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(ilium GEORGIA, iJ S. A.
Griffin is the beet and most promising little
ityin the th. Its record for the past
half decade, its many new enterprises in oper-
ntion, building and contemplated, prove this
o te a business statement, and not a hyper-
olicul description.
During that time it has built and put into
most succcssiul operation a #100,000 cotton
uctory and with this year started the wheels
of a second of more than twice that capital.
(t has put up a large iron and brass foundry,
a fertiliser factory, an immense ice and bot¬
tling works, a sash and blind factory a
broom factory, opened up the finest granite
quarry in the United States, and now has
our targe oil mills in more or less advanced
stages of construction, with an aggregate au¬
thorised capital of over half a million dollars.
It is putting up the-ftnest system of electric
ghting that can be procured, and has ap¬
plied for tn o arters for street- railways. It
has secured another railroad ninety miles long,
and while located on the greatest system in
the South, the Centred, has secured connec¬
tion with its important rival, the East Ten¬
ues see, Virginia and Georgia. It has obtain-
d direct, independent connection with Chat
tanooga and the West, d will break groun
n a few days fora fourth road, connecting
with it fourth independent, system.
With its five white and fourcolored church
ee, it has recently completed a #10,000 new
Presbyterian church. It has increased its pop¬
ulation by nearly one fifth. It has attracted
around Its borders fruit growers from nearly
every State in the Union, until it is now sur¬
rounded on nearly every side by orchard*
and vineyards, It has put up the largest
ruit evaporators in the State. It is tee home
of thegrape and its winemakingcapscity has
doubled every year. It has successfully in
augurated a system of public schools, with a
seven yeans curriculum, second to none.
This is part of the reeord-of a half decade
and simply shows the progress of an already
admirable city with the natural advantages
of having the finest climate, summer and
winter, in the world.
Griffin is the county seqt of Spalding coun¬
ty, situated in west Middle Georgia, with a
healthy, fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet
above sea level. By the census of 1890, it
wrill have at alow estimate between 6 000 and
7,000 people, aud they are all of the right
sort—wide-awake, up, to the times, ready to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de,
sirable settlers, who will not be any less wel
eomc if they bring money to help build up the
wn. There is about only one thing we
eed badly justnpw, and that is a big hotel
We hove several small ones, but their accom
medatious are entirely too limited for our
usiue s, pleasure and health seekig ngnests
If you see anybody that wants a good loca
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
Griffin.
Griffin is the place where the Griffin News
s published—daily and weekly—thqbest news¬
paper intheEmpireState of Georgia. Please
uclose stamps in sending for sample copies,
and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.
This brief sketch is written April 12th, 1889,
and will have to be changed in a few months
o embrace new enterprises commenced and
ompleted, .. .r
Merchants and Planters
BANE,
Grifflu, Georgia,
Capital,-: : : : $100,000
Organised July 1,1889.
Prompt attention to nil business intrusted
to us. Accounts solicited from banks, firms
and individuals. BOYD.
President—J. D.
Vice President—8. GBANTLAND.
Cashier-D, D. PEDEN.
Ass’t Cashier—J 0. BROOKS.
Directors—J. D. Boyd, W. J Kincaid, 8
Grantland, D. H. Peden, N, B, Drewry, H. H.
Bass, B. F. Strickland. oct6d*w8m
H of M M Bug h
AND THE
Prices at Low Water Hart
The tide of trade is rising high,
The prices ebbing low, j
And ail who now come ir to bny.
Do buy before they go.
Upon New each style* tide to new suit goods all, arrive,—
XXs^tar*- you
Our needles ply from morn till ere,
And far into the night,
Abu from the lights and shades they weave,
RvioA* to please the sight.
sar 1 *"'
____Jte to trace,
MRS. L.1
THE SOIREE MITSICALE.
A Great Success, Both Musically and
Financially.
The “soiree musicale” at the resi¬
dence of Thos. Nall,Esq.,on Monday
night, for the benefit of St. George’s
church, was successful beyond antici¬
pation. The large pa rlors were crowd¬
ed and the neat sum (of twenty-
seven dollars was realized.
