Show I- I I sort Story of the Ie Day jJ ill illI F I SCOOPED ON TEA ThAI artin In was city editor of at the St. St Louis Record and had been for far three years morning morning morning-morning morning it was to him although it it was then Just 1 oc o'clock ack In r that that that Mo Monday day morning Martin was sorely puzzled News there I Iane one ane had been none for a week that i is in the Record Recard although the Times he week Just closed had scored scared three clean beats in which the the Rec- Rec ad not nat even shared till next day Crawford the managing editor had C to ta Martin about this this had had spoken hard Martin knew that an another ather week eek would cost him his position Something had to be done lac he called none too gently From the reporters reporters' room stepped a tall youth of uncertain age anywhere front from 20 to 35 when night work is conS con con- S sand and stood staad silently before the nervous Martin Mac take the hotels lIP p something bring anything bring back whatever r you yau like like anything anything but a good goad the hotel hate I run to an ordinary ardinary r reporter parter is doubtful ground it may I Sahara ahara or a Klondike but Mac was no ordinary reporter Faithfully he heid from one hotel to the next nett but when the ground gl-aund had been covered he I 10 anything anything but a good goad excuse muse mused Mac to as he sat id hotel hatel sharpening a lead pencil and abstractedly noting the figa fig fig- In a Persian rug at his feet teet Then an inspiration gripped him like the thea a From Fram the Planters' Planters he raced up Olive street to the only anly Persian rug fruSt Louis Here he borrowed a catalogue and all smiles internally way to the Record office morning the Record Recard had a clean column beat o over er the Times Theas The Was was as stirring heart damp with happy tears An Arn Armenian family seat scat by bythe the killing of af missionaries In Turkey had been unexpectedly reunited I Louis The father and one ane daughter had come from fram Chicago the son other lather had Just arrived from New York on an their way to Denver and anSon an- an Son pit and two daughters had been found faund In St. St Louis To the Armenian lIt It tit was a rising from tram the dead They had all left St. St Louis for far Armenia hat route was not stated for Car their old aid home hame across the sea where par- par and nd honors awaited them The names were all an there great long odd add dates places details everything Martin was delighted He showed it Ing r g th the enter enterprising Mac the hotel hatel run for far Tuesday But Dut that column of at n oJ Interesting highly-Interesting news had come came solely from Macs Mac's Im imagination reinforced by names obtained from fram the Persian catalogue and the office atlas When Bob Bab Groves Graves the Times hotel hatel man came before the seat of at judgment Tuesday morning Fisher city ity editor regarded him coldly and assigned him to his usual run the hotels hate Is without comment I Groves Graves knew that Macs Mac's story stary must have been pure pipe and If Fisher had lad not nat the eyes to see that too tao why he Groves Graves would say nothing But he was w worried The care of ot Jim a sick younger brother brather ut deep Into his skinny little 15 a week salary I That day Groves Grove tried hard to find legitimate news but there was was nothing sensational to be had In the Planters' Planters however he c caught a man from Calcutta Calcutta Calcutta Cal Cal- and obtained a very readable half the the afternoon Mac strolled Into the same sante hotel and nd began to pore pare over the registers Calcutta he ho mused Calcutta U U-m-m. Dont Don't have a man from Calcutta every day Is this fellow what's fellow what's his name name name-Kilborn in the house he he asked of af Kendricks Hendricks the clerk cleric I Nop Nap Gone a hour ago Times man saw him tha though gh He did jumped Mac 1 Hup What's he like Tall TaIl well dressed bout baut 50 gray hair smooth face tanned of course dark eyes I think Looks like a banker or 01 business man man replied Hendricks as ashe ashe ashe he rearranged his diamond v That was all Mac wanted Two hours later he handed a mountain of at copy to Martin The city editor read the first page with official indifference the second secand stiffened ned him up in his chair at the twelfth page his corn cob pipe went out aut and when he had raced eye-raced down dawn the last sheet he lie yelled Mac In came Mac like a six foot Cupid I See here Mn Ma Map Mais Is Is this straight stuff he asked wl with a corkscrew look oak Its straight the culprit answered as guilelessly as could Mose Mases the cub reporter Just out aut of af the high school schaal Now no piping about this you yau know Mac This Is Isa a whale of af a story It'll go all over the country Its It's a Then to Macs Mac's horror horrar Martin began to give orders A whole page six six- column scare head in Inch four-Inch type type turn turn the artists loose on an it ft That was was all Mac could stand sand The deed had been done dane Mac fled t Theodors little German restaurant upstairs for a chop coffee and repose Na Noi Nota ra a wink of ot sleep did he heget heget heget get that thit night His pillow was as hot as the bed was hard liard and by daylight he and out f fHe I was up He bought baught a Times and the Record Recard from tram the one legged fellow who always held down the corner carner by the There vas ivas was his story stan as faced bare-faced a pipe dream as was as ever penned smeared all over aver the first page and overflowed overflowed over aver flowed flawed to the second secand It told of a new kind of af tea a hybrid formed farmed In hothouses in the Claybo district of India In the remote remate back country a ted that was to be he Introduced to the Western world by Nabob Kilb rn Just from Calcutta Continued tomorrow |