The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-16
BUSINESS "WRITE-UPS."
A Source of Large Inoome to Many Fl
terprising Writers.

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terprising Writers.
A pencil is one Of the cheapest things
a man can buy.
And vet there is fortune in it for the
right man.
To use it profitably requires push
not mere physical movement, but the
brainy, electric push that shoves great
enterprises forward, startling and daz-
cling the world.
Hundreds of sensible and well-edu-
Gated young fellows seizetheir pencils
every year and rush into journalism and
literature, determined to win fame and
fortune. They do good work and 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 fortune in
his pencil he must recognize the fact
that this is business age-business
dominates every circle and 1t has lit
erature of it's own that has money in it.
We are living in an age of gigantic
onterprises-of phenomenal industrial
development Material progress is the
thing, and it occupies the first place in
the minds of men.
This is the field for man who Is mas
ter of his pencil. There is work, and
pleasure and profit in it. The men who
are building towns and railways, devel-
oping mines, turning the wilderness
into gardens, erecting FORCES and fac
tories, and inventing labor saving ma
chimes are in search of historians to
write mp their work and place it before
the world in the proper light, and they
will pay we'll,
Many writer's have found this out, and
they are growing rich.
An advertising writer who was here
at one of our expeditions makes $4,000
year. He confines himself to no one
paper, but enjoys rowing life. he left
Atlanta to 90 to Australians country
where the newspapers are even larger
than ours.
| A Young man established himself in a
Western city as an advertising writer on
commission for big daily in the East.
In two or three years he had an annual
income of $4,000
A Southern woman grew dishearened
trying to mako living out of the ordi-
nary routine of journalism. In despair
she tried writing up towns and enter
prises for New York paper. She now
makes So, 600 year and travels very
often in a special car
A we'll known humorist who has writ
ten and lectured for years. making very
little money, is now devoting himself tt
what newspaper men call 'write-ups,
and for the first time in his life has all
the money he wants.
The college graduate who wants to bt
an editorial writer may sheer, but these
business writer's make $40 whore hi
makes one,
1t is mistake that these progressive
and pushing writers lack the ability ant
culture of tho gentlemen who work il
editorial sanctums. They are brainy ant
gifted writers and the world is indebted
to them for suggestions, facts and figure
that are of incalculable value.
1t is another mistake to suppose tina
they can succeed in their special line
they have only average ability. The
have to invest their "write-ups" wit
the charm Of an attractive style.
These special writsrs soon grow en-
thusiastic They know that their pen
ellis are important factors in the deve
opment of the country. They apprec
ate the magnitude of our material inter
ests They know that their articles ma
shift population, build up business GER
ters, influence industry and commerc
and turn long neglected resources int
millions of money. They know, too,
thew are careless and unreliable the
will find themselves out of employment
,, while if they are honest and truthfr
they will command high wages and b
quoted as experts in their various field
of work.
The average young man may think
bigger thing to write political editor
ais, stories and poems than to write
fields, furnaces, factories and trade ma
tiers. All right, let him think so. 4
: the end of ten years he will DO at wor
: , on moderate salary, with nothing els
in view, while the youngster who starte
out to push his pencil in business wa
: will be able to own a good paper al
hire others to do his work. Plenty
brainy, business push will make pc
Gil pan out like little gold mine!
: Wallace 7. Reed, in Atlanta Constitution