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Terms jsi.oo u Ye nr. In Advance. OAilY by itintl J4.00 n year In ndvnnee. RATI? IN CANADA I DA1X.Y 9-1.00 n yenr In ndvnnee. WEK.1CW. . . S3.00 n year In ndvnutc. FKKD I'ltKSS ASSOCIATION. Publisher.. Ilurllnglnn, Vv, J3URXJNCJTON, THURSDAY, JULY 24. WANTED. When you want anything, njvertlso In ihe new rpc!al column of this paper. Some Imrffr.lns are offored there tnls '-aU which It will pay you to rnd fibout. Geo pirst, two. This paper fcas more than 25,CTi0 mndars every Week wi'J ono cent word w.ll reach thsm til. Ttrxrui fMms to havo s-or3 a rfuperln tlvvs sooocbs In "iitmlns" Its claims on th Staaclari Oil paopta. l'erha'ja Ver mont might try to expel something from "iri, t.?rCcrs tn this way instoaa rj. by tho mothodji It hns beon eraployrhs so effectively. a i.rrai. smscsnsTroN. Apropos of tho Columbus Smith will case which has been attracting so much Attention, a Jurist of such repute that we dnro not mention his name without permission, was talking tho other dny more or Icsb at randon when he touched upon a very suggestive scheme for the correction uf a short-coming of the pres ent law. He clnlmed no right of author ship In this, for he said 1 had been .n old hobby of his father's. Ho mentioned tho fact that the, law In Its present foim provides no uuans to enable .a man who desires to will his property to prove that he has the requisite -mental capacity, nnd went on to explain tho results of this defect and the ease with which Is could be corrected. Briefly stated, tho law Is that In order to make a valid will the maker, or tes tator as he Is technically called, must have mind enough to realize who are the natural objects of his bounty and to un derstand tho nature of his own acts. He may have been mail as a March haro at some previous time, or be may beeomu hopelessly Insane later, but if at the time of making the will ho had tho degree of mentality which tho law requires, the will stands. Tho strange thing Is that although the validity of the will depends upon a fact so obscure and so likely to bo misjudged as tho capacity of a man's mind at a given time, tho law provides no way of getting at tht so facts until after his death which may come years later. It provides no way for him to es tablish his testlmentary capacity at the time, but waits and relies upon the gos sip of neighbors and oldest Inhabitants. It would be so easy when a man Is about to make a will, by asking him a few questions and hearing evidence of his nets and reputation, tu form a fair Judgment of his mental faculty, and It Is so hard after his death to oven approxi mate a Judgment, that It Is a wonder tho law hns been allowed to go on for cen turies with this awkward procedure. It Is as If a man whose business It was to determlno the candle-power of an electric light should always wait until tho light has gone out before beginning his In vestigation. The law Is usually so wlsa In human matters that this lack Is hard to ejcploln. Tho details of proceduro might be some what as follows: Oolunibun Sit'th desir ing to make a will and wishing to settle for certain his mental cipuilt. nt t!u tlmo of making, wou'd apjly at the proper tribunal, probably tho pio'aut court, nnnouncuner.t would be mnd ot a hearing at which all persons likely to be In tho line of Inheritance, might appeal to oontost his testamentary capacity. Or dinarily no one wuuld nppear nnd the Judge hniclng tmtlsned himself of tho mentality of tbj applicant would decree tho validity of that will no fHr s the question of testamentary was concerned Tho will would then be placid on fllo In tho court. In case tho cap.iclty of the applicant xvro questioned tho tilal would be similar to proceedings In cases whore a guardian has been applied for. In no rase would It bo necessnry to dlvulgo tho contents of tho will. To lnymch Judging off-hand, It would seem tlmt somu such change would lea sen the amount of litigation and to that extent reduce tho cost of government nnd by giving tho testator n chance to speak for himself Increase men's con trol over tho fflspnsltlon of their property. It is well lecognlzed thnt tho purposo ot the original laws making possible the dis position of property by will were passed for tho satisfaction of tho men who had proporty to leave, not for the benellt of expectant legatees. "THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE" AND EARLY VERMONT PRINTS. The death of a conscientious and long-lived journal is a public calamity. A paper, like an individual, may not live up to all