The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-18
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

In spite of all that we can do we are influenced by our environment. I some times think that one reason why l am so welded to newspaper work comes from the fact that my tutor had set up in his room a miniature press and used | to print his stories on it.
 He had been a highly trained cor respondent and long before the war was the correspondent of the Savan- nah News, and then later one of the editors He was kinsman, and though he died when I was quite boy, yet 1t is joke in our family that he kept me in touch with the Franco-Prussian war through the pictures in Leslie's Weekly have not only fondness for news paper work. but there has always been fascination for me in a printing shop and love the mechanical side of paper almost as well as I do the edi- torial end of it. There is an old saying that, "once get printers ink on your fingers, you will never be able to wash it away" If it was not fascinating game. with my love of change, it could not have held me so long.
 have set down this much to lay a predicate for the fact that am inter ested in all kinds of printed matter and hence l am on the mailing list, it would seem. of every catalogue house in the land, and also that some one got me on "the sucker list" for I get every kind I of promotion scheme, and as for ex- changes, I have almost lived on them as steady diet from my youth up. maintain that to be 9 good exchange ed-. | tor on great daily requires as much brain as toAbe chief editorial writer. 1 I like all kinds of papers. l cannot miss looking through the country week lies; I hardly know how to get along without having to go through the Bap- 1 tist weeklies and the leading religious l journals of other denominations. And 1 it's hard for me now to keep from spending too much time in reading the various metropolitan journals which come to The Age-Heraid. I find fre-
 quendy. when my mind is tired and ordinary literature pales on me,
 that I can get refreshed by picking up copy of the London Times and pour
 ing over it's contents in desultory ]. way.
 I have taken a mighty roundabout ! ,,a+hoA +o oa11 a+to1+ion to q naper 1 which came to my desk last week. It was copy of the Eutaw Whig and Ob- server published at Eutaw, Ala, Thursday, June 8, 1865, sent by MT. s. Anderson. I got interested in it from the moment I opened it and saw the date line, for it was issued in the year
 of my birth and. felt in reading it that I was getting a tip on the days of my infancy.
 It was published by w. 0. and H. F.. Monroe, and though much smaller in size than the weeklies of the present date, it's price was s per annum in ad-
 vance. I take pleasure in stating this for the benefit of my brethren of the
 weekly press, for I feel sure that they will be glad to noise it abroad that in
 spite of the cry that some of them went
 from $1 to $1.50 or even s2, they
 are not profiteering,y but in reality
 gradually climbing to prices current
 more than fifty years ago.
 But the thing which stands out as | fv ho hrIc Nf publishing customs of that time is the
 statement that "One dollar per square of eight linessor less for the first inser-
 tion, and fifty cents for each subse- quent insertion" evidences the fact that
 the Eutaw Whig and Observer was not in the habit of giving it's advertising
 space away. Some of the country edi- tors might well take this to heart. But
 the funniest of all was the announce ment that advertisements must be paid for in par funds or provisions The issue is of particular interest on account of it's being issued just at the close of the war. The leading article
 is the "Proclamation of Amnesty by President JohnSton, granting parQon te
 Confederates below the rank of briga-
 dier general and captain in the navy
 There are head lines about the trial oi
 Jefferson Davis and the arrest of Gen
 eral Lee, all of which are said to be of interest to cotton speculators. should say so, and to lot of others besides
 Here is where we get some current paragraphs fresh off the wire. The date line of the dispatch is headed. New
 York May 25, 1865.
 sThe Posts Washington special says There is no longer 8 doubt that Jef , Davis will be tried for treason yer, , soon in civil court, probably in Wash iington. General Lee will be indicted
 by a grand jury in Richmond, within : few days, for treason. The moment h' ; is indicted, his parole is of no furthei 1 | use to him." "s>This gives light on al , interesting situation when passions hat i, not yet cooled
 ) But the following is most interest ling paragraph: The dispatch is headed
 Fort Monroe, May 25, 1865. "A steame
 sailed from here this morning for Sa
 vannah under Fsealed orders. Mrs Davis, her four children, brother, siste and Mary Clay go to Savannah in tn F Clyde, as permission for them to pro . ] ceed north has been refused by the wa department It then goes on to tel : about the searching of the baggage O 5 the party. and finding large amour of gold valuable jewelry. etc. but that