“ Edwardes could easily find and recommend compliant substitute. But he would have to consider very carefully whether it does not pay him better to have his feelings hurt by an honest, readable critic than to be flattered by a worthless and unreadable one. The Westminster Gazette would also, of course, have to consider whether it might not possibly manage to survive the withdrawal of Mr. Edwardes's advertisements and the loss of the patronage of the class of reader which buys a newspaper only to find out what is going on at the Gaiety '1 heater. ”

“ If it checked the basis of weight it would promote the interest of paper maker
as well as publisher, it would reduce me opportunity for complaint. Tests of weiglit where based on samples are merely guides and are not controlling or conclusive. The reliance of paper makers upon the weights of samples is a fair illustration of the primitive methods that prevail in nearly every branch of the paper trade. ”

“ Now and then he will write an editorial article for his paper on some erudite subject that bears the impress of the study of a lifetime, and now and then an article on some passing fad of the moment that will show an expert and comprehensive knowledge of contemporary affairs that his cleverest, nearest-to-the-pulse young reporter envies. He is as versatile as he is forceful, and always in the clearest and simplest English. ”

“ You can find men in Portland and in Oregon who will curse at him in all known languages, from Siwash to Sanscrit.
His fifty years of fighting in the columns of his paper have bred him a crop of enemies of whom any editor might be proud. You will find men who swear by him, as men do by every positive man who has been unafraid. Balancing the two extremes, casting up. if you like, the biggest man in Oregon is Harvey W. Scott, who has done a great man's work in a great man's way in developing and building up his state:ind his territory. ”

“ He is known in almost every city and his genial and jocular disposition never fails to put his company in good spirits. “Zimmy” breezed into town from a long trip yesterday.
The United Sunday Newspaper Magazines have opened a branch office in Philadelphia, and appointed George E. Kilpatrick manager. Mr. Kilpatrick is as well liked as he is known in the City of Brotherly Love. He spent five years with the Philadelphia Press and ten years with the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. His many friends in the advertising business wish him all kinds of success. ”

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A grand old fighting man is Scott. In his early life he killed Indians out in the Puget Sound country, and in his later life he has been killing politicians, and he has a lot of notches in his quill. To be sure, it is possible to find men in Portland and Oregon and all the Pacific Coast country who say things about Scott that are not fit to eat, but he has lammed most of them. Politics in that country are more intense and personal than elsewhere. ”

“ A test of the weight and strength of 314 samples of newsprint paper made by 52 mills in the United States and Canada, and obtained from the mills and from buyers discloses many important facts. Out of the 314 samples 35 per cent. are within reasonable limits of weight, while 46 per cent. are below and 39 per cent. are above reasonable weight, taking the mill standard of 34 pounds for 500 sheets, measuring 44 by 36 inches as the basis. The paper makers have some sort of an understanding among themselves that they will sell 32-pound paper. ”

“ A system that is intended to greatly facilitate the handling of press news at long distance and do away with the relay through a telegraph operator has been devised and perfected by John N. Hammond, of Augusta, Ga.
The system plans the direct transmission of news matter from a central distributing point direct to the linotype machine in the several newspaper offices that comprise the press circuit, each of which will receive such news matter simultaneously and put it into type for immediate use. ”

“ You can get all sorts of opinions about Harvey Scott in Oregon. He has hammered so many men that he is bitterly hated by one faction, and he is as well beloved by another; but whatever the opinion may be, whether from friend or foe, there will never be dissent to the statement that he is a first-class, two-fisted fighting man, a grand old warrior, and long may he wave.
NEWSPAPERS IN THE TROPICS.
How One Man Got Fresh Paper from Home Each Morning. ”

“ It is the keeping everlastingly at it which brings results in advertising. It is the consecutive, persistent pounding away that does the trick in advertising, and the advertiser that does this year after year is the man who knows that advertising pays. With him it is not an experiment; neither is it an expense. It is a part of his investment, the same as the cost of raw material and the cost of production."
New Pennsylvania Daily.
Grant Kyler & Son. publishers of the Ashland (Pa.) News, will issue a daily evening newspaper of that name beginning Dec. i. ”

“ Five years ago one small room in Murray street, New York, sufficed for the manufacturing needs of the association, but its progress and development has been so rapid that today the American Druggists Syndicate, together with its auxiliary, the Aseptic Products Company, now has at Long Island City one of the largest manufacturing plants in Greater New York.
The organization now employs more than one thousand people and manufactures more than 1,000 medicinal and toilet preparations. ”

“ An effort to equate these various features of weight and strength has been made by taking the best mill of the International Paper Company—the Hudson River—as the nearest approach to standard of 32 pounds weight and 11.50 pounds strength. That mill makes more paper than any other mill, with the possible exception of the Great Northern. It makes paper of good quality. It is well balanced with respect to power, to pulp capacity, and to paper making equipment. Its cost is low, averaging $27 per ton f. ”

“ Paul’s in London ended the age of cathedrals and began the age of the printing press.
The Journal was among the first to enter this field. Today, nearly every prominent daily newspaper of the country directs its editorial columns unceasingly in support of progressive morality, or rationalistic religion. Colonel Watterson harks back to days xvhen the editorial writer wrote almost entirely in support of his political party policies, or in ridicule of the opposing party. That day is as dead as the age of witchcraft and magic. ”

“ Of course, it is open to any newspaper to leave its critic completely free of any such considerations. No initiated person supposes for a moment that the accomplished critic who deals with the theaters for the Westminster Gazette either knows or cares what Mr. Edwardes or any other manager may hoose to spend on advertisements m the paper he represents. ”

