Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-12-25
Newspaper DOn'ts.


Don't discontinue paper until you
have squared up with it.
Don't abuse paper unless you pay
for it. Borrowers are the greatest
fault-fnders a newspaper has to con-
tend with.
Don't expect paper to abuse the
town government for your especial
benefit.
Don't abuse the paper if it uses
space in printing something you do
not consider worth reading. Those
who read your part of the paper may
think your part of the paper pure rot.
A paper is built to please many, not
one.
Don't take a paper out of the post
Office for five years and then refuse to
pay for it because you never subscrib-
ed for it nohow. This is thievery pure
and simple. You could have refused
| it four years and eleven months be-
| fore.
Don't get mad if your visitors name
does not appear in the personal col
umns. Perhaps you did not tell the
editor; he's no mind-reader.
Don't stop paper if your three col
umn contribution is condensed into
eight lines. The condenser may have
done you a great favor.
Don't cuss the editor because his
opinions do not conform to yours. If
they did he might be at variance with
some eight or ten million other per
sons
Don't say paper is mo count I'M
less you have demonstrated ability to
run one yourself. Perhaps you have
failed in everything you have tried to
do.
Don't get mad if your neighbours do
ings are referred to more frequently
than your own. Your neighbor uses
his mouth. Your modesty may keep
you in obscurity.
Don't delay paying for your sub
scription because it is a small matter.
If several other subscribers did the
same way it would kill the paper in
six months.
Don't expect more of the paper than
you do for 1T. If you expect the paper
to speak we'll of you. you must speak
we'll of it. Some people say the paper
has nothing in it, the editor has no get
up, is too old fogy and has no enter
prise, and yet if the paper would say
half that much about them or their
business, even though it be true, they
would never take the paper again and
perhaps never speak to the editor
again. ''Do unto the paper as you
would have it do unto you"
The State quotes paragraph from
letter Jamaica correspondent prints
in the New York Evening Post, show
ing that thousands of negroes there
are on the verge of starvation. the
cause being their idleness and thrift
lessness since their liberation in 1885,.
Since that time the industries of the
island have declined and the 100000
slaves have lapsed into barbarism.
The Evening Posts correspondent says
further: I'VE have seen such sights as
one of their naked voodoo priests
standing in the middle of a stream,
holding a rod in one hand and the
other outstretched over the water, ap-
parently without moving muscle for
upwards of three hours, while thou
sands of naked meu and women crowd
ed into the stream below him. But
this is tame worship compared to their
horrible midnight orgies carried on in
their mountain homes, which the white
only form an idea of their barbarity
from the rumors that come to us from
time to time, or thereports of some of
their more enlightened brethren" 1t
may not occur to readers of the Post
that the white inhabitants of some of
the Southern States haAe to dread the
existence of just such conditions as
are here depicted. Some sections of
the cotton States are inhabited almost
exclusively by liberated slaves, and al
ready evidences of relapse into bar
barism have been reported. While we
deplore the great evils of lynch law,
and can never justify the lawless pun
ishment of man, who is denied the
right of trial. we should refrain from
passing harsh Judgment upon the resi-
dents of these regions, it being impos-
slble for us to fully understand the sit
uation.
BABIES BORN IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Little Esther Cleveland is the sixth
child born in the White House. The
lives of the first four who began ex
istcnce there have been marked by
most trying vicissitudes. The first
child is Mrs. Wilcox, a gray haired
lady of IS, who is now clerk in the