A CHANCE FOR A NEWSPAPER BOX.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2943, 22 July 1878, Page 2

A CHANCE FOR A NEWSPAPER BOX.

It may be that before long another member of Lord Beaconsfield's Cabinet will be baked into a Peer. It so, call him Lord Bookstall or Lord Newspaper. Not more than forty years ago, in this great ■London, there lived a W. H. Smith; who had a certain literary proclivity. He sold newspapers. He died in the year 1865, blessed with seventy-five years, a fortune, a good trade and a son. This son was also W. H. Smith, and I believe in that numerous and varied family of Smiths all over the world there are but few with the initials of W. H. I commend these initials to the Smiths. Filling the gap left by his father, W. H. Smith became the British monarch of the news vendors. I have iv the Enquirer on a previous occasion penphotoed him. From a small newspaper business to a big one' there is an , immense space. The one practically proves that a little learning is a dangerous thing, the other that a great store of knowledge is power. Bounding frdm the street boy newspaperdom was the aim of the first W. H. Smith. Bounding still higher was the aim of the second. He controlled all the railroad bookstalls and much of the sales of the newspapers of Great Britain. Here was a fulcrum, and he soon found a lover to work up into public favor. He entered the House of Commons at last. He is in the Cabinet now as the Sight Hon. the First Lord of the Admiralty. Whatnext? A peerage or baronetage. How many examples of progress and prosperity do we not see springing from identity with news* papers P Look at the numerous instances in America, to-day. Capitalists and ambitious men should think seriously over this. "There's millions in it"—if, jou look at it in one way.—London" €"orres« pondence of the Cincinnati Euquker.