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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-24


result Of the movement started by him
a number Of months ago Is likely to be
quite different from what was first expect
ed by those interes led in the plan. Instead
of the New York Avenue Church uniting
with one of her sister churches in the down
town section and taking the lead in the
cathedral movement there will, in all prob
ability, be union between two other down.
town Enthusiastically and the North
Church-as direct outcome of steps taken
with the other intent, and this union will, in
all probability, be only with purely local
and ordinary church work in view and with
absolutely no idea Of ''the larger church
proposed by Justice Harlan"
While the surface reason for the decision
of the Assemblys Church TO back out of the
proposition TO unite with the New York
Avenue Church, If possible, Is generally
understood to be that the presbytery of
Washington city refused to definitely in
dorse the cathedral idea contained in the
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-01-01
CASCADE ORCHARDS"
in the
WEN VALLEY

WENATCHEE VALLEY
THE Newly Opened Irrigated Fruit and
Garden Lands"
Cascade Orchards has been on the
market less than three months and 45
per cent. is already sold. These lands
have awakened splendid interest
among the people of Leavenworth and
Chelan county, as we'll as throughout
the state. We attribute our success In
this sale to the superior property we are
terms, as compared with other irrigated
lands of like value
Do you prefer a dry winter, with
plenty of snow, fine sleighing, with no
extreme cold and no winds and storms
to the wet and damp w tiers of the
coast? Cascade Orchards offers you
climate that is almost ideal. The av-
erage winter day is from rs to 35 above
zero. The summer days, although warm
in the sun to give color to the fruit
ways followed by cool nights.
To those who don't know about Cas-
cade Orchards, it is a beautiful valley
on the Wenatchee River, one mile from
Leavenworth, on the Great Northern
Railroad. The irrigation canal is now
completed and the 5 and 10-acre tracts
raise the finest winter apples in Wash
ington, and ten acres will make family
prosperous. Investigate this PROPOSE
ton; it will be worth your time, and to
become a resident in Cascade Orchards
will bring you into the best fruit sec
ton of the state. Prices for only a
short time longer, $1,000 per acre, with
HI. c. PETERS, Owner,
622 Alaska Building, Seattle, Wash
HAROLD KOREN,
Local Representative. Leavenworth, Wn.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-01-01
SOUTHERN ALBERTA LANDS.
C. P. RY. IRRIGATED LANDS.

G. P. RY. IRRIGATED LANDS.
SOUTHERN ALBERTA, CANADA.
LARGEST IRRIGATION ENTERPRISE
ON AMERICAN CONTINENT
Productive land, plenty of sunshine,
abundance of water; soil black and will
raise wheat, oats, barley, fax, timothy,
clover alfalfa and sugar beets, and is
suitable for stock raising and dairying.
Price less than half what you would pay
for similar land in the states, and main
tenance tax of only so cents per acre.
Call or send for particulars. Agents
wanted
WEST AMERICAN LAND CO., Agent
322 Bailey Bldg, Seattle, VISA.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-01-01

EAT FnlLC I have reduced my
TAI IUlNS weight 55 pounds, bust
nine inches, waist eight inches and hips
nine inches in a short time by guar
anteed harmless remedy without exer-
else or starving. l want to tell you all
about it; enclose stamp and address
Mrs Charlotte Woodward, Oregon City,
Oregon.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-01-01

Quite discussion followed here and
Mr.. Blanchard closed by saying:
Live in your business and in your
farms. You will never be independent
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-01-01

Rubber Sta m p $
Stencils, Enamel and Aluminium Letters,
Badges, Numbering Machines, Notary
and Corporate Seals, etc. Send for
catalog No 25 Absolutely eastern
prices. Phoenix Commercial Stamp
Works, Baker Bldg, End Ave. S. and
Main ST, Seattle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-05

is cvncisrn in a crowd is often in secret. At
anv rate no man. unless he is merely clever, would
be willing to set out to b just that and nothing more
But take the masters of the profession. All pro-
LESSONS and businesses disappointing to the I'M
successful practitioners of them. Journalism alone,
think is unsatisfying to many of its leaders. The
editor had in mind when | spoke of his aggrieved
intator has said that he regretted his devotion to
newspaper because, though it had become force in
the land and had accomplished great deal that was
good it had buried it's EDITORS work. The idea was
that if he had written in some more permanent
literary form, he might have produced something
that was art and an influence forever.
That seems trivial, perhaps more than
the final wish of man for immortality. But Robert
Browning makes this seem important in " Saul
And it is the last resort OF mortal man bound
to be unhappy toward the close of a successful
career here below l want to have it reckoned with
by those who are looking hankeringly along the road
we" going.
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not be mere names or symbols. wel-known anti
Tammany newspaper has made friends for Tam
many by attrbuting the leaders of that organza-
ton faults which they have not.
Once when New York had to receive a foreign
princess this paper editorialy described in advance
the clumsy manners and the boorish embarrass-
ment of the Irish-Amercan Mayor Now we shall
see the incongruity of putting such in such
Office it said. Everybody the lookout for
ridiculous scene. When the princess arrived the
Mayor quite equal to the occasion. He was
dignifed simple, polite, friendly without JUNCTION,
formal without restraint His few words of welcome
were just right and, of the reaction in his
favor was altogether to the cost of the newspaper
which called attention to the scene. The Mayor
had his faults his crimes, and have the other
Tammany chiefs; but because the editorial writers
never see them they misrepresented-s
fcially-as to dress, manners and spirit that when
ever they go among strangers the judgment is that
"Tammany isn't so bad" And the corollary of it
is that American papers lie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-05
College Men Know Too Much

