Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-01-25

: give in a year2 Frequently they begir
several weeks in advance and are ruI
, in continued-story fashion. The edito
may have no interest whatever in The
affair, but it is considered his duty Il
advertise it free and freely. lie inya.
riably does it-and seldom gets thank
ed. Sometimes he even says "Much
obliged" for matter thus furnished "tC
fill up"
! When a schoolmam begins her term
she says, Nov all who are good
scholars will see their names printed
in the Weekly Buzz-Saw at the end Of
the term" And sure enough when the
time comes the paper is placed under
deep obligation to the teacher for an
item stating the names of all who have
been neither absent nor tardy at all, or
for halt day or day or two days; all
who have not missed more than a
dozen words in spelling, etc. The total
attendance and average. If there is a
mistake in the item when it appears it
must be corrected the next week, for
the teacher has promised. Consider
ing that in every town there are sever
al districts that each has three terms
year and that reports are sent in from
many towns, a great deal of space is
thus used to further the cause OF good
government and education in our
schools, and yet when, with hundreds
of such reports, comes one containing a |
word Of thanks to the publisher it is |
deep in his heart as a rich |
reward-it happens so seldom.
There is "A general belief that the I
country paper is the proper instrument
through which to fay ones enemies
and pay grudges. If by hook or crook
it can be made to assail ones foes,
life hath no greater pleasure-and when
he aggrieved party tackles the editor
ct him look ont for himself. The in
yenuity that people display to thus
work" the paper is absolutely incom-
parable.
Some people seem to think that there
S grave danger that the paper will
ome out partially blank some weeks
nless they contribute something TO ,
fill it up" Accordingly, tuey gener-
usly send in long articles clipped from /
Their papers, stories, poems, sermons [
nd the like. Their interest is prompt
d by so sincere a feeling that the ed !
or has a guilty sensation when he /
rops tue matter into the waste basket i
nd proceeds to boil down" most OF =
he local matter that has come i'm.
OF until people are initiated into the
AIDE secret that almost all the miscel- d
neous matter in country weeklies is y
ought in plate form and costs, all set =
and ready to run, only about one :
nth as much as typesetting done ut D
me, viii they understand why their n
ell-meant profers are spurned by the y
anky editor, The best of literary =
after is now furnished in plate form, T,
d dailies, as well as weeklies, use it. Ii
There are scores of other ways in n
lich the newspaper is ridden, but it
almost always a mild and gentle We
lie, conscious of its humble station Of
d anxious to fulfill its mission. If "a
had the independence and self-assert- =
mess of the Dago street peddler it n
'uld say great big words, very often, Q,
as it is, the country weekly goes Ii
ing with hat in hand, bowling this =
" and that, constantly being imposed Il
on and fully conscious of it, but try V
J, oh, so hard, to justify its own ex. h,
ence. CT