The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-08-16
LA AUGUST s
HOW a NEWSPAPER PAYS.

Mr.. j. W. Crary, of Florida, pre-
sents some of tho advantages in 4
communication to the Pensacola Ad
vance Gazette, as follows:
How a newspaper pays can be ct
once seen, if you will give the mat
ter little thought. Suppose you
take paper that is only issued once
a week, you get fifty-two copies q
year, each containing the general
current news of the times.
The educational advantages to the
family, derived from only a weekly
paper, are cheaper aud more i'm
pressive, useful and thorough, after
the children have learned to road,
than the teaching in the or'linar.
schools. II is a notable fact, and
many eminent examples might be
referred, that families VITO are never
without newspapers become more in
tclligent and more Influential than
those who go through the ordinary
scholastic studies without the habit
of reading newspapers. After read.
ing, writing aad arithmetic are
taught TO a child, if q choice is 10 be
made between 8 :hool books and
newspapers, it would be much more
beneficial to the child to give il two
of three we'll selected newspapers
to read than TO confine it TO the text
books of the school. Newspaper Ell
ucation is polytechnic and universal,
and is Indispensable to a proper
qualification for true American citi
zenshir.
A good newspaper saves money in
all business matters. If you want to
sell or buy anything you will likely
see the current price in a newspaper,
and you will also see what YOU might
want advertised; you don't have to
take hearsay, and thus suffer from
mistakes and delays; you just turn
to your paper, and know all you wish
to find out. You will often save the
subscription cost of your paper by
one single order for ten or twenty
dollars worth Of goods. You will
often tiEd chances for good bargains
advertised that cannot be found in
any other way. A few months since,
"a merchant in Pensacola advertised
to sell q certain staple article Of pro
visions very cheap; there was quite
large lot Of it, and the consignor
ordered it so!,2 a. once. I sent an
order, and when several Of MY neigh
oofs in the country saw what I had
gottrn, and / told them the price,
they said: eff you had told US, we
would also have sent orders" If
you will take the papers you will
always know in time, without wait.
ing for secondhand talk" | saved
the price of my newspaper subsctip-
ton in Pensacola for one year by
that single transaction. Indeed, it
would be impossible to enumera'e
the amount of pecuniary benefits re-
ceived from newspaper advertisements
alone, to say nothing of the general
information of vital Importance con.
tanned in them.
journalism in all its departments
is a business that requires more self
sacrifice, more indefatigable labor,
more patience, endurance and nice
discrimination than any other pro-
fession. There is no class of men
that furnish SO cheaply the indispen-
sable intelligence, wisdom and virtue,
for the support of the government
aud welfare of the people, as the
we'll trained and efficient journalist.
Every good citizen should take and
pay for good paper; he owes it to
his country, his family and his own
self-respect and interest.
MANY young girls are unfit for
active life, and thousand of mothers