its opportunities but all long established journals must have had periods of genuine public service, even though they die after over a century of useful work, like the Spy of Worcester, Mass. A journal worthy of the name is more than a piece of property; moro than a business enterprise. Thoroughly identified with its community and its commonwealth, it be comes an institution, guided by high ideals and inspired by lofty thought. Loyal to these standards, it acquires grand associations, while ever alive to new purposes and nobler as piration's. Men may come and men may go but "the paper" must live up to its splendid traditions. Consciously or unconsciously the newspaper of the peo ple voices the composite sentiment of its constituency. Only when a newspaper becomes strong in determination or re sources or both can it stand far in advance of the varying popular opinion it must often defy in advocating what it must ever keep in mind, tho true interests of the people as a whole. The Spirit of the Age of Woodstock, which, according to its own announcement, will go out Of existence next Saturday, is published in a small community, but its loss may mean much more for its region than would the dropping out of one of tho many strong papers of a groat city like New York, for the metropolitan district, especially if we regard its long period of varied service. As indicated by its name, the Spirit of the Ago had a unique individuality. It was founded :is a democratic paper, and -for this reason, if for no other, ' would neressarily have a strong personality behind it in -i '.'j'!oi) so soiidly ad hering to anti-democratic principles While It was estab lished sevmty-three years ago, its firsf number having ap peared on May 8, 1840, it long remained steadfastly demo cratic in sympathies, except for a brief support of the Free Boilers when the ild Democratic party split on the slavery question. ' One of the nost wholesome influences in government and politics is a strong opposition journal, constantly alive to the duty of prodding the party in power up to the best pos sible service and the highest available standards. This service the Age consistently performed. That Charles G. Eastman, the founder of the Spirit of the Age, was well qualified by nature and acquired sym pathies to put and keep "on guard" the old Whig party of his time is indicated by his course in the national campaign of 1844. In addition to his regular issue of the Age in his sup port of James K. Polk for president Editor Eastman printed a campaign edition called the "Coon Hunter," and he also issued against the Whig candidate a quarto publication en titled, "Henry Clay's Duels." At the end of the third year of its existence the name of the paper was changed to the Woodstock Age, but when Mr. Eastman was succeeded by A. E. Kimball in 1845 the old name was resumed, continuing unchanged to the present 'time. In 1847 Mr. Kimball was succeeded by E. M. Brown and the latter in turn by W. D. McMaster who conducted it for thirty-four years, making it a political power in that region. Mr. Edward C. Dana, the present editor, has made a gal lant struggle in the face of competition which constantly narrowed his field, and in announcing the suspension of the Spirit of the Age and the substitution of a monthly to be called the Elm Tree Monthly, he yields to conditions which are being felt in many of the rural ..regions, not only in Ver mont but also throughout the nation. In this connection it may be well to recall the birth of printing in the Connecticut valley, the cradle of Vermont journalism, not many miles distant from the home of the Spirit of the Age and almost coincident with the Declaration of Independence and the beginning of the American Revolu tion. According to E. P. Walton, former editor of the Mont pelier Watchman, the first printing press in Vermont was probably brought here by Samuel Gale, an Englishman, who was married in Rrattleboro in 177.'