The following excellent and varied
programme was carried through, be¬
ginning with surprising promptness
at eight o’clock and lasting about
an hour and a half:
, FIRST PART.
A *
Instrumental duet—“II Trovatore,” and Sims,
Misses Moss
Recitation—“The Legend Beautiful,”
Miss Roselyn Reid.
Vocal Solo— r “A Summer Night J. N. Song,” Bell.
- . Mrs,
Recitation—“Miss Minerva’s Disap¬
pointment/’..........Miss Nell Collier. J
Vocal Solo—“Katie,”
Miss Sarah Tibbie Kell.
Vocal Trio—“Cling-a-ling,” -
Miss Addie luncaid, Pliny Hall
and Claire Deane.
SECOND PART.
Instrumental Solo—“Gems of Scot¬
land ,”... Miss Annie Laurie Mallary.
Recitation—“Miss Edith helps things
Vocal Along,”......Miss .Duet—“The Marie Wind Markham. and the
Recitation—“Bobbery,” Harp,”.....Misses Mills and Hudson.
Miss Annie Bates.
Recitation—“The Flirt,”
Miss Addie Kincaid.
Vocal Solo—“May Blossoms,”
• Miss Mallary.
Without any disparagement to the
excellent performance of the others,
we merely voice the general opinion
of the audience in saying that the
singing of Miss Kell and the recita
tions of Miss Bates were the features
of the evening. Miss Kell was well
compared by one gentleman to a
mocking bird—full of natural melody
and quivering and vibrating with
spontaneous song—nothing artifi¬
cial, no effort, but the gushing forth
of a natural fount of pure musie. She
sang “Mistaken” as an encore.
Miss Bates had never recited be¬
fore in public, but was as graceful
and composed as could be wished.
“Bobbery” was an affecting little
piece of every-day heroism, and was
recited with a pathos that brought
tears to many eyes; while “The
Spelling Lesson,” was the most ap¬
propriate encore we have ever heard
recited, being short, pointed and
“cute.” Miss Bates has a charm of
manner, voice and appearance that
are^eculiarly her own, outside of the
arts of elocution that are gained
from teachers.
To Misses Bessie Mills and Opal
Smith the honors belong of success¬
fully carrying tbroughthisentertain
ment and they have occasion to be
proud of it. We hope they will give
another before too long.
LUELLA LOCALS.
Our Correspondent Visits Macon and
Sees the Orphan Asylum.
Luella, Ga., Nov. 19.—This cold
snap makes the “other half” hustle
around quite lively getting wood and
making fires, feeding the stock, do¬
ing chores and keeping the machin¬
ery in good running order. The late
election news causes him to Btep
higher and “smole a smile all over
his countenance.” The other night
when looking over the Griffin News
he said to his favorite: “Get down,
son, and run away; the pictures of
this male chicken pleases your father
mightily!” a
I have just returned from a visit
to Macon and the Orphans Home.
Macon is a beautiful city, of about
15 or 20 thousand inhabitants.
The streets are beautifully laid out
with parks running through the
centre. On Mulberry street are two
statues, one in memory of Gonld, of
railroad fame, the other in memory
of the Confederate dead. From here
we took the dummy for Vineland and
the Orphans Home. The Home is a
large brick building just outside the
city limits. The house and yard is
kept in order by the little children.
The neat looking beds and clean
floors show that they have been
taught to do their work well. Or¬
phan children find here a good Chris¬
tian home and are given agood com¬
mon education. The Matron, Mrs.
M. A. Shifty, is a kind motherly lady,
whose only thought seems to be for
the good of these little ones. The
Home and its expenses are kept up
by the efforts of the good Methodist
ladies. God bless them I
Dr. LeFevrewill leave Wednesday
morning for a little trip to Bruns¬
wick and the islands.
D. H. Johnston, of Griffin, spent
last week with friends at Luella.
