The Opelousas courier., 1892-01-09
THE MODERN PICTURE.
The Figure Id Cuts an the Sue
CessGnE Weekly PAPER.
The Chicago Saturday Blade aad The ohica
go Ledger" That They Print aud Hon
Work and Brains Count.

II there is any one thing on earthinto which
the element of 'luck' does not enter, it is the
handling of a great newspaper.
People may we'll be called lucky when
they discover a gold mine, or when they de-.
tect a 2:30 gait in a $40 colt, but ''luckp men.
toned in Connection with journals like Tie
Chicago Saturday Blade and The Chicago
Ledger simply means work and the intelli-
gent exercise of u broad understanding of
what people want to read.
All the really great weekly journals of the
day may be counted on the fingers of one
hand. Indeed, aside from Tn Chicago Led
ger and The Chicago Saturday Blade, it is
yety doubtful ii three great weekly papers
can he found in the country, having 100 600
weekly.
These pupers are great because they repre-
sent Ii" age which we live, and beoaue
there arr no NC States IN the Union which
have ~ many voters rs these papers have
readers just figure this out, and sec how
many different people mnst be pleased in Or.
der 80 accomplish this result. This is not
''luck'-it is genius. The Chicago Saturday
Blade alone has 325 900 circulation weekly,
The Chicago saturday Blade is a newspaper
AID IL lucfaty paper combined. Those feat
ures If the weeks news which stand out
prouiine4tt* above the great mass of matter
co'5ect,d ity ~utTsGatherr, are always printed
ii IN ard r3Hb9faIeiY illustrated.
1AeIt l5 An5 i lie III tho Saturday Blade
THAT 10 t+A I Ea2%&CtS. --SEG Is not j IliI Hue
III 1t, 1t Is IA paper To read IL the office, tho
sta,vt IN the t1elp, or at the evening Preside.
It's I:tasirAtjnns cost mora every week than
the entire expenses OF its alleged rivals. The
ilinBteatioue are always tie very Sest from All
artistic point of view. and really constitute
a pictorial histurF Of the iilGeg.
The Chicago Ledger IS most etaphatieally
the leading family paper Of tbs country.
Among the wurld-taEued writers who con.
tribute 10 it, columns may BE- mentioned Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, Stanley Waterloo, William
Wallace Cook, Sara B. Rose, Arthur C.. Girls.
som. William B. Chisholm. William. II. S..
Atkinson. T.. L.. Ke1chun, Robert Y. Toombs,
Elliott Flower, Leroy Armstrong, Austyl
Granville, Emma Howard Wight and scores
of others.
The LEDGE, stories arc lot the old .olass SO.
rails with just SO many desperate deeds 10
every ounce of ink, They deal with the lits
we see around Us, Many of it's serial stories
are wrIItGn expressly for tie Ledger, an&
deal with leading social ana ecouomic prob
lens, Fiction is generally admitted 10 ba
one OF the greatest agents OF modern prog
ress. 4hs Ledger writer's are now telling
FROM week 10 week of the lives aud trials Of
the oppressed OF classes. But the stories are
bright, well.wTitteu and intensely interest
ing, not1it hstandinG the fact that they are
tinged with the events, ambitious and priva-
tons Of to-day.
no impure thought Or expression finds its
way into the columns OF the Lager. 1t is =
paper for the hons. Tbs Home7 and
youths" departments are prominent feat
urcs, aud the department of fashion is eupa.
rior to any other printed. There are items
about Eriters, about odd happenings, about
prominent people, and wise sayings and hu.
norous paragraphs are beautifully scattered
through lis columns Each week the por.
trHit Of some distinguished author Is given,
aud each week the ablest writer's of the day
contribute tn its columns bright, concise and
Instructive essays on current topics. No one
ran afford TO leave the Ledger Que Of the list
Of papers to be read i'll 1892. The Ledger has
a weekly circulation of 125, 900 copies.
Where the Blade and Ledger cannot be pre-
cured of newsdealers or special agents, sub.
scriptions may be sent directly to the pub
Usher, w. 2. Boyce, liz and liz Dearborn ST.,
Chicago Ills. Tie price Of each is FIRE cents
per copy, mr. 81 a year. They are the largest
papefs 81 their claes ptiuted fer the price
in the world You should not fail to serd
for sample copies which are aIwaYa mailed
free Hpon application.