How To Write For The Papers

The Bjston Post hits the nail on the head when iti-ays: Conimunications should bc brief', and thero are several reasona for this. In the first place newspapcr space is valuablc. The modern ncwspaper is nevcr tvoubifld wit.Ii the old-timc complaint ql di ediog "somcthing to fiil up." The editor's scalpol is constantly reeking frop the slaughtcr of live Hews matter and interesting nncellany. Short eonmiunioatioos are muoh uiore likely to find re idcrs than long ones, and unless they are to bc read it i.s much bettor not to publish them. More contribiitions can be rcprcsented whcrc the artieles are short than when they are long, and oiie man has as strong a claim apon the columns as anothcr, jiroviding bfl i'rnislies as interestiDg matter. A short article is usually more pithy and pointc:d than a long One. A subject should havo in;iny raiuifications to deinand more tliim half a column in a newspaper, while al! thiit could be saved even from tliat limit up to a certain point is apt to be an improvement. The rince of journalists, the ate Samuel IJowles, once apologized for a long editorial, and gave as his excuse lacle ui time to write a short one. Ho expresscd an important truth in hú usual epigramniatie way.