Mr. Johnston is one of those de¬
G1UFFIN GEORGIA WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 20. I8HP.
lightful old people who scatter
smiles and sunshine everywhere.
S|Miss Lou Westmore'and, of Bunny
Side, is spending a few days with the
family of J. Nutt.
Mr. Bright has sold his farm to R
Barfield and in a few weeks will move
with his faihily to Louisiana.
Mrs. Connell is very low.
Mrs, J. Nutt most elegantly enter¬
tained a few friends at dinner last
Sunday.
Will Strickland is improving his
home by building a new barn.
“Binus” Wells will in a short time
commence the erection of a new resi¬
dence on his farm.
Ternon church has received anew
coat of paint, a new organ and new
seats,
The Sabbath School of Temon
church will have a Christmas tree
Christmas eve to which all are cor¬
dially invited.
The Temon Sabbath school is pro¬
gressing finely. Miss Natalia Mitch¬
ell presides at the organ.
“They say” there is a wedding on
the programme.
Beryl,
Look at the Possum’s Tall.
Henry 0. Marcey, M. D., a gentle¬
man of scientific attainments and
habits of research, with an office in
Boston and an elegant three
story residence at Cambridge, has
twice written to Mr, Throckmorton,
of “Line Creek Possum Farm, near
Griffin,Ga.,’’for information in regard
to the tendons in the tail of the opos¬
sum. He says: “Have the kindness
to notice when one is dressed for the
table if a tendon runs the length of
the tail, and if so favor me with a
specimen. If long enough they
should be of value for surgical uses—
very likely they are not.” He says
that a tendon from the tail of the
kangaroo ianowimported from Aus¬
tralia. ' r
This is a matter that may be worth
examining into, and'if as valuable os
the doctor thinks likely, may lead to
the development of a new Southern
industry. Look at the next possum
you have dressed and see if a tendon
runs clear through it.
“Never give up the ship,” cried
Lawrence. He saved So the say:—Never ship, he was
at once a hero. we
give up your life when attacked tried by
dyspepsia until yon have Lax-
ador.
What is the best remedy forthe ba¬
by? Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup, for it con¬
tains no opiates, and is innocent but
effective. Sold by all druggists. Price
25c.
Concord Cuttings.
Concord, Ga.. Nov. 19.—We are
quiet in this town and following our
usual occupations. Money matters
are easy, collections fine and our
business men in every particular do¬
ing well.
T. B. Reams has gone to his farm
near Molena.
The Rev. W. A. Brooks will move
to the Beams place on Railroad
street.
W. E. Beckham will go to Molena
to sell goods.
Dr, Mallary and Miss - will
marry che 1st of next month.
Rumor says thattwo of our young
ladies are to be married in the near
future.
W. D. Huff, our new hotel man,
keeps a good house and is doing well.
Our cotton gins are making money,
doing a good business, Ac.
Letter List.
List of letters remaining in the post
officeat Griffin,Ga., forthe week end¬
ing Nov. 19th. Parties calling for
these letters will please say “adver¬
tised” and give date. One cent must
be collected on eaeh advertised letter
when delivered:
M. H. Alexander.
Mrs. Hoiion Buntyn.
John Canley.
Leelan C. Graze.
M. H. Ball.
Delive Hasltves.
Mrs. Itned Hunt.
*“Marsla” care F. K. Burks show.
Annie Maugham.
Miss McKinley.
Mrs. Pashance Moore.
Billie Morris.
J. W. Owens.
J. C, Osborn. •
J. S. Pitts.
G. B. Ridley.
Mrs. E. E. Robinson.
Mrs. Nancy Stinson.
W. A. Sutherland.
N. L. Laylon.
Geo. Thomas.
Jane Watt.
Georglanna Williams.
Miss Mary Jane Woott*.
*• v. wooavrara.
M. O. Bownoix, P. M.
HUH MANAliINU KIUTORS.
THE GENIUSES WHO PRESIDE OVER
BOSTON NEWSPAPERS.
