The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-05-29
THE USE OF 4 PENCIL.
A southern Journalist Advises News-
paper Men 10 Use It for Business
ssWrlte- upsf as n Sure Way to Fortune.

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A Southern Journalist Advises News-
paper men 10 Use 1t for business
ssWrite- e-ups'' as n Sure way 10 Fortune.
A pencil il one of the cheapest
things that a man can buy.
And yet there is n fortune in 1t for
the right man.
To use 1t protitably requires push
not mere physical movement, but
the brainy, electric push that shoves
great enterprises forward, startling
and dazzling the world.
Hundreds of sensible and well-edu-
Gated young fellows seize their pencils
every year and rush into journalism
and literature, determined TO win fame
and fortune. They do good work,
aud make bare living. and ARE lucky
if they hold their own at that
They lack the pushing quality, or
push the wrong way.
If writer wants to find a fortune
in his pencil he must recognize the
fact that this is a business age -busi-
ness dominates every circle and ii has
literature of its own that has money
in it
We are living in an age of gigantic
enterprises-of phenomenal industrial
development. Material progress is the
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the minds of men.
This is the field for man who is
master of his pencil. There is work,
and pleasure, and profit in it. The
men who are building towns and rail-
ways, developing mines. turning the
wilderness into gardens. erecting
forges and factories. aud inventing
labor saving machines are in search OF
historians to write up their work and
place it before the world in the proper
light, and they will pay we'll.
Many writers have found this out,
and they are growing rich.
An advertising writer who was here
at one of our expositions makes $40.
600 year BE confines himself to no
one paper. but enjoys rowing life.
He left Atlanta to go to Aestralia-a
country where the newspapers are
even larger than ours
A young man established himself in
western city as an advertising writer
on commission for q big daily in the
east. IL two or three years he had an
annual income of $50. 900.
A southern woman grew disheart-
ened trying to make a living out oil
the ordinary routine of journalism. In
despair she tried writing up towns and
enterprises for a New York paper.
She now makes $1,000 year and trav-
els very often in special car.
A well-known humorist who has
written and leetnred for years, making
very little money. is now devotine
himself to what newspaper men call
..write-ups.n aud for the first time in
his life has all the money he wants
The college graduate who wants to
be an editorial writer may sneer, hui
these business writers make $40 where
he makes one
1t is a mistake that these progressive
and pushing writers lack the ability
and culture of the gentlemen who
work in editorial sanctums. They are
brainy and gifted writers aud the
world is indebted to them for sugges-
tions. facts and figures that are OF in
caIculable value.
1t is another mistake to suppose that
they can succeed in their special line
if they hnve oriy average ability.
They have to invest their .write-ups
with the charm of an attractive style.
These special writer's soon grow Ell
thusiastic. They know that their pen
ellis are Important factors in the devel-
opment of the country They appre-
ciate the magnitude of our material in.
terests- They know that their articles
may shit population, buiid up busi.
ness centers, influence industry and
commerce. and turn long neglected
resources into millions of muney.
They know. too. if they are careless
and unreliable they will find them.
selves out of employment. while ii
they are houest and truthful they viii
command high wages and be quoted
as experts in their various fields oil
w6rR.
The ;tyern.ye Sounr man may think
it a bigger thing to write political edi.
across whose brain a sudden light had
fashed-''and Genevieye Is the same
black-eyed sprite whom | saw with the
gypsies five years ago?a
The deep crimson overfiowed Gene
We've Dale's face as Philip took both
hands and gazed into her eyes.
She is 1t was not until the follow
ing year that the old creature who
had specially protected her died. and
she was restored to MS.
Aud why do YOU tell me this?"
Because Genevieve fancieS it might
make some difference in your views fol
the future if
Genevievei'
oh. Phiiipp' she she faltersd, Throwing
her arms around his neck. pardon
me; did not really believe iti''
And Aunt Devereux-considerat
old soul-took her croehet-work ant
went upstairs. SO that Philip and Gen.
evieye might stand all alone in tlIeil
fair world of happiness. You see, she
had been young once herself.
And Philip Trevanion's second Low,
was far brighter and deeper than the
first The gypsy's prophecy had com'
truei