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own State of North Carolina. Tvhich State also cavo nc vote to Charles C. rinckney. of South Carolina, afterward the Federalist candidate for President; Maryland gave two votes to her favorite son, John Henry, then Tnited States senator; Massachusetts gave two votes to Samuel Johnston, of North Carolina, a former Governor of that State, and United States fenator. YVashir.Rton. who was In no sense a candidate, rntlved two vote?, one In North Carolina and one In Virginia. Sixteen States voted. Tennessee beins the new one, with three votcN making the total number of electors i:i ctrr were ehoen by the legislatures in Connecticut, Delaware, ieorgla, Kentucky. Nov.- Jersey, New York, Ithode Island, South Carolina and Vermont. FOURTH ELECTION. Party lines were strictly drawn at the fourth election. It was at this time that the pi xn ? nominating candidates by party caucus was adopted. The Federalists held their caucus early In 1-SOO. No account of the proceedings of this caucus was pubIbhed, but the result showed that they had decided upon Adams for a second term, and Charles C. rinckney, of South Carolina, for Vice President. The Democratic-Republican caucus named Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Of the 12S electoral votes Jefferson and Burr received eighty-thre each, Adams sixty-five, Plncki.ey sixty-four, and John Jay one. The vote of Jefferson and Burr being majority and a tie, the House, under the Conrtitution, was called upon to decide between them, the balloting being by State. The balloting besan Feb. 11 and continued until Feb. 17. 1S01. thirty-six ballots being cart. On the List ballot ten States voted for Jefferson, four for Burr, two blank, thus electing Jefferson, who had a majority of the States. Burr became Vice President. Electors were chosen by the Legislatures in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pensylvanla, South Carolina and Vermont. FIFTH K LECTION. Before ths fifth election came the Constitution had been amended to that electors vote on separate ballots for President and Vice President. The congressional caucus of the Democratic Republicans renominated Jefferson, and with him, for Vice President, George Clinton, of New York. The Federalists named Charles C. Pickney, of South Carolina, and Rufua King", of New York. Seventeen States voted, with I'd electoral vote3. Ohio had been admitted with three votes. The rest of the Increase, came from tho reapportionment of representatives in Congress, based upon tho census of 1S00. Jefferson and Clinton received 163 electoral votes, and rinckney and King 11. The Federalists carried only the States of Connecticut and Delaware and two districts in Maryland, that State for many years choosing those of its electors corresponding to the representatives in the congressional districts. This is undoubtedly the most crushing defeat any party ever received, unless that administered to the Whigs in lSi2 may be deemed proportionately as disastrous. Electors were chosen by tho legislatures in Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vermont. ( SIXTH ELECTION. When the time for the sixth election arTived Jefferson decided to follow the example pet by "Washington not to serve a third term. His party thereupon nominated James Madison, of Virginia, for President and renominated Clinton for Vice President. The Federalists named the ticket of four years before. Madison received 122 for President acd Clinton 113 for Vice President. One elector in Kentucky failed to appear and vote. The six electors of Vermont 'and the three of Ohio voted for Madisojf for President and for John Langdon, f'ew Hampshire, the first president pro tempore of the Senate, for Vice President. Clinton, however, had his feelings soothed for falling behind his leader in the fact that six of the electors of New York voted lor him for President. These electors divided their votes for Vice President equally between Madison and Monroe. Pincicney and King received forty-seven votes each. Electors were chosen by the legislatures in Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York. South Carolina and .Vermont: SEVENTH ELECTION. Madison received the unanimous vote of the caucus of his party for renomination at the seventh election. Clinton being dead, Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts, from whose surname the word "gerrymander" was formed, was nominated for Vice Iresident. The Federalists nominated De Witt Clinton, of New York, one of the most eminent statesmen of his time, and Jared Incersoll, of Pennsylvania, an eminent jurist. Eighteen States voted, having 21S electoral votes. Louisiana had been admitted with thre votes, and the rest of the Increase came from the new apportionment of representatives under the census of 1S10. Madison and Gerry received 12$ electoral votes. Clinton and Ingcrsoll eighty-nine, one elector in Ohio failing to appear and vote. Electors wero chosen by the legislatures in Kentucky, Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina and Vermont. EIGHTH ELECTION. Madison, being ineligible for re-election