The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-02-06

I II lnNTS lS any Oue tulnN WI VUi VI
Into which the element Of duck"
does not enter, it is the handling of
a great newspaper
People may lie called "lucky"
when they discover Il gold mine, or
when they detect II 2;30 gait in
twenty-doIlar colt, but Huck" men
toned in connection with journals
like the chicago SATURDAY Blade,
and the Chicogo Ledger simply
means work and the intelligent eX-
ercise of brond understanding of
what people want to read.
All the really great weekly jour
nails of the day may be counted on
the fingers of one hand. Indeed,
aside from the Chicago Ledger and
the chicago 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" lit is
genius. The Chicago Saturday
Blade alone has 225,0OO circulation
weekly.
The Chicago Saturday Byadc is Il
newspaper and Il literary paper
combined. Those features Of the
weeks news which stand out prom,
, inently above the great mass of
matter collected by news gatherers,
are always printed in full and elab-
orately illustrated.
There is not line in the ,Sdtur-
ddy Blade that is not READABLE.
There is not Il dull line in it, 1t is
, paper to read in the Office, the
store. OH the train, or at the
fireside. It's 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 Il pictorial history
e Of the times.
The Chicago Ledger is emphatic
1 ally the leading family paper OF
the country. Among the world
famed writer's who contribute to
y its columns may b. mentioned
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Stanley
Waterloo, William Wallace Cook
Sara B. Rose, Arthur G. 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
i old-class serials with just so many
l desperate deeds to every ounce o
e ink. They deal with the life We
j, see around US. Many of its serials
i are written expressly for the Led
e ger, and deal with leading sOcia
and economic problems. Fiction
n is generally admitted to be one o
II the greatest agents of modern pro
h gress. The Ledger writer's are
. now telling from week to week o
e the lives and trials of the Oppress
II ed of all classes. But the storip'
l. are bright, Well-Written and in
It tenseIy interesting uotwithstand
e ing the fact that they are tingeC
I. with the events, ambitions and pri
II vations of today.
d No impure thoughtor expression
l. finds it's way into the columns o
n the Ledger. 1t is n paper for thu
d home. THE Home" and "Youths'
Departments are prominent fea
lures, and the department of fash
y ion if superior to any other printed
d, There are items about writer's
n about odd happenings, about prom
"a inent people, and wise sayings an'
humorous paragraphs are plentiful
ly scattered through it's columns
ID Each week the portrait of SOM
lie distinguished author is given, ant
IS each week the ablest writer's o
- the day contribute to its column
~ bright, concise and instructive es
III says on current topics. No on
at can afford to leave the Ledger ou
of the list of papers to be read il
=. 1892. The Ledger has IA week.
: circulation of 125,000 copies.
Where the Blade and Ledge
cannot he procured of newsdealer
or special agents, Subscription
. may be sent directly to the publish
er, w. d. Boyce, 116 and llS Dear
horn ST., Chicago, Ills. The pric