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RUGS CARPETS <7|\^ SMYRNAS-A Big Line. The Bronily make (best in the market") iu bright (colors aud ehoiee designs. According to size $1 .OO AMERICAN GRASS RUGS. Just out! A serviceable novelty. Two sizes, at HOr and $1.00 MOQUETTE'and BRUSSELS CARPETS. Handsome colors and designs. Bor ders to match. Art squares made to order. INGRAIN ART SQUARES. In all grades and colors—largest line we ever had. COCOA, CHINA, JAPAN AND GRASS MATTINGS. JO6T"See if you can think of anything I cannot furnish. R. S. McMAHON. W. L. BURKE. WALTER M. GATES. J. P. SUBERBIELLE. Successors to J. J. CRAIG & CO. INSURANCE. State lianh liuitdimj, XE1V IliKHIA, LA. J®r"\Representing Fifteen of the Largest Companies. Losses promptly & personally attended to. Cheapest current rates. Best Inducements. NEW IBERIA ICE & BOTTLING CO., LIMITED, NEW IBERIA, LA., MANUFACTURERS OF Ice, Seltzer, Soda & Mineral Waters. AGENTS FOR Anheuser-Busch EEG BEER AND THE CELEBRATED Budweiser Bottled Beer NEW IBERIA BRICK FACTORY, Aug. Erath and K. Southwell, Proprietors. NEW IBERIA, LA. FIRST-CLASS PRESSED & COMMON BRICK, BEST OF RAILROAD AND WATER SHIPPING FACILITIES, TO ALL POINTS. tVPrices quoted on Application. Charbon! Charbon!! Now is the time to have your stock innoculated. Don't wait until the dreaded disease comes upen you, but innoculate early and pre vent it. I have just received a large amount of Vaccine and am ready to innoculate your stock. Also have the Vaccine for sale in large or small quantities. DR. SHEARD MO ORE, Vet erinary Surgeon RESIDENCE, OFFICE and HOSPITAL, Lower St. Peter Street. Cumberland'Phone 240—Calls Answered Day or Night. E W. Phillips, ARCHITECT CONTRACTOR AND'BUILDER, NEW IBERIA, LA. Mil furnish Plans and Specifications for Sugar Houses, Dwellings and all kinds of Bui l di n gs in Iberia and adjoining parishes. Best of refference as to ability and at tention paid to contracts. Sugar House Work Specially Solicited. H. F. 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Undertaker and Funeral Director, Old Odd Fellows Building, Main Street, New Iberia, FUNERAL CAR, WHITE AND BLACK HEARSE COFFINS, CASKETS, METALLIC CASES, BURIAL ROBES, WRAPPERS, SHOES, ETC. nCx»« Aristide Boutte's 8er*i«es hare been second and he will take foil ohaige of funerals and attend to all j y" ' 1 - Me ha s his r esidence in rear of establishment and night or day will VMMT6 pW PI p t fMpOQM. ALSO Livery, Feed and Sale Stables, BEST AND FINEST OUTFIT IN ATTAKAPAS. **• Äff é"P f. Cm - kauMed im Carload Its. Ml styles to stack. Also agent for the worM-re$toumed Columbus Bug gy . Go to BURKE, GATES & SUBERBÏELLE , Suc j c ygg/i 0 Q Aco . for your FIRE INSURANCE. Strongest Companies, Lowest Rates, Promut Adjustment of Losses. The Enterprise. OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF IBERIA PARISH AND TOWN OF NEW IBERIA. MEETING OF THE LOUISIANA PRESS ASSOCIATION. The press is one of the prime forces that rules the world. A goodly delegation of the Louisiana Press Association spent the 1st, 2d and 3d in New Iberia. A larger ■ number were expected, and in , many of our most delightful homes j where welcome awaited the knights j of the pen, no one came. One of j the reasons suggested as to why j the entire association did not take : this occasion to enjoy the hospital- ; smoke, while really, to locate the ! burned district now in New Iberia, j one would require a veritable mag- i ic lantern. On Tuesday evening, i the Press Association met at the j Opera House to greet each other ! and to be cordially received by the is ity of our pleasant little town was that our having bad so many big fires within the last year or so, it was feared that most of our avail able buildings had gone up in town at large. Our brilliant young attorney, Mr. Dunbar, welcomed the Association in behalf of the city. President J. Y. Gilmore, of the Association, replied briefly but chitoches, spoke eloquently and uuderstandingly on the Single Tax. Gen. Jastreinski gave an interest-1 pleasingly. Mr. Carver, of Nat ing address upon the value of a local newspaper. The committee on music bad some rare treats in song and in strumental music for which the entire audience were eagerly wait ing, butlo! the music "that they wished for never came," because, forsooth, the young man in charge of the arrangements forgot to men tion the musical delights to the chairman of the evening — entre nous, he was so busy talking to a very interesting young lady But if any lack was felt, the charming excursion on Wednesday to Avery's Island, with its many and varied interests and princely hospitality made everything square with a generous lagniappe. Gen. Dudley Avery had secured a spe cial train for the occasion, which sped away through miles of culti vated farms, ohicken ranches, etc., until the sea marsh, (now a mov ing mass of purple bloom) gave