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A moving van came rolling down the street the other day with a big spirited Percheron in the center and two wretched nags on either side. The Percheron was "doing all the work", and it seemed that he would have got along far better in single harness, than he managed with his inferior mates "retarding" his speed.
The advertiser who selects a group of newspapers usually harnesses two "lame" propositions to every "pulling" newspaper on his list, and just as the van driver probably dealt out an "equal" portion of feed to each of his animals, just so many a merchant is paying practically the same rate to a "weak" daily, that he is allowing the "sturdy profitable sheet".