under the unwritten law which limits the President to two terms, if he can get tho second one, the Democratic-Republican caucus nominated for President James Monroe, of Virginia, over William II. Crawford, of Georgia, and Daniel Tompkins, Governor of New York durins the second war with England, over Simon Snyder, Governor of Pennsylvania. The Federalists made practically no fight. They supported Itufus King, of New York, for President, and had no candidate for Vice President. Monroe and Tompkins received 1S3 electoral votes. King received Zi. For Vice President John Eager Howard, of Maryland, one of the heroes of the Revolution and a Federalist leader, received the twenty-two votes of Massachusetts. Connecticut divided hers between James Boss, of Pennsylvania, a former United States senator, and John Marshall, of Virginia, chlet Justice of the Supreme Court, and Delaware

gave her three to Robert G. Harper, of Maryland, who had resigned from the Senate to be a candidate for Vice President. One elector in Delaware and three in Maryland failed to appe-ar and vote at this election. Electors were chosen by the Legislatures in Connecticut. Delaware. Georgia, v Indiana, Ixuislana, Massachusetts, New Yrk. South Carolina and Vermont. When Congress came to witness the opening of the votes by the Vice President objection was made to counting the vote from Indiana on the ground that it was not yet a State of the Union. There was some debute upon the proposition, but Indiana's vote was counted. This was the first time that any objection was made to the reception or counting of the vote of any State or what purported to be the vote of a State ci the Union. NINTH ELECTION. Monroe's two terms as lresldent comprises the period known In American polltics as th? "Era of Good Feeling." The light opposition he had met with In 1S16 htd entirely died out four years later at the ninth election. There was no opposition to him and practically none to Vice President Tompkins. No one was nominated against them. The dote of the war of 1512 had led to a very large immigration into the Wetsem and ßouthweetern Territories. One consequence was the admission Into the Union of the States of IfJssisslppl, Illi

nois. Alabama and Missouri. The people of Maine, a region which had, hitherto constituted a part of Massachusetts, had now succeeded In the desire they felt for some time, to have themselves detached from Massachusetts "and erected into a new State. Thus twenty-four States voted at the ninth election, having 233 electoral votes. One elector In Mississippi, one in Pennsylvania and one in Tennessee failed to appear and vote. So only 232 votes were cast. Of these Monroe received all except one. which was cast for John Qulncy Adam' by an elector In New Hampshire, who i. dared that no one should share with Washington the honor of an unanimous election. Tompkins received 21S votes. Richard Stockton, of New Jersey, a former United States senator, received eight votes in Massachusetts; Daniel Rodney, of Delaware, a former Governor and later a United States senator, received the four votes of that State. One Maryland elector voted for Richard G. Harper, who was voted for by the Delaware electors at the previous election. The elector of New Hampshire, who voted for Adams for President, also voted for Richard Rush, of Pennsylvania, who had been attorney general of the United States, and who was destined for future Cabinet honors, for Vice President. TENTH ELECTION. There having been no party division at the election of 1829, tho nomination of candidates by congressional caucus proved an entire failure. A sllmly attended caucus named William H. Crawford, of Georgia, for President and Albert Gallatin, of Pennsylvania, for Vice President. No heed was paid to lta action. The campaign degenerated Into a personal contest, In which the leading candidates for President were Andrew Jackson of Tennessee, John Qulncy Adams of Massachusetts, William II. Crav;ford and Henry Clay of Kentucky. Gallatin dropped entirely out of the running. Twenty-four States voted, having 61 electoral votes. Electors were chosen by the legislatures in Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, New Y'ork, South Carolina and Vermont. Of the electoral vote Jackson had 99, Adams Si, Crawford 41 and Clay 07. As no candidato had a majority of the electoral vote the election devolved on the House of Representatives, which was limited in its choice to the three highest candidates. Adams received the votes of thirteen States, Jackson of seven and Crawford of four. For Vice President John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, received 1S2 electoral votes and was elected. Nathan Sanford, of New York, United States senator both before and after this election, received thirty votes for Vice President seven from Kentucky, seven from New York, sixteen from Ohio. Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina, the original fathvr of the House, received twenty-four votes from Virginia. Martin Van Buren, of New York, received nine votes from Georgia. Andrew Jackson received thirteen eight from Connecticut, one from Maryland, three from Missouri and one from New Hampshire. Henry Clay received two from Delaware. One elector in Rhode Island failed to appear and vote for any one top Vice President. SINCE THE TENTH ELECTION. The tenth election closes the period when the electoral vote furnishes the only means of gauging elections, and the eleventh begins that In which the popular vote assumes Importance, even, if not the determining factor In the result. The latter period has already been reviewed in these columns. In this latter period the candidates receiving the greater number of popular votes has also received a majority of the electoral votes, though there have been exceptions. At the twenty-third election, 1S76. Samuel J. Tilden had a majority of 150,0) of the popular vote, hut after a contest lasting almost to the hour of Inauguration his opponent, Rutherford B. Hayes, was declared elected, the electoral vote standing 1S3 to LSI. The admission of Colorado in that year with three votes, which were cast for Hayes, was the real determining factor in this election. It was admitted by a Democratic House and a Republican Senate. Those Presidents who received less than a majority of the popular vote are commonly spoken of as minority Presidents, though, of course, they had a majority of the electoral vote. The first of these was John Qulncy Adams, National Republican: Polk. Buchanan and Cleveland (the latter both times). Democrats; Lincoln, Hayes. Garfield and Harrison, Republicans. Of course, these minority Presidents were made such by the presence of minor parties, who carried ;tway enough popular votes to leave tho successful candidate In a minority of that vote, except in the case of Hayes and Tilden. All of which but emphasizes the fact that it Is the electoral vote that counts. EDWARD WRIGHT BRADY. Still Small Voice. It was only the pljrli of the wind. Where a reed was fliakinc. Uut it fahl to me my far-oft love Knew my heait was breaking. Knew it was breakln? and fain would he Come on the wind's wings to comfort me. When no rlpr'e of wave or of rass "Was on lake or meadow, When skies were blue and the lissome reed Stood Htill with Ua shadow. All tho deep silenors sremod to be Hrlnjjing iry loved one's blessing to me. Of thl mystery ?pell in the air. With its currents Uowlng Twlxt pouI and soul, must I only know 'Tis beyond rry knowing? iro let It be, sine? my sorrow fled And I but feel I am comforted. Louise Vickroy lioyd. Van-lergTlft, Ta.

COST OP X ATI OX A L, CAMFAKJXS. Sonic riRnren (Jiven Which Could Xot Well He Vcrllicd. World's Work for November. In 1STG more than JSCO.OOO were collected and spent by the campaign, managers of the two parties. Four years later they had at their disposal more than ?1, 000,0 and in ISSi the campaign disbursements were half as much again. In the Harrison-Cleveland campaign cost not less than Jl.eOO.OCO. and in the camp.Jgn of IMC the expenditures of the two national committees were quite $2,000,000. Finally, in lStt. more than $4,(00,000 passed through the hands of Chairman iianna ard Chairman Jones, and their associates. Indeed, some of the shrewdest politlcans are of the opinion that the science of campaigning will be developed in the near future to such an extent that each national committee will be compelled to organize something like a bank or a trust company, which shall have control of its financial operations, for they have now become so enormous that they demand something different from the comparatively Irresponsible method of handling the funds in past years. The most expensive work of a national campaign is done curing the last three weeks before th2 election. Every doubtful State and city 's closely watched by men prompt to discover every change in the political tide, and racney is transmitted in large sums to the localities in which it is believed it will produce the best results. A few days before the election in ISSc West Virginia received JU.OOO from the Democratic national committee, and the Republicans sent $50.000 to the same State. About the same time the Democrats sent $100,000 Into Indiana, and three nights before the election Chairman Quay, of the Republican national committee, sent $300,000 from New York to trusted lieutenants In Fort Wayne, Ind. A fortnight before the election of the Republicans became doubtful about Iowa. t;hairman llama at once resolved upon a pvrtonal canvass of every doubtful voter In the State. He proposed that every voter not classed on the polling lists cither as a downright Democrat or a downright I Republican should bo visited by som zealous ana taciiui memuer or me ice-puoiican party. Before election day the thousand of such men In towns. In cities, and in the country were sought out and appealed to by the Republicans most likely to win them; tad this canvass is told to have cost

the Republican national committee more than fCtO.COQ. Reckoning all the expenses In all the States, it may be roughly estimated that a presidential campaign, including also xngrcssional. gubernatorial and lesser campaigns, causes the total expenditure of pefnaps $J0.0..V,U. SUBURBAN SOCIETY NOTES.