? and appointed county clerk of Cumberland, now Windham county. In the West minster massacre he was of course on the court side, and the State confiscated his property, the owner after long imprison ment finding refuge in Canada. The first newspaper in the Green Mountain region was started on June 11, 1778, in Dresden which with various other towns on the east side of the Connecticut was then included in Vermont territory, these towns being represented in the Vermont Legislature, which in tho year named, "Voted and resolved that Judah Paddock and Alden Spooner be and are hereby appointed printers for the General Assembly of thii State." The printing office in question was moved in 177!) to Westminster from Dresden which with other New Hamp shire towns was set ofT from Vermont for the first time in February, of the year named, the manifest purpose being to put the office within the boundaries of the State for which tho firm were public printers. The first newspaper printed in what is now Vermont, The Vermont Gazette or Green Mountain Post-Roy, was is sued from the Westminster office on February 12, 1781, and a copy of volume one of this paper dared Monday, April 2, 1781, is now preserved, together with the press on which it was printed, in the rooms of the Vermont Historical Society at Montpelicr. It is believed that this press was the first one brought to New England, having been set up in 10110 in the house of Henry Dunster, firs, president of Harvard College. It was used by Samuel Green, a printer in Cambridge, Mass., one of whose descendants, Timothy Green, was a partner with Spooner in the publication of the Post-Roy. Well may the newspapers of the twentieth century live up to the motto of that early Vermont champion of the peo ple: "Pliant as Reeds, Where Streams of Fredom glide; firm as the Hills to stem Oppression's Tide." A THICK THAT KILLS THIOUS. Tho huge flgtrees of the Orinoco attract the Immediate attention of tho traveler lint the celba, writes II. J. Mnzans In "Following the Conqulstadores: Up the Orinoco nnd Down tho Mngdalenn," has a wonderful exnnnse of branches for which nnturo lias supplied special props. irXhoso fifo Iweo- buttresses, ttom six to 13 As wo bon owed vulgarity In feminine apparel from tho lowust classes of society lu Paris, ro wo seem to have go'ie to re sorts In seaconst cities for tho Inspiration of tho turkey trot, the bunny bug and their zoological not to say beastly vari ations. Relegated to the limbo of old fnshloned courtculcB and dlgullled cere monial are the graceful ntul beautiful muneuvers of the past In favor of the frantlo gyrations that havo been describ ed as "more danced ngalnst thnn danc ing" The popular dancing master of the dav announces that ho tenches not the steps, but the holds. It emmet be pos slblo that polite society will long con tlnuo to turn a bland nnd smiling coun tenance, upon tho simian antics of the Unrbury coast of San Francisco, tho How cry of New York, or the hooliganism of the Fast end of London When society has to depend upon such sources for Its diversion It Is time to establish a cctisor-f-hlp of dancing us of the drams, and ml tn It. the snlutnry precedent of the "play ground of Jhtropo" lntead of tho evil ex ample of tho tenderloin. MEDAL FOR COL. ALLEN TEACHING CUBS To WRTI The JotirnaliV.ic Laboratory at Columbia. .specimens of llnmllmirtc In llie City Itootn of the Piillrr School F.x pcrlcnccM of Reporters mid Trllinlntlnnt of Killliirs. Serdccs ris Member of GclOsbnrg I ('nltlllllsslim Are Ilccngnlcd. Pol. It. W. Allen, member of tho Hat-j tie of Gettysburg commission of Vermont, has received a silver mednl of hfind--"ino design from the Governor of I'rnn tylvanln and the commission, In token uf his vnlunble services rendered. Tno words of praise of the commission ate to bo henrd on every side by the veterans and the following Is the senti ment of practically every man who at tended the C'leliriillon: Kdltor of The (llnbe, Sir-1 desire to ndd my mime nnd voice to the senti ments of the many thousand veterans who pnitlelpnted In the great celebration of the fiftieth nnntversnry of tho Hattle nf Gettysburg on the battlefield ot Get tysburg. No one ran conceive the stu pendous undertaking of caring for nnd entertaining over RO.Onn veteranB. The food was of the very heft, well prepared and skillfully rooked, and extremely bountiful, especially the dinner on the Fourth of July, which consisted nf fri cassee nnd roast chleki'ti, n variety of Iri sh vegetables. Iced ti n or eoiree, cages nnd Ice m mn. Our dally fare was vnrle gated and fully as good as we would eet nt our own homes. The sleeping ar rangements were perfect, each tent con taining eight cots and two tine ilnnkets to each veteran. The sanitary arrangements were up to date and per fect. The fact that there were but nine deaths lu camp shows the great care lh.it was taken of the old soldier. Na turally there wns n gre.u number over come by the intense bent, and gr a' eiedlt N due to the work of the splendid medi al stuff In f.iet, the entire manage ment deseives great praise. This event will make an epo"h In the history of th Fiilted States, If not In the whole