Show WASS r af ra BYRON 11 the cub reporters fate politics were working like a can ot int polly s preserves in D when ane cub reporter secured a sit on the aning fog horn and was sent out to get the great danville s speech or early copy danville was a friend of the paper andi a good fellow when the cub found him at the burris hotel be said ye in barkis is willin mood and summoned a stenographer while the steno made curley cues the cub sat on the toot of a sofa in danville s room and wondered when he would be great and influential like danville the speech being transcribed the reporter proceeded to interject into the copy at divers closing paragraphs the cords great applause demonstration in the audience uproarious commendation and the like then he handed in the man and went out to the sinker counter to allay the hunger within now danville was a much admired speaker but a lesser light than e ther the gubernatorial candidate or the lp cal chairman 7 both of whom talked long and dryly at the evening rally despite the tact that many people had driven in from the rural districts to hear danville who was last on the program it was soon eu dent that he would not be beard ex capt very briefly thus there ft as uneasiness in the nauseated throng and disintegration of the compact body as the farmers pulled their freight for pastoral haunts to further embarrass there was to be a politicians banquet at the lead ing hotel following the speeches and this must not be delayed too long danelle much chagrined but tact tul settled the fidgeting by calmly referring to the lateness of the hour and withdrawing to his hotel the cub reporter busier than he had ever been with the cross roads advocate was throwing off copy in bales while all this was happening on his way to the hotel however he stopped in the office of the fog horn and hastily shouting up the tube to the city editor to revise that dan ville speech hurried to the banquet hall he as vis excited over his political affiliations when he returned to the office but he obeyed instructions ewhen the city editor blurted sutton write a caption to that danville article say you met him in athe rotunda of the hotel and he spoke on the issues of the day as follows cub retired at 4 clock that morning feeling he had earned at least a part of his stipend that night but his sense of security and agrati fi cation was visibly jarred next morn ling when he read the fog horn he discovered disco ered there w as the caption to danville s speech all just as he had writ ten it danville in the rotunda of the hotel tall ing to the reporter and then horrors in the body of the article were those interjections standing out as boldly as a blue and red polka dot rapper at a sunday school picnic great applause demonstration in the audience cheers and all this when the great dan valle was talking to a mere reporter in a hotel the cog had slipped chis incident happened during the year of the big wind and was curl bously about the time that the cub blew out of the fog horn office to test his ability to swim on other blad ders in untried seas 0 prospective glory it is not wise to throw bricks even when out of the glass house district in an illinois town a bootblack annoy ed a man at the depot the man pro testing angered the vender of shines who threw a brick at him the target unfortunately was the superintendent act the road and he issued an order to keep all bootblacks newsboys and other peddlers off the platforms if you ant the news at this station now you have to ask the voluble 9 ticket agent tor it with the usual results ten years ago the expenditures of the new york department stores were less than one halt of that of today to day twenty years ago it less than one tenth thirty years ago it was a minute traction note how these stores have prospered and broadened does advertising pay in the country town especially the women do the shopping wise is the advertiser that appeals directly to them it the girl doean doesn t know how to cook she may have the money to hire one this is worth investigating every true soldier if he must be shot prefers to receive his wound facing the enemy A man seldom feels sure of his per fonal appearance when his wife buys his neckties it is impossible to tell a gentleman by abe frequency of his visits to the babber shop how many tons of coal will it take and how close did ou come to it last winters if all predictions brought rain we ft soon need another noah s ark to see the greatest grandeur one must first climb the mountain side A woman with pretty teeth usually sees the point of a joke quick what to the young man is a vision Is td the old man a dream A sweet voice in a woman Is a areat aid to cupid |