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A UTILE 1'LVIX TALK.
Which May open the Eyes ot
Some to the Fact a News
paper,
mke every other business enter
prise, REQUIRES MONEY AS WELL
AS GOOD WISHES TO KEEP IT
GOING PERUSE AND
REFORM
The Memphis Avalanche, in the
following, lets in a little light upon
the trials ami troubles ot the business
manager of a daily paper published
in Memphis
Drafts in the names of religious,
benevolent and charitable institutions
are always falling thick and fast
about a newspaper office. Other
lines of business are deemed worthy
of getting value received for their
work, but a newspaper bless you,
“ must do it for nothing,” bear the
burdens of all sorts of societies, of
every creed, kind, and condition.
The young man who looks after the
dollars and cents of the Avalanche,
down in the less intellectual, but
c-(i tally necessary part of the build-
i »g, known as the counting-room,
had a caller.
“ \Ve want a notice of our lunch,”
said she (for it was a lady); “ please
write it oat.’’
Toe \oung mathematical machine
turned from his figures and wrote
out a tew lines, soiling forth that tiie
ladies of church would give a
grand lunch at No. — street, for the
benefit of the fresco work on the in
terior, and would be happy to have
all the patronage they could got at
fifty cents per head.
h will cost you §2, madam,’’ said
the young man.
“ What!” eried the lady in expres
sion of holy horror, “ you are not
going to charge a church! Where
is the proprietor?’’ The business
manager stepped politely up and ex
plained that there were fifty-five
churches in Memphis, each with set
tled habits ot having lunches, and
fairs, and raffles, to say nothing of
benevolent societies, etc., ad libitum,
with like chronic attacks on the pub
lic pocket, and that no newspaper or
individual could be expected to give
money to all these affairs. “Money!”
again cried the astonished lady. I
don’t ask you for money ! I only ask
y m to print this.”
TRIED TO EXPLAIN.
Tin; B. M. tried to explain how
the two were, as it were, synonymous.
About forty people, including the
carriers, are connected with the
Avalanche,’’ he said blandly, and
they have a singular way of expect
ing their pay promptly, so that they
and their dependants may be pro
vided with food, clothing and shelter.
It’s sad, but nevertheless true,” lie
added, with a melancholy smile.
“ Then there are such things as reut,
light, fuel, paper, ink, telegraph
news, machinery, stationery, postage,
taxes, repairs, etc., ad infinitum, to
be provided for. It costs no less
than $1,200 a week to nm the Ava
lanche, inadame. .Inst think of it,
8200 a day. Now it we were to do
all this kind of work for nothing,
there would in a brief time be no
Avalanche, or none worthy the name
and its proprietors would be left
with an immense bag to hold. Yes,
midaiue, it costs a great deal of
money to publish a newspaper, and
its advertising columns are valuable.”
“ But you can come around
AN1» EAT LUNCH
Willi us,’’ smiled the lady triumph
antly, Thu B. M. explained further
that lie and the other hungry people
around the concern had homes or
boarding houses to which they pre
ferred to go, and that it was an es
tablished rule under that leaking
roof to pay for every chance taken at
a church festival, grab bag, or every
plate of ice cream at a strawberry
lunchory. “We can’t pay wages or
otlijr expenses with lunch ticket*,”
i lid the B. M, in tones firm but
oolite, though indicating weariness.
“ Our aim is to conduct this estab
lishment upon ca>li principles, paying
C ish for what we buy and collecting
the same for what we sell.”
SOUTHERN BANNER: JULY 16, 1878.
The lady was indignant, and
scorned so base a paj er and so base
a man ; she would take her patron
age elsewhere; she left. If she
were the only begging lady who
came, that business manager would
look less like the father of twelve
children and a victim ot six mothers-
in-laws’ proverbial attei tions, but
they come in troops; they want no
tices for this thing and that their
friend is gotling up some sort of a
benefit show and must be advertised
gratis, as it would not be a success
without the newspapers, you know ;
their society wants to meet to talk
over sending flannels to the poor
orphans of the Fiji Islands, and it
must he announced. These ladies
are not alone in these methods.
