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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1886-4-23, Page 7A»'nli. 23, 1883. and with they heel only to pay throe, or paying throe, they wish they lied only to pay ono. While there are a few exeeptlona'-=-`and game few do matte largo fortune.—tie vast major- ity of newspaper people of this day have a strugglo,for livelihood ; and if in their hardship and exasperation they sometimes write things they onghb not to write, let those rade be alleviation. .0 mon,of the press, it will bo a great help to you it, when' you come home lata at night, fagged out andtnervouo with your work, yon world just kneel down and commend your case to God, wbo lute watotaed all the fatigues of diose days, and who has promised to bo your Gocl and the trod -of your children fore ever. o Another great trial of the news- paper profession is the diseased ap- petite for unhealthy intelligence. You blame the newspaper press for giving such prominence to murders and scandals. Do you suppose tint so many papers would give prominence to those things if the people did not demand them ? I go•iuto the meat market of a foreign city, and I find that the butchers bang up, on the most conapiououe hooka, moat that is tainted, while the meat that is fresh and savory is put away without any especial care. I come to the con- cluaiuu that the people of that city love tainted moat. You know very well that if the great maws of people in this country got hold of a news- paper, and there are in it no runaway matches, no broken up families, ,elo defamation of man in ,high position, -they pronounce the paper insipid. They say, "It ie shockingly dull to. night." I believe it is ono of the trials of the newspaper press, that the people of thie country demdud moral slush instead of healthy, intellectual food. Now, you are a respectable mart, an intelligent man, au.d a paper comes into your Baud. You open it, and there are three columns of splen• didly written editoral, recommending some moral sentiment, or evolving soma scientific theory. In the next column there is a miserable. oou• temptible divorce case. Which do • you read first? You dip into the editoral long enough to say, "Well, that's very ably written," and you read the divorce case from the "long primer" type' at the top, to the "non• pareil" typo at the bottom, and then you aelc your wife if she has read it t 0, it is only a ease of supply and de- mand. Newspaper men are not fools. They know what you want, and they give it to yon. I believe that if' the chant1 rand the world bought nothing bntpure, honest, healthful newspapers, oothiug but pure, Honeste healthful newspapers would be published. If you should gather all the editore and the reporters of this country in ono groat convention, and then ask of them what ]rind of a paper they would prefer to publish, I believe they would unanimously say, "We would prefer to publish an elevating paper." So long fie Were is an iniquitous demand, there will be lru iniquitous supply. I make no apology for a debauched the world gave him no chance. . newspaper, but I am saying these things in order to divide the respon- sibility between those who print and those who read. he bad seen so many of bia oorar go down under that temptation. my brother of the newspaper hellion, what you crtunot do wit artificial stimulus, God doss not you to do. There is no Ira! ground for our literary people, lateen toetotaliem and (Untie Your profaeoional e11000ss, your medic peace, your eternal ealvati their brilliancy quenched, their 110 blasted, that 1 city out this morn. in the words of another, "Look upon the wine when it is rod, who moveth itself aright in the cup ; at the Iast, it biteth like a serpout'a it stingetb liko an adder," Another trial of this profession the fact that no ono 5001238 to o for their souls, They feel hitto about it though they laugh. Poo sometimes laugh the loudest wl they feel the worst, They aro petted to gather up religions proce ings,andto discuss religious cloetriu m the editorial columns, tut who e pots thorn to be saved by the sermo they photograph, or by the doetrin they dieouse iu the editorial column The world looks upon them as pr toddle', Who preaches to reports and editors ? Solna ..f them oat from religious homes, and when tb left the parental root, however regar ed or disregarded, they come off wi a father's benediction and a mother prayer. They never think of tlto good old times 'but tears come in their eyes, and they move around tli great, roaring metropolis )omosiel 0, if they only knew what a hole thing it is for a man to put his wear head down on the bosom of a sym pathetic Christ! He knows how nor vous and tired you are. He has heart large enough to take in all you interests for this world and the next 0 I men of the newspaper press, yo sometimes get siok of this world, i seems so hollow and unsatisfying. I there are any people in all the cant that need God,you are the men, an you shell have Him, if only this da yon implore His mercy. • Aman was found at the foot of Cana street. As they picked trim up from the eat or and brought hire to the morgue they saw by the contour of his fore bead than he had great mental