To this day it is a matter of wonder to Jacob Jones why he could
never get along in the world like some people; and he has come to
the settled conviction that it is his "luck."






STARTING A NEWSPAPER.

AN EXPERIENCE OF MR. JOHN JONES.





IT happened sometime within the last ten or fifteen years, that, in
my way through this troublesome world, I became captivated with the
idea of starting a newspaper. That I had some talent for scribbling,
I was vain enough to believe, and my estimate of the ability I
possessed was sufficiently high to induce me to think that I could
give a peculiar interest to the columns of a weekly paper, were such
a publication entirely under my control.

I talked about the matter to a number of my literary and other
friends, who, much to my satisfaction, saw all in a favourable
light, and promised, if I would go on in the proposed enterprise, to
use all their interest in my favour.