Why Editors Are Poor

It is e lamentable tact that the rewards of the country editor are not always eoninieiisurate wlth the labor expended. I was about to s.-iy with Jiis desert.s but tlie reason he does not prosper, except in growlng grace, is because dl hi- popr business methods. -One of the most baneful proclivities of country publishers is the habit of free paffe. So long is a merchant can get his name in the paper, in the local columns at that, every time he buys ,-i new box of goods, or make a sale, and so lonjas the editor annouiïees (rom week to week that Mr. So and So, our wideawake and enterprising dry goods dealers, are doimg this or doina; that, just so long the sald dealer will have no use ïor business locáis at flve cents per line. Every notice that advertises or promotes business should be charged for. Every card of thanks, every motice of an entertainenmt, where .an admlfelon fee is charged, ehould also be pald for. There is at least one newspaper office in Michigan uhere the above is carrled out, aml where tickats are not current for show If editors would cliarge and ooilect pay for what they do, there would 'os more well-to-do newspaper men.--C. C. Vaughan, in the