capac- ity. He had entered the newspaper profession. He had gone down in health. He took to iutifioial stimulus, He went down farther and further, until 0n0 summer day, hot and hungry and sick and in despair, he flung him. self off the dock. They found in his pocket a report- er's pad, a lead pencil, a photograph of someone who had; loved ,him long ago. Death, as sometime it will, etuootlted out all the wrinkles that had gathered prematurely on his brow; and as be lay'there, his face was fair as when, seven years ago, he left his country home, and they bade biro good-bye forever. The world looks throngh the window ,of the morgue, and says, "It's nothing but an outcast," but. God says it was a gigantic soul that perished, because II le teitt)SaleleS PUWA' . tides Oh, pro. boat wont Tway be - tion. lo- on, rides not n it for nd is aro rly plc ion ex- ad - ea x• n5 as s. O- re n0 ey d. th ,s Be to is k, fol y a 0 cl y Another temptation of the news- paper profession is the groat' allure- ment that surrounds them. Every occupation and profession has tempt- ations peculiar to itself, and the news- paper profession is not an exoepiton, The groat draught, as you know, is on the nervous forces, and the brain is ranked. The blundering political speech must read well for the salve of the party, and eo the reporter, or the editor, has to make it read well; el - though every sentence\ was a catas- trophe to the English language. The reporter must hear all that an inaud- ible speaker, who thinks it is vulgar to speak out, nye, and it roust bo right the next morning, or the next night in the papers, though the night before the whole audienoe sat with its Band behind its ear in vhin trying to catoh it. This man must go' through.. Wilting night -work, . Ho must go into, heated assemblages, and pito unvon• dieted audience Mame that lira enough to take the lifo out of ]tin., He'ninst visit court rooms, which are nluiost always disgusting with rum and to bacon. He meet expose himself !tt the fire. Ho must write" in foetid alleyways. Added to all that, he 'tuueb have hasty mastication. end ir. regular habits. ,To bear up under this tremendous nervous strain, they are tempted to artificial stimulus, and how many thousands have gone mown finder that protium, God only knows. They must have soinotbing to counteract the wet, they must have something to keep out the chill, and after a scant night's eleep they must have something to eovive them for the morning's wort.. This is what Maio Horace Greeley snob a stout temperance man. Ida told me that J Let me eek all men connected with the printing press that they help us more and more effort• to snake the world better. I obarge you in the name of God, before whom you must account fur the tremendous influence you bold in this country, to conseerato yourcolvss to higher endeavors, yon are the mon to fight bade .hie lovas• ion of corrupt literature. Lift up your right hand and swear new alleg• 10000 to the cause of pliiIanthropy and religion. And when, at last, standing on the plains of judgment, you look out upon the uubumberod throngs over whom you have had in- fluence, may 10 be found that you were among tits mightiest energies that lifted men upon the exalted path• way that leads to the renowu of heaven. Better than to have sat in an editorial chair, from which, with the finger of type,,you decided the destinies of.em- pires, but decided them wrong, that you hail beet.• sone duugeoued exile, who, by this light of window iron grated, on scraps of a New Testament leaf, picked tip from the hearth, epoll. cd out t!io story of Him who 'taketh away the 141110 of alis world. In eternity, Lives in the beggar Well, my friends, we wit all soon get through writing, and printing, and proof rea:liug, and publiehiug. What then? Our lift is 0 book. Our years are the abaptere. Our months aro the paragraphs. Our clays are the sentences. Oor doubts are tlio interrogation points. Our imitation , of others the quotation marks. Our attempt, at dieplay a (lash.. Death the period. Eternity the peroration, 0 God, where • will we spend it Howe you heard the news, more startling than any found iu .,tie jour- i 1 nate of the last week ? tt ars tlto rid- inge that man is loot. have yen heard the cows, the ghtddest that Was ever announced, coluing tloie t3ty from the throne of fGod, lightning couriers leep!ug from the palssa pato ? The news l The ghat -lone nave 1 Tint there le pardon fpr all guilt, and comfort for all trouble. Set it np in "ilb ible landed" autumn. and 'di- rect it to thri whole risme A Scotch poet, hle!(110 to everything brit religion, wrote they boatitiful yet strange rhythm :— God hath pardoned all ser in That's the news! That's the news ! 