The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-07

there was no home industry to give the young newspaper man encourage ment, and in hundreds of cases there were competitors near by and in the same village. But these facts did not defer the ambitious journalists, and they do not frighten him to-day, and the consequence is that the United States is rich in small newspapers, and that through them thousands of people keep posted in affairs of the day.
 The country newspaper man occupies the same place as to success as the average country business man; there are no more failures in the rural news paper business than there are in the editor, if asked by young man how to start a paper, would say, Don't" He would tell the aspirant for journal istic honors that the work is thankless and burdensome, that there is no mon- eE in it. that the country newspaper must compete with the metropolitan papers and that every subscriber wants favors which cost many times more than the annual subscription. But the complaining editor remains in bus mess, his paper usually grows, he adds new presses to his outfit and shows oth- CT signs of prosperity and he would not abandon his plant except for a hand some consideration.
 How can I sell out?" one country editor said when approached on the subject 1T am firmly rooted here. Have my family in the place and be- | long to it. My coming here was an ex- | pertinent, but had to take pay for my paper in all sorts of things that would be no good to a bachelor, so I married | and settled it."
 l The resident of a large city who is accustomed to receive his paper daily
 and who reads the news from all parts l of the world before he reaches his place of business has an imperfect idea of the 1 average country newspaper, and when
 an occasional copy reaches him he is
 apt to sheer at the queer little sheets with their personal gossip and strange | business notices. To those who have l seen the offices from which some o1 l these papers are issued there is noth. l ing ridiculous in the little papers, and l the perseverance of their editors in.
 spires them with admiration and re | spect.
 { One room frequently constitutes tht | whole plant. This contains all the | type setting and printing paraphernalia
 a desk which the editor who is also business manager, advertising solicit.
 or, reporter and foreman of the print l ing department, divides with his as.
 sistant, library consisting of Bible i a copy of Shakespeare, a red book, The l Tribune Almanac and some public doc uments contributed by the congress man and member of the legislature
 from the district, and ornaments in the form of posters from late campaigns cattle show and fair advertisements
 and cheap portraits of prominent poll
 ticians, usually constitute the outfit o. | the one-room office.
 But the country newspaper, no mat
 ter if it comes from a primitive one | room office or from one of the many
 neat and comfortable establishments fl
 the small places near New York, is pro l gressive, as a rule, and it's proprietor 1 is proud of his position in the commu | nity and jealous of the influence of hi.
 paper. An exception to the rule wa.
 met recently by a New York newspapel man who went to village on a. specia
 mission and who looked up the loca
 newspaper office with a view of spend
 ing his spare hour before train tim, | with the village editor and possibl,
 writing up the place.
 'Oh, there's nothing to say about thii | ,Hfo l,a
 and nothing could be written about i l which would be of interest to anyone.
 NO history, no business, no politics?'