. Rrlffhtirood. Miss Leota Knight has returned from Greentown. Mr. Burchard Hawkins has returned from a trip to Chicago. Miss Elizabeth Mesklll returned last week from Terre Haute. Mr. C. H. Carrigan returned last -week from a trip to Delphi. Mr. W. II. Hawkins returned home last week from a trip to Sullivan. Miss Cora Gabriel, of Cincinnati, was the guest of Mrs. Wertz last week. Mrs. Frank Clark, of Marion, will this week visit her aunt, Mrs. Murphy. Mr. William Fowley, of Richmond, was the guest of his parents last week. Mr. Fred Avery, of St. Paul, was the guest of his brother, Mr. John Avery. Mrs. Richard Sullivan entertained a number of friends at her noma Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. B. A. Brown entertained a large number of friends at her home Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Adams will leave the last of the month for Paris. 111., where they will remain during the winter. IlnasIiTllle. Mr. E. Hurst has. returned from a trip to South Bend. Miss Hattle Baker is visiting her aunt in Nashville, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ward are visiting relatives In Pittsboro. The Fleur-de-LIs Club will give its dance next Tuesday evening. Miss Elizabeth Morris has returned from a trip to Allegheny, Pa. Mrs. Smith, of Madison, was the guest of Mrs. E. G. Bowman last week. Mr. Harry Ballard returned home during the early part of last week from a six weeks' visit in Maine. Mrs. Mary Patterson, of Baton Rouge, Ea., who has been the guest of Miss Blanche Gregg, has returned home. Xorth Indianapolis. Mr. Carl Gunder is visiting relatives in Chicago. Mrs. K. E. Mitchell is visiting friends in Louisville, Ky. Mr. Frank Stultz returned last week from a trip to Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. George Lay tan, of Louisville, are the guests of Mrs. Hurburt. Tho Music Club will meet to-morrow night at the home of Mrs. William Dooley. The Euterpean Club will hold a reception Thursday evening at the home of Master George Tyler. Mr. Northern, who has been the guest of his parents for some time has returned to his home in Chicago. t Master Ray Mallott will be the host for thf; Young People's Study Club next Friday evening. Mr. J. L. Dixon will read a paper on "Holy Grail." The Tuesday evening Elterary Club will held its meeting this week at the home of Mrs. Blanche Jones. The Current Topic Club will also be entertained at this meeting. Wext Indiniinpoli. Mr. Louis Becowitz is home from a trip to Trafalgar. Mr. J. T. Fa pan and wife have returned from Terre Haute. Mrs. II. Jones and children have returned from Knightstown. Mrs. M. E. Ward returned home Tuesday from French Lick. The Loyal Club will meet this week with Mrs. B. F. Schooley. Mr. Ora Powell and wife are visiting relatives in Martinsville. Mr. and Mrs. O'Hara have returned from a trip to Martinsville. Mr. John Heard and wife have returned from a trip to Tipton. The Pastime Club met Friday evening with Miss Clarlco Metz. Miss ElTie Moschell entertained a number of friends Thursday evening. Miss Mattie Butler spent the lirst of the week with relatives In Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. AT. L, Ellsworth, of Lafayette,' are the guests of Mrs. Zessler. M. James Fogleman. of Plalntield, was the guest of relatives here last week. The Thursday Afternoon Club will meet this week with Mrs. Thomas Gaddc:-. Mrs. C. W. Grillin. of Rushville, Is the guest of her sister, Mrs. M. K. Wilson. Mrs. Mary Brunson. of AUisonvllle, Is tho guest of her son. Mr. Perry Brunson. Mr. J. D. Moschell after a week's visit with his family returned Friday to Jonesboro. Mrs. Charles Barker and Mrs. James Winterrowd were the guests of Mrs. S. A. Hogue last week. The Social Club met Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Robinson, on West Morris street. Palmer Union. W. C. T. IT., will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mr, i-tlaisdell. The programme will consist of devotional exercises by Mrs. Gebauer: reading. Mrs. Baker and a paper by Miss S. Carmack. The annual election of officers of the Morris-street Christian Church resulted as follows: F. F. Tremore. W. Turpin. 