Show PP prominence arance in the presidency of the republic is of often ten the means of 0 thrust ingmen into prominence who dieb pear as quickly as they come into sight perry S heath is one of those or unfortunates according to the way it to is viewed any satisfaction that can be derived from the kind of conspicuousness which was riven given him however must be rather slim it ws wras generally presumed that general harrison Harrt flon would select him for his private secretary but this anticipation has been killed by the choice falling upon elijah W halford anyway the following unique sketch of mr is rather interesting it appears in a leading dally as a washington special perry S heath of this city who is prominently spoken of as a the probable private secretary of president alfet harrison harrisod Is one oae of the unique characters ackers of newspaper row As a newspaper writer ot of romance he has no equal while it is 18 DO fault of his he first saw the light of day in delaware county indiana kitain the classic precincts of a town known on the map of two railroads as muncie usually pronounced non mun ser it was in the year 1817 1847 the mouth month of may lift about the time late potatoes w were e r e be being g planted when young heath made bis his advent into the world and began to rise as a hoosier statesman at ten years of age he announced his intention of becoming an able editor and tor for three years thereafter he was bound out to the nearest at country editor where he be performed effo rm ad the duties assigned him ath wath neatness and dispatch the first three months of his editorial position was devoted to sawing wood for the editorial rooms and delivering the paper to local suase subscribers rib he was by degrees promoted and when eighteen years old was tile the tallest person in the office and had bad been given a ease case he was known as the fastest typesetter in that congressional gress lonal district rod and was frequently mentioned as a good man to send to the alie state legislature the paper upon which he worked was high highly y sensational and 01 on account of the stringent libel laws of indiana at that time the proprietor of the Ps pa per was through enterprise and lorce force of circumstances circum compelled to make his bis headquarters at the county jail while the to editor was thus called away from his hij luxurious sanctum over the northeast corner of the public i quare in th e two story red brick bul building iding heath was given charge of the paper in assuming the office responsibility of the mealy moral and widely circulated paper he delved deep into politics and in so doing changed the political policy of the paper from a bourbon democratic george B mcclellan southern chizer knights of 01 the golden goiden cicele pay lor oar negroes antiwar anti war pa a straight 0 bac at ver P to the traitors freedom of tue ane slaves marcalin Mar marching cilin 1 on to victory pulverizing the so boulb al journal the tae young editor was a born a republican e publican ican his bold and audacious p political 0 revolution of the papers policy P while the proprietor waa serving out a tour four months sentence in the little ittle stone ail caused a great commotion in political circles and it was by a mere scratch that be escaped being hanged by the democrats while the republicans wanted to send him to congress he had bad made such a success of the paper under its new policy that when the proprietor was released from fr 0 fil prison hv he returned to his former place of f business and became heaths deaths as distant in the business of waving the bloody shirt and from that day to this the paper beau one of ithe staunchest exponents of the republican party the little county seat of delaware county conaty became too small lor for the journalistic na listic enterprise of the young man he came east when he be landed in this city he began work on an afternoon paper and the fourth day after his arrival he be succeeded in getting a a four column interview out of president hayes thisbe this he peddled out on newspaper a er row bow selling it for various papers F for r which he r received ane ae I 1 following day hayes denied every ev ery word of the interview but th that at was the method of the then ihen president the interview was genuine and he heath ath went to the front as a rustler rustier from the wild and woolly west he soon branched out as a washington correspondent tor for various papers among them the indianapolis which watch he became the close friend of the president elect while a senator heath was within live five feet of garneld garfield when the latter was assassinated in the pell pennsylvania ave v adia stati station ont and as usual was the first to get the news of the event he is about fix jeet leet in height weighs glis perhaps 10 rofina bonnas 8 aud and has bas large feet and hands he is 3 what be termed slightly awkward and very bashful bailif al when in the presence pre pres senca euca of ladies Jad ties he is unmarried lie he wears a sparsely settled mustache and aad has two large dimples in either cheek his a dome of thought is somewhat bald he is a member mamber of the famous gridiron club but can no more make a speech than he could ju lump over the washington monument te he Us has written hundreds of speeches for others he has the most moat prolific imagination of any of the writers on the row he has no desire to be embarrassed with facts when it cornea comes to writing 4 first claes clai es piece of news one year ago last as t biece june u e he made a trip to europe remaining two months beyond the sea he spent a fortnight in russia in the month of august since his return home ke he has written weekly syndicate letters lettera all of which have been quite entertaining about the winters in that country he is a first class politician and a splendid ludge of men there tire are few writers in waso iuston iton who have bettar news instinct than the probable probable able new private secretary ite ile has as bad considerable influence with toe the present adm in fact so much couch that he succeeded in keeping all of his republican friends f from being disturbed in their positions heath has IL a great head and will make a good secretary |