Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MAKING A NEWSPAPER. | Success and Endurance Depend Upon oj f Character Rather than Money. The Hon. James Smith, of New Jersey, after accumulating a princely g fortune in business walks, plunged tl headlong into the maelstrom of poli- tl ^ tics and secured a seat in the United 0f | States senate as a Democrat. He is was one of his party who injected k: "perfidy and dishonor" into the Wil- o] son tariff of 1894 after which he was m retired from official preferment of (1 his own party in his own State. Mr. tt Smith, to promote his political for- ki ^ tunes, established or secured control is of a newspaper in his home town of Newark and poured his millions into w the business end of his journalistic m ***-' property without stint and with the ni result that he is now making a prog- sc ress through financial bankruptcy. m Our Uncle Isaac Stephenson, of p] Wisconsin, another millionaire and a li delightful old chap, waded into poli- io * tics up to the neck and he, too, established a newspaper and fed it ai ducats by the cart load. As a jour- oi nalistic enterprise it was a failure, o1 and it would have emptied Uncle m Ike's purse, too, had it not been like es ,that of Fortunatus and without bot- tt I torn. hi There are a great many foolish gi folk who will tell you that money is al all that is necessary to make a sue- gj cessful newspaper. They hold that \ money may command brains, as it will, and that the two, working together, make the great and powerful journal. But there is another qual- ?* ity, the lack of which makes your pi newspaper as impotent as a tool with- st out a handle, and that quality is es character, and without character no la newspaper an be influential. ?* Take the case of William R. Hearst's yallers?money without ^ / . limit and brains powerful and bril- 01 liant, a circulation reaching into the ai m hundred thousands, and yet the in- fr IF fluence of the Hearst papers on pubI F affairs is absolutely nil. It was 01 not the opposition of Bryan at BaltiV more that defeated Champ Clark; di it was the support of Hearst, and Wl Woodrow Wilson would have been ar nominated in 1912 if Bryan had been so ap loyal to Clark as Bill Stone, of Tl t 'Missouri, or Bill Haldeman, of Ken- cc tucky. ar Of course brains and money are a^ necessary, but the chief and indispensable ingredient of a newspaper er is character. There is such a paper hi in my old home town of Louisville, at Ky. I mean the Louisville Post, over Pr the columns of ,which Richard W. Knott is autocrat. There/ are thou_ sands of newspaper readers in Ken- P< . tucky who cuss the Poet?at rare intervals I have cussed it myself, but everv newspaper reader in Kentucky knows that if there is any live wire 0f i r in the field of public affairs, Dick in Knott reaches out and grabs it utterly regardless of consequences. That is character. That is what jj( makes a paper fit to live and fit to b< . . read. t0 Knott is of Scotch blood with all the admirable traits of that wonder- is ful people. It would be possible to ^ destroy him, perhaps, but he will ' never be conquered. ^ "Not even to save the rare cargo of re Truth. Would be cast out a part to the ai storm." Li Goebelism might have succeeded in making Kentucky a despotism if it had not been for the Louisville , Post. Nominated by the police force y( of the unspeakably corrupt city of Louisville, Goebel would have been ? elected governor and master of the ut State had Knott and his newspaper tc cravenly submitted to the infancy of the nomination. Not in the history of American journalism is recorded a greater achievement than that of fc ' * the Louisville Post when it defeated William Goebel for governor of a j commonwealth that has freedom for pj j the prerogative of its citizens. ^ > But that was not the only victory ^ achieved by the Louisville Post. About that time Louisville was in the clutch of the most unscrupulous, the fo most reckless, the most depraved, the g? most vicious and the most odious ti gang even American municipal in- h< famy can show. Elections were ei ' farces, graft and all kindred knavery p< stalked everywhere, gambling and re robbery were open and notorious, K violence and murder defied the law. ci And then it was that Dick Knott p entered into the battle for law and h; order, and, it is needless to say to ts i those who knew the man, he never h; let up. They did not try to bribe n him; they knew that could not be done, but they sought to intimidate p! him. A warrant was issued for his is arrest on a charge of libel, I believe, q and he was taken into custody. It a was the scheme to hurry him to jail tl m ere he could secure bondsmen, but n it failed. A leading citizen of Louis- si ville, now holding a high position on V the judicial bench of Kentucky, re- f< Hl lated to me the scenes of that oc- n casion. Never, he said, was the bet- tl ter element so enraged, and it was Y. t ready for violence, for it recognized in Knott its champion. But there d | was no outbreak and the storm pass- \ I ed over. c ANCIENT STATE PAPER. Idest