The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-08

Tribune's editorial spirit is rs crooked
as its typographical makeup.
The Sunday Tribune is the most
charming of the New York dailes is
sued on the first day of the week. Its
correspondence from abroad (notablv
Mr.. Smalley's London letters, and the
notes from occasional correspondents
is more valuable and of higher char
acter than that of any Of the other pa
pers. 1t is not at Ill a dull paper; its
matter is we'll selected; its departments
are well conducted; its literary notes
and reviews are forcible; its whole tone
is elevatlng and enlightening. Leaving
out the politics, of which there is too
large and too highly seasoned mass,
it is an excellent paper. 1t is distinct
lively paper witha literary flavor, and
a paper for men and women of the
higher and more refined class. The
Tribune's news columns are well con-
Quoted. 1t was once (wether it is now
l cannot say the best of schools for
young reporters, its system was so fair
and its excellence so general. tire
tains many curious, old-fashioned no
tions; but it has a large circulation
among decidedly conservative farmers
and old folks, and it could not we'll af-
ford to offend these, I suppose, even ifit
does mar its news columns and prevent
proper "dishing up' of the news. But,
perhaps, there is altogether too much
"dishing up'' nowadays.
The Times is samong the best of news
papers, with pure and elevated tone.
1t has one quality that many papers
lack, true understanding of the rela-
tive importance Of news. 1t never ca
ters to low tastes. 1t is eminently re-
spectacle, and it is essentially the pa
per for the business and professional
man. While not suppressing those
items which must, because they are
news, be published; even though the
old ladies put their hands over their
ears while reading them, yetit does not
enlarge on such news to an unhealthy
extent, anu it seems thoroughly to ap-
preciate, not only that all kinds of peo-
pie like all kinds of news, but that peo-
pie of the better class have a right to
be served with the kind Of news they
like. It's strong point is, that it never
fails to give this news the relative
amount of space that it deserves. I
think, on the whole, that the Times is
thus one of the wisest and best of real
newspapers and that it really reflects
the world, net the police headquarters
and the criminal courts. Editorially,
the paper is honest and upright. 1t is
independent, and not 80 in the abused
sense of the word. The strangest thing
about it is that it is apt to be little
partisan in its independence, and when
it once starts to support a man on a
principle, will sometimes become lit
tie too jealous. Yet this falling one
that the Times does not often exhibit.
1t is usually clear-headed, and it dis
covers the truth on both sides, and &C
knowledges it or points it out, as the
case may be. It's honest, earnest, and
generally in the right; and above all it
is dignifed, sober, conservative, and
pure-minded The Times is not, how
ever, without its failings, and one is
that it quite frequently issues num-
Der that is too literary and general and
not enough newsy. In this it differs
from the Sun and the World, which
smell Of news all the way through.
The Herald is noted for its excellent
foreign news department. 1t is always
scoring triumph in that direction,
and many buy the paper for that ex-
cellence alone. 1t has good system
Of home and domestic reporting, too,
and is altogether, paper that will hold
all it's friends, but will hardly gain
many new ones. In its editorial page
it is painfully weak, wishy-washy, and
vacillating. It ought to be a stronger
pape- than it is; and it would be, were
it not edited from a distance. Its af-
ternoon issue, the Telegram, has lately
been infused with new life, and has
bristled out as q better and more newsy
paper. The Herald and the Telegram
both indulge in some sort of 'strike'
very frequently. The Herald bloomed
out one day with its head lines curl
ously arranged so that that they could
be read in a continuous sentence across
the page. For awhile it made head
ings an art, and they We're built in
pyramids, and Heaven only knows
what. The object was to astonish peo-
pie, and the Herald very often does the
same thing in its news columns for the
same reason.
The Journal is paper about which
little need be said. 1t is as naughty as
it dares to be; it shuns solidity and
publishes articles of its own peculiar
style. \ well-written "faken always
has Il better chance with it than solid
news item. 1t can scarcely be called a
real newspaper. The Journal suits its
onc-cent subscribers, and is read by
people who roll their tongues over two
columns Of slanGer, and do not care
Il continental whether the English cabi-
! net reigns or not.
Another ore-cent journal is the Press,
Il bright newspaper that is gradually
obtaining something of foothold in
the city. AS its one object is to boom
the tariff. we may forgive its super
abundance of protection STATISTICS. 1t
| is not vet leading paper; nor is the