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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1895-01-05

night ~ 0atds and 10 thrust . into
small drawer snd threw himself into
m easy chair 10 read.
Professor 4roksw hsd inst begun
his lecture ON tho drst day Of the next
term when tho door opened and in
walked six very demnrs young ladies.
headed BY his acquaintance Of the rain
storm. They. seated themselves se-
dately near the door, unheeding tho
chairs placed ct their disposal by ~
many gallant young mon. Fore
warned ie forearmed. The Professor
merely included them IN general
bow of recognition and proceeded
with his discourse.
At the close OF the hour the stu
dents came forward for enrolment.
As the Professor took the card from
the fair sharer OF his umbrellas he
looked her bravely in the face, won.
dering If she would recognise him, but
she only biushed slightly and dropped
her eyes.
'Grace-what is the last name?" he
asked, scrawling her name in his book.
Hamilton" she said, and he
thought that > pretty name for such .
cruel young woman.
Tho Professor had apprehended dire
and dreadful things from that class in
philosophy, but ne was, happily. not
doomed to experience them. He waa
. gentleman and he treated the young
ladies' courteously. Thst being II
they wanted, they smiled on him ami
ably in return and said he was s'quite
nice"
There were, nevertheless, not want
ing revelations for HIM. He at FIRST
charitably refrained from ''quizzing"
the young ladies, under the impress
sion that their minds were unadapted
to grapple with the distractions Of
philosophy. What was his amaze
ment to discover on the first examine
tior, that one Of the two candidates
for highest marks was . young wo-
man, and that one Grace Hamilton.
He was none the less Rratifed and
the next time he met her he stopped
and told her how pleased he was with
her work. And he was glad that he
had done 90 when he saw tho pretty
flush OF pleasure 1t brought TO uel
face.
So interested did the Professor b.
come In this bright pupil Of his thai
no would frequently bring her hook
from his private library to she'd light
on dark problems, and he vas sur
prised to find how quickly m hour o,
two would slip AWAY while he va ex
planning things to her.
During those winter months q,
young Professor was passing through
some strange phases Of life. <Hswss b.
ginning TO discover sthat With all 81
kne-l=3gs sone things hs hAd Jet =
lesrn.
Not Kant NOR Sohopsnhan@ hai
ever told him what chaxmine thin1
. sweet young woman oan b. nor ~
oil his ma&hsmasics tanght him = =
innate the face value Of Gmtl4 p
seemed 10 be entering into : -,
world in these latssr days He von
dered that hs had newer noticed bsfoF
how bright the sun shons and ho'
hlne the sky~aA
With al thisrevolution taking plac
under the Professor'ss brown cuEl
there had come about comrlsts M
anaorphosis in his external appsnvaoa,
Hs no longer vors shabby caothel
but walked tho strssts in the mua
stylish salts tAat : city tailor coal
| devise
/ He had newer, With sM bis sEndl
lion. taken : course in tho sciense Z
love. and il vss long bsIore - oosl
i snk~~~~ek - hs->~le nk>~> N~- -
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Hamilton, bsgan ths Prosasoo< apoa-
oestically, .sYou have % mauy otAsr
friends who hayo bsttsr claim d
ron"
''Ob, no. indeed" declared tho
young lady. II think dragging mo
safely through tho profunditiss Of
philosophy al winter ought 70 con
stitute claim i anything coulL We
girls wore saying to-day We thought
you'd been wonderfully good 70 n.
You didn't hnd me - Bal = you
expected, didyou! said the Professor,
smiling.
why. We didn't expect" she be-
gan, and then stopped in confusion.
"Oh, yes. pardon me. but yon did
expect TO encounter something terri
BILE when you ventrred into Professor
Brokaw's class. l h.d y rom your
ewn lips"
Prom mlne!"
ssYe. Tat ma tall VEN eomethin..
Do vou ,emembe, beinr caueht In
rainstorm one nieht lat fall and Walk
in0 home under ! straneer'a umbrel-
LAP? You will recall that ron ,eid
| some very plain and uncomfortable
things .boutsProfessor Brokaw. Well.
do vou know Who that stranger -. ,.