notice that we were approaching the haven where we would be wel corned. The highlands were soon in sight with their leafy crowns of stately oaks, here and there a grandi flora in full bloom. The salt mines with their mill, elevator, machinery house, etc., all in deep Pompeiian red made an effective bit of color in the landscape. Gen. Avery and son, D. D. Avery, and Supt. Rundio of the works, met their guests, escorting them through the various departments and "climbing up the golden stairs" saw the crystal rock crush ed into the fine and superfine ar ticle so necessary in the food in gredients of man and beast. The lacking of the salt, received from many shutes, sewing and tying by skillful hands with almost the pre cision of first-class machinery, was an interesting detail. But the ele vator is ready, and steadily but quickly we descended full five hun dred feet and more. The darkness was intense until we reached the level where work had been sus pended for the day. There can dles in miners' iron candlesticks were stack into the crystalline walls, reflecting the light from floor to ceiling—salt to the right of us, salt to the left of us, glis tened and sparkled; the atmos phere was delightful, stimulating to mind and body. Every detail in the working, from the handsome Corliss engine (so carefully pro tected from tne abundant salt all around) to the quality of powder used in blasting, was (as a practi cal and scientific mining engineer, who was one of the party said) "just exactly right." The pres ent management have oontrolled the drainage question so admirably that the salt crnching under one's feet is as dry as sand. Gen. Avery had invited his guests to his beantiful home on the hill overlooking a scene so lovely that nature seems to have tried to thwart the boasted skill of pen or brush. Far oat ia the distance Vermilion Bay glistens in the sun light with white sails here and there like birds of snowy pinions, while through the mass of waving grass, with an occasional dash of color, (one does not know, of what) the Bayon Petite Anse goes curling and twiating like a coquettish maiden who loved the charming scene so well die could not make np her mind to move straight on. The extenaive lawn fronting the hospitable home of the Avery family is an interesting study in nature and art. A large, amply appointed green house supplies the rare fruits and lowers that delight ed and aatoniahed the interested guest»—think of pineapples matur ing in Louisiana «oil! Banks of to ed bright folored flowers seemed to ; have sprung up with nature's in- j stiuctive grace just where they added best to the beautiful land scape. Stately oaks with their i scarfs of moss, cast their shifting; shadows over the scene. Under : the interlacing boughs of those ! stately trees, over which a large. silk flag of our country had been gracefully draped to protect from ardent sunbeams, Mrs. Paul Leeds (nee Sarali Avery), assisted by her charming nieces, Mrs. Sidney Bradford and Mrs. Dan Avery, re ceived her guests with that cordial grace so peculiarly her own. Lieut, John Mcllhenny, iu whose record as a soldier Louisiana can well feel j proud, aud who now goes as oue of Iberia's representatives in our state legislature, was untiring in his courtesy. All and every one, as in truth were each and every ; member of this charming family! "to the manor born." Under one j i of the oaks was chained a large ' i black bear, now only three years J j old, caught when a cub by Mr. Ned | ! Mcllhenny, seems very tame aud devoted to his young master; dur- 1 ing his absence from home, (these young gentlemen have a habit of spinning arouud the world) Bruin misses him, and his welcome home is a characteristic bear hug, which he does not mind in the least. A little negro boy gave a mimic box j iug match with Bruin, which was J very novel and amusing. ; Beautifully appointed tables were under the shadows of the oaks, where salt breezes blowing over beds of flowers gave tonic and fragrance. An elegant luncheon a la fourchette was bountifully serv ed and heartily enjoyed by all. It reminded one of ante-bellum days to see a corps of faithful servants controlled by a word or motion of the graceful, capable mistress, some of whom had been proud to serve her since her babyhood. After luncheon President Gilmore asked Mr. John Dymond, of the Louisia na Planter, to express for the Press Association their thauks to Gener al Avery aud family for their gra cious hospitality, which he did in a few well-chosen expressions, re ferring to the friendship with Gen. Avery began in the State Senate some years ago. Gen. Leon Jas tremski, for eleven years president of the Press Association and now State Commissioner of Immigration and Agriculture, made a few pleas ing remarks, and by general re quest, Gen. Avery gave a condens ed but very interesting account of the salt mines, beginning in early days when the salt water was boil ed and salt precipitated in the crud est fashion. In the midst of all this charming scene, where one like the silver thread of a bayou, loves to linger, the train whistled, and as time and trains wait for no man, so with a cordial good-bye from all to all, we sped away into the lowlands, feeling rich in add ing another red-letter day to mem ory's pages. Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine; Where the light wingi of lephyr, oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Oui in her bloom; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute : When the tints of the earth and the hnes of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie, And purple of llllies is deepest in dye." When the children are sweet as the roses they twine, And all like the spirit of man is divine. M L. P. On Wednesday evening, a re ception was tenered the members of the press by the Attakapas Club, which was also made the occasion of the formal opening of the Clnb rooms. Addresses were made by Messrs. W. F. Dnnbar aud Wal ter J. Burke on behalf of the Club and the Board of Trade, embody ing a welcome to the guests of the Clnb in general and the members of the press in particular, which were responded to very feelingly by Mr. Gilmore, president of the Association. Addresses were in terspersed with a delightful musical program as follows : Instrumental selection by Mrs. W. L. Burke; vocal duet, Mrs. J. C. M. Robert son and Miss Lizzie White, ac companied by Mrs. A. J. Snber bielle and Miss Bessie Lourd, and a vocal selection by Miss Jeannette Richardson. Delicious refresh ments were served and dancing was indulged in by the young people. The evening closed,leaving pleasant recollections with all whose good fortune it was to be present. On Thursday morning, the mem bers of the press were given i steamboat excursion down the Teche, on the large and commo dious steamer Saccharine, kindly placed at their disposal by the Southern Pacific Railroad Co. The boat was in command of Capt. R. W. Allen, with Commodore Thos. L. Morse as master of ceremonies, and it would have been difficnlvfor the guests to have been in more genial hand8. Nature was at its beat in every way and the run down to the Adeline refinery and back haa left happy recollections inscrib ed on memory's tablet that will never be effaced. At Adeline a •top was made and the party went through the great sugar faetory, ; under the courteous direction of j Superintendent Grevenberg and Mr. Giles, oue of the managers on the place. On the return i trip, a splendid lunch was served with delicious ices and cakes ; there : was music and dancing, and a de ! lightful recitation by Miss Lillian Hills. A rising vote of thanks was extended the Southern Pacific Co., and to Captains Morse aud Al len for the delightful trip. On Thursday night, the Press Association held its final session, at which several interesting papers were read, and elected of ficers for the ensuing year as fol lows : President John Dymond ; vice-presidents, Will L. Steidly and Miss Gertrude Callahan ; treasurer, J. G. Trimble ; secretary, L. E. Bentley. The selection of the next place of meeting was left to the officers. The attendance of editors was an j unusually small one, being as fol ' lows : J. Y. Gilmore and wife, J Sugar Planters Journal, New Or | leans ; John Dymond, Louisiana Planter, New Orleans ; Miss 1 Florence Dymond, Southern Far nier, New Orleans ; Gen Leon J Signal, Crowley; J. M. Taylor, ; Mirror, Crowley ; H. J. Verret, Ed. Jastremski, Commissioner of Im migration and Agriculture ; Charles Lasseigne, Meschacebe, St. John ; Robert Bienvenn and wife, Messen ger, St. Martiuvilie ; Geo. K. Brad ford, Tribune, Rayne; L. S. Scott, Gianelloni, Pioneer, Napoleon ville; J. G. Trimble, Gazette, Farmerville ; Mrs. Sarah J. Asher, and Miss Anna Asher, Jewish Leader, Sbreveport; J. B. Taylor and wife, Comet, Thibodanx ; Judge L. P. Caillouet, Sentinel, Thibo daux; Miss Gertrude Callahan, Enterprise, Washington ; Homer Mouton, Gazette, Lafayette ; Leonce A. Sandoz and daughter, Courier, Opelousas; T. C. H. Young, Young's Magazine, New Orleans Henry L. Gueydan and wife, News Gueydan ; L. R. Gremilliou and a and Misses Gremillion, Review Marksville; Joel Moody, Idea Abbeville; Will L. Steidey aud wife, Herald, West Lake. More at Stake Than the Elevation of One Maa to the Presidency. From a grand speech delivered by William J. Bryan at Columbus Ohio, a few days ago, we make the following extract : "You cannot have industrial des potism and political independence and the Republican party stands to-day for industrial despotism and the industrial aristocracy as dangerous to human liberty as the landed estates against which Jeffer son contended in the early days of the Republic. A landed aristo cracy is innocent compared with the aristooracy that