The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-11-10
Papers and Periodicals.

1ue BduH Zines, owned DV r. b. N1cnOlS
formerly manager of the ROckland Star
made decided hit last Saturday when it is
sued a special baby edition giving excellent
half-tone pictures of several score of the
cute Bath babies. The edition naturally
had big sale, the Bath parents being de-
lighted with the idea. Among the pictures
was one of Editor Nichols baby daughter
camden Herald
The Journal acknowledges receipt of this
"baby edition." which is both unique and
interesting and credit to our Shipping
City contemporary.
When the war with Spain was declared
the President called for volunteers. To
this call the I'd Mass. responded, and was
the first regiment of volunteers to be mus
tered into the United States service. With
the in vasion of Cuba the ID regiment was
among the first of the volunteers to taste
Spanish bullets, They encountered all the
hardships of the campaign, and suffered all
the neglect which a negligent department
)uld lntiict upon it, The story of the ID
from the start until the day of its mastering
out is graphically told by |. Newton Greene
(the only newspaper correspondent who
spent every day and night with the ID
Mass. during its active service) in The Bos-
ton Sunday Herald of Nov 6, 1883. This
special article is of interest to every man,
woman and child in New England, and
should be preserved for reference. The
numerous illustrations in the article are
from photographs by Tie Boston Herald's
special correspondent.
Some friend in the far Ea st has sent Us a
copy Of the Picking and Tientsin Times
Some OF its American subscribers have COM
planned that the paper WAS not sufficiently
sensational and newsy, and in the number
before us the editor mad made an effort to
improve in this respect. He makes pretty
fair burlesque on yellow journalism, despite
an apparent paueity Of typographical re-
sources. The story occupies three.quarters
of a column, and he gives "the English of it"
in four lines An editorial captoned "Bill-
ingsgate in Print tempts quotation. For
example.
Base porn scribblers revel in mire of the
"bloated boke' category and an editor, who
knows the class of readers he provides for,
is Otter beguled into publishing matter APP
pertaining to the environments of Billings
gate though he may be capable of infinitely
greater things himself.
But the article closes in a hopeful strain,
as folk VS.:
Ever year speeds education upward to a
higher evel, and brings us nearer the goal
when II e abusive and personal in journalism
will be relegated exclusively to that lower
strata o. society which must as inevitably
continue to exist so long swine by prefer
ence walow them in mire.
these days is double enc. To the habit of
judging paper by its giving all the news as
soon as or before other papers, is now added
the important qualification of reliability,
and this second has come 10 be fully as es-
sential as The first in the minds of the peo-
pie generally. The reason is not hard to
find The practice of the so-called yellow
newspapers curing the war of printing start
ling so-called news which they themselves
knew was abs outely untrue and which de-
ceived only the most careless or ignorant
readers, has greatly increased the demand
for papers upon whose honesty and accuracy
people can rely. Conspicuous among such
is the Boston Journal. In this case, too, is
added the further quality Of being often the
first paper in the country to give to the pub
lie the important news. For instance it was
the Boston Journal which gave the first re-
ports of the participation of the Second Mas
sachusetts Regiment in the battle of Santa
go, and later "scooped'' the country in the
announcement of the resignation of the
Colonel and some of the other officers of the
Sixth Massachusetts, Regiment at Porto
Rico. Such things as these have made the
| Journals popularity a steadily increasing
one.