BUSINESS MEN,
who ought to know, from their own
habits of never running their own
business to help on everybody’s
project, join this class. In some it
may be pure thoughtlessness. If so,
let these few remarks come like the
dawning sun upon their intelligence.
The Avalanche prints every Sunday,
free of charge—and is willing to do
it—a notice of the service of the
churches, yet every week some
body comes in and wislies to get a
special notice in ilie local column for
his pastor or rector, for which he is
willing to pay—nothing. This appli
cant is often the most per.-istent one.
Il the counting room clerk i- firm in
his lesistauce to being victimized, the
applicant lays lor an editor or re
porter, whom he chances to know,
and forces the desired notice into his
hand. The man would hardly beg
as persistently for tin* * gift *»f a dollar,
but it is all the same. There are, of
course, many other nun who desire
to do the right thing and pay for
what they got. These escape the
general bad repute into which their
opposites fall around a newspaper
office.
THE GIFT OF TICKETS
History That Brings Tears.
COUNT BATHIANY, THE HUNGARIAN
MARTYR, AND HIS WIDOW.
New Crlerns Pica} line's Paria Letter.
Nothing exhibited at the exposi
tion is so popular as the Hnngarian
gypsy musician?, who now play in
the Hungarian building called the
Csarda (pronounced Ckarda, I be
lieve), which is in the Champ de
Mars. There are sixteen musicians.
They may be compated to the negro
minstrels, that is, they play the mu
sic of a race, “ the wood notes wild’’
of an epoch when music was rather a
tradition ilia:: an art; but their music
is not the buffoonery nor ttHe sad
strains of Africa; it is music of dan
cing, waltzing, hunting, war. Their
most famous work is u Rakoczy’s
March,” the national air of Hungary.
This March seems to have been com
posed in the eighteenth cetttnry by
some partisan of R^koczy (the Kos
suth of his day); then it fell into
oblivion until Rozsavolgy, a“ gypsy,
found it in some peasant’s hovel (the
pagani, who never forgot anything!)
about 1820, when the spirit ofStates’
rights once more animated the Hun
garians. This march raise<l4jie wild
est enthusiasm wherever it was heard
in Hungary, and it, was cherished as
the song of dear native land until
1849 came, when it was heard above
battle’s fiem 8t roar; it comforted
the wounded and the dying in hours
of defeat; it kept alive hope, until
the struggle against the oppressors
ended in a s< a of blood. Austrian
and Russian were merciless. Iiak-
oezy’s March became treasonable.
Count Bathiany, one «*f the Hung:.*
rian Ministers during the—eHcnggle,
was arrested, tried by court-manial,
and was sentenced to be hanged.
Count Balhiany’s death (I translate
from a Fieicli newspapei) was an
epie. Sentenced to be hanged, he
was grained permission to have a la.-t
interview with his wifi. They were
the sight of tho-e exiled Hung arians,
how the melody of their music recall
ed happy bygoue hours, her bleeding
country, her cause’s martyrs. She
was Count Bathiany’s widow. That
which then took place defies discre
tion. The audience had received, as
twere, the shock of some great elec
trical battery. Pity, deep, inex
pressible pity, took possession of
every soul, every heart. All were
still turned to that box. All ap
plauded—how wildly! with what
frenzy! Every woman waved her
handkerchief to that box. Lips
quivered ; tears, or torrents, streamed
down every cheek. Then the cry
rose madl\, imperiously, *• liakoczy’s
March ! Rakoczy’s March !” The
Hnngarian musicians, even more
excited than the audience, had seized
their instruments and, giving the
military salute to their unhappy
country woman, they began their
native land’s hymn. Electrified by
the public, frenzied by recollection
of all—home, battles, hopes, martyrs,
wrongs—they executed Rakoczy’s
March as that march had never been,
executed. They crushed their bows,
so convulsively thrilled were their
hands by passion ; the strings wailed
under the wild pressure. Rakoczy’s
March became the bowling of gener
al indignation at the merciless cruel
ties of the conqueror. Never in my
life have I felt such poignant emotion
as at that hour filled my whole being.
