Show A FAVOUS FAMOUS WAR correspondent an eastern paper begins an arciclo with these words the I of 0 mr robinson Hobl naon to tho pall mall blatt gazette on the tha conditions in matan zas and havana Is in a n ory of oc writing writing lie mas wi a prisoner from the day lie landed at matanzas banzas to tho the day he was waa a ared allrud fro from m the illand lilan rl and his hah lies for r a accurate C observation under those circumstances must muot have been very slight we wonder if that is riot not sir mr phil robinson Hobl of odorous memory in fit utah it it Is then no matter what ho he writes irl tes there Is one way through which to safely judge hla his statements that Is by assuming in advance that it there la is a word ot of truth la in them then the writer made a mistake and will see that it does docs not happen again in the quiet 0 of a prison cell in matanzas mr robinson could write a better account of 0 the situation in havana than lie he possibly could irom from actual eye eight tor for in III not the human eye imperfect but the eye of 0 phils imagination lies haa no stigmas balt inia the darker the alio cell the closer its vision indeed no cell could confine it it would go out through the keyhole and once on the outside it would poise its wings and hover i above the darkened city and alth fill the th searchlight of one ot of the most elastic of consciences would mark and make mak a note of 0 all below and a good deal i more lie he was a most accomplished liar a dozen years ago and tor for a consideration could make black vo bite alto even then think of 0 his practice since then his natural abilities and III bis is faculty of adjusting means to ends and imagine J what he be must lie be now no cour courtesy tesy touches him izo qualm ot of honest crati tude tuda ever interfered to prevent hla his writing a catchy false falsehood hoo d about people whose whore hospitality he be has enjoyed to pat cat a mans food and then to slander blander the females of 0 the marls mans family faintly waa his I 1 idea of a good joke if blanco hod had but known him ho he could for 37 7 havo have employed him to describe havana as a new gibraltar frowning rown lne with modern great guns euna and hedged about with dynamite and to have described blanco as the grandson rand gon of war matra a find and the second cousin of mercury it if all the war correspondents were like mr robinson tho the war could easily be fought out by their pens and coull could the world or journal secure his services in new york tork it would not need to send bond away tor for news phil could ix fix the business through his clairvoyant dispatches and beat the universe for reliable news |