Grace Hamilton.s face had grovn
scarlet while he was speaking.
ssoh. Professor Brokawl" shs stam-
mered. nenitently. 81 vss In homes
/ von,d never knovl I knev ron vhen
+ ...-d ~on .r.ar IN claae. Int I
] .ihonrht IAN didn,t krov me. II was
= dark that night. I've alv.ys ,folt
= .o,,v ahont il
.Yon ..;d rw.. cranky and .h.t j
h..aa w.oman. he continued te.i.
;..,v
.:n.~.. aor,t,- .ha- teooad s1
d;d~.-. tnov von. or / couidr.t have
said such things. I take them al
hack"
..But you said had beautiful eyes
DO ron take that back, too!"
She looked up and met something
in the beautiful eyes that made her
aror ao+ ovn and blush. The Pro-
fesso- blu.hed little. too. Then they
hoth l,nohed.
.No Ivon,t take that back. - she
"a .na.c;or.lv .srhev .re bean.
ifn,.
son..h;no in. the dovne.st. bln,h.
ing face inspired the Professor vain
sudden boldness-
| s4Grace. he said, impulsively. II
know It's great deaf 70 ask Joo' on'
! DO you snink you couso ese1 Oo"s =
care enough for your stupid Professor
TO make his whole life glad ior Mini
Could ron ever think OF being n.
wife, Gracs:"
Ths long lashes quivered - the,
dropped over The hazel eyes, ana IN
| little futte4ing leaves OF toe WOOL
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1895-01-05
lis Life Worth Living?'

.RMAM BRO
kaw stood a.
his study win.
dow, looking
o ut at the
dying day. The
" o stern sky
was all aRlow
with q warlike
crimson, that,
awav above his
head, sOftened
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-31

expression. The fourth page" will
contain that thought of the reader
which up to this time the editor has
sought to forestall or anticipate. There
Tore editorial utterances will be as near
as possible the voice OF the people.
Editorial pages are growing less in dl-
mension. and news and personal e,;-
pressions are crowding from the out
side world into those columns. The
leader writer is already being super
seceu by the news or local editor. There
Is upon us n season of Difference to cur
rent opinion. Reflection of the will of
the majority must be the aim. We
have drifted into majority rule in every
avenue of life.
only the development of country
ana consequent changes in conditions
can radically alter styles Of news de
partments, as genius is even now be-
Ing strained for Innovations. The ex-
pectations Of the reader are ready for
the most startling. There never was
such demand as at present for some
thing new. Inventive talent is many
times above par. There is Il search
ing OF the world for superior ability,
and mediocrity must go to the rear.
RMS regeneration will bring better re-
suits In all branches of the newspaper.
The news columns OF great papers
VIII reflect almost everything in the
private life, as well as In the public
life. proper for publication. Already
the press is the chief of detectives
There will be greater purity in the
prints. Ultra sensatlonalism is going
rapidly TO the past ages. We are
moving to higher and universal edu-
cation and refinement. The sensa-
tional features sought today will be
refused and their places wiz be filled
by matter with greater Difference to
advanced morals. England has long
since passed to this point. The press
and the pulpit and the school teacher
are to be co-operators.
Public announcements, advertise
ments, will be a great feature. The
needs Of man and woman, as well as
their acts, are interesting, important.
As presented in the advertising col
umns, properly written and classified.
they are even now valuable. and are
eagerly sought by all intelligent read
ers. The advertising departments
viii show greatest improvements. and
they win stand In news value along
side the news columns. These are
more of necessity Mt this time than
telegraph news or editorial opinions.
PERRY S. HEATH,
Commercial ftnZafta
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-31
QUALITY RATHER THAN QUANTITY
Is what George A. Robertson Looks
for In the New journalism.

Is what George A. Robertson Looks
for In the New journalism.
Edward Everett Hale who, since the
death of DR.. Holmes has been desis-
mated as the foremost living American
has said that this is n newspaper
age" He is undoubtedly correct. The
age is here and we are living in 1t.
But it has been slow in coming. There
has been n long step since Benjamin
Harris, in Boston. in 1880. announced
his first and only issue Of Public DC
currences, Both Foreign and Domes-
tic" and stated that he should publish
it 'once a month Cor II any Glut of
Occurrences occur. oftener." to the
mammoth daily sheet of today, which
performs the diurnal miracle of gath
erlng an account of all the happenings
Of the globe, and printing and dis
tributing 1t in the same twenty-four
hours in which said happenings occur;
But the step has been taken. We OF
the later years Of the nineteenth CEN
fury are realizing that achievement,
1t has all come since the civil war in
America, nearly 800 years after Benja-
min Harris modest effort, and II is
made possible by modern ingenuity
and invention, by telegraphs and tele-
phones, by lightning Webb presses
and type-setting machines. by new
material for print paper and by I'M
proved machinery for manufacturing 1t.