1. Jacobs, Mr. Robhins, Charles Morrison, Mrs. S. S. Benson. Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Peine and Mrs. Andrew Gray, trustees: William Blake, clerk, and W. W. Turpin, treasurer. The Ladies' Aid Society of the First M. E. Church celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of the organization with an allday meeting Friday in the society's room adjoining the church. The following officers were elected: President, Mrs. T. R. Mount: lirst vice president. Mrs. M. E. Ward; second vice president. Mrs. A. A. Crull: secretary. Mrs. Levi Clark; assistant secretary, Mrs. Thomas Slusher; treasurer, Mrs. Risncr; treasurer of the ilowcr fund, Mrs. S. T. Hay. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Morgan celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary Friday evening at their home on Uhvr a venu?. About one hundred guests attended. Th3. decorations were chrysanthemums and palms. . Music was furnished by the Misses Nellie and Claudia Ballard. Ed and Lula Schaub and Stella McCollum. Assisting were Mrs. John Byrkit. Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. D. M. Ramsey. Among the out-of-town guests who wero present were Mr. Milton Sater. of Cincinnati; Mrs. T. Pottingcr, of Cincinnati; Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Morgan, of Franklin, and Mrs. Joseph Marsh, of Elizabethtown. The Tonic Values of Vegetables. Philadelphia Telegraph. A diet of nothing but celery is said by some physicians to be a sure cure for both rheumatism end neuralgia. Freo uso of ihU vegetable is always recommended to rhe'jrnatic patients. Baked potatoes are digested more easily than toiled potatoes, and should therefore be preferred by dysr eptlcs. In cases of anaemia, cabbages ana spinach are distinctly beneficial. Spinach is almost as valuable as lithla water in its effect on the kidneys. BeeU and turnios keep the blood pure and improve the appetite. Torna ices are thought In India to be a preventive of cholera. Ll'o endives and waterci esses, they stimulate the healthy action of the liver. Just after the battle of Fort Donelson, General Grant is said to have telegraphed to Washington that he would not permit the a:n.y to move urtll forty wagon loads of onions that had been promised to him should arrive. Onions are essential to tho army mess, to mal pork or beef palatable. But they are also an admirable cure for sleeplessness and indigestion everywhere. Garlic, leeks, and olivc3 stimulate tho circulation of the biood. Too much meat and too few vegetables make up the average dl it. Health depends or. continuous varietj. The Jonrnal'i Redaction In Price I Permanent. A wrong impression seems to prevail among certain of the subscribers to the Journal, namely, that the recent reduction in the subscription price of the paper was onlv temporary, and that a return to former rates would take effect when the campaign closed. This Is an error. The present published price of the paper will be permanently maintained and its high standard will In no way be impaired. Send in your subscriptions to us at the published rates or have the paper delivered to you by our asent In your locality.

