The Osceola times., 1886-12-25
No PAPER NEXT WEEK!

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Arkansas Press Association, 1874
newspapers and periodicals publish
ed in the state, and the TIMES, which
will compare very favorably with the
large majority OF the country week.
lies, (if we do say it, as hadn't ought
toy, is perhaps the only paper in the
state that is controlled, managed and
issued by one individual, who does
the work Of editor, reporter, business
manager, compositor, foreman, press
man, proof-reader, in short, attends
to all departments down to the
drudery connected with every well.
regulated printing office. This he
does partly from choice, knowing
that when tits done, 'ts well done,
and the worry aud anxiety connect
ed with hiring discharging, superin-
tending carc9 IS hands who are al
ways on the Ego" if not beat" is
thus overcome, TO do this, however,
week after week, year in aud year
our, is M light or easy task, neither,
indeed, is it always pleasant. The
farmer, in the course of a year, finds
many rainy day; or tits too hot, or
too cold, when he can house up and
rest; the lawyer, waiting for client,
or the time for the court to convene.
has ample time to prepare his brief
work; the Doctor, during the season.
when human lkind are most actively
employed, and disease for the time
retreats 10 the swamps, finds leisure
hours in which to replenish his stock
Of physics and post-up on the latest
sure-cure y; during the long, dull
summer months, the merchant lolls
aud lounges an his bare counters, and
fondly dreams of the coming harvest.
The preacher, has all the week to
look over, Gull and boil down the
thoughts Of the Fathers to half
hours discourse for each succeeding
Sabbath's delivery, and SO it is with
almost every other profession or os-
cupstion; all have more or less time
for rest and recreation. But with
the news gatherer it's different. The
newspaper reader expects, and must
have the news OH time, whether there
be any news or not. Sick or well,
rain or shine, hot or cold, the weekly
budget of news, with the precision Of
fate, or the regularity of a three dol
lar WATERBURY watch, must be sent
abroad to gratlfy the universal thirst
for news. This want We undertook
to supply; and with the facilities and
material at command, hatter ourself
that the obligation has been fully
discharged. The laws of nature, as
we have shown, as well as the laws
of political economy, make ample
provision for the diversion and recre.
alton of man, save the country editor,
who, somehow has come to be re-
garded, by the surging masses, as
something outside the pale of ord,-
nary human intelligences, who must
devise ways and means of his own,
by which, be too, may enjoy few
Of the sublunary pleasures of com
mon everyday human existence.
There is no more suitable time for
this purpose, perhaps, than the pres
snt-the Merry Christmas Holidays,
when all are seemingly happy and
ioyous; when the bright ride Of life
| is on dress parade, and with the
closing of the old year, all gladly and
eagerly welcome the advent Of the
new, never doubling but that it has
something better in store for the fu.
mre more to be desired than that
furnished by the past. Hence the
TINES will not be issued next week,
and its manager takes this occasion
TO wish its readers, fri, nds and pa.
irons a Merry Christmas and Hap
nv New Year, hoping that while
ENJOYING the good things Of life, and
participating amid the gayetics sur
rounding this season, the divine ORR
gin and chief cause of rejoicing will
no. be overlooked, or contemplated
With indifference.