world. M. HOUNST1CIN. Veteran of the Civil War. Custoilliin In the office of the secretary of State. Nov York. July 16. The following letter to (.'oluncl Allen from I. lent. -rol. I,. K. nietler, secretary, xplalns Itself: Col. Ileman W. Allen, Chaliman. Iturllngtnn, Vt. IVnr Sir: Jly direction of Ills Excellency, the Governor, and our commission, I have the honor to present you the medal of silver herein In appreciation of your active, earnest interest as tho representa tive tn our commission from tho State of Vermont, In aiding us In every possi ble way In achieving the success that attended the great n union of the Iflue and Gray nt Gettysburg July 1-4 hist. Trusting it may appeal to vou as an acceptable memento of an occasion that Httiely uniler Divine I'ro Idcnce Is destined to accomplish the renl reunion of our nation, I am, with highest personal re gard S, Sincerely yours, I,. 12. HIICTl.EK. The medal benrs on one lde the in scription "Fiftieth anniversary Battle of Gettysburg Ite-unlon Hfi3-l!il3." tin the nthi r clasped hands with "He-union Civil War Veterans " Inches thick, and from 10 to 20 feet abovol the ground, that project like rays from all sides of Its lofty trunk. Were It not for these peculiar stays, tho tree would be uprooted by the first violent wind to which It might be exposed. Hut more wonderful fnr than the celba Is a tree called by tho natives by the expressive name of mutnpalo, tree-killer. It Is a species of llgtree, known to naturalists as the Flcus denrolcii. It Is nt (lrst only a feeble climbing shrub, sometimes re sembling a vine, but It soon spreads It self over tho tree on which It hns fast ened Itself, and eventually encloses It in a t ill iiiln r mass. It Is a veritable boa constrictor of tho vtgetuble world, for hooner or later -it crushes tho life, out of Its lettm. After the Incarcerated trunk has been stilled and destroyed, the grotesque form of the pntaslte, tubular corkscrcw-IIke, or otherwise fantastically contorted, continues to maintain an Inde pendent existence among the straight- stemmed tiees of the fofeht, the linage of an eccentric genius In the midst of a group of sedate citizens I.S (iOOl) FOIt SUIT.nill.AM) IIOTI (From the I'hlliulelphl.i Public Ledger.) It Is to the credit of the Swiss hotels that they have di awn the line without respect of persons at the kind of dancing that Is sail' tinned in many Amcilcnti hall moms, both 111 private houses and lu nub Ho hOHtcltlcn, THE LONG TRAIL. Will Allnril furl willed iiiiirliMilt y to View (lie (Jreen lloimliilni. F F Smith lormeily of this city, re turned Tuesday to Ada. Minn., where. lie is assistant cashier of the First Na tional bank Mr. Smith has spent some weeks In Vermont nnd put In a part of his vacation assisting the State forestry department and Green Mountain club In their Joint labor ot extending the l.otiir Trail from Canada to the Massachusetts lllle. Tlie party engaged upon tho lnti st i -tenslon lett Darlington latu In June. In -finning woil; between Camel's Hump and Lincoln mountain. Tills link 'jf the trail was co-rpleKd last week, leaving inly the Addlson county stretch between Lincoln mountain nnd Mount Horrid to complete an unrivalled mountain thoroughfnre. When Interviewed 'Puesdai by a crro Pies reporti r concerning tin- newest portion of the trail, .Mr. Smith until:; The Long Trail about '.1 miles more of which have recently been completed affords an unrivalled opportunity to view the Green mountains. Tim trail when 'ompleted will be the greatest pioco of mountain trail in America. It's service Is even greater to i" ami" tli. in .o pedestrians A nou i"" Is now afforded forester.! to reach tires. , forest wntilen will be placed on tno trull whose duty will bo to watch out for forest tires. Thh. mountain reston oo foro wns remote fiom ready assistance In case of fires. Thu forests ore mainly balsam and spruce with mountain vegeta tion. The dltllcultles of cutting a footpath through this vegetation were many unit greut. The gientest obstacle was tlio slash or out limber that has been left to rot. Tills and the umleiiiriisn mauo um building of the trail n slow and painstak ing process. With the aid of six men under tiro uep uty win den, It M. Hoss, .12 days were con sumed In laving out the a-iuil trail. Tho estimated .est of this wns iWM l"" or nearly three, bundled iK liars. The av erage instance covered by the foresters In a day wns one and a h.vlf miles. On tho next to the last day three miles was covered, this being the record for the expedition. This noitloii of the long trail