John U. Holme*, of Tfro Herald! Fowl*, of
Th* aloha, and Hernia. O’Meara. Clement
Underwood. Crooke and Bacon—All Ac
eom|itl»he<l Journalist*.
[Special Corradpoodence. [
Boston, Nov 13.-0? the raven daily news¬
papers published in Boston it can be truly
said that in three characteristics, at hast,
their managing editors resemble each other,
namely, all are hard workers, all are modest
men, and handsome as they are modest. The
proof of their good looks will he acknowl¬
edged by a scrutiny of the accompanying
pictures of these representative journalists.
As for their jqeernaUstic exploits the general
statement given herewith will testify.
Although Boston is often deemed provin¬
cial in matters journalistic, even by members
of the press, still it contain* quite a number
of bright and able journalists. Concerning
both journals and journalists in Boston there
hi always more or less gossip—made enough up tor the
most part of fact, with just fiction to
give it spice—that is not only interesting to
the brethren of the pan, but to the great
mass of newspaper readers. To the latter the
Hub ha* less to Offer than Gotham. Yet in
many respects brief sketches of the men who
control tee press which serves to mold and
oontrol the puUitf opinion of New England’s
metropolis will prove interesting. Their lives
will serve to prove that hard, well directed
effort will usually bring its reward, not onlv
in tee sense of duty done, Youngish but of ample remu¬
neration as well men most of
these newspaper workers are, and some quite
ver masks," allowing their work atone to
form the world at large of their existcuoe. is
Of Boston papers, The Herald the best
paying aud most influential, and has im¬
proved and grown wonderfully under tea
managing editorship of Mr. John H. Holmes,
whose ambition it
has been not only
to make it a cos¬
mopolitan sheet but
an ideal paper. He
is the man who
makes the paper
what it is, ami his
case presents as
good an example as
any of tee way a
man may, by q
combination of tal¬
ent and fortuitous
to a commanding iuzubsn crooke.
position in the newspaper world. He it a
native of Peabody, Masa, and is 46 years of
age. Ho is said to have been a teacher in
early life, afterwards becoming superintend¬
ent aud librarian of the Charlestown (Masa)
public library. But he possessed and a decided
bent towards journalism, used to em¬
ploy bis spare momenta in writing-news and
editorial few The Charlestown Chronicle, an
excellent weekly, soon after assuming entire
charge. He struck out Of the old ruts and
mads it a-popular paper. Next he assumed
charge of The Daily and Sunday Times, con¬
tinuing in that position until the proprietors
of The Herald offered him a place on the
editorial staff of their paper.
He was placed in charge of The Sunday
Herald. Here he found his real opportunity.
He built teat paper up, and his work gradu¬
ally extended to the other departments, and
one day, after the Herald moved Into its
present building, he found a splendid roam
assigned to his use, and ou the door were
painted tee words, “Managing Editor."
Then he knew just what his title was to be.
Mr. Holmes’ room is a marvel in its way. It
is fitted up in a manner commensurate with
the purposes of its occupation. There’ are
cabinets and cases containing pigeon holes in¬
numerable, and places for files of papers,
manuscripts, correspondence, and the thou¬
sand and one things which come witeto the
editor’s province and need careful arrange¬
ment A copy elevator runs up to tee room
above, where the news and telegraph editors
are located, and beyond it up to the compos¬
ing room. The pneumatic tube runs through
this room, having what is called a switch
here, or a section which can be opened,
enabling the matter in tee tube intended for
that department to be taken out This room
is in communication with the front office by
means of speaking tubes and electric bell,
and with ail the editorial rooms. Speaking
tubes from this room also lead to tee upper
room, and to the composing and delivery
rooms.
