Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter; born with veil and second
sight; every mystery revealed; if one you love is true or false; removes
trouble; settles lovers' quarrels; causes a speedy marriage with one you
Jove; valuable information to gentlemen on all business transactions;
how to make profitable investments for speedy riches; lucky numbers;
Egyptian talisman for the un lucky; cures mysterious and chronic
diseases. All who are sick or in trouble from any cause are invited to
call without delay.
I have always claimed that clairvoyance could be made a success if we
could find some one who was sufficiently natural born to grapple with
it. Now, Mrs. Edwards seems to know what is required. She was born
utterly without affectation. When she was born she just seemed to say to
those who happened to be present at the time, "Fellow citizens, you will
have to take me just as you find me. I cannot dissemble or appear to
be otherwise than what I am. I am the most natural born and highly
celebrated all over the country clairvoyant now traveling on the road,
and Wonder from the Pacific coast." She then let off a whoop that ripped
open the sable robes of night, after which she took a light lunch and
retired to her dressing-room.
Ex-Mayor Henry C. Robinson, of Hartford, Conn., if I am not mistaken,
suggested a school of journalism at least twelve years ago, but it did
not meet with immediate and practical indorsement. Now Cornell comes
forward and seems to be in earnest, and I am glad of it. The letters
received from day to day by editors, and written to them by men engaged
in other pursuits, practically admit and prove that there is not now in
existence an editor who knows enough to carry liver to a bear.
That is the reason why every means should be used to pull this
profession out of the mire of dense ignorance and place it upon the
high, dry soil which leads to genius and consanguinity.
The above paragraph I quote from a treatise on journalism which I wrote
just before I knew anything about it.
The life of the journalist is a hard one, and, although it is not
so trying as the life of the newspaper man, it is full of trials and
perplexities. If newspaper men and journalists did not stand by each
other I do not know what joy they would have. Kindness for each other,
gentleness and generosity, even in their rivalry, characterize the
conduct of a large number of them.
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