The newspaper has come to stay.
There is no such thing as going back.
The full grown man can never become
a child again. The twentieth century
Is practically here. Only five years
more till 1t will dawn. The people
five years and fifty years hence will
not be materially different from what
they are today except that there will
be greater and better things demanded.
Already within sight are numerous
remarkable inventions that win be
made use of to improve the newspaper
of the future.
a machine is already patented and
In limited use that sends messages by
wire ten times as fast as the present
Geographic code and these messages
are automatically written out as they
arrive This will be employed by the
coming newspaper in improving its
news facilities. A machine for trans
hitting pictures by wire will be fully
perfected within the near future and
there will be such a cheapening of
engraving processes that newspapers
will be much more fully and beauti-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-31

mercial enterprise; very much, indeed.
like selling shoes or dry goods The
publisher OF the best newspaper, the
largest newspaper, the most reliable
newspaper, the cheapest newspaper
excellence from every point OF view
considered-will naturally have the
largest number OF readers, Just
as the man In commercial lie
who sells his wares reasonably and
gives the goods he has guaranteed To
sell will do the most business. With
the making Of newspapers the TWEEN
tleth century should have the best de-
Velopment OF the newspaper press OF
any nge. Newspaper making, as we
understand H. Is quite Ia it's infancy. II
costs less to produce newspaper toduy
than il did ten years ago, ana when +
say newspaper l mean. OF courke n
newspaper OF tho first class. Teleg-
raphy Is cheaper. paper Is cheaper.
type-setting II cheaper and the busl-
ness OF gathering and selling news *
regulated In such a way thar the best
results can be obtained for very small
sums OF money. So that II would be
a very wise man, or very foolish one.
whichever you please, who would az
tempt to predict what the twentieth
century newspaper would be like.
There are people who believe It Will be
small, well written. closely edited
epitome Of the happenings OF the world.
In my opinion ii will be 5uet tho re-
Verse.
The twentieth century newspaper
VIII be larger newspaper than the
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newspaper OF today. II is also likely
70 be- more personal than the news
paper Of today Men and women
who write for the newspapers in the
coming century will have been trained
better than the newspaper makers OF
today. They will very likely write IN
the FIRST person. So that the news
whether he or she Is reading the
truth. There viii be no place IN the
twentieth century journalism LOT tne
lying reporter or the fraudulent eui,
tor. II will be truth. truth, truth anu
light everywhere. The twentieth cen
fury newspaper will be aggressive,
independent and have only one motto'
Do Right
The reporter OF today is a very use
ful person in the making of dally
newspaper. So Is the editor, put
neither Of these persons are ali-lui-
portant. When you consider that mn
lions OF dollars are annually spent py
advertisers In the newspapers You
wiil realize what ] mean when l say
that one OF the great arts of thg wen
ueth century newspaper VIII De the
Writing of advertisements.
And II you stop to consider the enor-
nous progress by the makers OF
presses during the past twenty years,
VIVA may we not expect from genius
IN the next century, There is notnihs
at all remarkable about the gathering
OF news or the writing for newspapers;
the most remarkable thing OF al
about the making Of newspapers II the
wonder, unmatched In any age, OF the
printing press. The printing press as
II exists today. pulsing, throbblng' VI
bratlng, nervous. delicate as wo-
mans chatelaine. strong as the arm OF
Hercules. is beyond all doubt, TO my
mind at least, the real wonder of the
century. The twentieth
century newspaper will depend largely
for Its success upon the men who stand
In the places Of Hoe. Of Scott, of Webb,
Of Walters. and the other geniuses who
have brought the making Of newspaper
presses to their present perfection.
FOSTER COATES,
New York Commercial Advertiser.
