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CORRESPONDENT IS PASSING.
One of the interesting sijrns of news
paper evolution in the passing of the
correspondent. The new pttherer has
crowded him out. The public want
tact; it can get it own iinpresion
is the view of the modern journalism.
But o many things happen that i i
a physical impossibility to (live all the
facts-, and there are many able editor
who Mieve that the correspondent with
splendid aptitude for collation and con
densation will again have hi inning.
A few of the old time correspondent
remain, and among the best known
probably the Wst known i "Hath"'
lieorge Alfred Townend, a Marylander.
who for almost half a century lias told
of great events epigrammatically and
in many thousand of column. In hi
style lie represents a rare contradiction
the jMiwer to put fact in short, point
ed scintillant sentence, combined with
capacity to fill a big lot of space. A
decade ago, Mr. Tovnend, after capping
hi long career with two successful nov
els '-Patty Cannon," and "Kitty of
t'atoctin," retired to a beautiful home
that crowns one of the Maryland moun
tain. He had made a fortune lrom hi
work and earned a good ret. At na
tional presidential conventions his daily
output was from 12 to 14 columns.
After one particularly exciting session,
when the correspondent drifted in late
from their work, one of them said:
"Townsend, what's the matter! You
look tired." "Do Ii" he asked. "You
ought to see those three rtenographers."
But there have been changes since Mr.
Townsend was at his zenith, and we find
them illutrated in the dispatches from
Portsmouth reporting the peace confer
enee. Very little fine writing was at
tempted in this work. Even though
most of it iiad to be speculation, there
had been a rigid hewing to the line
The newspaper has so many thing for
it snace that it cannot afford to wane
unless sentences even upon one of the
greatest events in the history of the
world. The best work at Port-mouth
was done by the reporter and not by the
literary man sent there to give distinc
tion to his paer's dispatches.
It shows that is universally true that
the most important man in the publicity
of the day i the reporter who get at
the lai t and states them in plain, terse
Kngli-li.
About the Fool Killer.
"I wish," iad Col. J. V. Law, as he
handed out a wash boiler to a Cray'
River customer "that ome great editor
would get np aa article telling the full
and entire truth concerning the fool
killer. Most people have in their minds
a picture of him as a trusty giant, arm
ed with a club, going tip and down bel
lowing for victims. Such is not the case,
and many people are inclined to think
that the fool killer is dead and out of
business because they don't hear his. bel
towing nor see sidewalks splashed
with'UT I'j-e'of those whomlre ha
Urt.; .Tliey are greatly mistaken. Tlw
fid killer i alite ami actively engaged.
The corpses At lii producing oumber the
earth and living men stumble over them
at every stcp.'The voting man cornea ont
of collet equipped to capture the earth,
full of real and liope, he undertakes the
task. The fool .killer hands" him the
bread and butter problem and tells liim
he must fcolve tint before lie e-;ys to
carry the world by storm. The young
man goes down in a helpless nuts by
the roadside, a tribute to the unerring
judgment of hi exectttioneer.
A bright young minister goes to a
new cliuich and U'gin a brilliant ca
reer. The path i smoothed before his
feet, and he is grasping at honors with
in his reach. Some little tiling, a wo
man's smile mayhap, i thrust lie fore
him, his head turn, he steps aside and
tumble headlong into a pit dug by the
fool killer.
"A linker's clerk or a banker, or a
trustee, or a cashier. 1 ambition to
U rich. He es a sure thing in specu
lation, he dabbles, he wins; he trie
again, lie lose, once more he loses, lie
ue otiier jK'ople's money, and when the
'door of the slams liehiml him the
fool killer chuckles in malicious gl.-e,
"An editor goes in for principal he
tell the truith, he stand up for the
right, he defends the poor and weak, he
champion the minority, he defies tra
dition and power and authority; puffed
with pride iu himself he marche at the
head of the procession when theS'oo
killer slip a knife into hi hamstring
and he flounder prostrate in the ion
and i trampled into the mud by those
he tint lately led.
"And so 011 through a li-t that
growing faster than the affidavits of a
circulation liar. The fool killer exists
but eople misunderstand him. Ik-
no brutal and violent butcher, but ad
ministers hi cotijie de final with a noie
less and graceful skill that is the high
est tyi of the art.
"At the present time I just want to
let a few fellows know the kind of -on
individual the fool killer is for he i
bound to get some of them in Decem
ber.
INSTITUTION OF GAMBLING
Another rich boy ha been robbed by
Canfield and hi fellow gambler. Thi
time the scene is Saratoga, not New
York city. The shorn lamb i highly
commended by the gambling community
because after having given them all hi
leady money, he raised thousands more
from his family and friends and sent
tl.eni that by mail, which he was under
no legal or moral obligation to do.
Gambling i an ancient and dishonor
able institution. It always ha leen
and doubtless will be so long as some
nu n are low enough to live on the weak
ness of others. But civilized communi
ties should draw the line somewhere,
and swindling fledgelings hardly come
r.nder the accepted definitions of gam
bling. The law make no restriction
of age or any difference in tiie penalty
even the gamblers thcin-elvc and their
approved code of honor doe not approve
stripping Ikivs of their patrimony or
unfairly adding to the mathematically
certain percentage which in every gam
bling game ultimately aborl the play
Ma stake.
Only one degree removed from the sou
venir portal cards is th vari-eolored en
udope advertising the agricultural fair.
Th time recording camera lately pat
ented in England takes a photograph
of any rapidly passing object the ex
posures ranging from 1-25 to 1-1000
of a second, and at the same time pho
tographs a watch' thus giving the exact
time. With two such cameras and syn
clironized watches the polii-e can obtain
a picture of a motor car at each end of
a measured strip of road the exact speed
being made easily obtainable from thee
data.
The precision of modern observations
brings to light unexpected facts. At the
Paris observatory dean Mascart has no
ticed that the surl'are of a thin layer
of mercury i not plane but undulated
like water disturbed by the plunge of a
stone; and has al-o detected another
movement that proves to be a true tide
due to the sun and moon. The meas
nrenicnts have been made repeatedly
during a month with the six micro
scolds of the instrument. The tidal
motion is slight, but greater that the
possible errors.
DR. CHARLES
FLESH FOOD
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