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Show Possibilities of Journalism. J Senator William Maxwell Evarts, of New York, says: When I graduated from Yale in the famous class of 181)7, in which were Samuel ,T. Tildeu, Edwards Pierrepont, tho late Chief Justice Waite ?jid Professor Benjamin Silliman, the Eiost noted of that noted family, the j choice of professions was exceedingly -limited as compared with that of today. I naturally commenced to canvass the profession I was to follow. Journalism was not then considered the profession it now is, and had no attractions forme. Tho ministry was a leading profession then as now, but it was attracting to its ranks somo of the most brilliant minds of tho country, and besides, I was not of a ministerial frame of mind. Medicine was such a grewsome business that I could not bring myself to consider it wriously as a life vocation, although it j promised wealth and honors. I I was very favorably impressed with tho life of a farmer. In fact, throughout through-out ull my life I have had a passion for fanning, and I now own two large farms' one in Vermont of 1,000 acres, and one in Maryland, on the Potomac, of alxmt the same number of acres. But when at the time I speak of I attempted to lift a barred of apples into a wagon as a test of my physical strength, and found that I . was not equal to the task, I turned my attention to the law, which I haVe followed fol-lowed for over fifty years with more or less success. I think now that if I were standing where I was fifty-three years ago, and journalism was what it now is, that I should choose as the business of my life that of a journalist. 1 can see in it greater possibilities than are em- j braced in other professions. Washing- ! ton Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat j |