The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-03-01
TOPICS OF
THE TIMES.
Pithy Paragraphs From the Pens
and Pencils.
WORTH SOME ATTENTION !
People Who Have an Income Tax to
Pay Will be Interested Points on
the Newspaper Business.
SOME ATTENTION !

rs sounds strangely, indeed awfully,
that whenever young woman is missing
from her home the almost first thought
that strikes the parents and friends is
that she has been murdered. There must
be and there is cause for such an APP
prehension. It is the fact that of late
years many girls have been enticed from
their homes aud have been foully dealt
with 1t was not always thus, therefore
the frequency of such crimes is well cal.
culated to create afeeling of alarm and
dread whenever th ere is such disappear.
ance Just why there are so many
tragedies of the kind referred to becomes
a serious question of deep Importance. 1t
argues a condition of things that IS alarm
ing, and as the offenders ID such crimes
are almost invariably young,men of well
ascertained evil habits, should not parents
be more careful as to the persons with
whom their daughters associate There
is grave risk in permitting the Intentions
of young men whose habits are in any
sense of the libertine order. This idea will
of course be rejected by many narents
whose daughters have visitors ohthat
class, but their opinion on the subjecaN oes
not in any sense impair the soundnes& of
the suggestion made.
Under the provisions of the income tak
act those persons subject to its pains and
penalties must file their returns for the
year 1894 by the first Monday of March
and must make payment of their taxes on
or before July /, 1895. While incomes of
S4, 600 are exempt, the law requires that
every person whose income for 1894
amounted to $1,000 or over must make a
return to the collector of the district in
which he lives, giving in detail the sources
of his income and the total of his gains,
profits and income, and also the deduc.
tions to which he is entitled-all Of which
details will be found comprehensively
covered in the blanks to be had of the
collectors. As the amendment to extend
the date for filing returns TO April 10 h
also includes some other changes of regu
latiOn with respect to the mode of com
putting a persons income, it would be as
we'll for those who are subject to the law
to wait and see what shape it shall finally
take before filing their returns. But they
on the task of computing the amount o
their liability-a task which, in som(
instances at least will put a strain upor
the intellectual if not the moral faculties
There is no line of business in which
phases of life are more strongly con
trasted than in the newspaper business
This was impressed upon our minds will
e more than usual effect yesterday wher
we tur ed our attention to the festivities
attending the marriage of two of ou
5 friends Immediately after recording thu
4 obsequies of the deceased member of the
= staff of our contemporary, the Sunda!
News. This contrast furnishes food TO
reflection by the people who are not in tn
business, but imagine that they could rul
a newspaper to perfection. 1t is all YER
we'll for people to boast of how the
would seize an opportunity tn "spreat
out" on this or that particular subject
but let them get down TO the undisguised
> practical work of getting out a dali.
newspaper and handling subjects humor
Gus, sentimental and otherwise, as they
come along, and see where many of them
will land. The great, trouble with mos
people is that they labor under th
impression that newspaper stats are
= always divided into corps and each has it
special line to follow, such as the snak,
editor devotes his whole time to serpen
tine fancies, the society editor does moth
ing but feast his eyes on the bellies o
social circles and their elaborate ward
robes, when he is not satisfying hi
; appetite with the delicacies of tn
season served at the posts to whic
= he is assigned, ETC., etc, but tn
v fallacy soon dies when the real work pre-
sents itself and the pencil pusher find
that as soon as he finishes reducing hi
impressions of Mrs. Gardner's conservi
tory to writing he must hasten down tn
u street to learn the particulars surround
d ing the splitting of John Hardluck's hea
- with brick and present them with a
% the CORY details and, when he gel
through with that, sit down and write
half column article on the Lenten seaso
and its obseryances.