WITH A YELLOW JOURNAL

S03II2 OP THE ACTUAL EXPERIENCES OF A YOUNG HARVARD 3IAN. Devices My "Which Reporters Obtain Photograph of Itelnctant Victims Other Shadr Tricks. Philip Curtis, in Boston Transcript. I had a letter of introduction to one of the editorial writers. "Good old Jameson," he said, half to himself, as he finished the letter. "I wish I could have a good long talk with him once more." Then he turned to me. "Mr. Curtis," he said, "do you suppose you could get a job In a dry goods store, anywhere in thi3 city?" "If you can," he continued, "I earnestly advise you to take it, or any other position you can get, rather than come Into this business. I can if you are determined if you have made up your mind I can, as Jameson says, get you Into it. I can take you up to the city editor there, and In an hour you will be on the street looking for a photograph of some poor woman who has given birth to triplets or tried to drown herself. If it happen to be the latter, you'll bs expected to write of her as 'beautiful Teresa O'Flaherty weary of life, and invent a love story for her. But you'll learn it all soon enough. "I have been in this business as many years as you have been on earth." he went on, after a short pause, in which I said nothing, "and I have been, I think I may say, more than ordinarily successful. I have served in every capacity from cub reporter to managing editor, and knowing the business as I do, I earnestly advise you to take any work that chance may offer, rather than this. It Is the only profession I know of in which a man's usefulness ceases Just about the . time he has mastered his trade. These young fellows around hero call mo 'the old man 'the doctor' and 'the professor.' They mean It kindly enough, to be sure, but I know what it signifies. A man over forty-five is of no use on such papers as this. If he is kept at all it is a3 a pensioner in some small-salaried sinecure. I am or I was at 0 o'clock last night in good standing. For all I know there may be a discharge notice in that box for me now. If there is, what is there for me to do? Nothing but go up to the city editor and ask for an assignment the same as yourself. You needn't look surprised. Such an inciden: would cause no comment in the office. It is rare for a man to hold one of the higher positions more than si months, and when he loses it he btgins as a reporter. I was Sunday editor of a Chicago paper for a year one time, and it was so unusual that everybody about the paper was making bets iroin week to week as to whether I'd last until the next Sunday. GLOOMY PREDICTION. "I have little hope that you'll heed what I say. When I went into it, I was advised in just tho same way, but I could not bear to follow the plodding routine which falls to the lot of the beginner in other professions. I know just how you feel. You want the excitement. You want the novelty. You want to meet famous people. You want to be in the whirlpool of events. Well, you'll have It all, but you'll swallow it with dust and ashes all the same." This reception was hardly what I expected. Nevertheless, I didn't back out. The two years since I left college had been passed as a private In the Cuban war, and as a sort of knockabout on a tramp steamship which carried me twice around the world. I had an uncomfortable feeling that my people were beginning to look on me as a ne'er-do-well, and I was anxious to settle down in a permanent occupation. My choice of a "yellow" journal came not from any preference, but from the fact it was the only one which offered an immediate opening. I didn't konw then what constituted the essential characteristics of "yellow" journalism, nor what sacrifices of self-respect it exacted from its devotes. My first assignment was to get a stoiy about a mysterious wedding ceremony that had taken place on a ferryboat crossing the river between two States. The name of the minister, the time of the ceremony late .at night had already been published. I was to supply the names of the wedding party and their reasons for so tmlque a ceremony, and most important of all, get their photographs. 1 failed utterly. The minister refused flatly to tell the names of the party, and I could go no farther. I was made to feel that this failure put me under a cloud. For several days I was kept at the work known as "hustling for pictures." Pictures were tho ruling passion of the Yellow Planet. The city editor would break all tho ten commandments to get a picture to adorn a story, and he expected his reporters to be ready to do the same. "Pictures! Pictures!! Pictures!!!" he would say to each reporter as he gave out tho asignments. A story too trivial in itself to be printed would find space if a picture accompanied it. A story In which the facts took only two lines of space would be accompanied by a picture two columns wide. IN THE "ART" DEPARTMENT. One day the city editor sent me.out to get a photograph of a fifteen-year-old girl who had" run away to become an actress. "You know the bluff we put up in a case like that," he said, interrogatively, as I turned to go. "Tell the mother that the police department has requested it, and persuade her that if we print a picture it will aid In finding the child." Another time he said. "If they don't want to give you the picture of the bride, tell them we already have a picture in the office, but it's an old, rather homely tintype, and we'd much prefer to have a good picture. That bluff generally works." To go to a friend of the original of a coveted photograph and tell a plausible story about being sent by the original to get a photograph lecause the latter had no more left was a device used almost daily and often with much success. The professional photographers of the city had been victimized so often by false pretense, and by the bribing of their employes, that they were on their guard, and only few of the less reputable ones could be depended on to furnish copies of photographs in their possession. Late one night an old reporter, who was lounging about the local room, after writing his Ftory, took me under his wing and, in a spirit of benevolent helpfulness to a beginner, gave me some pointers that were truly enlightening. lie was the star man of the paper. His associates spoke of. him as a "smooth guy" with wonderful ability in "gum shoe stunts." Translated, this meant that he was a skilful liar and was good at accomplishing tasks that required deception and secrecy. He was a middle aged man. corpulent, with gray hair and a benevolent countenance. Twenty-five years of perpetual false pretense had failed to rob his features of an appearance of frankness which won the confidence of everyone he approached. His whole appearance suggested