Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-08-18
MAKAPALA by THE SEA.
(XXV.)
JOURNALISM.
BY ANNE MARIE PREsoorr-
THE THAMES (IsIs), AND "THE
TINES"

hath no money; come ye, buy,
and eat; yea, come, buy wine and
milk without money and without
price"
"Jesus answered and said unto
her, If thou knewest the gift of
God, and who it is that saith to
thee, give me to drink; thou
wouldest have asked of him, and
he would have given thee living
water"
"And he showed me a pure
river of water of life, clear as
crystal, proceeding out of the
throne of God and of the Lamb"
"And he said unto me, it is
done. L am Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the end. 1
will give unto him that is athirst
of the fountain of life freely"
"And the Spirit and the bride
say, Come. And let him that
heareth say, Come. And let him
that is athirst come. And whCso-
ever will, let him take the water
of life freely"
1t frightens us when we think
of the subject we have chosen for
our little, and what must prove,
faulty paper. London on the
Thames "London on the
Thames" Today those two pro-
per name-words carry in their
arms, or on their back, a mighty
significance Could we put into
writing all they import, all that
they contain Of Religion, of
History,of Commerce. e,of Peoples,
of Books, of Journalism, you
would see, at once, and at
glance, that they affect the world
from its centre to its circum-
ference. The Thames is today
to the world in an immeasurably
larger sense, what the mouth of
the Nile was to Egypt in point of
civilization; what the Tiber was to
Rome.
There is a fountain of diving
water" in London. 1t is in the
Church, in the Queen, in the
Journalism, in the House of
Lords, in the House of Commons,
in the the philosophers,
philanthropists,th writer's: water,
cool, sweet and as clear as crystal
proceeds forth from that city
helping to strengthen and purify
the world. Thanks be to God.
You know that the Thames is
the most important river of Great
Britain and the longest of Eng
land, and that its springs are in
the Cotswold Hills; that it passes
Oxford, Reading, Windsor, Rich
mond, London, Gravesend, and
ends in the North Sea. at is
uavigable for barges for about 200
miles from its mouth"
We had asked the father why
we could not make as good beer
in America as was made in Eng
landP and he had quickly made
reply: because we have not the
Thames; it is the sweetest water
in the world"
If you see quotations in my ar
ticles, it is because l realize how
much better some one else can
write, aud has written a given
point, than 1 could possibly do.
A large journal always considers
itself fortunate to secure good
clipper" and if one cannot be a
good writer, it is a laudable ambi-
ton to wish to be, at least, good
clipper.
1t is strange coincidence that
of today's experience. We have
always said that we liked the for
eign clippings of "The Independ-
ent;" and today, we had but just
finished the few lines about "clip-
ping" when in came that paper,
from which we, in our turn, will
clip, on journalism in France and
China, and we say: "Ihank you
kindly" to Editor Norrle. Is there
a better clipper than "Littell's
Living Age
"The Independent" speaks of
the Petit Journal which claims the
largest circulation in the world,
and of the Gazette de France
founded under Louis XIII, and
now in its 2G7th year The EN-
peIor of China, who rules over
4COC0C,0OO subjects, is the editor
in chief of the oldest newspaper
IN the world.
The name of this unique journal
is the Ppkin Gazette and it has