Show AS TO journalism these who go down to the sea in a hips not including passengers shoula be seamen thoroughly familiar with every department of their calling completely seasoned to its hardships and fully capable of acting up to the tasks taeka they have undertaken otherwise there la Is sure aure to be trouble more or lose lees serious eer louB the craft will take on contrary fits and lurch for great distances dead against the course will take wrong tacks will wallow iu in the trough of the sea aea upon its beam ends when it ought to be riding the be create like a gull will ship seas and perchance strike a reef somewhere and go to davy jones joness s locker without previous warning it to la one of the cases in which a little knowledge of the situa tion it ft small amount lot of a disposition to do oness best beat when that hat best beat is quite a u its limited limi tedi la in bot enough the best beat attainable must mast be had therease there Ther eare are many other departmental debart depart ments menta of life quite similar and they all ali go to show that tyros however promising and those who have DO natural aptitude for the calling I 1 in a which they are engaged should not be entrusted with two much responsibility or allowed to tusks make a display of their I 1 inefficiency even though encouraged by the plau aits of a few who may be as aa ignorant as themselves vee in no department of life are there more instances of rank inefficiency masque masquerading radin as aa capability than in journalism and it makes matters all the worse that most of the kind spoken of will now and then persist in making themselves conspicuous by dipping in and making a show of what little they have acquired every time they get a chance the newspapers of the country that through difficulties innumerable and expenditures incomputable have forged to the front are not of necessity the best and most capable in the land now and then but not often we see as much capacity in enforced restraint evinced in the pages of a small production from an out of the way place as in the more powerful metropolitan press and there is no reason why any country paper however narrow its field should not be as bright as noway newsy and as well printed as any other thereby maki making g itself supported because of its merit rather than through the sympathy of the neighborhood it may be conducted by a professional hanu hand or an amateur and so long jong as it confines itself to a discussion of subjects upon which it can speak with accuracy and understanding and la is reasonably impartial it ought to bu be a valuable adjunct to the community but as a rule it will gain nothing I 1 in n repute or luere lucre by engaging in disser lations on the problems of euclid the pandects of justinian Junti niao or the subtleties of confucius Confuo lue especially asan as an apologist or critic even though the writer may have devoted somas sooae little time to read ing up on those subjects it is a case came of vessels large may venture more but little boats keep near shore speaking ot of the mammoth page edition of the now new york world recently issued a truthfully says the possibilities open in america to the poor are well illustrated in mr pulitzers case he came to this country from the austro hungarian empire a penniless lad and made his bia advent into the newspaper business as a reporter in S st louis about twenty years ago he rapidly worked his way up until 1883 1888 when he was enabled to buy the moribund new york world into which he infused a life that has evolved it into the splendid and wonderful newspaper that it is As it was with mr pulitzer so may it be with any one who has the natural capacity but it requires long wearisome and studious years yeara which bestow more of discouragements discourage ments than of rewa reward rdse as they pass along and add the golden mean once gained though so slowly and laboriously reached is 19 lost iu in the twinkling of an eye if the attention anit earnestness chib which gained d it are withdrawn or even rel relaxed kled the first consideration for one who would succeed in lashown ls 1 shoWn to be aptness the next is 1 education and finally determination becomes indispensable |