International Treaty Carved on Temple Wall. On the walls of two of Egypt's reatest temples, that of Karnak and ie Ramesseum at Thebes, carved in ie everlasting stone of the dry land ' the Nile, says the Christian Herald, i the oldest international treaty nown to man. Rameses the Great, ae of. the signers, is the best known tan of remote antiquity. Khetasar the czar of the Kheta or Hittites,) ie other party to the treaty, is unnown except to a few, and his nation i little known even to the scholars. The Hittites were a mighty race hose empire, eq,ual in rank with the lighty empire of Egypt and Babyloia, once extended over 400,000 luare miles of territory in Asia inor and Syria. Three years ago ractically nothing was known of the fe and civilization of these myster?us people. They are mentioned in the Bible id in the Egyptian and Assyrian rec*ds, but until very recently their vn story had never been read by odern man. Today, thanks to the :cavations that were carried on at ie capital city of Carchemish, much - ? ' ? 1 J a rr*? a r? f IS Deen ltrarutju auu ui tino gicai, oup of tribes, and orderly evidence )out them is now available for the 'st time in 2,000 years. Two-Cent Movies for Poor. A celebrated movie star is working 1 a plan to provide two-cent moving ctures?"so that the woman with a tawl over her head and the laborer irning $1.50 a day and feeding a ,mily of six, will have some place : amusement to which they can afrd to go." It is a fact that the movie was iginally the poor man's pastime, id that it has been partly removed om him as admission prices have ?en raised. "Nickelideons," numeris at first, are now few and far between. But while expenses of prolction have increased as admissions ent up, it is still true that no nusement enterprise is operated at little expense or so great profit, vo-cent admissions would doubtless >ver the actual cost of producing id the operating expenses of the rerage film show now. Two-cent theatres, showing cheap, releases, or later releases of the gh-class productions, would prob>ly pay well if the theatres are operly located. The two-cent movie fid is open not only to philanropy, but to business.?St. Louis >st-Dispatch. Brand New. The Rev. E. C. Hibsmann, pastor ' the Cote Brilliante church, is tellg this on a member of his congrettion: A good elder, hearing his young ipeful in a quarrel with a neighbor >y, went out to investigate in time ? hear the following: "You shut up! My mamma's baby just as good as your old baby,"! id the neighbor boy. " 'Tain't neither," retorted the eljr's youngster, whose parent's had icently purchased a new auto, four baby is an old last year's one, id ours is a 1916 model."?St. ouis Globe Democrat. His Ardor. Miss Gladys Guggles (coyly)?Does )' really love me, Clarence? Clarence Snuckles (passionately) T ' ? T AMAlfffVAn ITA* OA -ijove yu r. wuj', j. ttiidiY^cB jkj uu it I'd rudder heah yo' chew gum den > listen to a minstrel band! Dat's 3W I loves yo'! A Future Problem. "Of course your wife favors votes ?r women?" "Yes," replied Mr. Meekton, "but suspect she'll find it hard to aprove of any plan that allows some f the women she knows to vote just le same as she does." Not long thereafter Knott's fight ?r law and order triumphed. The mg was cleaned out. Decency took te place of outrage. The gambling 3lls were closed. Morality was giv1 a chance. The police retired from )litics. Louisville regained her selfjspect and today, thanks to Dick nott, is as well governed as any ty in America. Had the Louisville ost been a weakling and a coward, ad its editor been less virile, menilly and morally, Louisville would ave sounded the very depths of degidation and misery. Richard W. Knott is an accomlished as well as a strong man. His ; a powerful mind and he studies all uestions profoundly. Once he takes stand he is immovable, and he is le least inconsistent of any public lan I know. He and paradox are :rangers. He is an honor to our noble pro^ssion. No man wears our cloth lore worthily. He believes someaing and his belief is that of a giant, lis only concern it, "Is it right?" And when Simon Bolivar Buchner ied not a great while ago, Richard V. Knott took his place as the first itizen of Kentucky.?Savoyard. THE OLI) ALMANAC. Wjis a Member of the Family Hack in the Old Home. An almanac was dropped upon the doorstep yesterday; the same old almanac. The only new thing about it at first glance, is the date, 1916, on the front cover. In all else it is the same almanac it was thirty or forty . years ago, when you first became acniiflintpH with it You greet the old almanac as you would a very dear friend. It was a member of the family back in the old home. It hung by one corner from a nail under the mantel, behind the cook stove. Grandfather consulted it for weather forecasts as religiously as he consulted the Bible for solace, and woe to the boy who took it from its nail and failed to replace it. Possibly you had not seen one of those yellow-backed almanacs for many years, and yet there seems to have been no break in its issuance. "Sixty-fourth year of publication," it