Is on a tfi ner cent, uinilc This cannot bo appreciated until It Is understood thnt tho average made of the mountains through which It pin-sen Is 10 per cent. In building the trail the men experi enced good weather moot of the time ntnl they weie forced to lay off only a few days on account of intri. The trail starts at Camel's Hump and passes bv. Ilurneil Hock, then west to tho Three Hones mountains. From here It continues to tho summit nf Lincoln inmin lain. It nffoidB a good place for an outing nnd the :m miles nmy bo t romped m auoui 4 wo days One nf to-d iv'i ilass-Hli'd nils Is, per haps, of f.ir re i. hliur ImpurtaU' O to you, How the "Cubs" nrc learning the null ments of tho newspaper game In tho Pulitzer School of Joiiinnllsm Is told with appreciative humor by some of thu Now York Veterans. The following is from tho Post: If a serious looking young man with notebook nnd fountain pen In hand, should romo bowling head first Into you on your way homo ftom business some bright day, saying, "Pniilou me, my good man, but Is It true that you aro Gyp tho Wood?" you aro to understand that you have fallen Into tho clutches of a member of the Junior or senior clnss In the Pulitzer School for Journalism nt Columbia. Con sequently, the thing to do Is not to call a policeman, but to point out somo well diessed, refined passotby nnd say, "If you're looking for my old friend Gyp, my young man, don't wnsto time. There ho goes now." Then you will br contributing to the edu cation of an undergraduate cub, who will some dny carry his diploma nnd his Lltt. 11. degroe tight Into Pnrk How, and, after depositing his dlplomn and the degree on the top of his handsomely carved mahog any writing desk, will be set to work to rntch nn edition with something like this: "Patrolman John J. Flannngan, of the Hnst 1s7-street station wns standing on the corner of Ktlst street and Third av enue, nt s:16 lust evening, when he saw a man who later descilbed himself as Hieh nrd Moore, ttteiitv-seven years old, of No. 151? Kouwenhoveil (sti t) stre et, Horoujth of Queens, enter the retail gtocery and delicatessen store of K. Litdwlex (correct), at No. Hft! Third avenue, and emerge sev eral minutes later carrying n mysterious bundle partly concealed under his over- urmy'cimt. Patrolman Flnnnagan says that when he ordered the Intruder to hull, the lattrr dropped the bundle and took to I his heels. (New paragraph). "Drawing his revolver, the policeman gave chase. The man wns no match for the officer, and the latter overtook the former at the coiner of i )ne Hundred and Ninetieth street and Third avenue, after ,i f"ii"iis ihnse. lie was taken to the Fast nne Handled and Hlghty-seventh strei t station, and there Incited up on a charge of being a suspicious person. The bundle wns later found on the sld'-walk. and the contents Identified by Ludwlcx ns being bologna nnd Imported frank furters from his "tore." Wheten-M, If be hud not hail the ad vantages of a course In Journalism on Mornlngslde he would sit down and evolve n beginning like this: "Last night at about eight o'clock nn exciting chase took plnce on Third uv enuo, near One Hundred and Ninety-first nn et, between a policeman and a bur glar, l'ortunnti ly, however, the man, who denied thnt he hnd been s'oallng. was caught and nrrested. There was a panic In the neighborhood. howe"er, and Moore, the thief, wns lockiM up In the police station Jail " of coiuse, you never see such things as this In a self-respecting newspaper . Under the teaching of Profissor Rob in Kmmet MncAlarney, the Junior and senior classes In newspaper technique are learning how to handle stories about Patiolmnn Flannngan nnd equally Im portant stories about politics, strikes, runaways, nnd four-alarm edition-time fires, tno and It seems fair to sny that no student will be allowed to tacit a Lltt. It. In Journalism nfter his name If he doesn't know enough to get Patrolman Flamiagiiu's fust name when he writes his tlrst leal stoi y The llrst class In reporting met this morning for bushiest in the lecture mom on the top llnor of Kent Hall, which Is really the Law School building, but which must serve ns a city room until the new Pulitzer building Is finished. There were about twentv cub students In the clnss, and two of them were women. Professor MneAlnrne" hnuiled out assignments bo fore dismissing the class nnd hurrying over to the next city room In the Phll iif phy building, where the senior cubs .i re mobilizing. One student was to lover" democratic headquarters, an "il'er wns to cover republican hend iiuuters, a