Mr. Holmes still preserves, with his long,
drooping mustache, bis rather tong and
straight clipped hair, his eyeglasses, and some¬
what sententious motes of delivery, something
of the aspect of a pedagogue. He is very affable
and courteous, likes to talk uewspeperology,
and is the inventor of the 1 ‘restaurant-bill-of-
fare theory” of making the newspaper pro¬
vide what suits every man’s taste; let him
pick out what be wants from the menu, and
don’t expect him to eat everything there is
on it
Mr. Holmes is a man of family, live* is Mm
winter in the aristocratic Back Bay, and
summers at Cohaseet beach. He rarely goes
to tee office evenings, but tee telephone keep*
him always on the qui viva Politically The
ponent in The Boston Globe, which has one
of the youngest and best of m ana gin g editors,
Mr. Arthur A. Fowle. wielding its laboring
judgment on momenta** things, and exer¬
cises an Immense influence. He has just
turned 36, and is a native of Woburn, a city
only a few mile* from Boston. He began
newspaper work a* Woburn correspondent of
The Globe in 1876, and in twelve yean was
managing editor of the paper, reaching Mud
high place entirely unaided by any of the
aid* of wealth and family influence, but sim¬
ply as* result of hard, steady, faithful work
and
After a short axperiene* as eew—pondent
ha was transferred and to tee city staff. He be¬
came night local, awake was oue of the shrewd¬
est and most wide r epor te rs of this
city. He “beat the town” ou the confession
of the murderer Piper. After passing
through the various departments, being
sporting editor, new* editor and assistant
mansgtng editor, be was appointed managing
editor e t the great daily and Sunday paper
upon the retirement of his ehisf, Mr. Banja-
min P. Palmer, in IflH His strong oharae-
oar. is
an excellent e x -
ample of the mod¬
est newspaper man
whose name rarely
gets into print
Very few people
outside of the office
ever bear of him,
but among bis fel¬
low workers of the
press no man could
be more esteemed
than he. Like
teristics are his perfect “now for new*," un¬
tiring industry and unerring judgment in
too selection of men. He is very popular
with subordinates, and can get a surprising slighr
amount of work out of them. He is
with light bail- and mustache, and a rather
thin, good looking face. He is a man of
family.
Another example .if the hardworking and
retiring journalist is Mr. Stephen O’Meara,
who holds every ave iue of news in The Jour¬
nal a* a driver bolds the reins over a six-in-
is the manager of
that {mper. Mr.
O’Meara enjoys the
title of “news edi¬
tor,” and exercises
all the functions of
managing editor
lie was born in
July, 1854, and
graduated In tbs
Charlestown public
schools. While a
obeyed high school hia boy he
newspa¬
per instincts and
with the Charlestown Chronicle, then under
the editorship of Mr. John H. Hollies. Tn
1873 he graduated from, tee Charlestown
. high school, and next day became Charlestown
reporter of The Boston Globe, in October
joining the city staff, where he remained un¬
til 1874, when be went to The Journal as
shorthand reporter.
While reporting he served live years at
newspaper work in the legislature, nearly
three years at city ball, and had a wide
range of business, law ami political reporting. and
In 1879 he was promoted to city editor,
in 1881 was advanced to news editor, which
position he Hill occupies. His duties are en¬
tirely executive, including the immediate di¬
rection of reporters and correspondents and
supervision of the work of all engaged in
collecting and handling news, as distinguished
from purely editorial matter or that involv¬
ing the expression etitirely'by of tee paper’s opinion,
which is directed Cot Clapp him¬
self, the manager of The Journal Mr.
O’Meara was formerly auditor and is now
treasurer of the New England Associated
Press. He was three times unanimouslv
elected president erf the Boston Press club
(which includes nearly “everybody who is
anybody" connected with Boston journalism)
during 1886-7-8, only positively being permitted declining to re¬
tire from office on tc
again accept tee presidency, when he was
succeeded by tee popular manager of Th*
Globe, Col. Charles H. Taylor.
In 1888 tee honorary degree of M. A. was
conferred upon Mr. O’Meara by Dartmouth
college. He is handsome, alert, quick
wittod, and a man of refinement and gentle¬
manly hearing. His popularity is quite like¬
ly to place him in a congressional seat some
day, or in the chair of mayor of Boston, for
which latter place lie was prominently men¬
tioned as a probable Republican candidate e
year ago. He is a family man, lives within
view of Bunker HOI monument, and possesses
that gift of oratory so rare among newspa¬
per men.
