Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-01-25
THE IDEAL NEWSPAPER,

The question is asked, what is the
ideal newspaper This is our an
sWer:
The ideal newspaper is honest and
independent. 1t seeks neither to
make men nor unmake them. 1t is
the unfeed champion ofthe people at
large. 1t nevertheless protects the
corporate and vested rights agreea-
bly, to the obligations of the law. 1t
stands up for right, reason and re-
ligion. 1t makes no wanton assaults
on public men. It espouses what
ever cause it deems right, without
regard to the popularity ofsaid cause.
1t respects public opinion without
being governed thereby, when in its
judgment public sentiment is wrong.
1t gives the news and discusses pub
lie men and public affairs fairly,
truthfully and impartially. When
virtue and vice are brought forward,
it makes virtue shine like a star in
the armament. 1t is not local and
provincial in its news. 1t looks to
the good of county, of State, of Union
and of humanity. 1t is dignified, de-
corous in tone. 1t wantonly assails
no motive. 1t aims at the truth. 1t
seeks to catch the spirit of the age
in which it lives. It stands by, fol-
and with, the law and the Constitu-
tion of the land. Its highest aspira.
tion is to represent the reason and
the conscience of the highest ele.
ment of the community. In fine,
unawed by influence, unbribed by
gain, cased in the armor of pure in
tent, it maintains with fidelity and
resolute with the peoples rights
without injustice to the few or sub
serviency to the many.
Such newspaper, using the Weap-
ons of logic and truth and seeking
severely what it deems the public
interests, must be a power for good,
or else all the signs must prove
miserable failure-Christian Adv0-
cate.
A THRILLING SToRY.-On the
island of Hoy, in the Orkneys, the
inhabitants earn precarious liveli-
hood by robbing the birds of their
eggs. 70 get at their nests, men are
let down by a rope from a cliff one
thousand feet in height, and when
they are down perhaps five hundred
feet, the men at the top make the
end of the rope fast. Each man has
a signal cord. Then, as they hang
out clear of the cliff, they, with a
swing motion, work themselves to-
ward it. BY and by they catch hold
of some jagged rock or root or a
shrub, and there they hang in mid
air, and fill bags with the eggs of the
birds. One man suspended thus be-
tween heaven and earth by single
rope, swung himself into crevice,
and was busy at work when attacked
by an eagle. The eagle came at him
with full force, with wings and beak
and talons. The man swung out in
the air, while the eagle battered him
with his wings and tore at him with
his beak and claws. Holding Oh with
one hand, the man, with his other
hand drew his long, sharp knife, and
made a desperate blow at the eagle
but he. missed the bird and cut
through the rope all but few
strands, and these began rapidly to
untwist and the threads to snap. He
made the signal, was hauled up to
the edge of the cliff, and-just saved.
But they told US his hair had become
white during that awful experience.
There are young men hanging over
the bottomless gulf by single cord.
1t is all that binds them to life,
home, happiness, and heaven; it is
all that holds them. Instead of max
ing the signal to be hauled up from
the edge, they are using their knives
in cutting away every strand of the
rope. Thousands of them are drop
ping into the awful gulf, utterly
ruined for time and eternity by their
own act and by their own purpose,
fascinated by the power of drink.