1 feel the witness deep within, Tbal,t's the news! That's the news 1 And srnee 11e took my Rios away, And taii'ght me how to watch and pray, Pm happy, ni,w from day to day. That's the news 1 That's the news: And now if any one should say What's the news ! What's the newel 0 toll hien you've began to pray— That's the news! That's the news 1 That you have joined the conquering band, ' And now with joy at God's demand, xThat's thelinewe! the Th t'sbetter the news I Prizes ler Baso Ball Players. For losing an ear, appointment as usher in grand stand. A broken finger joint, lay off until it is well. Scraping akin from one elbote iu steeling a hese, promise,af an. increase in Salary ; both elbows, tw ;promises, Getting 130030l 011 a lung slide (basement of pauta lutist rowoiu 191 tact), autograph of nlauegore. Fur hoviug wire from meek drivou into the skull halt 00 Moll, land ap plause from director.; ; for gutting killed, sot of reeolutrut+, without freono, to reletiv,l.,. For twisting the ankle in trying to make au iurpneiible play, a monkey wrench ;-it will be Grind a useful iii plow -lent iu smell eiesi. Bruieiiag 1110 shin,, the right to rub them. For fusing the eight of tae eye in trying to 03(0(3 fly in the feat of the sun, rotate -le, with back p+y.• For towhee spike in 1(1 03110:150('4 shoo drive" rhr,ur•I to l 113 .13, two days vend:ion. . For having tnuuail genus 1 off by au oppoueut'e heel, the privilege, to ]imp. t. For not maktu, lip a 610.1 or Bey- ing "0 1" when a hot liner lands on the fingers' carte, sympathy of stook holdere. Foul hill in the prt of this 0t, ninth, permit to steep. Having teeth kuooke,l oat and continuing play, the privilege of be. ing called "tough." For killing it sooror, $1,0030 Uui:- ed Statee bond. For kicking agaiust the nmpire's decisions, when he is lcuowu to be right.,, two shoes from a mule ; this is an emblematic trophy. • • IlUIION AND J311U01; Loan &, Investment Co. TllisvCompany is Loaning Money on Farm -Security at LOWEST RATES of interest, MORTGAGES P1713CIIASE•D, SAVINofe BANK BIOANCHI, 8, 4 and a per cent, Interest Al- lowed on Deposits, according to amount awl time,left. OFF1e1..--On corner of Market Square and Nortllstreet, Goderieh. Horace Horton, clodorich,Ang• 5.10,1886 li'IANAGEE, WEAR . SPECTACLES And Eye -Glasses That Will Preserve 'Your Eyeslght,.- F, L,,1 ZAB US, Manufacturing Optic,an, Jate of the Arm of Lazarus if. Morris, 28 Maryland. %load, Yarrow Road, London, England, has 'ap- pointed an agent for the Renowned Spect- acles and Eye -Glasses which have been be- fore the public for the past 25 years, LAEAans' Spectacles never tire the oyc. Last many years without change. —For sale by— IAS..DRE WE, -: Hardware Merchant 01.3m` Brussels, Ontario. NATIONAL. ROLLER MILLS. W m. Vansto�.e 84 Sons, Proprietors. Wo have much pleasure in announcing to the public that pur New Roller Mill is in Complete Running Order and is giving the Best Sat- isfaction.. SHORTS, MEAL, L, BRAN & CHOP CONSTANTLY OR HAM We also make the following brands of flour Patent, Jersey Lily, Canadian's. Pride and Snow Storm. Gristing attellded to with Promptness. All kinds. of Lumber cut to Order. FIIGHET MARKET ERIE PAID F011 ALL KINDS OF GRAI N. EAST HURON arriage ,_O J.� ./VI HIS Bur s —MANUFACTURER OP -- The management, is ()Miring the OAIBRIAGES, , pE11OC11A.TS, EXPRESS WAGONS, above peiz•'s, does it for he pnrpo,o BUGGIES, WAGONS, ETO., ETC:, ET(l. of encometoiug the , plltyers 1) ppm forth their best endeavors, as by so All made of the Best Materials and finished ix: a Workman -like planner, doing the wanes mil be more inter. '. eating, and with bare hope that the Repairing and Painting promptly aftencieCt to. dividends will he larger then they otherwieo would be, .4 WHY The*Colic, bus Watch IS' THE BEST. 1 pm?, Main Spring Barrel is completely covered; .nuking it more nearly, dust proof than any &Hier, Our Regulator. is nearly double too length et ether.), render- ing accurate vegetation a very simple [nat- ter. 'ro replace a brokoit Main Spring the Barrel tun be removed without removing tho Baloneo or interfering with the regula- tion, ,Cur Flair Sprtineriemd is so formed that two or more toils of Spring canna, enanw no Watch to alit unnaual rata. the roma, or the Daae. not• ant! andel; the 1 any other mono w r wilily I ' af, Y n h' ay of repairs. boll set-in el' T. P letcher's, $ru sgels: t 1 the Regulator 1pine and 00090 the ter stop or gain time at an The 13alanoi atmos under edge, the strongest 'part of as in all othor0, in the mitre le weakest Hatt, These aro m prnv0nt)nee 011113 cannot he a1:0i zl I ,y aofaetlrnro, There caro outer blah rho watchnieltyr can 0n 1 y explain, and 1(1100 50011, illi must moo with rte in saying that 110 heryo the troogost and best watch lin the worfel. K•" In buying and oarryin; a Oolunrine Vetch you will save the price of an orcli- cry ware In a few -year)) in 111laice alone, 0 Say nothing of the ineonvonioueo and de - Parties intending to -buy should call before purchasing. REFn1.ENans.—Marsden Smith, 13. Laing, James Cutt and Wm. ite- Kelvey, Grey Township ; till, Cameron, W. Little, G. 'l.3rewat' aiid 3). Breckenridge, Morris Township ; T. Town and W. Blashill, Brussels Bev. E. A. Fear, liirkton, and T. Wright, Tnrnboi,'ry Township. • REMEMI3E11 IRE STAND-8011rTH OF BRIDGE. gEis'' JAI JAES BUYER ER 1 H E L qat _..7 0 Tula The undersigned, having completed t110 change from the stogie to the Celebrated Hungarian System of winding, has 110W the Mill in First-class Running Order, And>wi11 bo glad to see all lois old customers and 11,31 inany plow ones as possible. Chopping done, `lour and deed .6.1174yo o llama, .0' 0 Highest Priceid for ,any quan,61,y of Good :Gra. ix. b, WM. M9��dE.