third was to get a talk with some prominent socialist on the Lawrence strike, a fouith was to nose nround In ihe bull moose headquai ters, and so on. As for the young women In the front row, they were to go together to the Chnrlty OrgnnUntlon society and do a hit of slumming In the tenements, so thai thev would be alilo to put tho sob-sis-ti r llavor Into their "stuff" when, In dins to come, the city editor sent them out on a good heart-throb story. Vou know, (.oldest dny In winter, and ull that. And so to the nior class In Journalism 13-1, "practice in editing and rewriting (opy, lectin cv on dlffeienccs In styles of presentation nnd theories of headlines. Tu., Tli., S., at 10, and S. at 11." There were no young women In this class, but there wns one Chinese student, II. K. Tong, In the fifteen who nsplnd to bo college-made reporters As this class Vind to meet In the hall that is dedicated to philosophy, the familiar handsomely carved mahogany writing desks and gold lillcd typewriters ot u regular newspaper ol flee wire not In evidence. However, with the llrst zip nf the ten o'clock gong, every one of the llftce.it students had a batch of copy In his hand and he had lust fifteen minutes to whip It Into shape, put a bend on It, and catch an edition. Also he had to slug it. Hid the senior i lass in Joiiinnllsm ri-l look up In sur prise when Professor MacAInrney told I hem t" slug all stories? Not a lilt of It. They hnd already learned thnt much Journalism, anyway. Hach Journalist knows what a slug Is, as well as news paper men Sometimes u cnreless fore man up In tho composing room of a reg ular newspaper forgets, and lets a story get Into the tlrst page of the llnal ten star edition with Its slug still clinging to It, and the Innocent reader puzzles over a line like this: SIIUHLN. ...HUSH ONK PACK.... ,.-Ni:W LKAD IUOT.F.TAOI That's a lug. The leader would not be Interested to know the uses of the slug, but to a Journalist In college It Is mighty Impoitant. and the senior class In Journal Ism at Columbia ennnot only recognize a slug at first glance, but can also write one. "Copy boy," called the professor nt the stroke of 10:16. nnd every journalist passed up his magtuim opus and saw It tossed unceremoniously In n heap onjbe proles-sor-eltv-eilltiir's desk. The ri-ult'. "f (piuflcr liour of-Uitl and' labor' lm lu lul Hoy I: N'T FISHING- IS DUOWNHD. fi!fl,wi,eoo to mi:lt noiith I'OLt-: irn. AOK1) ORGAN GRINOF.R DIK8 IN STHKl'.T. It took tho rest of tho hour to explain what was the matter with the heads. Tho Hun describes a Journalism stu dent's Interview with tho press agent of tho democratic national committees Tlio time was 12:lf o'clock yesterday afternoon. Jack Hammond, tho (nil nnd serious young man who Is a press agent for the democratic nntlonnl committee, sat nt his mahogany desk In the Fifth Avonno building doing something or other Important. Presently he was aware that n person hnd passed tho swinging gate and was circling about tho desk as If planning to alight. Mr. Hammond looked up. There con fronted him a youth with a hat In his right hand, a notebook In his left. The eyes of the youth wero blue and wldii open. He breathed like one who had been running. He said: "Whore can I Hnd .Mr. Hnmmnnd?" Helng assured that Mr. llnmmond wns already found tho visitor asked If ho was loo bite. "Too late for what?" Inquired Mr. Ham mond. 1 "To get the news." "What nows7 Tell mo who you aro, please." As the boy explained a rosy light dawned on tho democratic nntlonnl publicist. The boy was In the School of Journnllum opened yesterdnv nt Columbia. Prof. Robert K. MacAInrney hnd nsslgned him to Interview Professor MacAlarney's rilend, Mr. Hnmtnoml. "Happy to oblige Hob MncAlarney and the School of Journalism." until the serious Mr. Hammond. "Now. Just what can I do for you? Hless yon, boy, anything t know Is yours." "I was afraid It would he too late. T understood you went to press at 11 o'clo k. Had a clnss at eleven though nnd couldn't get here." "Vety good." chirped the HJrlouH Mr. Hammond, "Promptitude promptitude, I say. Is the thing I'd emphasize above everything else if I were running a scnnol of Journalism. Vou know it costs a newspaper a fearful lot If It goes to press late. How much oh, about 31C0 a minute." The enquirer found a pencil In" the last pocket that he exploied nnd made hla tlrst note. Here, In his maiden Inter view, was a man with facts and figures. At thn Invitation of Mr. llnmmond he drew up a chair nnd told the expounder of Wilson sentiment Just what he wns nfter. "Professor