the Republican party is creating. "The chairman introduced me with a pleasing prophesy. It is nice to think of being President of the United States, bnt, my friends, I have more at stake in this contest than the Presidency of the United States. (Tremendous cheering.) "I can live whether I am Presi dent or not, and get along better than lots of those who voted against me. I can stand Republican poli cies better than the majority of the people who vote the Republican ticket, but, my friends, I am not willing that this system shall be fastened upon the American peo ple. (Applause). "My father was a lawyer, and I was a lawyer until I got so busy prosecuting the Republican party for grand larceny, that I did not have time to defend people charged with petty larceny. (Laughter). bave a son, and I don't know what he will be, and I have two daughters, and I do not know what my sons-in-law will be, and I am not willing to make a government that is good only for the trust mag nate, his son and his son in-law. want a government that is good for the young men with brain and muscle, and who desire to work and have a chance to live. (Renewed laughter). "Ask the old man whether he is satisfied with the conditions that he is leaving to his child. Ask the middle-aged man whether he is satisfied with the conditions that snrronnd him. Ask the young man, with life before him, if he is satisfied with the narrowing oppor tunities that now lie before him. "Republicans, yon are condemn ing the young men of this conntry to a perpetual clerkship at the handr of monopoly. Yoa dare not do it and go before the American people." (Renewed and tremen dous cheering.) Bat the most extraordinary evi dence of Mr. Bryan's strength and the change that has occurred since 1896, was when the Democratic leader was received as the gaest of honor at the Board of Trade ban quet. Three or four hundred bus iness men, principally Republicans, cheered him again and again when he said that his mission in politics was not to separate the rich and poor, bnt to bring them together aa friends and co-helpers. When of Mr. Bryan left the room the entire audience stood up. The chairman of the banquet, who invited Mr. Bryan to be pre sent and presented him to the au dience, was ex-Congressman Outh waite, the leader of the Gold Demo crats of Ohio, who fought him so bitterly in 1890." NOTICE. The regular meeting of the ceme tery Assoeiatiou will take place on Monday afternoon, the 7th iust., at five o'clock, at the City Hall. All members are requested to at tend. K. de Y. Craig, Secretary. Bishop J. S. Key wrote : Teethina (Teething Powders) was more sat isfactory than anything we ever used. NYarrenton, Cape Colony, 4.—A British G -inch wire gun opened uu expectedly on the Boer laager yes terday at a distance of seven and a half miles,throwing hundred-pound shells with wonderful accuracy and causing a hasty retreat of the burghers. ; THE VALUE OF THE LOCAL PRESS TO THE COMMUNITY. Paper read tiefore the Louisiana Press Associa tion in session in New Iberia, May 1st, 1900. I»; (len. Leon Jastremski. State Commissioner «> Agriculture and Immigration.) Mr. President ami Confreres: In vising to address you my heart's mem ory carries me back twenty years, when less than the same number of workers in Louisiana journalism met at the hall of I Washington lire Company No. 1, at Baton i Rouge, and organized the Louisiana Press Association. Railroads were scarce in our ! State at that period and these zealous ; workers, who were of both sexes, came by j steamer from t lie shores of the Mississippi, j the Red, the Ouachita, the Vermilion, the \ Calcasieu, the Corn-tableau and the Teclie, ; to manifest the earnestness of their patri otic conviction that the State needed the labors of her united press to blaze the way for the march of progress. It is with mingled feelings of sorrow, affection and pride, that I remember to have been with these founders among whom shone these bright and lovable stars: Catherine Cole and Ella Bentley, the mirthful and witty "Uncle Harry" Hyams, the talented Win. M. Smallwood, father of Catherine Cole, the brilliant McCranie, our first President, tho gallant William Bailey, the genial Mc Cormick and the kindly Carew. may well recall with mournful pride these brilliant and congenial personalties at whose side there came later the re nowned Pearl Rivers the gentle and gifted Addie McGrath Lee, and others, who have gone to form our pantheon of journalistic fame. I have thought it fitting at this moment to pay this passing tribute of reverence to these lamented companions than whom 110 other profession has con tributed proportionately a greater number of potential factors in the elevation of the people and the material advancement of the State. THE LOCAL PRESS. It stands as a beacon light in its sphere of action, to acquaint the world with the hopes, the