Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-06-28
BILL NYE HAS A YOUNG IDEA.
Ha Tells How 1t Should 3, laugh. To
Shoot at Cornell.

Ha Tells How IL Should 81 Taugh. TC
Shoot at Oornall.
The Job of Teaching Journalism Not a IF
fcult One-IIs Cs:as Some Examples Which
Almost Any Student Could Correct The
Art of Writing Advertiser ants-Hlnts on
How to Be Popular.
l am glad to know Cornell univer.
sity is to establish department of
journalism next September. l have
always claimed that journalism could
be taught in universities and colleges
Just as successfully as any other athe-
tic excrc Sc. OF course you can not
teach boy how to jerk giant journ-
al from the clutches of decay and
make it robust aud ripsnortng
shaper and trimmer Of public opinion,
IN whose counting room people will
walk all over each other in their mad
efforts to insert advertisements. You
can not teach Tn s in a school any
more than you can teach boy how to
discover the open Polar Sea, but can
teach him the rudrments and save him
a 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 blindly. 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
aud sample Earlyrose potato weigh
ing four pounds and measuring eleven
inches in circumference. This is
slow and tedious way to obtain iourn-
alistic training. If this can be avoided
or abbreviated it will be great
boon.
As understand it. the department 10
Cornell university will not deal so
much with actual newspaper experience
us 1t 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,
l select an EXCHANGE ut random. and
on the telegraphIc page l find the de-
tails OF horrible crime. 1t seems that
an old LADY, who lived b. herself al
most, and who had amasscd between
SIG and SIT, was awakened b. an as
sassiu, dragged from her bed and
cruelty murdered, The large telegraph
headline reads: drug from her bed
and muredercd!' Th is incorrect in
photography, syntax and prosody. bad
in form Inelegant in style. Carefully
parsing the 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 $50
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 On. c. Landmarks:
"Therc were several bad accidents in
and around Clear Water during my
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 n place. and the father was taking
aim at the rabbit. The son at the same
time was trying to get a shot at 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 grasped in his
hands and mover moved. lie still car
ried that pleasant smile which he had
in al ,,tin pf al, hot
jack rabbit when put in the grave.
Wheat is selling at about 60 cents; corn,
40 to 80 cents: fat hogs. gross, A. to AZ;
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 0
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 a 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 rs written and
punctuated:
Mrs. DIR. EDWARDS,
THE GREAT WESTERN CLAIRvoYANT.
Has arrived, and will remain only n
short time Call at HOTEL WINDSOR.
1l9. l2l aud 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, Clairvoyant, now
travelling on the road. and Wonder
from the Pacific coast.
Seventh daughter of the seventh
daughter; born with vcil 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 nun b.
ers; Egyptian talisman for the unluck ;
cures mysterious and chronic d seases.
All who are sick or in trouble from
any cause are invited to call without
delay.
have always claimed that clairvoy v
ance could be made success II we
could find some one who was sufficient
" natural horn 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 at the
time. "Fellow citizens. YOU will have
to take ME just as you find me. / can
not assemble 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 a
light lunch and retired to her dressing q
room.
| Ex-Mayor Henry c. Robinson of
Hartford. Conn, if am not mis- taken.
suggested school of journalism at
least twelve years ago. but it did not
meet with immed ate and practical in