Another handsome journalist is Mr. Ed¬
ward H. Clement, e-litor of The Transcript,
who was born in Chelsea, Masa, April IS,
1843. He graduated from Tufts his college at
the head of his class, and began newspa¬
per career in rather a novel and adventurous
manner.
In 1864 he went to Hilton Head, 8. C., ou
a visit to his brother, who was stationed
there as an officer in the Union army, and
staid there until Savannah was taken.
tumble Boston,
be went on Th*
edward H. clement. Advertiser and
shortly afterwards to The New York Tribune
as reporter, becoming assistant night editor
with Amos Cummings, sod later city editor.
From there he went to assume the managing
editorship of The Newar k <N. J.) Daily Ad¬
vertiser, and later purchased and edited a
paper In Elizabeth, N. J. He joined Th*
Transcript in 1875, end for six years was art,
dramatic and musical critic and chief edi¬
torial writer, in 1881 succeeding Mr. W. A.
Storey as managing editor when that gentle¬
man resigned.
Everything about Mr. Clement is marked
with elegance and good sense He is a social
man, often seen at receptions, but knows at
wen what is going on in general and local
politics as in society. He is a man of family,
and his house on Charles street is a charming
home. He is a member of the Boston Memo¬
rial, Papyrus, Press and St. Botolph’s clubs
He is a stalwart man, courtly in appearance,
with a gray mustache and gray hair, which
he parts in the middle.
Mr. Herbert Underwood, of The Advertiser
and Record, is the youngest managing editor
in Boston, being only nevftpoper 28; but though young
in year* he is old in experiences,
and knows what bard, earnest, honest brain
work is He is a native of New York state,
and graduated from Williams in 1883. After
working a short time in Amsterdam, N Y„
he joined The Springfield Republican.
Showing decided aptitude (or political re¬
porting, Mr. Underwood was sent to Boston
to attend tee sessions of the legislature, and
toon bis bright and
spicy letters in bis
borne paper became
a feature of the po¬
litical gossip of the
day. He trans¬
ferred bis allegi¬
ance to the Adver¬
tiser tn June, 1886,
continuing in the
same general field
of work. In the
fall of 1886 he was
tent to Washington
of
both nepers, and no
wrfterat the na- a*RBERT underwood.
Hod's capital was more quoted for gossip and
news than be. On the reorganization of the
Advertiser company, with Mr. William B.
Barrett as publisher and manager, Mr. Un¬
derwood was recalled from Washington and
placed in charge erf both the Advertiser and
Record, taking bold Aug. 1, 1888. He is
also cos of tee stockholders erf the company.
He b a Benedick, bos a tee reeidenoe in the
suburban town of Winchester, and is a mem
tar of the Frees dub.
Mr. Reuben Crooke, of The Evening Trav¬
eller, is the oldest managing editor in Boston,
and one of the most popular. He was born
la Corinth, Yh, in 1895, and joined The Her-
yd in 185ft He has been connected with The
Traveller tinea 185ft Belli genial gentle¬
man, and does not show the effect*of his long
—<♦ arduous gervice much, eJteepi in tho
whiteness of hU hair and chin whiskers.
Mr. E M. Bacon is mana gin g editor of Tbs
Posl William F Murray
i
1
8TEPHEN O’MEARA
acquainted with
two New York
Herald correspond¬
ents, Sam Mason
and Oscar Sawyer,
who procured
authority and
seized the oid Hom¬
ing No w s, and
placed him in
charge as editor,
reporter, etc. H*
remained there
until 1808. Re
mill NEW YORK LETTER.
AU-AN FORMAN ON THE YOUTH WHO
t^ESlRE TO ELEVATE JOURNAUSM.
The Editor ul The New V»rh J.mrnsllst
Write* In s Ssmntlo Vela of a Class «t
ttelng* Who lie! lev# Anyhndy Can Knn
» Ncwspnnrr.
