The Russellville Democrat., 1875-02-18
RUSSELLVILLE, ARK, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY

the profits of this publication--ii it is deserving that namc-enablc the proprietor, Mir. Wood, to live with his family in elegant style at one of the most expensive Hotels in the city. He only gets half cent for the paper-the newsboy gets the other half, and yet he has made a fortune out of it. Even the three and four cent afternoon papers, which have but a very limited circulation, the Ex- press, the Commercial Advertiser, and others yield to their proprie- tors large incomes. MT. Otten- dorfer, the proprietor of the State Zeitung, the German paper which sells for three cents, has become a millionaire since he married the clever widow who owned it, and whose business ability made it . success. Then there are a host of small papers and weekly issues like the Era, Arcadian, etc.; which are scarcely ever seen, but they all make money. The Sunday Mercury, the Clipper, the Dis patch, the Police Gazette the Days Doings, organs of the dime novel, and the blood and thunder romance, of the celebrated criml- nal trials, and the strangely fla vored literature of the kind, have all proved successful ventures. The Sunday Mercury sells for eight cents, publishes bogus mat rimonial advertisements of profess sional females, and has been perfect gold mine to its two pro- prietors.
 The sentimental love stories in most of these weekly papars, are all written by women in the country, and the price paid for a short tale of three columns, is about $4, seldom as high as $5. '.You see, it's bad pay" one of the editors remarked to me, but it's better than sewing all day, and what is q poor intelligent woman to do; The Days Doings which has become rather yirtuous of late Is owned by Frank Leslie, who owns half a dozen other publica- tions, addressed to all tastes and all grades of society, and has amassed handsome fortune.
 But to return to our muttons, as the French say who make such excellent mutton-ragouts that they may well express this desire. The leading daily papers of New York-they vary, of course, as much as other business establish ments do-have generally q staff of eight or ten experienced writ CTS, who devote themselves exclu- sively to the editorial page. They arc subject to the directions of the Editor in chief, or the Managing editor, who suggests, or receives their suggestions as to the topics on which each is to write. There are, of course, specialist in jour nalism as there are in every other profession; and while one may generally write the articles in To- cal politics, the other may choose the department of foreign events, while yet n third may be peculiar ly qualified for commenting on the leading discoveries in science; etc. One or two of these gentle men have to be on dnty late at night to write the editoral com ments on the news arriving by ca ble or telegraph. There are also three or four telegraphic editors who revise and put into shape the dispatches, which have to be "headcd' and filled out where words are left out for eccnomy's sake. There is Critic for the drama and one for the Opera and concerts, writer on Art, a Finan- cial Editor, an Exchange Editor who reads the exchanges and cuts out any articles that he deems of sufficient interest to merit publi- cation in New York, and a relig- ious Editor who prepares the religious intelligence. The night Editor has complete charge at night and remains until the paper goes to press. He directs how the forms shall be put together,
 where this anticle shall be placed, and where that, and when there IS too great a rush of matter 1t IS