Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-06-28
BILL NYE HAS A YOUNG IDEA.
Hs Tells How It Shouid 8, laugh. To
Shoot at Cornell.

Hs Tells How It Should 81 laugh. To
Shoot at Cornell.
The Job of Teaching Journalism Not a D,f-
fcult One-He Cs,ss Some Examples Which
| Almost Amy Student Could Correct The
| Art of Writing Advertisements Hints on
How to Be Popular.
am glad to know Cornell univer-
slty is to establish a department of
journalism next September. l have
always claimed that journalism could
be taught in universities aud colleges
just as succcSsfGlli as any other athle-
tic exerc Sc. OF course you can not
teach boy how to jerk giant journ-
al from the clutches of decay and
make it robust and ripsnorting
shaper and trimmer of public opinion.
III whose counting room people will
walk all over each other in their mad
| efforts to insert advertisements. You
can not teach th S In a school any
more than you can teach a boy how to
discover the open Polar Sea, but can
teach him the rudments and save him
good deal of time experimenting
with himself
Boys spend small fortunes and the
best years of their lives learning the
simplest truths in relation to journal
ism. We grope on blipdly. learning
this year perhaps how to distinguish
an italic shooting stick when we see
it. or how to eradicate type lice from
a standing galley. learning next year
how to sustain life on an annual pass
and II sample Earlyrose potato weigh
ing four pounds and measuring eleven
inches in circumference. This is
slow and tedious way to obtain journ-
alistic training. If this can be avoided
or abbreviated it will be great
boon.
As l understand it. the department in
Cornell university will not deal SO
much with actual newspaper experience
us it will with construction and style
IN writing. This is certainly a good
move. for we must admit that We can
improve very greatly our style and the
purity of our English. For instance.
| select an EXCHANGE at random. and
on the Geographic page | find the de-
tails of n horrible crime. 1t seems that
an old lady, who lived b. herself al
most, and who hal amassod between
SIG and ST., was awakened b. an as
sassin, dragged from her bed and
cruelty murdered. The large telegraph
headline reads: drug from her bed
and muredcrcdr' Tn is incorrect in
orthOgraphy, syntax and prosody bad
in form Inelegant in style. Carefully
parsng tho word drug as it appears
here, | find that it does not agree with
anything in number. gender or person.
| do not like to criticise the style, of
others when know that my own is'so
faulty. but | am sure that the word
drug should not be used in this way.
Take the following, also from the
Kansas correspondence Of the States
vile IN. c. Landmarks:
There were several bad accidents in
and around Clear Water during nv
absence from my home. The sad
dest one was the shooting of
one Peter Peterson by his
father They were out rabbit hunting
in the snow. A rabbit got up and
started to run. The son was in swag
of place. and tho father was taking
aim at tho rabbit. Tho son at the same
time was trying to get a shot ut it and
not knowing that his father was shoot
ing, ran between the rabbit and his
father and was killed dead, falling on
the snow with h gun graspcd in his
hands and mover moved. lie still car
Rcd that pleasant smile which he had
I,p in an 81 of ahnnt that
| jack rabbit, when put in the grave.
Wheat is selling at about 60 cents; corn,
! 40 to 80 cents: fat hogs, gross Al to IL;
fat steers. At; butchers stock 2 cents.
1t is hard to say just exactly wherein
this is faulty. but something is the
matter with it. should like to get an
| expression of opin on from those VIII o
take an interest IN such things, as to
whether tho fault is in orthoepy. Or
| biography, anotomy, obituary or price
current, or whether it consists in writ
ing several features too closely in the
same paragraph.
THE CITY REPORTER.
1t would also be good idea to
establish chair for advertisers in
some practical college. in order that
| they might run in for few hours and
learn how to write an advertisement
so that it would express in the most
direct way what they desired to state.
| Here is an advertisement for instance,
which is given exactly as written and
punotuated:
Mrs. DIR. EDWARDS,
THE GREAT WESTERN CLAIRvOYANT
Has arrived, aud will remain only n
short time. Call at HOTEL WINDSOR
ll9, 12l and 1913 East State street.
Room 10. third floor. Please take
elevator.
The greatest and most natural born,
and highly celebrated, and well known
all over the country, CIairvoyant, now
travelling on the road. and Wonder
from the Pacific coast.
Seventh daughter of the seventh
daughter; born with veil and second
sight; every mystery revealed; if one
you love is true or false; removes
trouble; settles lovers quarrels; causes
II speedy marriage with one you 10 We;
valuable informal on to gentlemen on
all business transactions; lucky numb
ers; Egyptian talisman for the unlucky;
cures mysterious and chronic d seases.
All who are sick or in trouble from
any cause are invited to call without
delay.
l have always claimed that clairvoy-
ance could be made success II we
could find some one who was sufficient
" natural born to grapple with it.
Now. Mrs. Edwards seems to know
what is required. She was born utter
ly without affectation. When she was
born she just seemed to say to those
who happened TO DO present ut the
time. Fellow citizens. YOU will have
to take mo just as you find me. l can
not d ssemble or appear to be other
wise than what | am. am the most
natural born and highly celebrated all
over the country clairvoyant now
travelling on the road, and wonder
from the Pacific coast" She then let
off whoop that ripped open the sable
robes Of night, after which she took q
light lunch and retired to her dressing
room.
Ex-Mayor Henry c. Robinson of
Hartford. Conn. if am not mistaken.
suggested school of journalism at
least twelve years ago. but it did not