the middle ageel banker, lawyer, doctor, minister, or any other of the many characters he often assumed, rather than the typical reporter. A distinguished bearing, an impressive manner, a glib tongue and a smattering knowledge of everything under the sun, enabled him to deceive all but the most astute. A SKILLFUL LIAR. "This matter of getting pictures is an art in itself," he said. "Every case requires a different method. If some kid has done a fancy stunt like passing an examination or winning a prize, it's easy enough. You can make them believe you're doing them a favor to print the picture. It's in th.e other cases that you must be artfuL Now, last night I wanted to get a picture of a woman who eloped. Her friends wanted the couple caught, but, as usual, didn't want anything In the papers. A reporter couldn't have got a picture from them if he tried till doomsday. I went down there and gave the policeman on the beat $5 to introduce me as a detective from the central office. The rest was easy. You know those pictures I had in that scandal about the swell couple that got married in June? I went to the photographer and told him I was getting up an article for a magazine about ten prominent June brides. He hesitated at first, but finally concluded to give them up, as the purpose was one the

parties would hardly object to. When that fellow down in New Jersey eloped with his wife's sister I went to the girl's mother and represented myself as a man of wealth and leisure who was shocked at such an outrage. I told her if she would accompany me I would pay all the expenses and we would go after the counle and brin them back. She bit, and the Planet had exclusive stories every day for two weeks. I don't believe those people know to this day that I was writing them." These and dozens of other experiences ha told me of, and they were as entertaining as the adventures of Francois or any other picturesque and clever rascal. Another reporter whom I liked to talk with had been Sunday editor and city editor, and was familiar with methods in the upper circles of "yellow" journalism. He told me how the paper hired an ex-cham-plon pugilist to report a prize fight at Carson City. The ex-champion won some money on the fight and remained drunk for ten days. The story of the fight was written by a man in the office and signed with the pugilist's name. It was so well done that it drew a comment from a wcll-knowu literary weekly. "CHAMPIONS" AS CONTRIBUTORS. This practice of paying a professional champion In some line of sport so much per week for the use of his name explains the prescnc3 in the yellow journals of the much advertised departments "conducted by the world's champion Jones." Jones couldn't write a five-word sentence correctly, and he never goes near the office except on pay day. Some' hard-working sub-editor, unknown to fame, does the work. This practice Isn't confined to champion pugilists and Jockeys if my informant is to be believed. He told me he had written many a column of book reviews, answers to correspondents . and similar matter, which appeared in the paper over a name well-known in American literature. There is nothing on earth the "yellow" journals will not "fake" outright, or print on the most shadowy basis of good faith. I recall a statement on a question of current interest which appeared over the signature of a bishop. It was well known that th j bishop would see no newspaper men. On; reporter was sent to him as a devout follower of the bishop's faith, who was passing through the city and could not think of gQing away without seeing and speaking to so distinguished a divine. The bishop was affable. The reporter steered the conversation toward the topic and got the bisop's sentiment. Then the reporter produced a book written by the bishop and asked for the author's signature in it, just as a memento of the visit. The sentiment appeared in the Planet next day over a facsimile signature of the bishop. One of my assignments had to do with this same bishop. It was suspected he was going to another city to take part in an important secret conference, and I was detailed to watch him. Early in the day I took a position commanding both entrances to the bishop's residence. He didn't appear until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. I dogged his footsteps r. hlle he made two calls and followed him Into a street car.' I thought I had stumbled on a dtar story when no got off at the railroad station, but it turned out he was going innocently to take dinner with a friend a few milis out in the country. I followed him faithfully, and as he walked up the steps of his homo late In the evening I approached and tried to interview him. He had been so misrepresented, ko often placed in undignified positions by the newspapers that he was quite terror-stricken by the encouter with a reporter, and out of sheer pity I backed away as quickly as possible. . A DIFFICULT ASSIGNMENT. The uncertainty of tenure in the executive offices which my friend spoke of was illustrated by his own experience. He told me of the first assignment given him after he was deposed. There was a foreign minister on a transatlantic liner which had just arrived. "Our tug will take you to the vessel," said the city editor. "They won't let you aboard; but vhen the tug gets close to the vessel, catch one of the rcpen that hang over the tides. The tug will then back away, and then they'll have to pull you up on deck, and you can get nr. interview." My friend was very bitter about it. "I daresay you'd enjoy It," he said. "You're young and you like adventure, but wh?n a man gets to be fortylive, he oughtn't to te compelled to do such things." Most of my own assignments were legitimate enough, though I often started on one vowing to myself that I'd sooner be a ditcher and keep my self-respect than do such work. But one night 1 was sitting in a corner of the local room chatting with the marine reporter. He was telling me of a schooner about to leave port which wanted two able-bodied seamen to go to Demerara, I didn't know where Demerara was then (I wish I had never learned but that's another story), but it sounded far away and interesting. Just then the city editor's sharp, staccato call took me up to the desk. He explained that a prominent state official with whom the Planet had a quarrel had a deformity on one side of his face about which he was very sensitive. His photographs were all taken In profile. The official was to be in a parade the next day, and I was to take a camera and get a photograph showing the deformity. I didn't say anything. I had just drawn my salary, so that there was nothing coming to me; and the next day I failed to turn up. THE OLD MAVS SOX.