efforts, the attractions, and the possibilities of the locality where this light shines. How many residents of the locality would pass away, "unwept, unhonored and unsung'' within and beyond its confines, but for the notices that the local paper has given them. How many would be the lost opportunities, had they not been signalled by the local paper. What of the schools, the railroads, and the industries of the locality. To what extent the establishment thereof and their success, is due to the persistent appeals of the loeal press, can not well be reckoned. Neither can be reckoned the social and moral progress of the community. Who would ever know of the existence of many localities by reading the great metropolitan journals. These journals skim the earth's surface and note only the striking events of the day. The local paper gives the happenings which come home to the heart and the interested attention of every dweller in the com munity. Right here, in my capacity as State Com missioner of Agriculture and Immigration desire to gratefully acknowledge the invaluable assistance that the press of the various localities in the State is constanly lending by oonveying official information to the agriculturist, the stock raiser, and the land owner, which is designed to pro mote their various interests. This is a service that would frequently outweight several times over the value of the entire subscription list of the local papers pub lishing it for the benefit of their readers. For this service alone, the local press mer its the most liberal support from all classes of the community, for tho prosperity of one class in the prosperity of all. Hence, it is not hard to decide that of the two the local paper performs the most important office in the locality. But this fact seldom strikes the average thinker. If it did, the value of the paper to the community would be fully appreciated and the community would feel that it is of as much importance to give adequate sup port to the local-press as it is to subscribe, or levy a tax for the erection of school houses and to employ good teachers to educate the youth. The up-to-date limited publishing com pany, capital $5,000,000, which operates The Rip Snorter, has linotype and stereo type machines, lightning presses, and uses np the output of several paper mills for its daily editions of 40 pages, illustrated, and in colors. Its weekly editions are on a similar scale, and they are sent to their half million of subscribers at $ 1 per annum. The matter in The Rip Snorter takes in the current events of the world and the entire field of fiction, science and literature. From this tremendous coign of vantage. The Rip Snorters have made most of the magazines reduce their subscriptions to 91 per annum and depend upon advertising for support. Per contra, other magazines have bad the backbone to stick to a $3 rate and they have not only maintained their cir culation and resources, but bave increased their popularity. By this, the latter class of magazines have given an object lesion that the loeal country paper might advan tageously follow, instead of trying to com pete with The Rip Snorter* by means of eheap plate matter and patent outaides, and with these appendages, reducing their subscription to $1. Imagine the eonntry weekly with at most 1,000 subscribers, yielding 91,000, not enough to pay for the plainest editorial writer, engaging in this sort of a eontest. The pigmy wrestling with the giant. In the earlier, non-pro gressive (f ) days of the Republic, a single, thousand of persons paying $5 per annum, could have an organ to voice their opinions, and a chain of these organs which no out side influence could shake, guided the public opinion and upheld the principles of the republic and the liberties of the people in all their pristine purity. Now adays, not infrequently, The Rip Snorters have other interests to look after, and the managing editor has but to say the word aud the forthcoming morning and weekly editions will present the line of arguments that will hammer away to change the thoughts of the millions of readers through out the country. Is it not in great measure due to the expansion of The Rip Snorter that some of the biggest publishing houses in this country have gone to the wall ? Surely, the glitter of the expanding yellow Rip Snort eis is dazzling, but is not this expan sion of the American metropolitan press portentous with danger, since it is grad ually concentrating the power of influenc iug public opinion ill great aggregations of ea P ital wielding the means and labor sav ing machinery to crush the modest compe titor of small means. It must be evident then, that if the masses of the people wish to have other opinions considered than those emanating from great metro politan journals, they must make up their minds to pay more for quality of reading matter than for mere