St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-30
AMONG THE MAGAZINES.

The Forum. in its August issue, first
essays to consider Congress and the
Financial Crisis" by presenting two
papers-the first by Horace White. the
well known editor, entitled "India's
Action and the Sherman Law" and the
second by Edward o. Leech. ex-dlrectoI
OF the mint, styled THE Doom of Sill
ver." But the most entertaining matter
the Forum has presented in many
months is "An Inside View of Daily
Journalism" The first paper under this
heading is by j. W. Keller, managing
editor of the New York Recorder and
president of the New York Press club.
He styles it Journalism as a Career -
and it is life-like picture of journalism
in New York,
As the GLOBE will note this article
more fully at another time, we only
mention its excellence in this place.
do Newspapers Now Give the NeWS?"
is a paper by John Gilmer Speed
The gist of Mr.. Speeds article is
that during the last ten years there
has been steady, we might almost say
rapid, degeneracy i'll the great news
papers of the country in the publication
VI cCaHNlA anu EOSSlp 10 Tue GNCIuSlOU
OF genuine news. Contrasting the Chi
cagO and New ork papers, he finds the
former bad enough, but the latter much
worse-a conclusion which every reader
Of those papers will heartily indorse.
MI. Speed Is of a sanguine tempera-
ment-fOr he says: I'VE may expect
before long that decent people will de-
mand that the news be placed before
them. not in sheets full of unclean
things, but with the good taste and mod
Grafton characteristic of high and pure
civilization"
The third journalistic paper is "a
Word to the Critics or Newspapers, by
Y. IL. Miller, editor of the New York
Times. 1t is little remarkable that
Mr.. Miller should say Everybody is
tired of hearing about the assault upon
and overthrow of the Tweed ring" in
aslnnch as that achievement has been
the bette noir of the Times for twenty
years. But George Jones is dead, and
his sons have sold the paper to other
men, while the man who actively con
Quoted the Tweed campaign in the
Times is now himself a fugitive from
justice.
~ Tramp Census and Its Reveia-
tlon," by Prof. j. j. McCook, and Theo-
dore R0oSevelt'S article on the Big
Game Disappearing in the West" are
especially entertaining in this section.
The frontispiece of st. Nicholas for
August is picture of Edison as a
Boy" He looks just as you would ex-
pect such man 10 have appeared when
boy. a round. good-natured face,
with broad brow, eyes set well apart,
firm chin and pockets stuffed with
everything mice" in boys estima-
ton.
His childhood was passed like that of
any other healthy, wide-awake boy of
poor parents. His effort to hatch chick
ems and gosiingS by being himself the
Incubator was one OF his unique at
tempts. His schooling was completed in
two months. but his education begun by
his mother was carried on for years. and
to her he owes much of his fame. His
business life commenced as train boy,
and, while thus employed, he hit on the
novel idea of telegraphIng in advance
of his train the head lines of the war
news. This led HIM into newspaper
life. His first paper, The Grand Trunk
Herald, q twelYeb y-siXteen-inch sheet,
was printed i'll the smoking car of a
railway train. 1t reached circulation
of several hundreds and attained edi-
torial mention in the London Times.
But the boy is father of the man, and
the Wizard Of the nineteenth century
was not born to be journalist. He
bought some chemicals on the INSTALL
ment plan. secured some old retOrts
from tbs railroad shops and set up a
laboratory. But jolt OF the springIess
car upset his chemicals, tgnited some
dry phosphorus and set the car on fire.
Cuffs from the irate conductor and
rough ejectment from the train We're
the results.
His first telegraph line was an in
Splration. Common stoYeppe wire
insulated with bottles placed on
nails driven into trees, and carried
under an exposed road by meaDs of a
piece of abandoned cable was the equip
ment Judging from the sparks emitted
from cats back, that there must be a
good battery where the indications were
so strong, he inserted eat in the cir
cult, using the fore and hind feet as
electrodes. The connection made, he
tried to StaIt the current by rubbing
the cats back. Despite the animals
telephone resentment, the experiment
was not without success; a tremendous
local current and perfect electric arc
were produced, but for prolonged effort
the battery was failure. The whole
world knows of his later inventions.
and while his genius is undoubted. it is
his. determination, industry, perSever-
ance, honesty and temperate habits that
gained for him his great renoWn.
Coc,,n1oli4on
price one-half, beginning with the
August number, but the table of con-
tents presents as varied and interesting
matter as before. F. S. Stratton has a
paper on 1.-The Central and Southern
Pacific Companies" illustrated with
portraits of the originators of that road
and scenes along its route. The serial,
"A Traveller From Alturia," by w. d.
HowellS. is continued, and Gilbert
Parker contributes story, 1.-The Pilot
of Belle Amour" Lucy NJ. Salmon's
article on domestic Servitude" will
well repay attentive perusal, as the
question affects not only the we'll being
OF the empl0 yed, but also the comfort
and welfare of American homes. The
writer enumerateS the advantages of
domestic service, the wages, hours, health
and morals and compares them with its
disadvantages. such as lack of promo
ton, ease with which the business is
learned, the fact that "housework is
never DONE" competition with foreign
labor and irregularity Of working hours,
and concludes that these all would be
set aside were it not for one which
weighs most with domesties-the social
position entailed by the employment
Although the advantages might weigh
i'll the scale in favor of domestic life,
still, any attempt to secure better serv-
ice must fail unless the class line which
is always drawn as in no other employ
ment is lowered, and the work, which
is creditable when done in ones own
home without remuneration, becomes
equally meIitOrious when performed in
the home of another for wages.
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