The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-12-01

newspaper articles and matter Of
this class is from 81 TO IS . colomn
for such papers as the Times. The
writer, work as be or she may. can
not exceed four columns q week, for q
large part Of the time is consumed
In getting up the material for The
work. And then, after il has been
sent 10, il is an even chance that il
will be declined, or if accepted, that
il will be cut down 10 = column by
the managing editor, so that the two
columns the writer wrote, and for
which SIG was expected, will net the
scribe only IS. A good story, if il
Is good enough, Of say six columns
in length, is worth, TO the publisher,
$25. The writer viii spend on the
production ofsuch q story, q week or
Two, or even more. or course, when
they get up in the world, and get SO
well known that their names wlll
bring additional subscribers TO the
publication they get higher prices, but
this is what the few who get employ
ment at all are compelled to submit
TO. And let il be rene mbered that
Of every thousand who submit man
uscripts, not ten get q line accepted
There are today in New York alone,
two thousand men and women be.
sieging editors with productions in
prose and verse, who never had a
line published and never will. And
the few who get work starye at il,
for the reason that there are a thous-
and, all equally good trying for the
place Of ten. / advise your young
readers to avoid the stage, and
advise them with equal ferveAcy to
ayoide literature, that is as 4 means
Of living. Write all you choose-ii
is a delightful and improving recrea-
ton, but don't try to live by it, II
you get your matter published AMI
get a $40 check for it, thank Heav.
en-, and spend it Oh a new hat, but
don't depend IN it as a means o.
livelihood. That way starvation
lies. 1t is taking ten chances in q
hundred of sleeping in a garnet, eat
ing at cheap restaurants, and
lodging %tailors and dress makers
during the term Of your natural life.
MOODY AND sANKEY
Are working away in Brooklyn,
with Indifferent success. 1t was a
mistake to 60 there, for, to take
preaching to Brooklyn is carrying
Goals to Newcastle. There are a
hundred or more Of the best preach
ers in the world there, and religion
is so much on everyday business,
that special efforts are liable to-be
futile. They come to New York this
winter, and here they will do better.
They will have in addition to the
enormous resident population, the
fifty thousand strangers who are in
the hotels, who would naturally be
attracted. Besides there are a
heavier per cent. Of people here to
be converted, than in Brooklyn. |
predict for them g grand success in
New York. They are Jealous hard
workers, they believe in their mis-
sion, and they know how 10 work
WHAT TAMMANY AND EXTRAYAGANCE
HAS DONE.
In addition o the enormous cost
Of living in the city, the people are
paying SlGS, 600, 900 annually in in
terest and taxes The real estate Of
the city is mortgaged for $1,000, 000,-
600, the interest on which, at I per
cent, foots up l52, 600, 900. Add to
this the enormous taxes that have TO
be paid, and the sum aggregates
enormously. Tammany has done
this for New York. 1t is the most
common thing in the world for an
improvement 10 be ordered that it
costs so much as 10 compel the OWL
er TO put a mortgage on the property
TO pay it. NiBe-tenths Of these i'm
prOvements arc unnecessary, and
n%ine-tentbs Of the cost goes into the
pockets OF the rings who run the pol
itics Of the city. | have one friend
who has q lot fifteen feet wide, on an
uptown street, who was compelled
10 pay $3.50 for repairing the street.
The opposite fifteen feet was taxed
the same, making nearly 81 1900 for
paving fifteen feet of a street. The
actual cost OF the work, was proba-
bly, $3.50, leaving the..handsome bal,
snce Of $3.50, to be divided among
the thieves. And as these parties
had the whole street, you can see
that they made a very nice thing of
it. And the worst part Of it, is that
the street did not need r~e-paving,
and that the old one was better than
the new one. This is only one way
in which taxes are piled up-there
are as many ways of swindling, as
there are hairs on the swindler's
heads. Probably it will be some
better hereafter, for the last election
disturbed the rings somewhat, but 1t
the best there will be enough Of it.
The ignorant and yicions vote of the
city is so large, that scoundrelly pol
iticians have bu: little difficulty in
getting the power to put their hands
in the poekeis of the people.
ANOTHER SUICIDE,
growing out Of Illicit connections,
happened in this city last week. 1t
was the old story. a wealthy mer-
chant was living with a beautiful
girl, unmarried, Of course. The
merchant tired Of her, and tainted
her till be drove her to madness.
Blind with rage she rushed into the
next room, aud shot herself. Then
her paramour found that be really
did love her, and he is as nearly in
sane as a man can be. There are
two thousand people living in this
way oil FIVE squares above Eighth
street, and there are suicides or
murders among them every week.
There is but one end t. the infringe
ment Of the Seventh Commandment.
And, while i am on this subject,
there is q lively prospect that.
THE BEEcEE3 SCANDAL
will be opened again. Loader, who
was indicted for perjury in this case,
asked for an order to take the testi-
mony of Mr.. Richards, the brother
of Mrs. Tilton, TO whom Mrs. Tilton
confessed her crime. Richards
knows more of the matter than any
one. and the truth so far as Mrs