The Republican journal., 1900-12-27
ROUND THE WINTER FIRE.

ROUND THE WINTER FIRE.
There are not so many fire places as
in the olden time-more's the pity-but
in this section, and at this season, a
fire of some kind is indispensable, and
heat is supplied through hole in the
floor from furnace, from a'steam radi-
ator, or stove burning wood, coal or
kerosene; and the lucky few enjoy
the CHEEKY blaze from an open fire place.
Winter is the time for reading, and in
the long evenings the local paper is a
most welcome visitor in many homes.
If with The Republican Journal, for
example, comes The New York Weekly
Tribune, or the Farm and Home, the
jewellers in the country have not only
the news of their own State, county
and neighborhood but the news of the
great world as well, combined with
many helpful hints and much useful
information. Some time ago the edi-
tor of the Richmond, Ind, Enterprise
published an article in which were cata-
logued all the services of the local
paper, coupled with suggestions as to
helping the editor thereof in return for
the papers help. We quote few para
graphs:
''The local paper has rejoiced when
If you are good citizen, the paper will
you in your enterprises and will help
to find you business friends.
'It tells you where to buy and where
ut tells you of current prices and
prevents you from being cheated and
swindled in a hundred ways.
''Fina4y, when you die, the paper
will publish your obituary and will cover
over your faults and will recite the
story of your good deeds
'sAll these things the local editor will
cause his paper to do, but no one else in
the world will do them or can do them
for you, even for love or money. The
city paper will tell you of the world
but it won't tell the world about you or
yours. The outside paper is stranger
to your little world and is not at all in.
terested in its improvement. Yet your
local paper does all this free of cost to
you if you are willing to receive it in
that way. However. for your sake, we
hope you are too generous to accept so
many unrequited favors and that you
are willing to reciprocate the same
Help the editor. Be his friend, and
he will prove his friendship to you
subscribe for his paper and pay for
it regularly in advance and get your
neighbors to do the same.
Send him the news"
That The journal has served it's con-
stituency faithfully along these lines
will hardly be disputed and along these
lines it will continue. While it advo-
Gates the principles and policy of the
Republican party it knows no political
lines where local interests are concern
ed, and is ever ready to lend the help
ing hand to industrial enterprises and
that will benefit the com
1t is one of the few papers in
Maine that is all home print, and while
lllio HilhCo llo ijiouuSe lOlI tApcllolNt, UllG
money is all paid out at home and goes
into local circulation To all advance
paying subscribers, whether new OF old,
the New York Weekly Tribune is fur
nished free. This is a 20-page paper,
illustrated, and in addition
to the news of the world it has depart |
ments for the household, science and
mechanics, agricultural, stories. edito-
rails, and is of high literary order In
deed, the Weekly Tribune stands at the
head of city weeklies, and is so widely |
known and so highly appreciated that |
little need be said in it's behalf. To |
those who want their news of the world |
oftener We furnish the Tri- Weekly |
Tribune with The Republican Journal,
one year for $3.50. This tri-weekly
of 6 large pages, is illustrated,
and is just as good, if not better, than
A daily. and costs the subscriber to his |
ocal paper only 50 cents year.
Those who want a purely farm paper
,an have the Farm and Home, semi
without cost by paying for The
Republican Journal one year in adj
vance.
Let us supply your winter reading.