The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1900-01-24

charitable to incapacity" but have
nothing ut scorn for the shiltless.
There's room in the working world for
every man, woman, boy or girl who will
"pull his or her weight in the boat"
No one has any patience with parasites
of either gender depending upon some
one else with easy going thoughtlessness.
Making career for ones self lie having
settled intentions for the future. DO
not spend life in a desultory way but
with strong mental and moral fiber set
out to find what there is to do and do it
with vim.
II hasn't been long since We were con-
fronted with the difficult problem of
correctly pronounclng Spanish and Flip
inc proper names. To-day we are face to
face with names from South African bat
tlefelds, compared with which Spanish
pronunciation is simplicity itself. Some
one has sent me "Transvaal Phonetic"
and l find that Transvaal is pronounced
Trans-fahl" with accent on second syl-
lable-"v" is always pronounced like 81"
The capital OF the Orange Free State
should be pronounced "Bloom-fontsyne"
accent on gay" President Krugers
name is called Kreeger." The impor-
tant town of Potchefstroom is "Potchef-
strome" accent on SPOT" Many other
pronunciations are given but these we
read of daily and it is pleasure to know
how to pronounce them.
Spencer taught there was a right way
in which every sentence should be writ.
ten and that every other way OF writing
it was wrong. So an article on my desk
which will be sent for publication (after
revision and cutting DOWN is without
regard to Spencer's instruction. The
style makes words perform different
acrobatic performances and some OF
the sentences almost "stand on their
heads" 80 wrecked on style" are they.
Words have no other Office, my young
friend, except to convey ideas and theo-
ries. No new way of arranging words
since Spencer wrote his adage that l
learned at school forty years ago. A
young person must learn what our wri-
ters and novelists call sword juggling
and just how to juggle and then select
the simplest, purest and plainest. Peo-
pie and writers who are not ordinary can
afford, perhaps, to persist in the delusion
that words have some other aud more
important Office than that Of conveying
ideas, but just common, ordinary, every
day writers ale lost who get out in those
waters. An artificial style in the most
unpretentious writer soon places him or
her in bondage as it were and it is hard
to emancipate ones self. Stephen Crane
has written some books that rank we'll
He is a genius and can afford to have his
words turn somersaults" occasionally
but at last Mr.. Cranes style is not sane
and Ineligible. He has displayed great
power in his Red Badge of Courage"
but it is marred by his persistent efforts
to use words in way that is novel. His
Man in a Storm" is the best short effort
OF Mr.. Cranes I've ever read. But, my
young friend, there are very few extra
ordinary folks in this old world. You
know Lincoln in one of his dreams was
in great assembly when the people
made a lane for him to pass. "He is a
common looking fellow" said one OF
them. Friend" replied Lincoln, even
in his dream, the Lord prefers common
looking people; that is why he made 80
many OF them" And so it is with the
generality of writers, my young friend.
We must be true to ourselves and not
initiate any one or assume an artificial
style. Try again on different subject