TUST as YOU avoid opinions eschew also knowl-
edge College men know too much. Remember
where get the facts and the inspiration the ideas
and the dates but don come to Journalism crammed
with information. Keep for the news, for that
is what YOU have to write about and then be able
put your hand the book and your finger on the
page where the history is buried. newspaper man,
especially an editorial writer has to use reference
books ten times and the files of newspapers twenty
times day. and few colleges train students for this
work
The best beginning in actual journalism is report
ing No matter what the preparation may have
BEEN and no matter what the end may be, the APP
premiership is to gather the news and write it.
That is privilege and pleasure, anyway, and it is
the only possible school of journalism. 1t compels
a man to see life, inculcates in intelligent mind
humility before facts and teaches a writer depend
ence upon them for all effect whether of controversy
criticism or art. The most effective editorial is a
logical arrangement of facts and though the force OF
them may be heightened by wit, beauty, magma
ton or any other artistic emotion or device, the
solid BODY of the idea is in the plain statement of the
facts The Interpretation is obvious and the feeling
to be aroused-wrath, pity, amusement-is surest
if the writer does not himself express it. This is
simple rule of rhetoric but it is learned late by many
editorial writer's who will insist upon cooling by ex-
cessive expression the heat they wish to commune
cate. The New York newspapers roasted the
police department corrupt and political for years
without changing any considerable number of votes;
but when the Lexow committee produced the facts
Tammany turned out.
But the facts of life and journalism have color.
They are complex, and blood beats in them. The
editorial writer requires tremendous imagination to
see them alive from the little stall where he sits
cooped up write about the events of the day.
And no imagination is enough alone to picture a
crisis unless the has with his own eyes the
men and the movements of similar situations Ii he
has been reporter he will recall the details and the
circumstances which not only make the atmosphere
Of the scene but which make it inevitable posi-
BILE. The men who take part in the situation will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-05
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR AUGUST 5, 1906

publisher business manager, editor-in-chief news
editor, critic correspondent, reporter. OF these
the first is the greatest in opportunity. PROPRIETOR
ship does not come, however, TO many young men,
and it is the aim of very few who take to
journalism.
The first thing for the would-be editor to do is
what all newspaper men should do earlier than is
now the practice. They should pick their speciality.
Their choice may not be final for in profession, as
in life, the speciality seems often to pick the man.
Still you can force your way little, and news
papers are all broken up into departments. The all
round general man is useful and highly priced for
awhile but by and by he tires out and goes down.
The duler writer Who pushed aside, masters
branch of the trade such railroad news, finance,
sports politics is retained for years after the man
aging editor has decided that he will get some
Younger man in his place. Then, too, an expert
in criticism may pass to essay writing, the max
ing of books of plays; the financial critic may
get into finance either as well paid accountant,
drawer up of reports, or into banking Political
reporters often politics. And the prospect of
a career across journalism, serving on a newspaper
period of learning and then slipping out of it into
other caings, is consideration always to be
weighed in looking over the newspaper held
The young man who insists upon editorial writing
may become editor-in-chief Let him then ann
also at control either by partnership in which case
he cannot let slip any opportunities to learn the
details of the business department; or by contract.
And to prepare for the work, seek light, avoid
opinions There IS something radically bad in the
colleges which fill graduates with SO many con-
clusions The better the college the worse its men
in this respect. Some men can get over their
university.
Intellectual curiosity is what d young newspaper
writer wants He can use aids all the systems OF
philosophy points of view from which to watch the
world turn; he might tentatively prefer one or SO
much of one as he understands But to start out
with all things settled is to give up the chief JOY OF
journalism the observation of things effectively,
the contemplative attitude of the appreciative spec
tator And the fresh mind ought to be ready for
the newest the slightest possibly the very best, i'm
pressiCns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-05
Shortcomings of Editorial Writers

