Bloomington Herald

Country Newspapers.—Newspapers that
are published in a town or village, are called
country papers, in opposition to those publish-
ed in the city.

Some people won't subscribe to a country
paper, because they say, they see first every
thing contained in the country, in the city pa-
per. These are very wise people, surely, and
have very sharp eyes too. If they don't take
the country paper how do they know or see
what is in it? Do they borrow it and read it
without the pleasure of paying for it; or do
they guess what is in it? No city paper can
furnish country people with matters in which
they are all so much interested as the country
papers can—because, the country papers nar-
rate all that passes immediately around them
—the marriages and deaths of their friends—
the advertisements of their neighbors —the
sales of land—of personal property near them
which they are in need of. These are matters
peculiar to their neighborhood paper alone,
and the most agreeable to them.

The advertisements of a neighborhood pa-
per are the first things to be read. Indeed,
properly speaking, the advertisements are the
most interesting parts usually of all news pa-
pers, to all readers.

A man who does not subscribe to his neigh-
borhood paper is certainly ignorant of one half
that passes around him and if he is a busi-
ness man often loses the price of subscrip-
tion in the settlement of an estate, or sale of
some property in which he was interested.
Besides the paper tells him where to go and
get the cheapest goods—to this store or that
for those who advertise usually sell the
cheapest—tells him where he can buy what
he wants—a house or a farm— a horse or a
cow, or where he can sell some superfluous
article he has. Do the city papers do that?
Not at all. —They will tell you a great deal
about what is going on in the cities, and tell
you a great deal that you feel no entertain-
ment in whatever -but they do not tell you
that which you are most interested in your
neighborhood news.

Another class of people, say that the coun-
try papers are made up from the city papers.
This is another mistake. A large portion of
the country papers are as well edited as a ma-
jority of the city papers, and often copy little
from them. We know country papers which
are nearly filled with original matter written
expressly for them. The right way to have
a good neighborhood paper is to encourage it.
A liberal subscription will bring forth talent;
for if the editor has not got it, the almighty
dollar will find it for him somewhere.