Show few good readding clerks the meeting of congress reminds me that it is one of the rarest things in the world to find a good reading clerk said an old reporter and there is I 1 suppose a very good reason or it As a matter of fact it takes a peculiar ype of man to make a read ing clerk there are a great many men who can read wall tor a while but the man wanted by the large deliberative bodies must be able to sustain himself and in order to do this he must learn bow to control his voice in fact he must be as careful of his voice as the artistic singer reading clerks in legislative bod les often have a peculiar condition to deal with on account of the character of legislative halls the men who read for congress also read under difficulties during the last national conventions of the and democratic parties I 1 had occasion to appreciate the difficulties of finding good reading clerks each conven alon selected a number of reading clerks but the service was not at all satisfactory it was impossible to hear the clerks a short while alter they began to read they would itch their voices in a key so high that col lapse vocally was inevitable the voices would soon become husky and the men could not be heard at all another man would be pressed info service with the same result on account of these difficulties it required the services of a number ot men to get the platforms and resola alons before the conventions and at that the reading was of a most Is factory nature for even the delegates who were required to vote on the various propositions involved could not hear and did not know what they were voting for good read ing clerks are indeed rare and t would seem that young men with am baitlon might fand it profitable to equip tb em selves along this line where they are endowed with voices capable ot being developed |