THIS is a trivial instance but it is typical The
i reporter can hit his where it will hurt; the
editorial writer's seldom do think there is chance
for an able man to make departure in journalism
by reporting till he knows his city or the country
as he does his reference library then in preparation
for his editorials 60 about seeing the men, hearing
at first hand their views and returning full of fresh
material to pass judgment. Many false things that
are said on editorial pages would not be said, and
important still, many true things would be
said that would kill
But reporting itself separate trade is the best
if man goes about it of its limitations and of
his own In the course of the first year he will prob
ably be tried nearly every typical branch of news
getting from fires and crimes to politics. finance,
and criticism. Editors want good men. 1t is often
hard for beginners to get place. the city editor
has all the force he requires. That is what he says
and it is usually true At the time the city
editor may be afraid he is letting slip chance to
secure the kind of man that is always in demand
He isn't looking for friend or a friends friend but
for an eve brain and style Can you see for fifty
thousand readers? Can you understand all sorts of
doings? Can you tell what you have seen so that
the fifty thousand will see, hear, smell and under
stand it? If you can you may pick your paper and
demand your price But nobody cares what you
think about anything at least not now.
An artist contributed great deal to the benefit
and pleasure l got from journey over Europe once
by advising me to start out with blank mind to
have no prepossession of places or peoples and
no theories Of art which would disturb the I'M
pressionab of my senses And | remember well
the shock | had upon arrival in Venice to find that
it stank and was dirty. | did not enjoy Venice till
went there second time with my PRIOR notions
dead and my first impressions fading. Then took
in what came and what came was beautiful. The
advice is the best that any reporter any artist any
spectator can have There are no trivial assign
ments on a newspaper. The cub reporter gets the
worst but he will probably look back after a year
or and that he missed good stories because he
did not find what he was looking for.
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Shouldn't Look for Anything

LIE had no business to look for anything He is
sent where it is supposed there is information,
and he has the first few questions only to start him.
Take a case You go to a tenement-house where
there is a suicide, and there knows anything
about the man or his tragedy. That is story and
areporter with the instinct of novelist once made
sketch that was literature by reporting the
Don't know" from the neighbors that ther
attitude toward the dead man and his end brought
out the utter loneliness of stranger in a crowded
tenement It almost accounted for the suicide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-05
In Vain Unless 1t Pays

ID Ut the newspaper that does not pay is unhealthy
- in fact and in theory think it would be immoral
or in vain; it would not be of the hard, practical
world and without the readers who make its
cess it would serve the purpose only of the few
who wrote it. Bernard Shaw the eccentric English
critic once said to of his friends that he would
like to have paper all his own to write for it him
self everything in it. He describing his plans
at great length, when Max Beerbohm asked
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-05
lows of the Small Conceit

lows of the Small Conceit
THEN too, these remoter sorrows are the very kind
that account in my theory for the disappointment
of success in journalism The profession attracts
the men who are subject to fine griets Those OF Our
great newspaper men who handle newspapers as
business and make them dividend payers, are not
melancholy because their thoughts die in the files.
They have the great joys of the small concelt that
crowns the career of the sef-made in all lines OF
trade. The Young who come to Journalism tor
their lfework are the idealists. They do not care
for money; power is better. They do not seek
fame; the free expression of great ideas IS good
enough. OF course, much of this IS crude poppy
cock but the fact remains that the fine fellows who
want to do the fine things consider the newspaper
when they are looking for a field
And they are the we want or need. he
commercial journalist will laugh and the cynical
editor will grin he thinks of the rough descent to
earth of the boy who thinks to set the world atlre.
Well the boy does have to come down to earth, but
he needn't land hard, and he needn't become COM
nercal or cynical All that is necessary for him to
have is some foresight of the commercialsm and the
cynicism he is going into of the profession as
a business-as it is And, by the way, If law, medl-
cine theology-any other vocation except that of
politics-which is pretty well eXposed-was more
frequently aired the under, material side, they
would be healthier and the intelligent men in them
would be happier though less pretentious prepared,
they would not be shocked into hypocrisy and such
willing wrong-dong.
All newspapers are conducted to make money.
Now and then great financial interest or political
party will run paper for some other purpose and
many, very many, papers Improbable, but all
are trying TO pay. The business spirit permeates
all departments and affects all persons, however
great however small. On a large proportion of
newspapers the counting is supreme. Busi-
ness men control journalism, and, being business
men, they keep eye everybody and every
thing. 1t is folly to ignore them, futile to avoid
or fight their influence because in the second
place they own the papers, and in the first place
they are in the main right used to say that there
better things in journalism than success, and
meant that failure might be one of them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-05

