The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-06-16


e other on the opposite one, thereby Harrin
i, the beauty of the paper. and shrinking INT
Il insignificance the value of the smaller n
2 Iices.
e Print your paper all at home, even if
/ be but a fl Fe-column folio, rather than Us
q the infamous and abominable "patent-ou
!. side" sheets, 50 much used, | am ashamed
: To say, by the country press of this age. l
is to be admitted, they materially lessen
the cost attached to publishing newspapers
/ but in my humble judgment are digrac
to the fraternity, aud should not be telera
ted by any one who has the welfare Of tn
profession at, heart. ~Appropos of this
there Is circumstance that serves To show
disadvantages Not longer than nin
months ago, Mississippi editor who va
using "patent-outside," clipped from ;
New York daily pretty and well-mrnee
eulogy on the Democratic candidate tol
President, which was inserted at the heae
of the first column on the editorial page
and ''leaded' as Original natter the
''credit" having been omitted. After the
paper was printed and distributed among
its patrons, much to his chagrin and dis
comfture the aforesaid editor discovered
the same article in the ''patent-outsIde" Of
| the same issue, properly accredited u the
rightful author Here IS another incident
bearing upon the same subject: Some years
| bv-six" "patent-outside, published in one
of the larger towns of Mississippi, contained
| a paragraph based upon rumOr, merely, To
/ the effect that its editor, who was negro,
had very recently been indicted for embeZ-
! Element forgery and one or two other SINH
| lar offences, and that the indictments would
undoubtedly be sustained. The editor, If
| he had desired redress, would have been
placed in in the embarrassing position of
I ha af,. e
! libel. But TO return TO the subject.
| Having bought his material, secure a
/ building convenient of access to the bust
ness men, with plenty of light and facilities
| for comfort in summer and winter, and there
establish your Office, and be found in it at
all times ready to attend to the wants of
those who visit you.
! Do not have too much or too little ''help."
! Experience" will again come to your re-
| lief, and eventually aid you iii attaining
| that "happy middle ground where each
employee will perform a sufficient amount
of labor, without overworking himself, to
accomplish the desired end. Procure that
class of assistance that will not only be a
help to you in the composing but
which will reflect credit and honor upon
yourself and the profession by its conduct
upon the streets. Honesty and sobrety-
especially well both, are qualifications
indispensable not only among the editors but
among the printers. Guard this point and
the confidence of the public will be easily
secured and easily preserved.
Have care to the neatness of the paper,
and to secure this the mt1llItjd of the office
must be closely watched.
On the pressing necessity of good rollers,
alone, an entire book might be written. Be
the town in which the paper is published ever
so prosperous and willing to support it; be
the type ever new and bright; the ma
chinery of the best and most approved pat
ents; the editor ever so industrious and
painstaking; without a good roller, all the
labor, industry and pains amount to moth
ing. The roller, as small as it is, as black
as it is, as disagreeable to handle as it Is, is
the secret that once learned, makes it an
easy task for printer, with proper care in
other directions, of course, to print a neat
and attractive paper. On the pressman de
ponds the quality of the roller, and to him
Is left the duty of manufacturing it SO,
too something depends on who the press
man is. In many offices, a negro brought
in from the streets, with no idea of sue
ton" or distribution" as appertaining to
a press-roller, is put at the press, and as a
result, one has only to look at some of the |
mserably printed sheets sent out called
newspapers An old story that most of the |
members of this A ssoniatie,r Il-~~s d.r.l-e4vsl
hoard, illustrates what / mean; The lore |
man" of the BugIe Horn Of Liberty, after
docking up the forms" turned them over
to the colOred pressman and left the office. |
Knowing less about making ready" than |
he should, and simply nothing about the |
abc's, he placed the sforms' upon the press
bed face do'ca0ard, applied ink, an i'm
preston" given, paper taken out, held to |
the light, and the exclamation vouchsafed, !
too brack! too brack :" Thus, too much |
care cannot be observed in having this part
of the work performed by skillful and
careful man.
Newspaper readers of this age and gener-
alton are in too big hurry to peruse long |
and labored editorials; they are as ''pearls
cast before swine" The public demands |
paragraphs -short pithy articles, the point
and application of which can be discovered |
at a glance. Further have a view to the |
morality of whatever you publish, and ad- |
nit no piece that does not inspire this prin-
ciple, inculcate this doctrine and animate |
this sentiment.
Establish a subscription price and adver-
Using rates, and maintain them. Make |
them not too low or yet to high, but charge
in accordance with your trouble and the
good done the advertiser Court his conf |
dence, his friendship; look to the interest |
and welfare of your section encourage |
every industry praise every cOmmendable |
servance of these simple rules, your paper |
will be of the right kinda credit to the |
town and county in which it is published, |
and its editor honored and admired.
OF the "small things" about al office
shall now speak. Take care of the pence |
and the pounds will take care of them
Selves is an old aud trite saying, as appli- |
cable to the knight of the Quill as to he |
who presides over the cash drawer in the |
counting-room. Ia this connection ii is not /
improper to relate the story told of an Eng |
fish cathedral, that Is, an illustration, /
many sided. 1t is said that in the building |
of this cathedral the architect had planned |
a number of stained-glass windows, through |
which the light was to stream in sOftened |
and many colored spiendor upon the Norz |
shippers. But as it approached completion, |
it was found there was one window short. |
The architect was in despair, when an APP
prentice stepped forward and offered to meet
the want He had marked that the work |
men who made the windows, flung aside |
many bit of glass though it were use |
less. These he carefully gathered, and with |
them at odd hours of leisure he fashioned a |
window. 1t was brought out and fitted |
into the vacant place, and when the oathez |
dral was finished, and the light streamed |
upon altar and priest, it was seen the win |
dow made of the fragments was the finest |
of them all. In like manner has many |
man accomplished great things, III very /
deed the greatest: iy seiziug upon ard u |
ing the fragments Others let Slip By, or re-
gard of little worth. And 80, allow not /
your type to become scattered over the I
floor, but encourage the printers to prompt /
ly pick them up, casting the broken or de I
faced into j proper receptacle, where they |
will not again become mixed with the good. I
In time, the number of discarded type, and |
useless electrotypes, will be a sufficient /
an IN ftteFffr lii fo+ no f,npH rv
AS sold metal Save, alsa, the old papers /
and scraps, and in turn they can be sent to /
the paper-maker, or sold for wrappers, In |
twelve months the sum realized viii be an /
amount large enough to defray the expense /
of some department of the establishment. /
Be steady and strong "the path of sue
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