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fully illustrated than at present. Tele-
graphic accounts of happenings In all
parts of the world will be accompanied
as received, with engravings ready to
be dropped into the forms.
| believe that the coming newspaper
VIII be printed on better paper than
now and that It win be improved from
literary standpoint. | think there
Will be study and practice OF con-
densation. 1t seems to me that the
limit in size has been reached and
passed and the coming demand is GO
ing to be for quality rather than guam
tity. Men viii see that there is such a
thing as wasting their time in read
ing blanket sheets and that the sheet
that gives the same Information in less
space win be acceptable.
Sensationalism is on the wane and
the time win come early in the next
century when the newspaper that lies
will be considered as despicable as the
man who does tue same thing is now.
The twentieth century newspaper will
not be entirely composed of the record
OF the "evil that men do" but some OF
the good things will be mentioned also.
GEORGE A. ROBERTSON.
Cleveland World.
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Great Editors on 1.-THE 'Twenti-
eth Century Newspaper.
MANY CHANGES EXPECTED
The Editors Draw Aside the Curtain
and Peer inio the Future.
SOME INGENIOUS SUGGESTIONS
What Inventions May Do for the News
papers of Nineteen Hundred
and Niney-Five

The twentieth century newspaper
What Will be Its chief characteristics?
This is the question some Of the
leading journalists of the country have
made an effort to answer Opinions
may differ as TO politics and
minor affairs. but all, II will be SEEN
are as a unit in prophesying great
things for the fin de steele newspaper
of the twentieth century. When con-
pidering this interesting question all OF
these editors have taken RETROSPECT
tive glance into the past in order to
draw conclusions as to the future. All
of them have pointed out how great
have been the advancements in the
art of newspaper malSlng--from the
Washington hand press to the perfect
ing press; from the stage coach 10 the
telegraph; fom paper at 10 cents to
good paper at ga cents a pound; from
hand set type to marvellous typeset-
ting machines, etc.
WIN the newspaper equipments OF
1896 seem as crude and cumbersome TO
those of 1895 as Franklin's press does
to the editor of today2 Who but n
prophet u second Moses. can tell what
the equipment OF the twentieth cen
tury newspaper will be. and what
will be the character OF the printed
sheet?
Yet journalists have often possessed
prophetic powerl 1t is possible some OF
the able pens that make up this article
have given an exact picture OF what
the newspaper of 1895 win be like.
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the inmOst heart OF man viii be re-
Ncaled daily to thc public IL Esoterlc
buddhism gathers the world 10 its
bosom and Mahatmas drops messages
about the present past and tho future
through newspaper roofs from the
desert OF Gobl then every nrst-ciass
newspaper win have its stan Of Ma
hatmas to preach ethics 70 its readers.
Pneumatic tubes may distance trains;
phntoscopes may reproduce pictures
10000 miles away, and possibly the
kaleidoscope may be SO adapted that
every reader may have one in his house
In which to view the scenes OF which
he reads In his fgYorite newspaper,
the Photographic strips therefor being
Issued MS supplements. Possibly we
shall not use type any more, but by
some complex arrangement issue rolls
that shall run through monographs.
Then, as the twentieth century man
sits down TO breakfast he can have the
news read to him while he sees every
event in the kaleidoscope, and at the
same time he can swallow his morn
ing meal. Time will be even a greater
factor In the twentieth century than In
the nineteenth.
But while all this may be fatuous
there are some things that can surely
be predicted In 'he light of expert
cncc. one hundred years ago American
journalism was represented by Bache's
Aurora and Peter Porcupine's Gazette
Both We're vlrulent sheets which We'd
with each other In retailing calumnv
and In the most audaclous mudsling-
lng. They We're not newspapers In tho
nineteenth century sense. hut organs
OF personal and party spleen. which
tore down rather than bulfded nm.
which pandered TO the lowest In hu-
man nature rather than helped to
elevate mankind.
Nineteenth century Journalism ma
represented by the reputable press To-
day is the very opposite. II has edu-
Gated mankind to better things. II ia
not perfect since no human instItu.
tion can hope TO attain that: but ifs
voice today is raised everywhere An he
| half OF the good, the true and the bant,-
! tiful. Partisanshlp and personal amt
mostly survive, but they are held In
check. The average newspaper is
more honest. more candid. more char
/ table than It's average reader II can
not force q millennial order of things.
/ but that II has greatly elevated HE
| tone OF society, has organized thoucht
and secured action In right ,ilrections
| must be everywhere admitted by can
| did men.