The point is
and no one
has the chance
to make his
living by writ
ing literature if
he has it in
him. He is not
az.1I - IL
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long after tnat ShaW
retired from jour
nalisrn.
Journalism is not
one career; it is many
in one proprietor,
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call his sheet.
he answered.
I'D give it my
own name.
" How would
you spell it?
asked Beer
boh1n. And not
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required to do this.
A man may be a news
gatherer. and though
he cannot write. a
correct English SEN
Continued on page ie
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-25
Is THERE A REyOTT9

If a vote had been taken at the Re
publican county convention last week,
it would have been perfectly safe to
bet that W. A. Harris would have
carried the convention over e. W.
Hoch. Think of that from a Repub-
1can convention. One township with
six delegates present stated to a Press
reporter that all six delegates were
for w. A Harris.-COncordia Press.
This statement concerning the Cloud
county Republican convention is caus-
ing considerable comment. It is diff
fcult for the average Republican lead
er to believe that such a thing can be
true. yet the Concordia Blade. a Re
publican paper, has evidently heard
something of the same sort, but it does
not entirely credit the rumor, for in
commenting on the statement of the
Press it says:
I'VE don't know to what exact ex-
tent the Press drew the long bow in
the statement above. but it does not
seem possible that men would go into
a Republican county convention while
really intending to knife the state
ticket It Is charged that some Of the
so-called leaders are really intend
ing to vote and work for Harris and
others on the state Democratic ticket
but it Will require the count to prove
whether the story is true
One hears the same sort Of reports
from other counties also. but it is also
alleged that the result is confined to a
comparatively few people, and that
even they will be in line when election
day comes.
It seems hardly credible that a
considerable number OF leading Re
publieans should be going about in
tending to knife" the state ticket. yet
the State Journal has received letters
from delegates in the Republican state
convention who openly declare that
they will not vote for the reelection
of Governor Hoch. others are actively
hostile to the Republican nominees for
railroad commissioners. Up in Jewell
county a few weeks ago a resolution
endorsing the state ticket came very
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-25

II would rather" said the timer,
look for effective railroad legislation
at the hands of Jim Pringle and W. Y.
Morgan, who have always consistently
advocated 1t, than at the hands of w.
R. Stubs and Jim Troutman, who stood
pat with the railroads when 1t was in
their power to do something, and who
are now only pretending to stand for it
because they want some cry on which
to ride into Office" And a dead silence
ensued.-Kingman Leader.
The Old Timer is right. But still it
doesn't look like good sense to turn
against railroad legislation just because
Mr.. Stubs and Mr. Troutman have now
reached the point of advocating it, IF
Mr.. Stubs and Mr.. Troutman have
seen the error of their former ways and
are now willing to help a good cause
along, let them help. It does not nee
essarily follow that Mr.. Stubs win be
sent to the United States senate or
Mr.. Troutman elected governor of Kan
sass just because they are allowed 10
help in a good cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-25
A sATURDAY SERMON.

Her children arise up. and call her
blessed.-Proverbs s1.2s.
In cemetery near a little town in
central Kansas there was laid away the
other day the mortal part of a pioneer
Kansas mother. Forty years ago, with
her husband and ten children she had
come to that community. and there she
lived during nearly all Of those forty
years. There she reared a family of
ten children to lives OF useful citizen
ship, and in that same cemetery she
laid the body of her husband more
than twenty years ago.
1t was such women as this pioneer
mother who have had much 10 do in
conquering this western wilderness and
in making Kansas a great state. In
the days when life in central Kansas
meant suffering and privation and
want, she went about doing good. Only
a year or two after she and her hus-
band left Iowa and came out to the
Kansas prairies to help subdue them,
the Asiatic cholera broke out among
the settlers. And a terrible scourge it
was! Most people were afraid to go
near those who were stricken with the
disease, so severe were its ravages. Yet
this pioneer woman left her own brood
Of ten children and went into the dug
outs and the pioneer huts where the
scourge had come. nursing the sick,
soothing the dying, comforting the be-
reaved, and alleviating suffering wher-
ever she found it. At length she her
self fell q victim to the plague. but her
good sense. her strong viii and her
vigorous constitution enabled her to
Withstand it.
For nearly forty years she went
about doing good in that community
She helped to organize a Presbyterian
church there on the plains, and she
brought up her six sons and four
daughters to believe in it's precepts and
to love and honor their Maker.
When she died nearly eighty living
descendants revered her memory, and
rose up and called her blessed" And
when they laid her mortal remains
away in that prairie cemetery last
week, they had left to them the mem
ory and Inspiration of one who had
lived her long life well-a life of use
fitness and service to those around
her.
What a contrast is such a life to that
butterfly existence that demands SER
vice from others but gives none in re-
turnl What useless world this would
be were it not for the self sacrificing
women and mothers who go about in
quiet way doing whatever good they
may! 1t is such women who are large
" responsible for a nations good citi-
zenship and therefore its greatness.
They are the nations real heroines.