New Yomc. Nov It*.—It has often been a
matter for conjecture in my mind as to What
ultimately i«ome» <rf the thousands of young
men who annually are (tounraaed with the
idea teat they have been charged with a God
given mission to elevate journalism. W«
hear all about the people who start in to eto-
vate thfi stage, and when tn-nfendonaliy. they finally sink tc |
th# dime museum level or to
a still lower plane morally, we—well we may ■
be grieved, hut we are not surprised.
But where do the would be editorial writers
go to? The college bred youths who pew*
trate tee barriers which surround the editor
and express an engag ing and amiable willing¬
ness to run the paper for him, who have bad
no practical experience, but who were “prim
essayists," “class historians,” “college edit¬
ors," and all that sort of thing. What do
they ultimately drift into? For it is certain
teat not oue in fifty of the army of appli¬
cants even succeeds in obtaining a foothold
in newspaper work. We hear vague tales of
their getting clerkship*, and occasionally we
may recognize one carrying a bundle or sell¬
ing tape in sowe fancy goods shop, but tee
majority of them arc like the summer file*-
they buzz around the editor’s ears for a while
and then disappear forever.
Of course, all editors of any experience
learn that everybody outside of a newspaper
office can run the paper better then the men
ontheinsido. I do not believe teat there is
a young man in this groat country who doe*
not honestly cherish the belief, secretly per-
haps, but still an able bodied belief, teat the
Almighty Intended him to be a greet editor.
He may not design to use his abilities in teat
direction, but he Is morally certain that he
could be an editor if be wanted to; and be
knows, if be once took hold, he could revolu¬
tionize the present system of pleasing journalism.
The man who hugs that delusion
most tightly to his manly bosom is tee lately
landed young Englishman. He generally ha*
a “ ’Varsity education," end is frequently a
Trinity college, Dublin, man. His family haa
met with financial reverses, or he is a younger
son and is obliged America to make where his way fortune in the
world; be comes to a
is to be hod for the trouble of picking it up,
and having an unbounded faith in his owa
ability and in the British theory concerning
the general illiteracy talents of Americans, In he con¬
cludes that his will be great de¬
mand ita tee newspaper offioea. Then he ah I
ways tees snob a vast field for his labor* on 1
an American paper. He looks over oair
doilies, and, finding no long, three column
editorials, such as ho has been brought upon
hi tee pages of The London Times, he im¬
agines that we do not have them because we
have no editors clever enough to write them.
The average E nglish newspaper Js^eatoUoi
and its editorials ere as heavy as a cooking
school biscuit. The lately landed and jour¬
nalistically ambitious Britisher perceives this
difference between our papers and his own,
and he experiences a wild yearning to place
our American newspapers on his English
level. An extra inducement for him to enter
newspaper work is that it is a shade more
“respectable" than trade, and it requires no
special training to be a newspaper man. A
lawyer, a physician, or a clergyman, must
spend years in special study before he is al¬
lowed to practice his profession, but an editci
is like a poet, ' nascitur non fit." Any man
with a college education and a stub pen can
edit a paper, and be looks upon it rather in
the light of a condescension than otherwise
that he is willing to bring his imported ’var¬
sity training and London accent to the edu¬
cation of the benighted Yankees.
I have argued with them by the hour-
when 1 could not escape—that our papers are
about as we like them, and teat our people
would not read the long editorials if they
were printed, that our demand is for news,
not last week’s news, but today’s, and to¬
morrow's, if possible. It is all to no purpose.
He begins over again and tells about his
'varsity education. I have vainly suggested
that he write something and hand it in and
point that out as the quickest and surest road
to editorial favor. His usual reply has hem:
“But I don’t know what to write about, don’t
you know.”
As if an editor oould have any possible use
for a man who did not know what to write
about! Or, if he does make an attempt to
write something, it is pretty generally a com¬
parison between England and America, to
tee disadvantage of the latter, a proceeding
highly creditable to his patriotism, but speak¬
ing volumes for his lack of tact And after
a week or so of trying to get into editorial
work he disappears into the unknowable.
