The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-04
THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER.

| Chicago TineS- heTuil
Tho country newspaper! Life without
YOU would be a drelry waste. Your weekly
visit n anxiousiy awaited, asri should The
mal carrier fail 10 bring you on the day
expected, my heart is sad.
| Fffty-two times year you bring me all
the news fiom home. You faithfully chron-
| !css the deaths, birl:hs AMI marriages OF
the nelghborhooi. You keep me posted on
Parties, church sociabies AMI village Cos
SIN and you tell me what the prospects are
| for good or poor crops, as the case might
| be. II family moves away or new
comen moves to town | know u the next
Week. III Farmer Jones Of TIE Ridge rozd
briggs prize pumpkin to your Office l
know all about 1t, although hunGirels of
M es away as soon as some OF his neigh
bors You keep me posted on the improve
meats that Farmer Brown OF the Lake
road contemplates making to his batn IN
the nesr future" And when Farmer Smith
of the Lexington road started a cheese fac"
tory at Kidters Cor ers | knew Il here In
Chicago the day after publication.
., country newspaper, we'll may I say
that "life without you would be dreary
waetc." OMEGA week you are 10 me an
oasis In the desert of this hurry -burly life
in a great city.
The city man who does not take his
home" paper. provided he was reared in
the country, does not know what real en-
joyment he misses. The news | get out of
ca9 issue IL worth more thaa The yearly
subscription. l devour every line of the
local gossip and neighborhoo1 correspond
ence, and when | lsg the paper aside
nrnlSp the country editor, uiyiup me this
privilege.
Letters from home are very welcome, but
one doesn't get as much news in hundred
letters as he does in one issue of the home
paper. Auri letters are so uncertain; you
sometimes have TO wait six months for a
reply to your last one. But If you arc a
suoscriber TO the country paper, 1t comes
10 you regularly every week. rain or shine.
You may be a little IL, arrears, but the
country editor sends the paper along with
the hope that you will some day settle up
matters.
10 the man who can not visit his oil
nome every year or two the weekly pc
rusal of his home paper Is almost as good
~ DRIP 10 boyhood scenes He reads
where the litle freckle-fa faced girl who sat
behind him at school was married to city
CHAT who holds Lucrative pos ton with
u street car company probably IA motor
man; he is Informed that ahe boy who was
known as tho bully of the school was ar
rested FOR wife desertion and is "incarcer-
atcd In the county bastile" he learns. from
his hons paper that 1.-THE Thornton family
Will hclI reunion" and the news is also
conveyed that Aunt Eliza Robertson will
be % Yeas old next week Tuesday" an
event which the city man wishes he was
able to be at home TO celebrate
If midnight n'arauders" steal seven
teen chickens from, Jake Becker's coop it |
is nicely told in the country paper and the
.dtor would be driven out of town If he |
tailed to make note Of the benefit party at |
DJi Fellows hall for the M. Il. church, |
which was a grand success socially and |
financially" The receipts. by the way, |
amounted to over seven dollars"
! am interested in the personal gossip OF |
my old home, ana 1t is with feelings of gen
line pleasure that l learn mir. aai MIS-
Fred Myers wheeled over from Edinboro
ast Sunday or Hhnt Miss Ida wessler is
ssotjournIng for few days with friends at
AeepVIle. The presence In town OF Mrs.
frank Cooley tnee BaXter) of Buffalo
formerly resident OF our burg" Is duly
,hroalcle1 with the additional informa-
ion that she is aucompllled by her two
nonthS-cld baby boy" The burning or
Hank Edsons barn is big piece o.
lews, as 1T is the most disastrous conaa-
gratlnn that has visited this section since
ne Fare King destroyed Brown Bros cider
NIL in 1879"
III you are sick, the country editor writes
nice HNrag'arh about your llness. aud
le trusts that You will soon be able to
appear upon our streets again" If your
VIE dies, he tells of her many good ira IS
y character and that "she bore her last
llness with Christian foiG.tude," If your
On gets married, the country editor tells
'hat promising young man he is, and
'hat an ''estimable ami charming young
ady" is the BRIDE
u the crops are bad the country ed tor
ympathi2e5 w9h the farmer and if the
harvest IS good he rcjoices He gives away
undi eds of dollars worth of advertising
very year for which he scarcely receives a ,
oltte thank YOU" ho is looke9 upon by
many people ms an object OF charity. and
when they pay him their subscription they
ay to themselves well, 1t Will help to |
eep him ou' of the poorhouse for a while"
@ works harder and puts in more hours at +
AMOR than airy man in toWn-lf he didn't
e would be in the poorhouse
O. country editor. dear friend. / derive r
luch happiness every week from reading
our paper, and wish it were in my power ,
, make your business tenfcld better pay
X IMAM 1t is. May your advert sing In Y
ease until you are competed to print a
larger paper and may your subscriber,
'me to the office or send YOU by mail tho A
oney due you. May your days be full OF G
ippiness. aud at night when you SIT n
Cund tho family haarthStnna may 80. :,