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o 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. BLACKSMITHS —AT— OUR NEW BRICK SHOP —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 First-Class Horse-Shoeing. 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