Silcnce.
DARIUS Worthington JONES'" resumed
the Court. after waiting for an answer.
''y0u are chalked for sixty days. YOu
Won't set out any onions this spriug, and
you won't be around when the first circus
strikes Detroit. May will 6nd you
making chairs, and June berries will have
ripened and vanished before We gaze upon
your face again."
IT is terrible, this mania. You are stop.
ped up,n the street and invited to spell
pedler, or pedlar, or pcddler, or some other
word. Your wife wakes you up in the
middle of the night 10 spell sarcophagus:
your children hasten " the breakfast table
TO ask you 70 spell eorymb, and you de-
vote al your spare time 10 the dictionary;
and your oldest boy comes home late st
night in . weeping mood. and explains
thuG X went to see Mary (his sweethearD
she me, me vt the door with, ''spell erysip.
elas, Tom?' l spelled it with two ia and
NJ y, ard she said, ''Sir our engagement 10
1t an end; I cannot love more bad spell.
r." Her father on beng appealed to,
Days ''0ive Tom one more trial. Scall
sir" Ispellei It with
Tour ne and two IL and he bade me leave
he house and never hope to be his son-in.
law. This spell OF weather is bad