says on the cover. You turn its pages lovingly. The same old medicines; and even the pictures are the same. The same kind of testimonials of cure, list of eclipses, changes of the moon and monthly calendars, with jokes under them. In the old days, back home, those jokes were told and retold at every gathering throughout the year. Here's one of the 1916 vintage: Dobbins?I hear that your daughter married a struggling young man. Jobbins?Well, yes, he did struggle, but 'twas no use; he couldn't get away." That would have been a prime ! joke in the old home neighborhood and its lustre would never have been dimmed by retelling. It would alI ways bring a hearty laugh. It was ; one of the fine attributes of the old | home folks that they, never would in| jure a person's feelings by failing to : laugh at his jokes. People were more ! considerate then than they are now. | Although the old almanac is not regarded as such a reliable old friend 1 as it used to be, it still is welcomed ! as it was so many years ago, more j for the sake of old memories than for its usefulness now.?Kansas City ; Times. An Immigrant Sculptor. ' Benjamino Bufano recently receiv! ed a prize of $500 from the Immij grants in America Review for a sculpj ture group in a contest in which 500 1 artists were entered. Bufano, one of fifteen children, came to this country at the age of six. From his childhood he has been in New York stu dios, first as a boy of all work and i later as a sculptor's assistant. Dur: lag all of this time he studied at the night classes of the Art Student's league. Now, at the age of twenty, he has become skilled enough to win a prize coveted by artists maturer in years and with greater advantages. Bufano does not appear disposed to give the factor of environment any credit for his success. America, to him, is no "land of opportunity," or "glorious freedom." It was the idea of the donors of the prize that the winning piece of sculpture should express "the meaning of America to the immigrant and of the immigrant to America," depicting the fusion of the races. But Bufano's group expresses nothing of the kind. Rather, it interprets America as a land of exploitation and oppression. Thirty or more figures are shown, of oppressed, miserable people who seek opportunity in the land of freedom and find there only oppression. At the base of the group are the words, "I came unto my own and my own received me not." "The intention of this government may have been good," the Outlook quotes him, "but time has revealed its destination a corrupt one. It is for us to place her (America) where all her people shall have a right to enjoy her luxuries."?Indianapolis News. Made Grandpa Take Notice. It is often literally true that "the weak things of the world" are able "nnnfniinH tho things which are tu V./U111VUUU vaav , mighty." Not long ago a member of parliament was caught napping by his little granddaughter, who is the delight of her parents and the idol of grandfather. She came before him, her face wreathed in smiles, and said: "Grandpa, I saw something running across the kitchen floor this morning without any legs. What do you think it was?" He studied for a while, but finally was obliged to give it up. "What was it?" he asked. "Water," answered the little lady triumphantly. The Basiest Way. "No man is willing to admit tliat he can't quit drinking if he wants to." "That's where prohibition is so I strong," replied Bill Bottletop. "A ; lot of us vote for it rather than to let on that we're afraid of it." Pri its ^^S^njHHHgHan|^^9j vei des ,^^^M^^[l^l||j||||j| paj ^Mli^fflftlfgii^ oth B^^iSiiiiililiiiMttiMMtg^ rrnrirenriffiwrffiYT . n' iii'i&r >R1NCE Al the national joy, Listen: Men who have stowe it'? ??sy to eiiaBKe the shape for years, have brous and color or unsalable brands _ . * . to imitate the Prince Albert PrillCe Albert I Get tidy red tin, bat it is impossiblm 4 to imitate the qavor of Prince never will be abused I Albert tobacco 1 The patented . _ A process protects that i set pipe free the tender And smoked in a maldn's cigarette, Prince refreshing and delightful that it gives you a cigarette happiness. Any way you fire-up Prir will win you quick as a flash?it's so good and R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., Winstoi DRINK SIX GLASSES I DC WATER nAII V I fk UI vvniuii uniki i m m ... I I vllI An Interesting Statement by One of I the Big Men In the Drug Business I i1 ~ I Boardm; ness has taugi 1 GOOD PEOF A. E. KIESLING AND PROPE of Houston, Texas, says: t i.flw ij,. t. "If you have a muddy complexion A 1A?*VC tA^c u and dull eyes, you are constipated. Six B you are thinkj glasses of water daily and one or two ijpg Txnfli VOU Rexall Orderlies at night will correct y 1 / this condition and make you 'fit as a I 3?SO I1RV6 fiddle.' Rexall Orderlies, in my opinion, I Sll66t MUSIC c are the best laxative to be had. and can I ' T siricerelv be taken by men. women or children." I i% j. w? hav<> exrlusive selling rights fof I ?lV6Il^ni6 by t this great laxative. 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