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Show THE FUTURE NEWSPAPER. Twenty-five years sgo the lste Whitelsw Raid predicted that jonmalism in twenty -ti v.- years would be with reduced aised newspapers, with the tiliniination of a good many features that then were prominent in the papers, the burden of his statement being; that the business wss overdone snd, that before very msny yesrs it would be reduced down simply to be the vehicle of news. He wss s bsd prophst. The newspaper of today is s marvelous thing, snd aa a good many newspapers have fallen into the hands of weslthy people, they all ssem to be trying to excel the others, snd if this is kept up for twenty-five yesrs, sn ordinary daily psper will supply about all the education that a man needa. It will have the industries of the country in a prominent place, it already hss the real estate transactions of the great cities with wonderful illustrations, society will hsve to hsve shove its page every dsy s picture of something ss besutifnl as the connoisseurs pay thousands of dollars for. Indeed, In-deed, it will be s full transformation, except, perhaps, the politicsl situation will be apt to run in the old groove. And they will have to widen the law to take an ordinary paper through the parcel post, because it will weigh more than eleven pounds. And the result will be more general gen-eral information and less scholarship. It is ths disposition of the ordinsry mortal to akim things and get an idea of them and to avoid being thorough. The tendency of the newapapers nowadays is to meet that want, and a man who reads an ordinary first class newspaper news-paper every dsy in a year will be able to express sn opinion on almost any subject, and, indeed, will be able to talk intelligently of a thousand thinga that he really knows nothing shout. |