The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-10
-HERE AND THERE:
: By Mrs. Meta Folger Townsend. ::::::

May he still flourish, may he nobly
shine;
Nor North wind blast, or Fox corrupt
the vine;
So sing, historic muse. in bOldest lays.
Nor critic censure fear, nor coVet
praise Geo. IIID
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Says Mr. Goddard: "Thc great Diff
ficuIty and experience of Speedily OBJ
tanning proper Assortment of Print
i'm Materials, an INADEQUATE Number
of Subscribers to defray the charge
of printing a weekly Newspaper,
added to several unfortunate Events
which have happened to me, have
been the Reasons why the Maryland
Journal and Baltimore Advertiser. so
long expected, hath not before made
its appearance. This, | hatter myself,
will be considered an ample Apology,
in the Minds of the Candid, for the
long delay in publishing it" OHas
the word candid" altogether lost the
meaning which it had here?D
Explaining the delay further, he
says:
81 was aware when it was first pro-
posed to me to undertake a News
Paper in this Town, that although it
possessed many Advantages in Point
of situation, yet it WAS impracticabIe
to print such a one as would suit this
Part of the Country, without estab-
fishing q Rider from Baltimore to
Philadelphia to set out from the last
mentioned Place early on Monday
morning, and to arrive here on Tues
day Evening. whereby | should re-
ccive the Massachusetts, Connecticut
New York. Pennsylvania, and some
times the British and Irish Papers, and
be enabled to publish the Journal with
the freshest Advices, deliver it to the
4 in, fft,x 81
to Annapolis and the lower Counties
on Thursday Morning = be-
fore the Kings Post" (The words
here are 50 worn you are not sure of
a few of them.)
In this day of rapid transit, of To-
, comotives, automobiles. telegraph and
telephone communication we can
hardly realize the conditions existing
century ago. A hundred years
through space either winged or in
ships and our great grandsons will
look back on our modes of progress
as being cumbrous and antiquated.
In those days the editor had no
press dispatches, no conycniences for
transportating material and paper,
but his difficulties were not all of the
sort that passes as modern discover3
smOOthCS the way for u.s. Here's the
the whole world of editors akin:
Il must now earnestly entreat the
immediate Assistance of every Sub
scriber, in advancing the Entrance
Money agreeable to Contract; without
which the Life of this Paper will be
but Of very short Duration. All who
wish well to the Institution, l am per-
suaded, will cheerfully comply with
my request without Delay--and j
hope they will dispense with a per
sonal Application which were it
practicable, would be very painful,
and send the money to the Printing
Ofiice!"
Mr.. Goddard goes on to say: THE
Paper shall be published avery Thurs
day (unless another Day should prove
more agreeable to the Customers,
and shall contain not only the Public
News, which | shall collect and com
pile with the greatest Care, but on
Failure of Anecdotes of that Sort, |
Pieces, from the best Writers, as will
cOnducc most to inculcate good Prin-
ciplcs and humane Behaviour, and
now and then with ~Pieccs Of Wit and
Humour, that tend both to amuse and
instruct"
(See there, now, If Mr.. Goddard
and ! had happened to be contempt
raries he would have been delighted
with my "moraI Pieces" even if ne