MncAlnrney," he explained, "assigned me to come down lure and find out how renl reportets on the New Vork newspapers Interview politicians, how .vou manage your bureau and how you get tainted news Into the papers." "Is that all you want to know? Well, where do you want me to begin'.'" The boy laid his notebook on Jack Hammond's desk, where lie could wtlte iiislly and fnst, nnd said: "When the reporters call at the natlnnnl headquarters who do they come to first?" "I l-m-m-m," said Mr Hninond. "Well, vou cm say that they often come to see me official capacity; you understand." "And what do you do?" "Hnnd 'em out canned stuff usunlly." "Canned stuff? What In tin " "Canned stint," said Professor Hammond of the university extension course. "Is the name we bave for typewritten-interviews, statements, straw polls and such that Is manifolded nnd given to all newspapers to do what they want with. In a word, it's easy money for space grabbeig." "And then what do you and the re pot ters do?" put sued the young man with the wide open blue eyes. "We hold whispered conversations," said Mr. Hammond, warming to his Job. "What about?" "Oh, we have hunches. Vou know what hunches are news hunches about this and that and often something else. It's In this whispered conversation that tho reporters get the tips that make big stories in the papers. Vou know repnrt t rs ore always looking for the unusual. Koggone 'em. they don't give a snap for things thnt are. hapening everv day. "Vou have heard of Mr. Unna's re- mnrk nhout the dog? No? will help you in your joumnllstlc work a reporter came tn one day nnd told Mr. Hana that lie had a good pleco about a dog that had bitten a man, and Mr. Dana said, 'Voting man, dogs are always biting men. Now If you hear of a man biting a dog that's a good story, let's have It.' " "Hut thnt never hapens," objected the boy. "F.vorythlng happens," said Professor Hammond; "beauty is truth; truth Is beauty. Next time you see a dog episode that tits Mr. Hann's specifications tell me about It and I'll see that It Is print ed." Tho visitor Mr. Hammond could see from the way he kept after tho lending facts that he's going to he a good re porter himself some day breathed heav ily, made anotliir note and asked. "And nfter the whispered conversations are over, what do you do then "T.ike the gentlemen of the press in to sen our acting national chairman, Mr. McAdoo, tho man who dug the Hudson tunnels." "And what does he say?" "lie usually Miys," replied the veracious Mr. Hammond. "'Well, gentlemen, don't know a thing. What do you know? And that, my boy, Is the way the polltl cal reporters get the news. Of com He, any little thing I can do for 'em" The young ioiirnallst paused in the act of pocketing his notebook for the llunl question how did Mr. llnmmond manage to get tainted news Into the papers? Mr. Hatnoml's stenographer paused with lit tle finger over the tdilft key to hear the answer. "It's very simple," said the serious Mr. llnmmond. "I slip each of the reporter $10 a day." "Vou don't sny! Must cost n lot." "Only $1-0 a day. Twelve of 'cm call on me every dny. The really Interesting l'nct Is that they won't take anything but new bills ci Isp new bills, you must Al ways write In that wny." Mr. Hammond hauled n roll of money from his pocket, seized his hat and arose, "Vou must excuse me now. The report ers lire about due and I've got to go down and get these old bills exchanged for new." The Interviewer express' d considerable gratitude and lemarklng that In the aft ernoon he was to learn from Or. Tnlcott Williams hnw'to run a country newspaper, he went back to Mornlngslde Heights. THE STORY TELLER. OtfLIOING HF.ll. The sweet young thing was being iw. thtough the Hnldwin locomotive work "What Is that thing?" she asked, point log with her dnlntv pnrasol. "That," answered the guide, "is ji engine boiler." She was an up.to-date young lady nnrf at onen became Interested. "And v ' do Hiey boll engines?" she lnqtilrid "To make the engine tender." pM t replied the resourceful guide. -1'. i.n vunla Punch Howl. ' MAYNAIU) AND TIIR MUSK' HOX Hurry Mnynard used to be a m mbrr jf tho House of HeprcsentnUves until Hii voters of bin distrb t laid hlrn p- .: t on the ground, and put upon h' lc bent form the marks of many Iron 'mot thus effectively retiring him to prl i tire. The last tlmo he was in f n tlonnl capital bp wnlI pxplnlnliu.