quantity, lu other words, they must extend a more liberal j support to their local papers, as they used to do in former times. The correspondent of the metropolitan journal gives little more than the more striking events ocenrringin the rural com munities. Herein lies the oppoitunity of the local country journal to occupy a field which the metropolitan journal can not successfully invade. The policy I or the local country journal should eonsi.st i in gathering every item of news that may bo of interest to the community and devote ! constant attention to all matters relating ; to the progress aud welfaie of the corn j munity. It should leave to the metropoli j tan press the task of furnishiug the infor \ mation relating to the events and affairs of ; the world, and to a great extent confine its discussions to public questions of a national, State and loeal character. In ray boyhood, when I began to learn and re of of VNE LAND GRAPE JUICE. In the sickroom there is no bev erage more nourishing nor more palatable than the rich unfer mented juice of the luscious Con cord Grape .... And for those in health, unfermented grape juice is the best of all beverages. AT LEE'S. Drink only the Best and Purest 44 Harmony Club" RYE WHISKEY. On sale at GIRARD'S SALOON, New Iberia. 5 S? 3 a o ? ! vi o s ■o g n> s Pf n OF 0* p® « er a An origiuat plau, under which yon can obtain fauler terms and better Mil«« in <h. nur chaoe of the world famou. "White" Sewing Machine th.nVr"r W^"ô#.^d Wriù for our elegant catalogue and detailed particular« How we eau .«reJZiZZZfvZThe ^«.iîhïle öf a high grade »ewing machine and tbe_ ea.j, term, of payment. Thifî. an opp^tunity ™^"nnot T,", 1 , ■ fît" '»«nufaeturer., therefore a bulled de scription of the machine and its construction are unnecessary. If you have an old machine to c* change, we rati offer most libérai terms. Write to day. Address in full: machine « » <~1© Main Office: NEW IBERIA, LA. SWExclnnive control of Iberia, Lafayette, Rt. Martin and Vermilion Pariahea. LOCK BOX 33» C. H. SOLANAS, 8 sctt T b*ah. E. ( FENNEB, JOHN GLVNN, Ja., VICI-P bmidewt P resident Carriages, Surreys, Phaetons, Buggies, Har ness, Etc., Studebaker Wagons. 315 Magazine Stmt - - - - NEW ORLEANS, LH 49*WRITE FOB CATOLOGUK AND PBICES. -Tonic Regulato! The Best Liver Medicine. Largeet Package oa the Merket. «body, ftindr Om Paekags Pries Sie. m. Pa., si id a feeling of ■»amended DaridHowellj, Reran ton.P*., say«: "Foe some time I Fire for »1.00. annoyed with nia ■ssi I was unabla to FOB SALE BY JAMES A. LEE. j "the art preservative," the subscription to the smallest country papnr was $. r >. It didn't take many hundreds of subscribers, with legal and other advertisements, to keep it running handsomely. The coun try editor in those days was able to live like a gentleman and had the means to pay printersto do the mechanical work. In consequence, not a few country editors become famous men whose writings exer cised the weightiest influence in public affairs. The public recognized theii value and were willing to pay a good subscrip tion to enable their local press to be effec tive and independent. The legislators also recognized the usefulness of such a press and they made no laws to produce competition which, bv diminishing the means of the local journalist would cause him to lose the spirit of independence with out which free institutions eonnot long en I think that I hear you e going to do about it 1 <av, what ate In reply I would say : Draw sharply before your readers the lines of difference between the local country paper and the metropolitan journal. Explain to them plate and patent print. that you can no more give your paper at the same price that they get the big mét ropolitain paper than a retail merchant can sell at wholesale prices, the shoe maker make shoes, or, the tailor, clothing, at factory prices. Impress the fact upon their minds that the crippling or crushing of the local press îeacts upon the locality and correspondingly reduces its importance in the estimation of people who see its papers, since most people judge a locality by its press. Every intelligent, public spirited citizen will then be glad to pay you a higher subscription that will enable you to turn out a better paper. Proceed to increase your income by increasing your subscription, aud to reduce your ex penses by discarding your plate and print matter which properly belong to the met ropolitau journal, which sells it for no more than it is worth. You will then work a little more to till the space, necessarily reduced, with far more interesting original matter and clippings from other State pa pers. This will give you a paper that will be a home product, whieh your readers will appreciate as they used to appreciate their local papers before you were led into the disastrous error of leducing your rates and increasing your expenses by buying