Show journalistic SLOUGHS OF DESPOND next to slat brit bake city our ambitious neighbor at the junction of the tb national highways hIghWAY 9 18 i entitled to the chief distinction va as the newspaper cemetery and J journalistic rocky road of utah it to is a rather indifferent year for starting newspapers there when only two or three which have in every instance COMO come to stay make their appearance fling their banners banner to the breeze boldly proclaim their prin cipley and then than tart start in with sleeves rolled up to moulds mould carve and polish public opinion and they all do stay as long as they can full soon boon they fiod and out that they did not begin with money enough and that the sheriff is too persistent and importunate a follow fellow to be hold held at arms arma length continually the standard with its it immediate predecessor the herald has lived longer than any other paper ever started in that city it has ha had its ups upa and downs standing off dull period per loda no trimming its ita sails ail to correspond with the amount of active air and keeping a sharp lookout for bosis sandbars and icebergs yet it 16 to only fair to say ay that when these were pawed and better times came cam e for a season the patrons of the paper have had all the benefit of the changed conditions they have in fact been given a home journal greatly ahead of anything they have fully paid for and we believe they appreciate it these remarks are called out by two journalistic events in the junction function city the post the democratic organ seems seem to have struck the fatal song snag in its career its employed emp loyes or some of them are in destitute circumstances and advertise in the standard for old clothes clothe or any kind of assistance and the tea tale of woo woe is somewhat beyond anything of the kind we have hare heard board of lately I 1 it t was not sup posed thai that the post was wac la a moneymaking money making experiment or that it t wax was losing money at a greater rate than its if backers backen could tand stand it was many degrees from being an inferior production product iou in fact it sometimes and particularly earlier in its ita career evinced considerable ability and enterprise its ite going hence will leave the standard alone in the field again as aa it has been many times almee before it however some symptoms of the financial maelstrom mae latrom by which it and many others la in the country have been whirled about of late by coming out on new year day in quarto form instead of the octavo style which it adopted a year 0 or coage there are now seven even columns to the page instead of six lix as formerly and the matter la in all home set not which 0 circum tance stances make the diminution really but in the matter of size aize and not much of that napoleon said bald the three things most needed for carrying on a war were first money second money and third money the lame might properly be said mid of newspapers particularly of daily ones one and especially in either of the he fields named where there to 1 so 10 much com competition pe and enterprise already on hand |