Year: 1870

Again, Mr. Editor, your heavy
headed contributor would make his
politest bow to yourself and readers.
/ The separation has been not brief,
and he trusts not sad For his part
however, the fewer and shorter such
intervals, the more sati Jfactory. The
silence has not been complete,
though, and doubtless that is why
it has not to him seemed painful
The Editor and other contributors,
have not held their peace, nor has
the Journal once failed to make it's
welcome weekly visit. As in the
case of the girl and her ardent but
bashful swain, the talk has been all
on one side. May Fogy presume to
hope that what he does say will be
as acceptable to his readers, as the
stammered eyes" and "no" of the
eager but diffident lover are to his
sweetheart? All, that is too great
presumption, indeed, for Fogy does
not play the part of a timid, hesita-
ing, confused lover. The fault with
him is not conversational reserve;
his tongue like some male or female
gossip's, is hung upon a pivot, and
when he talks everybody else must
listen, because nobody can get in a
word even edgewise; and if he stops
it is from exhaustion, not from DO
liteness; and he leans back satisfied
on the consciousness that when he
did talk he said great deal. The
writer had almost said that he had
lost nothing by his long silence, but
that we're not true. 1t would be
both silly and false to aver that he
derives no feeling Of gratified pride
from seeing his composition in print
though he endeayors duly to repress
all unseemly exultation. Cities
must be good judges of human ma
ture to detect literary pride in him,
for he is impatient with open ap-
proval, and frowns when others
praise his efforts, no matter how
much he is pleased.


THE NEWSPAPER.


What l have said o. the weekly
visits Of the JOURNAL furnishes me
with the finest ingredient for my lit
erary medley to which I have given
the significant though not eupho-
nious caption hotck Potch. l doubt
not it is safe to asset that not one in
a thousand properly appreciates the
benefits resulting from taking
newspaper. If were wrong in say
| ing this, so many who subscribe
would not fail to pay for their paper


l cannot believe that any one re-
aliEing the advantages a newspaper
confers upon him, would deliberate
" and willfully withhold what is
due the printer. That were meanness
unfathomable. Perhaps some who
have an appreciation of the useful
ness of a newspaper, neglect to pay
because the amount is small, Son
ly a few dollars" they sayi "he will
not miss it, if 1 do not pay him."
So the rain-drop might reason: II
am but a single globule and would
not be missed, if I were not to fall"
But what were the doom of the
parched earth and the whitening
plant, should all the rain drops reach
that conclusion? And how know
you, delinquent subscriber, that all
others are not delingerentI Do you
reason to the contrary because your
paper never fails to come? The
printer does not fail to send it be-
cause you have not paid for it.
Every time he comes to your name
there is a conflict: Justice cries
"Cut him OFF, but good nature
pleads, "He will pay-try him this
once more" and your paper contin-
ues to come. But does it ever strike
your mind of what double baseness
you are guiltyI Defrauding the
printer and sponging from paying
subscribers? Was ! not right in
saying that not one in a thousand
realizes the benefits Of a newspaper?
Think oft? What the labor and
study and self-denlal of editing and
printing AID delivering your news
paper! The "knight of the pencil and
scissors" from ''early morn till the
small hours of night responds to
the call for "copy;" the deft fingers
of the 'compositor" with tightening
rapidity pick the type from out their
receptacles and form metallic words
and sentences and columns and
pages; the terrestrial representative
Of his satanic majesty" with grin
ming visage and begrimed hands inks
the solid "forms," the stalwart press
man with brawny arms knotted and
strong, or the steam-driven machin-
cry rapid and sure, impresses the
virgin sheet with thoughts and pro-
position which will interest the read |
ing world; eager urchins seize the
yet damp and steaming prize and in
every direction with sentorian voic-
es cry out the morning and evening |
paper which they will exchange for
the cost of blackening your boots;
or less noisily the papers are folded, |
wrapped directed and mailed to be |
handed to you by the jolly postmas-
ter or his jovial and urbane assist |
ant. Thus this great boon, the re.
suit of wearing toll, cOrroding care
noisy mechanism and wonderful in |
vention, is placed before our eyes
imperceptibly like the fall of the |
feathery snow-fakes. and regularly |
and unremittingly like the success
sion ofnight to day. Space fails me |
to further enlarge upon the wonder |
fulness and great utility of the news |
paper. Think of the variety of its
closely printed contents: something
for everybody, whatever be his opin- |
ions and likes and dislikes. We of
tel pay the subscription price of a
newspaper for a book of travels in a
single county, but here we may |
travel, while sitting at home or in
our Office as costly as all modern
cOnveniences can enable us, all over
the known world. l can liken the