Connecticut western news., 1886-08-25
"WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1886. |
NEWSPAPER EICHANGE--LLNIT

Some of our state exchanges are try ing to invent some plan whereby the publishers of newspapers, like other people, may have a chance to get va cation of . week or two during the heated term, in which to recuperate for work during the rest of the year. We begin to feel that way too, but we have as yet heard of no scheme which quite meets our approval. The Religious Herald of Hartford, will publish no paper next week, and intimates that it quite seriously contemplates an omission of two weeks during the year, giving fifty numbers to the volume, instead of 6fty-two. This strikes us as pretty nice way of making an even thing of it, but if that doesn't work to good advan- tage we wonder why our scheme wouldn't be 8 satisfactory one all around: For newspapers to exchange" after the manner of ministers We can get rest of three weeks during the summer by exchanging with the Canaan News, the Torrington Register and the New Hartford Tnbune-sending the Herald to their subscribers while they go fishing and they sending their papers to our subscribers, each one issue, while we go of somewhere for rest from the continual grind of never-ending work. We shouldn't care to exchange with the New York Sunday World, with its 19O,- OOO circulation, but we should be glad to try 1t with some of our near neighbors whose circulation doesn't vary much from our own. If any of our newspaper brethren would like to exchange with the Hsrald for Q week on this plan we would like to hear from them. We think our subscribers would relish the change for the novelty of the thing Winsted Herald, August 13.
 Tho Religious Herald's plan is better than the Winsted Herald's plan, for the former provides an absolute vacation for the editor, correspondents, reporters, pressman. .compositors and aA connected with newspaper, whereas the latter plan is vacation in theory but not in practice for it does not avoid the labor and expense of printing and mailing the papers. It Is only partial vacation but possibly might prove better than none. On the contrary the Religious Herald's plan entirely avoids work and can be adopted by religious publica- tion, as its subscribers would gladly &C., quiesce, but let secular journal adopt such . plan and its subscribers would doubtless kick like steers.
 If Neighbor yaill cannot find sub- stitute to edit the Winsted Herald while he takes weeks vacation, we will exchange with him according to his plan, nevertheless his plan has a par allel in the following actual occurrence, viz. Quite . number of years since, Phineas Hunt, (nicknamed "Joe P') Vas sexton of the Congregational church ct East Canaan. He was inclined to be fanlthnaing and he endeavored to mag nify his office by frequently complain ing of his onerous and exactins duties. Then, as now, ministers frequently ex- changed, and it so happened that fo1 several consecutive Sundays his pastor had exchanged until one Sunday morn ing, e 4r Hunt was ringing the bell, he observed the Norfolk minister walk
 into the church and enter the pulpit This afforded MT Hunt an opportunity to magnify his office by blurting ou' Ministers can go where they have s mind ts but this (sexton) is the meanes' business in the world. I have to be her, every meeting" Geo Hawes,a dry wit
 eas standing by, and, without the shadow of smile on his countenance asked, "Mr Hunt why don't vou e1 change with the Norfok beA-ringe,' ?