Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30
PUBLISHING COUNTY NEWS
PAPERS.

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place, the editor has to look carefully |
through large number of exchanges,
and other reading matter to find suita-
BILE selections for his own paper. The
tastes and whims of all his readers
must be grati6ed. The lovers of poetry
must have little poetry, land it is no
small task to find good poetry; those
who relish something funny and laugh
able must find something of this sort in
every issue. else they call the paper
dull. Story readers desire lively,
thrilling story every week; those affiict-
ed with love seek for love story, and
all readers want what they call good
story. The miscellaneous reading must
be carefully selected, SO that it shall be
interesting, useful. instructive and
chaste. The editor must remember
that one half of his readers are women
hence he must print something that will
be of interest to them. There are many
things pertaining to their business,
and their tastes, that the newspaper
should carry into every family. Then
there are the children to be taught,
pleased and interested, in measure. by
the family paper. They ought to find
something every week of benefit to them
selves. The aged must not be forgotten,
and class of reading matter has to be
gathered that is particularly adapted to
them. The devout Christian reader
looks eagerly for the religious department,
and there finds what to him is of most
Importance. Temperance. religion. ed
ucation and everything good should fiEd
its advocate in the editor Of paper.
He must have his eye on every sentence,
to see if no vulger, immoral, degrading
or bad thing appears in his paper. Then
he must steer clear of sectarianism, as
it is not his place to extol one sect or
denomination, while he abuses another /;
his readers are of all creeds and kinds,
and they deserve just and liberal consid-
GRAFTON.
The inside of a paper, which is devot-
ed to news chiefly, must be made with
as great care as the outside. Except in
politics (most county papers side one
way or the other in politics) the paper
must be generous to all parties and just
to all localities. The people want all
the news, and the editor must read and
discover everything going on at home
and abroad, that he may so Gull and con-
dense as to give his readers an epitome
of all that is transporting the world over
In local matter he must keep his eyes
wide open, and have his sentinels posted
in all directions to discover and report
everything of interest, and much that il
of no particular interest to the genera
readers. County papers are sought, fol
the local news they contain, and though
much of it is decidedly unimportant, i
must be given. The editor has all thi
to gather up, arrange and print. 1t cost
much labor and care to get it into hi
paper in a readable shape. Then there ar,
meetings, conventions and other thing
to look after and report, that tax
time and labor. The editorial depart
ment, which in the city papers is in tn
hands of special editors, has to be looke'
after by the poor fellow who does every
thing else; and the common reader mus
understand that there is some work il
doing the necessary reading, selecting
and preparing, to say nothing of tn
writing, that an editor does.
: Then there is the work of type setting
requiring several hands, the proof read
ing, the printing and the mailing, to
gether with all the accounting and col
respondence. AS to the pleasure G
: publishing a paper, it cannot be sal
that there is no pleasure in it, but whe
the care and drudgery connected with
are considered, and the curses whic
the editor gets are all counted, we judg
: that there are many kinds of bushes
that are more agreeable. AS
profit, it is true of most country papers
that existence and maintenance is
q constant struggle; every paper, excel
in cases when the list is unusually larg
: costs the publisher more than his sui
q scribers pay for it. The cost Of mate
o i'll, of labor and other things al
= more than all that is received on sui
q scriptions. So that whatever prof
q there may be, comes from the adverti
! ing which helps fill the paper. To sta
4 it more plainly, subscribers do not pa
!. the cost of the papers they receiv
IS Most papers, notwithstanding. are no
n making reductions in their price, b.
4 they can i'll afford it, as the hard tim
!. are peculiarly hard on publishers.
IS such times subscriptions naturally d
10 crease, collections are hard, and adve
It Using patronage is light But wi
v others the newspaper maker ought
| lower his prices if it can be done.
!. In conclusion we need not add, pc
u haps, that good paper is blessing
\. a locality. but such is the case. 1t
9 the chronicler, the teacher, the preac