The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-06-01
BIRDEyTy'S ApyICE TO A
Young WRITER.

I.I' 90 90 NV h H' ~ ll' N''' t''' W. '''
nHttor.' Ezekiel. tx H.
And 50, my boy, you want to write
For ttr papers? And now for the
magazine? And by and by the re-
views: Well, you are right Oh your
way to that literary Canaan. II YOU
have no other trade, profession, or
occupation, that is the very reason
why you should write for the papers
for 10 bc a successful carpenter or a
good shoemaker is the gilt Of fortune;
hut to write for the papers comes by
nature. am glad that you realize
fhi, important fact. You would not
thuE pt going ilto cobhl.r'- shop
aud sitting down to make n shoe,
when YOU knew that YOU couldu { tell
q welt awl from shoe; but You will
naturally drift Into writing for the
papers. Indeed you will, my son,
and you willal-o naturally dritt against
She bank, or upon sand bar, or
AGAINST snAg You don't want to
''naturally dritt' into anything. You
'rant 10 get up steam or put out the
Swccp- and pun like n fair OF steers
for some definite p int. Then YOU il
get there. But if you 20 to "nata-
a'ly drifting you must nn uber
that all the drift wood l,d2ce ON the
bank, when the trcshct is over
and the river zoe. down. Journalism
IN I q trade, ! know; every man ran-
not be taught TO write poetry, or nov
el, or even humorou' sketches. But
J do think YOU must have some
earnest purpose and decided bent in
llIat direction before YOU can hope for
. "A t,.,y
only carry you down stream and over
th! dam.
""o, THAT NY WORDS WE'RE PRINTED. -
And you 'have hard time getting
into the papers? A, didn't
know You had Iong before you told
me: Ny dear boy, have been
Younger tIAn | am, and now am
great deal older than | wa bu'
la,c seldom seen man who didu'i
have "a hard time g"ttnl into the pa
ocrs. Fhc first story ever w!otr for
he pr'>- here it is, in the original
MS, .'OuIy tramp Aul here j.
..E second effort, "Thc Macnini,t',
STORY. Auj here, too, HE pleas
ANT little note from tho editor # one
f thc magazines TO Wllich sent those
.''.'It g'iiiN' Il' fll'b ''t 'bit-
tiliiiou j. returned, with tie thanks
70. '2c editors. SO many man i,eript,
arc received that ili- .lnpo,SibIc t, as
-iGl reasons for. ETC., etc c.c. II
mu-t not be supposed hc'u!Se AN arti-
'lc is not needed by th., magtliuc, it
necessarily is considered deficient in
ucrit. Many contributions must br
returned tor rca-ou- whi h have no
connection with their literary value.
~ w do know the formula 50 well:
My son, learned it BY heart from
often reading it No. those two gems
were not publish d that year. Nor,
Whi.c reason holds her throne in thi,
distracted globe, will they ever bc
published. keep them in their own
sacred pige N hole to remind me thai
YOU shall never sing in the cattle
ranges of Gilcad.
GET MONEY srIILGET MONEY, BOY.
! once was poor myself, "lcst being
tied up with pride, should "fall
into condemnation OF the devil, a.
well II, of the editor. The gOd- have
been good to me, and have blessed
nlc, and have blessed ne far beyond
my deserts; for many year, fortune
mas turned to me a shining face,
wrcathcd with ,mir like a grape
vine, and vet, even unto this day,
my son, it not inirequcutly happcH>
that some editor, with many and pro-
found regrets, thru>ts that two edged
potc into my soul, aud then twist, it
And vet, dearly beloved, | do not
hate him for it. pity him some
times, when think What a good rhng
ne j. losing; | am sorry the poor man
-tnd> in his own light. But | am
uot angry. Oh 40. send the Ms.
.Jf to another editor. That i the
only way, oh, youthful, ineXpcrierc-
I'd milcdgcd Shakes Jeare, you c,n
get into the papers. GO TO ed
itor to editor, and when you have cN
hau,tcd the list; read the .kclrh tu
your wife; how she will prai,o 1t, and
@oOthc Your wounded Spiri Gpd
ole, her, and then begin al the top
and 90 through The editors again, and
though the cdi or may regard not man
nor poets, Vet because YOU trouble
MIN, hc may print yOur piece, lest pv
,.our continual coming Won drive him
mad. Bui If every one OF them per
,.-t in I'd c'ining with thanks,
lien Nou must buW to the final de
i,iou ut the thadamauthus who sit
tcth upon thu editorial th'ouc, and
judgcth the manuscripts of all the world
and sc.tCth aside the poems, all the
long and som of the short stories
and most OF the first attrmpte tor tine
fuel department. WAcu Rhadauau
thus condemns Votr sketches To the