The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-10-02
NEWSY NOTES.

Capt. w. r. Jones, the widely-known
and wonderfully popular general manager
of the Edgar Thompson steel works at
Braddock, was, with five worl<men, burn
ed in fatal manner by the giving away of
the top of the crucible of one of the blast
furnaces, allowing the molten metal to
pour down in a burning stream upon
them, Thursday evening last. Capt. Jones
fingered until Friday evening.
Here are two large ones from the Frank
lin NeivS: An item now going the rounds
states that "the largest brook trout ever
caught on this continent was landed re-
Gently at Spring Creek, N. Y. The fish
weighed six pounds and two ounces, and
its proportions were perfect" That's a
big brook trout, but it isn't the biggest
ever caught in this country. The visitor
to the Smithsonian Institute at Washing
ton can find there a speckled trout that
weighed l02 pounds when taken. This
Jumbo specimen of the salmo fontinalis
was caught in Rangeley Lake. in Maine.
That the managers of the Stoneboro fair
appreciate what the newspapers do for
them is shown by the following printed
on the back of the tickets forwarded to the
press: "This ticket is issued on account of
the obligation the Society feels towards
the press for complimentary notices, and
will be honored in the hands of any per-
son whom the recipient may desire to use
the same. The Society recognizes the fact
that its splendid success is due largely to
,oXg ,l.slz
a money equivalent cannot be rendered,
it sends its many thanks accompanied by
this token of Appreciation NeioS.
People of the highly moral stripe, who
have great deal to say about newspapers
and reporters, in the matter of scandals,
are trifle off the scent. If newspapers
indulge in this practice to an undue extent
it is not the fault of the newspaper as
much as of the reader. When the Sunday
paper, whose bone and sinew is the pecca-
dilloes of man and womanhood, runs its
circulation to a hundred thousand cash
subscribers, and looks down on the highly
moral and religious journal with its three
or four thousand delinquents, from three
months to three years in arrears, there is
scandal monger is most inviting. The
law of supply and demand enters into the
newspaper business with as much force as
into any other business. Publishers make
what they can sell most readily, and while
scandal brings higher price than any
other commodity in the newspaper mar
ket, the men who print newspapers to
make living will supply just what the
public want to buy. A newspaper re-
porter is sent out, just as a waiter at a
restaurant, to get what the customer wants.
The newspaper fills the intellectual nav
of the public. If it opens its mouth the
widest for scandal, it will get that. When
the public shall demand decent newspa-
pers they will get them. There are very
few editors who would not choose to pub
lish a clean sheet, and many of them are
making special efforts TO do so. They
often adopt course which they know Is
a financial loss to them, hoping to educate
the public up to higher standard of taste
but very few, if any, dare make paper
a perfect model of what their judgment
approves. When the highly moral, the
"unco guid," is tempted to saddle all tho
blame on the newspapers, let him ash
himself if he is not himself to blame wher
he compliments the "Public Purifier
with his mouth, and the SUNDAY Sewer
Pipe" with his pocket MeddpHle Gazette