Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-06-27


An Easlish sasayiA ays
NO later thanrihs ~ - vhick IofA
Jeffrey died, sgenslsmaa OfbUsin0hnhiAa
who had been fbr somo time unsuccemfnllv
engaged in looking ut for an editor to
duct : weekly papos estshaiehed II : 49,,
town, remarked to n, that ef al Men al 81
eessnf s.'s.p.Per editor ass PsnAnrs Ne sssx
To which We add, II il Just ~ difBcuit
now - On the day when Lord Jeffrey died.
In any profession the successful men are
lev. But in the profession of journalism
they are fewer than all others. What il
the reason! Our readers have not forgot
ten . striking letter printed in tles col
umns . year ago from . Of the most prsc-
ticed editorial writers connected with the
American press, urging that in - much ~
the field Of journalism in this country is
widening every year, and a. a constantly
increasing number Of young men are look
ing to the press asa profession, they should
be fitted in advance by just such 4 special
training for the press ~ is thought neces-
sary for the ministry, Tor the law, or for
medicine. Thus far, such a preparation
has been obtainable only in a newspaper
ofice-just NJ formerly ~ a young man pre-
pared for the ministry by studying in the
family Of some minister, or, for the law, in
the Office of some lawyer. Certainly it an
apprenticeship to any trade is necessary to
success, an apprenticeship to journalism is
necessary.
Yet not a month passes but we are wait
cd upon at our Office by we'll meaning gen
tlc,ncn. Interested in the furtherancr Of
some good cause, who, though they have
never held an editorial pen in their hands,
and never sent a newspaper to press, pro-
pose to solicit money for the establishment
Of a public journal, their eyes meanwhile
bandaged stone blind to the inevitable fact
that their journal will prove . failure, and
their money be sunk out Of sight.
Benevolent newspapers arc grand agcn
| cies TOR the furtherante Of moral reforms,
and for the ~squandering Of good peoples
money. With here and there an exception
which only proves the rule, a newspaper
that has not pccuniary vitality enough to
walk on its own feet, earning its own ex-
pcnses, has no right to ask charitable CAPT
| talists to lend it crutclics. For instance,
every now and then appears a hes %iwnrnal
| devoted to the soldicrs-the proceeds to go,
perhaps, to the founding of All asylum for
soldiers widows and orphans. All this
sounds kindly and charitable; but did any
| body ever hear Of amy "proeceds.' OF
course, We have no right to object to any
we'll INTENDED moral enterprise, even tho
it be toolishIy conducted, for Christian phi
lanthropists have mn undoubted right to
| bcfool themselves if they please. But We
| think the time has come when a word
should be intcrposcd between many of
these money beggars and moncy-givcrs,
only as a reminder that the old provcrb is
still in force. "A fool and his money are
soon parted"
If any of our friends should be asked to
take stock in u ship out ward- bound in the
Chinese trade, and should be told that the
man chosen for Captain had never had his
hand on a vessels helm, they would prob
ably decline to sign the subscription paper. |
But a green hand can wreck a newspaper |
just as easily as a ship.
A dozen new and various aiming jour
nails are now seeking to base themselves
upon a ~pecuniary foundation-and some Of
| these amply deserve all the liberal help
they have received, and still ask for, since
| the names Of their conductors are n suffi-
| Gent guarantee that they will be skilifully
| edited and published. But we feel con
strained to warn our friends against casting
their money like nov flakes into a water
bucket, to melt out of sight in the vain,
| foolish, we'll meaning attempts Of philan
| thropic men, who, in so gaily undertaking
| editorship, forget that they set up to BE-
| masters Of a trade at which they have
never done a days journeywork.-N T.
Independent.
Observation-Disclosures wrote in q small,
fine, pointed character, and Tasso n large,
free, and flowing style. Goethe wrote neat
IL, ever elegantly. Person wrote Greek as
plain as type. Brouham wrote with crab
lid eligibility. Hawthorne wrote with a
stroke far from neat. and somewhat con
fused. LongfcllOw writes in a round, back
| handed, elegant fashion. Theodore Par ker
had a cramplcd, hier' glypliic style, that
| competed with Choatc's famous scratches
| for absolute unreadableness DR.. Cha liners
kept an even hand Byron wrote an awk-
ward, contortcd script Scntt wrote in
| regular, honest characters, though lrc con
| stantly failed to cross his is. Emerson
writes with IL dashing afr. Willis with
sharp, even firmness. Chas Sprague with
womanly delicacy. Fanny Kemble with u
nervous stroke and womanly angularty.
| Whittier with INDIGESTION, without either
strength orsymmctry. Whipple with lofty
loops that are a chiroprophic syllable.
Hilliard, precise, balanced, and constrain-
! ell. Motley is minute and clipt; and
! George Ticknor legible and light. The
scratch vt Halleck ooksa s if he might have
practiced the Morse alphabet and gone
crazy or it. The facts show that chiro-
graphy can hardly be relied on as an indi-
| cation of character. The philosophic the
DRY of this matter. put by Lavater and 9th
IRIS, is stated to Ike, that certain qualities of
the brain act through the nervous organi-
zatio.,, and thus regulate the motion OF the
! hand, by the dependent muscles. 50 that
the form ofthe letters taken upon the paper
will show correspondence with those quail
tiles as surely az the lines in the spectrum
/ will designate the nature OF the body that
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