Do not understand me by this to be casting
any discredit upon college bred men in gen¬
eral, or upon Englishmen in particular. A
college education is a most excellent thing—
for a foundation-but a college education
does not fit a man to liecome an editor say
more than it fits There him to became few a lawyer or
a physician. are very young col¬
lege graduates who would apply for appoint¬
ment os United States district attorney be¬
fore they had seen the inside of a lawyer’s
office, yet these same young men see no in¬
congruity in asking to be made editors before
they know the difference between a galley
proof and a shooting stick. It is so easy to
be an editor! All be has to do is to write a
few articles and go to the theatres on a free
pass. The theories of English journalism
and college journalism are very much
alike, books, and not men, are the
foundation of both. The elaborately built
“straw man” of supposition serves as the tar
get for editorial argument rather than tee
flesh »hd blood fact, it is a system which
gets away from the personality, the abuse of
which is one of the bad features of American
newspaper work. Here we attack aa indi
vidua! as the supporter of a theory, tee expo¬
nent of an idea. There they atteok tee the¬
ory as advanced by a man or a party Th*
on* is abstract, impersonal and consequently
lacking in contemporaneous human interest
The other is concrete, vividly personal, fre¬
quently beyond the limits of courtesy and
justice, but always virile, and generally, in a
measure, effective.
While the well educated, newly imported
Englishman is frequently a bore to the busy
American, hia request for an editorial peti¬
tion is not so much out of the way as it ap
pears on its face. A broadly educated her
mit, with some facility as a writer, might be
a valuable editorial writer on The London
Times. Here in America be most supple
ment his reading by an intricate Be knowledge
of men and their methods. must, to nee
a trite phrase, have his finger on the public
pulse. He cannot content himself with a
knowledge of what men thought and wrote
about in the last century, last year
even yesterday, but must be able to form
accurate enrf swift judgment of what
will think to-morrow and next week.
There seem* to be no practical
acquiring this knowledge
(recline A facility for esssy
SKCV„,
besuppi
public
must be ft
ideas.
The tuau wln< has to t
about has no place in i
must know what to W rti
have a genuine desire t
to to be a swi-earful jot
ways necessary tor e j
oortor and city <
editorial writer; to f
are f ■ ffitati
editt
could not write a <i
while the 1
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young won
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tan daily to the hart
work, who
an Insane desire tog
the weary editor
will turn now
paper!" Thee
for new faces t
la tiie <
to rid himself oft
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good many who i
dregalong and*!.
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ON THE
Colti esiti tristory of
Days in Missouri ■
(Special Corr
tore at Little B
on Red river in t*
timed to i
south i
badtaen
. organized t
in
the Richmond
der Preaid—
An armed invasion <
was also organized. Gea.1
tkM CCHRIQfiQdfir of t-fr* t
meant of Mieeouri, bee *
The peculiar detectiv
general was noted <
a powerful Confederate <
loari
The state was filled with
league variouzlyknown as”'
Golden Circle,” “Aineric—
"Sons of liberty." The
of the order in
djdt M j ?i f j ^it jx
a* “Php” Price. The
tion had also
the north,
grand com______
was Clement L.'
eta!"kSSXlnwii
Price in the
force he
from_____
appear in flU»oan.
other “
flock to
Gen.
demonstrations in i
and captured one post a
more than half a dozen i
yet remained in Union
of 1864. Among these i
Rock, Helena, Van
Bluff.
Shelby had 8,i»0 men; i
kansas and southwestern '
with guerillas and
and Shelby’s force i
rnoe wneo no saouiu appear,
ported that a strong-
ready to join Price,
coveriewbefore the j
ton. His t
recti He found,!
sul was tee r ”
tho disloyal 1
rest caused a t,
tilled by foots.
Sept. 3, 1864, Gen. T~
phis, gave fT----
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