- Jocular manner that an extra S"i . o' Congress would not be nec.essaiv Congress remind, d him, ho bjI' of n plnnola of which lm had heard A n wns preparing to go on hla v&uit'.o' e i wns unfolding his plans to his nlc In the next apartment. "We will be gone a long tlm." 1 1 "nnd we are thinking about tax n ' t pianola with us." "I would," replied the neigh'. o- n h Lord knows It needs a vacat'er i Popular Mngaslnc. TP.OL'HLES OF TRAFFIC SO One ot chief Campcau's train. having lost his new whistle, w.,- to expluin. lie said: "Vou see, l went home last n-- put my whistle on the tahb I round, and, bless me, one of m 1 i choking and nearly blnck in tt You see, he'd swallowed the w' "Is he dead?" asked a sympn'i. deer. "No, sir," wns the replv. r dead, ,ut he's got tho Wlino;.1 . a n l now every time he cough.- u blows -Montreal Telegraph. ' tl,l lir.TTHH TO 01, Mill AM) f Olvo me a man with nn nlm, Whatever that aim may he, Whether It's wealth, or whethi r It - fa -no, H matters not to me. Let him walk in the path ot rn--1 t. And keep his aim In sight, And work nnd prav In faith aiwa With his ye on tho glittering ' Give me a man who rays: "1 will do something well, And make the !! etlng days A story of labor tell." Though the aim he has b- nul It tc better than none ll . With something to do t. w! . ' "oat through. Ho will not stumble or fall. Hut Satan weaves a snare For tho feet of those who ftrav With never a thought or care Where the path may lead away. Tho man who hns no nlm. Not only leaves no name When this life Is done, but ten t ) r.e, Ho leaves a record o .'hame. Give me a man whoso heart Is tilled with nmbltlon's fire; Who sets his mnrk In tho start, And keeps moving It higher an 1 '' cr. Hetter to die In tho strife, The hand" with labor rife, Than to glide with tho stream lr. an idlt dream, And lead a purposeless life. Hetter to strfx'o nnd climb, And never reach tho goal, Than to drift along with tlmo, An almlesp, worthless soul. Ay, better to climb nnd fall, Or sow, though tho yield be sn all Than to throw away day after day And never to Etrlx'o at all r.vi:it-sm"ri,i:n (irnvriovs. The familiar saying that i 't'-urg settlid until It Is settled right ex ir i only a half-truth. Questions of v ' r and permanent Importance are ..ft m finally settled A vet v wisf rnr v s snfil that "short of th.i mult. :v I ir n Well this ln,I(, ,h01.o is nf) truth and no fa -t whtrh tnut not be proved wit again as 'f 't had never been pucd, from tm t -, time" Conceptions of social rights '"l obligations and the Institutions . a I r on them continue unquestioned f t g periods a.s postulates In all dls 'Us ns upon questions of government What. v. r conduct conforms to them Is ass- t. d n be right. Whatever Is at var an v-Ph. them Is assumed to be wrong Th- r a time comes when with apparent sudirn ness the ground of discussion shift .el tho nostulateH aie denied They .f i- ti be accepted without proof, nnd the v le controversy In which they were ,,rlc established is fought over ngnin - S. 'ir Root In the North American It-i r ,v OUR KALEIDOSCOPE. t: AN ARTIST. An nttlst !s .i funny thing. As funn as n saint. The wav he does bedeck About with ollv paint Hist did you hear about the one Who tried once to bedeck The window of the cashier, And Infctoad, he drew a check? And then another time, 'tis sa.d. He did a stunt quite queer, He walked behind a bar, nnd there He drew a glnss of ber Phlladelph' i P ea. ONK WAV TO SAVF. HN'KI.' In front of the chancellery of t lxh legation in Washington th. r. ed this notice: "Office hours from 11 to 12 a m Popular Magiulno. S in- l.'.St- Thu RAOTUIH SONGS. PUOHXHT V "Kvor notice how Jones sings at work?" "Yes, how he tiuiHt hnte It." hti AND COSTS MORK "What Is the difference luiwee year's machine and this?" "The horns have a different s-i- Clement Pnrfettl, young won of Mr. nn.l Mrs. Clement Perfettl of Rutland, was Injured Sundny when he collided, while bicycle riding, with nn automo bile driven by Mottlmor Proctor ot Proctor. Tho nnnual rogntta of tho liko Hoiuokoou Vncht club will bo held August II. Tho regatta will open with a parade of bouts In the inorn- i: The riici s will bo In tlio after "."ll. VF.RY DUM "She doesn't think much uf i . band." "No?" "No She snys even the thine r in his sleep are terribly dull and 4 rating." Detroit l'rce Press. Ol'R PAMPliRF.D PFTS Mrs Kawlor t henr they b.iv. t' ul wonderful performing doir "cr .t th Vaudeville. Jlrs. Do Swell Vos; I took t 1 1'ta yesterday nfternoon, and he mi w4 it much. Huston Transcript. FACUTIOI'S. Lilly You lnssy man 1 gin going to awk inn for someth.n-: t 1 Trump Certainly not, Man 1 mcrelv goln' to prisent von i t of HI tt I' lis. tenth lor Ull 'I . Tlmes-l'iilcn. i art mi w ll a 1 1