The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-19
1T is HARD WORK!
A Glance at the Makeup
of Two Great weekly
Journals.
What Goes Into the Chicago Saturday
Blade" aud "Lcdger" Each Week
1t is Work, aud Not Luck.


1t is Work, aud Not Luck.
If there is any one thing on earth
into which the element of "luck"
does not enter, it is the handling of
a great newspaper.
People may be called "lucky"
when they discover gold mine, or
when they detect a 2:3O gait in
twenty-dollar colt, but '1uck" men
toned in connection with journals
like the Chicago SATURDAY Blade,
and the Chicago Ledger simply
means work and the intelligent eX-
ercise of u broad understanding of
what people want to read.
All the really great weekly jour
nails of the day may be counted or
the fingers of one hand. Indeed,
aside from the chicago Ledger and
the CAfcdgo Saturday Blade, it is
very doubtful if three great week
ly newspapers can be found in the
country, having 100000 circulation
weekly.
These papers are great because
they represent the age in which we
live, and because there are no two
states in the Union, which have as
many voters as these papers have
readers.
Just figure this out, and see how
many different people must be
pleased in order to accomplish this
result. This is not "luck" it is
genius. The CAicago Saturday
BLADE alone has 225,O0O circulation
weekly.
The Chicago Saturday BLADE is a
newspaper and II literary paper
combined. Those features of the
weeks news which stand out prom
inentlr above the great mass of
matter collected by news gatherers,
are always printed in full and eIab-
orately Illustrated
There is not line in the SdtUr-
dog Blade that is not READABLE.
There is not dull line in it. 1t is
a paper to read in the Office, the
store, on the train, or ut the
fireside. Its Illustrations cost more
every week than the entire eXpen-
ses of its alleged rivals. The Illus
trations are always the very best
from an artistic point of view, and
really constitute pictorial history
of the times.
The ChicGgO Ledger is emphatic
ally the leading family paper Of
the country. Among the world
famed writer's who contribute to
its columns may b. mentioned
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Stanley
Waterloo, William Wallace Cook,
Sara B. Rose, Arthur c. Grissom,
William b. Chisholm, VIM. II. S.
Atkinson, r. l.. Ketchum, Robert
Y. Toombs, Elliott Flower, Leroy
Armstrong, Austyn Granville, En-
ma Howard Wight, and scores of
others.
The Ledger stories are not the
old-class serials with just so many
desperate deeds to every ounce Of
ink. They deal with the life we
see AROUND US. Many of it's serials
are written expressly for the Led
ger, and deal with leading social
and economic problems. Fiction
is generally admitted to be one of
the greatest agents of modern pro-
gress. The Ledger writer's are
now telling from week to week of
the lives and trials of the oppress-
ed Of all classes. But the stories
. are bright, well-written and in
tensely interesting, notwithstand-
ing the fact that they are tinged
with the events, ambitions and pri-
yations Of today.
No impure tloughtOr expression
finds its way into the columns of
the Ledger. 1t is Il paper for the
home. "The Home" and "Youths' "
Departments are prominent fea-
lures, and the department of fash
jon ifsuperior to any other printed.
There are items about writer's,
about odd happenings, about prom
inent people, and wise sayings and
humorous paragraphs are plentiful
iy scattered through its columns
Each week the portrait of some
distinguished author is given, and
each week the ablest writer's OF
the day contribute to its column,
bright, concise and instructive es
says on current topics. No one
can afford to leave the Ledger on
of the list Of papers to be read il
1892. The Ledger has a weekly
circulation of $4,000 copies.
Where the Blade and Ledge,
cannot be procured of newsdealeri
or special agents, Subscription
may be sent directly to the publish