It win be the glory of the twentleth
! century that Its newspapers WIN ami
I further advance the brothernona az
man, that its teachings will work a
greater revolution in society than It's
/ predecessor or the nineteenth, and
| nnolly that having become the organ.
! ICED institution for diftusing lnovie6 70
I Il shall instlll into the people thnt
wisdom IN matters political. acientiiic
social and religious, which shall make
the twentieth century the golden nge
OF the world JAMES ELVERSON.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
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from those presumptuous enough to
guess: but Il Is not at all likely that
any one OF them would have been
wisely or even inFeniously prophetic.
II was at that time quite impossible TO
roresee what changes would be wrought
through the progress Of events and es-
peclally through invention In the bust
ness Of making newspapers. Printing.
Il is true, was known; but there was
little else known about what goes now
TO the making UP of newspaper. The
printing press was a bungling alalr'
The telegraph was unknown. There
were no railroads to bring the news
or to circulate the papers after the
news--if II can be called such-had
been printed. AS for the typesetting
machine-the latest addition to the out
III or the modern newspaper establish
ment--it had not been dreamed OF 100
years ago; while cheap postage and
pneumatic service were still In a region
beyond even the realm Of dreams.
II is just as difficult to say with any
assurance OF being accurate what the
press Of the twentieth century is to be
AS 1t would have been hundred years
ago 70 forecast the nineteenth century
press. II we were TO predict ns one
OF the coming features communication
with the other planets In our solar sys-
tenn and the publication Of newspapers
simultaneously In the Earth and Mars.
the prediction would be regarded as
pure idtocy or an eXaggeratiun oil the
national tendency to brag. Yet such
contamination would be little more
surprising than the changes that have
been wrought by the telegraph and tel
ephone. Keeping. however. within the
limits OF the possible. this much is safe
to Observation-Disclosures there may Ice of
improved methods in the collection or
distribution Of news the press Of the
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-31

factor for good and an opponent of
evil than ever before.
The improvements made In the last
two decades lead TO this conclusion.
Men and women writer's have elevated
the standard; they have raised II from
the mire OF sensationalism to the light
and purity Of truth.
Thene are the seeds being sown; and
with the proprietors, publishers and
editors as the gardeners, j believe that
when the sun of the new century
dawns upon US, the harvest will be a
press whose chief characteristics will
be:
Its power for good.
Its value to advertisers.
Its usefulness as an instructor IN the
home.
Its uniformity Of advertising rates
for the same service.
Its lack of any but legitimate rivalry
The twentieth century newspaper
will show a continuing tendency Ia
give It's readers greater value for the
same or a reduced price.
NORMAN y. MACK,
Buffalo Times.
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twentieth century VIII avail itself Of
as II viii OF every Improvement in me-
chanicai device. II is safe also 10 ire
diet that there viii be great and
marked progress Ia lndependenup-that
the newspaper OF the twentieth century
VIII not be tied. as the newspaper of
the nlneteeth century is lar TOO often,
to a party. n sect or a creed II civil
ization progresses as we have a right
TO expect the people viii demHnd Of
those VINO assume the Office OF teacher,
fuller freedom from Cluss bias ind
prejudice and the press viii Gusuredly
meet the demand.
one thing more we may confidently
eNpect-the larger participation Of
woman In that business OF moulding
or expressing the public thought to
which the press Is committed. Already
she has entered upon the field and 10
doing excellent work. Revolutions
never go backward. and It Is certain
that womHn's work and influence in
the press win increase, and that they
VIII be among the marked features VI
the twentieth century newspaper.
II requires no prophetic gift TO make
this prediction. The onward movement
of woman has acquired too much mo-
meutum to be checked, even If there
were any desire to check II, During
the last quarter Of the nineteenth CEN
fury she has demonstrated the fallacy
OF the sphere argument and put a
quietus upon the theory that The in
ability Of her sex TO bear arms and go
10 war rclegates her necessarily 10 q
second place in all the worlds WORK.
Tho precise effects of this larger par
ticlpation OF woman in the work of the
press Is largely matter for speculation;
but IL cannot he doubted that the effect
viii be wholly good such has been
the result In every other department Of
human endeRvor into which woman
has come: and It is certain 20 be the
same in the twentieth century news
paper.
a. @. BOYNTON.