“ The hard life he lived when he was a lad and the struggles he had made him frugal as to his personal expenses, but when it comes to spending for the Oregonian or for any large project he lets go without limit. He is rich now, but lives as simply as he did when he was struggling for a foothold, guarding his personal expenses with as much care as when he had no money and got but little for his heavy labor. ”

“ Either the mills can regulate the weight of the paper or they cannot. If they can regulate then these extreme variations from standard and impositions of heavy weight upon purchasers are wrong. If the mill men cannot regulate hy present methods, then they should adopt that simple device which will show them instantly how each roll has run in average weight. ”

“ Seventeen (17) samples out of 314 weighed under 30 pounds.
Mills which make paper for foreign markets are required by many customers to furnish rolls measuring 7,000 yards in length and the mills do it. To obtain this measurement they use a small machine costing $7, made by the Veeder Manufacturing Company, of Hartford, Conn. It counts somewhat like a cyclometer on a bicycle. It enables the mill man to ascertain exactly the number of yards of paper in each roll and by dividing the length of paper in that roll is ascertained immediately and accurately. ”

“ Business Will Be Placed in Newspapers Exclusively. Copy Now Ready and Will Go Out In About Two Weeks. William B. Curtis Is in Charge. An advertising campaign of unusual magnitude will be launched within the next two weeks by the American Druggists Syndicate, of New York. This concern, which bids fair to become one of the largest advertisers in the country, is purely a co-operative association of retail druggists and its growth since its inception has been one of the marvels of the mercantile world. ”

“ Later, as vice-president of the H. B. Humphries Co., of Boston, Mr. Curtis planned and successfully carried out many campaigns of importance. Ill health forced him to give up his work for some time, and it is only recently that he has been able to again to devote his energies to the advertising field. In the conduct of the big campaign contemplated by the American Druggists’ Syndicate, Mr. Curtis’s friends predict that he will even surpass the many successes he has made in the past.
TRANSMITTING NEWS.
New System Calculated to Facilitate Handling of Press Matter. ”

“ The people will not trust nor empower the publisher who is a moralist on one page and a panderer on another page.
CIRCULARS AND THE WASTE BASKET.
The advertising manager of a leading magazine who has been circularizing extensively in the past makes the following important admission: “The habit of casting circulars into the waste basket becomes mechanical in time.” This is the doctrine The Editor and Publisher and Journalist has been preaching for years. Moral: ■Advertise in good trade and class publications. ”

“ BUSINESS AND ADVERTISING MANAGER
with 10 years newspaper experience in the Western field in cities from 40,000 to 300,000, would like to correspond with publisher that will require a strictly temperance business or advertising manager. Address Box 7, care The Editor and Publisher.
HELP WANTED
SALESMAN WANTED.
A thoroughly competent and experienced printing press salesman of correct habits and good address, for our Western and Southwestern territory. Permanent position for the right party. All communications strictly confidential. Address: Manufacturers, care The Editor and Publisher. ”

“ The chemists and e.x- perts of the United States Government Paper Ltiboratory say that the medieval methods of the paper makers impose excess weight of paper to the extent of $5 per ton upon the users of paper because the mill men lack in the skill necessttry to obtain from the raw materials the full value that they possess for strength and durability.
It is a startling commentary upon the prodigal methods of .American paper manufacturers that they require no pounds of raw material to make too pounds of news print paper while the English and German paper makers require but 103 pounds. ”

“ If the beneficiary of advertising does not pay for it. the proprietor has to settle the bill. Nevertheless many people can not seem to learn that a newspaper pays its expenses by renting snace, and that it is just as much entitled to collect rent for every day that space is occupied as you are for the house you rent to a tenant.
Most newspapers expect to treat religious and philanthropic enterprises liberally, yet in spite of this many of th<;se enterprises expect the newspaper to give them space rent free, while they carry their job printing to some other shop. ”

“ The capital stock of the company has been increased to $25,000 paid up capital, the machinery is now owned by the company and the paper is on a business basis, and with over 6,000 circulation. The Evening Times is easily one of the best newspaper properties in the Carolinas. ”

“ In one instance, this excess weight as disclosed by the sample indicated an apparent loss to the customer of $6 per ton.
The strength of the samples was ascertained by the Mullen Paper Tester. The results showed that many of the mills increased the strength of the paper by excessive weight at the cost of the buyer, while some sold heavy paper which notwithstanding its excess weight was inferior in strength. Others sold paper close to standard weight, but inferior in strength. Very few were within reasonable limits as to weight and strength. Seventy per cent. ”

“ Scott has always been a Republican. He has supported Republican policies and Republican candidates, but from time to time he has deemed it necessary to step aside and take a large, general and comprehensive crack at both party policies and candidates, in which case the howls of pain could be heard from San Diego to the Snohomish Slough. ”

“ Tomlinson is not his name, but a certain modern English poet wrote about a Tomlinson who was just such a one as this rosy-cheeked young newspaper man who wot that he scale the midnight cliffs of Labrador even to the fringe of the aurora and who yammered at those malignantly adverse currents oS St. Paul’s isle in the cruel gateway of St. Lawrence gulf.
There was that air of mystery about Tomlinson evidenced even before the Dominion steamer sailed from her berth at Sydney, X. S., with her top-heavy supercargo of wild correspondents from the cities of the .Atlantic coast. ”