The Opelousas courier., 1892-01-23

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If there is any one thing on earthinto which
the element of 'luek"does not enter, it is the
handling of q great newspaper.
People may we'll be called "lueky" when
they discover a gold mine, or when they de,
tect q 2:3O gait in a $50 colt, but luck" men.
toned in connection with journals like The
Chicago Saturday Blade and The Chicago
Ledger simply means work and the intelli,
gent exercise Of a 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 The Chicago Led
ger at,i The Chicago Saturday Blade, IL IS
vely doubtful if three great weekly papers
can le found in the country, having l0o,Ooo
weekly.
These papers are great because they repre-
sent the age which we live, and becaue
there are 10 TWO states III the Union which
have as many voters as these papers have
readers lust figure this out, and see how
many different people mnst be pleased in or
der IL accomplish this result. This is not
luck it is genius. The Chicago Saturday
Blade alone has $4,000 circulation weekly.
The Chicago SATURDAY Blade is a newspaper
aud IA literary papeF combined, Those feat
nrta If ihe weeks news which stand out
rromincltlt above The great mass of matter
collected itS nrw>gathers, ara always printed
in tnit .'ntE deliberately Illustrated.
There il not a line III he Saturaa4 Blade
that is not readable There is not Il dull line
in il. II is q paper TO read in the Office, the
stosr, "t tie train, or at the evening fireside.
lis Illustrations cost more every week than
the entire expenses of its alleged rivals. The
illustrations are always the very best from an
artistic point of view, and really constitute
a pictorial history of the times.
The Chicago Ledger is most emphatically
the leading family paper of the country.
Among the world-fIued writers who con
tribute to its columns may be mentioned Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, Stanley Waterloo, William
Wallace Cook, Sara b. Rose, Arthur c.. Girls
son.. William b. Chisholm, William, H. S.
Atkinson, r. l.. ketehum, Robert Y. Toombs,
Elliott Flower, Leroy Armstrong, Austyn
Granville, Emma Howard Wight and scores
of others.
The Ledger stories are not the old class Sc
rails with just SO many desperate deeds to
every ounre of ink, They deal with the life
we see aronnd lis. Many of its serial stories
are written expressly for the Ledger, and
deal with leading social aud economic prob
lens. Fiction is generally admitted 10 be
one of tue greatest agents OF modern prog
ress. The Ledger writer's are now telling
from week to week Of the lives aud trials of
the oppressed OF classes. But the stories are
bright, well-written aud intensely interest.
ing, Notwithstanding the fact that they are
tiDged with the events, ambitions aud prlva-
tions of to-day.
L No impure thought or expression finds its
way into the columns of the Ledger. 1t is IL
paper for the houe. The Home" and
youths" departments are prominent feat
ures, and the department Of fashion is supe-
rior to amy other printed. There are items
about writers, about odd happenings, about
prominent people, aDd wise sayings and hui
morons paragraphs are plentitully scattered
through its columns. Each week the por-
trait of some distinguished author is given,
and each week the ablest writers OF the day
contribute tn its columns bright, concise and
Instructive essays on current topics. No one
can afford to leave the Ledger out Of the list
of papers TO be read III 1892. TIE Ledger has
a weekly circulation of 125, 900 copies.
Where the Blade and Ledger cannot be prof.
cured OF newsdealers or special agents, sub
seriptious may be seut directly to the pub
Usher, w. D. Boyce, ll6 aud liz Dearborn ST.,
Chicago, Ills. The price Of each is five cents
per copy, or 50 a year. They arc the largest
papers of their class priutcd for the price
in the world You should moi fail to serd
for sample copies which are always mailed
free upon application.