I felt as all that audience leil:
Countess Bathiany was no widow
bereaved of all she li.ul dearest on
earth—she was Hungary, crushed,
bleeding, trampled under toot l»y a
ruthless soldiery.
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—AT—
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—AT TIIE—
Comer Clayton And Jackson Sts.
is often a stralegetic movement to
escape paying for the notice of soiro
amusement or other benevolent pur
pose. The runners of these affairs
seem to think that a newspaperman’s
hopes arc turned from heaven to
the prospect ot seeing a show ; that
he is continually hankering after
some sort of performance upon which
to feast eye and ear. If these folks
knew how near to a row things come
in newspaper offices by the contest
over whe shall undergo the bore of
such performances, they would possi
bly better understand the true state
of the case. If you want to draw
people pay for an advertisement, oh,
ye amateur show people. If you
wWi a reporter to l.e present as a
critic for public notice afterward, you
can send a ticket and—cause him to
swear.
TAKEN COLLECTIVELY
these impositions upon a newspaper
amount in a year to many thousands
of dollars. Men, women, and chil
dren seem to think that every matter
of interest to them should be ventila
ted, free of charge, because their
neighbors take the paper, and they
occasionally condescend to borrow it.
People who aie always trying to
get tilings squeezed into print with
out paying for them, rarely buy a
paper or advertise. If a few of the
philanthropists at other people’s ex
pense, and benevolent hands with
other people’s money, would only
show a willingness to divide the
thing by half the time going into
their own purse, instead of that of
the public, it would seem more lovely
about her**. The Avalanche does
not feel its sphere of duty to embrace
assistance in supporting every relig
ious or benevolent society. It would
respectfully ask to Iks treated as are
other business concerns, with the
assurance that it will endeavor to do
its best in return.
Once upon an evening dismal, I
gave her a paroxysmal kiss and called
her name baptismal, precious name 1
loved of yore. Ah! she was a dar
ling creature, pert of speech and fair
I in feature; but egad, you eouldn’t
teach Iter, for she has been there
before, and only murmured, “ Buss
I me more.’’
left together alone that he might
write and also explain his wjjg^ her,
lie had no tear of death.^'IIosTtrank
from death by hanging like a c minion
felon. His wife understood him.
She gave him a pen-knife, the only
weapon she had been able to intro
duce into prison. lie cut the jugu
lar vein, but so awkwardly as to
produce only swooning, not death.
The surgeon said it was physicially
impossible to hang him in his condi*.
tion. ^ A handkerchief was tied
around his neck. He was shot. The
Iiw provided that the body of a
persm excelled should remain four
a id twenty hiirtrsojLthe spot where
the law’s extreme penalty had bten
paid*'?9HU[9g. the following night
Count Rathiany’s corps disappeared.
Hungarian’Franciscan friars bribed
the guards to let them remove the
body. They buried it in their con
vent’s garden that the patriot might
sleep in hallowed ground. There it
remained till Francis Deak at lust
succeeded, jrilfeeat spilling one drop
of blood,4ft securing his country’s
independence; then a liable state
funeial, at which all Hungary f .flow
ed as mourners, made public ac
knowledgement of the debt his coun
try owed him. Hungarian gypsies
(they had been the bands of the
Hungarian regiments) fled and sup
ported themselves abroad by giving
concerts. One evening I went to a
Hungarian concert in Germany. It
was given by the band of Kossuth’s
regiment. The concert room was
crammed from the topmost tier of
boxes to the pit; even in the passage
people stood on chairs placed as
thickly as could be. The band play
ed Kossuth’s March, which is to
Rakoczy’s Mareh as “ Le Chant des
Girondins’’ is to •* La Marseillaise.’’
All at once convulsive sobs were
beard above the music. In a box a
woman in deep mourning, agitated
by an emotion which she could not
command, writhed in the anguish
of despair. Instantly the whole
audience were on their feet. Every
lace, all eyes, were turned to the box
whence that distressing wail came.
Who was that woman ? Somebody
recognized her. Her name was
whispered from ear to ear. Every
body understood her anguish ; how
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