Hard Times for Rich Young: Men Who Would Make Reputations. Saturday Evening Post. The way of that rich young man who would be something more than "the old man's son" is hard. The world has grown used to seeing the second generation dissipate in weakness what the- first accumulated in strength. For under the shadow of a giant fortuno those elemental quailties of character which are developed and knotted hard by a free and unsheltered struggle with the world grow soft and sappy. Oftener than not ability is transmitted from father to son, but raw ability is not enough. Untrained, untried, undirected in a struggle for advancement, It may be an element of weakness instead of strength. So, though the world has nothing but respect for the "old man's" pocketbook, of the son it is not so sure. Honors may be his for the asking, but they are sham honors, valueless because unearned, neither satisfying him nor deceiving the public, lacking the salt that gives them savor, making him look beside the man who holds them by right of conquest like a gold-laced general of militia beside the scarred old colonel who has sabered his way up from the ranks. When young Vanderbilt, by all accounts an earnest and an ambitious young man, went as a delegate to a recent political convention he became a congressional possibility within twenty-four hours, and there was no yellow journal but did him the reverence of a "front-page story." Yet all that was not recognition of transcedent genius in young Vanderbilt himself, but tribute to "the old man's son." Not until he, has been tried out in his ward and on the .stump and has borne out the promise of his earnestness will he become a "frontpage story", for a better reason. Any young man whose father left him a sufficient number of stock certificates can be elected director In half a dozen companies, but the world will say "pull;" or he may even go to Congress, and it will cry "barrel." lie must demonstrate his ability again and again before he can secure recognition for his individuality. Laud, Ho! I know 'tis but a loom of land. Yes, it Is lanJ. ani so I will rejoice, I know I cannot hear UN voice Uijon the ehcre. nor nee Illm 'stand; Yet it is land, ho! land. The land! the land! the lovely land! "Far off" dost say? Far oT ah. blss.'ed home! Farewell! farewell! thou salt sea-foam! Ah. keel upon the silver sandLand, ho! land. You cannot f?e the lan i, mj land. You cannot see, and yet the land Is there My land, my land, through murky air I did not say 'twas close at handBut land, ho! land. Dost her the tells of my'trreet land. Dost hear the klne, dost hear the merry bird? No voice, 'tis true, r.o ioken words. Xo tongue that thou may'tt understand Yet it is lard, ho! lanl. It's elatl In purple mit. my land. In real robe it is ai parelled, A crown Is set vpon its head. And on its breast a goMerj band Land, ho! land. Dost wonder that I lonjj for land? My land is not a land a others are Upon its crest thtre beair. a Mar, And illie.i irrcw upon the strandLand, ho! land. Give me the helm! there Is the land! Hat.lufty mariners she tka the brrczo! And what my spirit sees it see Leap. bark, as leaps the thun WoranJ Land, ho! land. T. V. Drown. There 1 something pleasing- and attractive ln the overcoats, suits and trouser that come from the store of Gust. Rosbun?. the leading and popular tailor at 11G North Pennsylvania street.

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