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Show COL. TATLOCK ARCHAEOLOGIST. Exhumes a Reportorial Idol. The discovery, for which credit is duo to the distinguished efforts of Colonel B. W. Tatlock, -that there was such an office as state statistical agent, created unmixed surprise in the local political polit-ical world. But the really astounding phase of the disclosure was that the Federal Government had honored itself and the entire workaday community by presenting this heirloom of political patronage to Colonel William Nelson, author of "Contemporary "Contempor-ary Thought" and managing editor of the Tribune. The fact that the local public had neither heard of the office nor the nomenclature of the holder shows the deep innate modesty of the colonel and Indicates with what assiduous care he lias guarded the secret of his political preferment. There was one fraternity, however, upon whom the revelations made by Colonel Tatlock shed a great light. The class referred to are the reporters report-ers of this and other days, who during present and past years haye had the unalloyed joy of gathering gath-ering news for the Tribune under the ever amiable and facetious managerial eye of Colonel Nelson. This statistical disclosure made many of them reminiscent; they remembered how in years agone, they were hurled out of the cozy reportorial den! in balmy summer of boreal blizzards, and how with frenzied fingers they piloted their way through musty tomes, or dragged pages of numerical numeri-cal from busy merchants, all for the statistical enlightenment of the genial managing editor, and ostensibly for publication in the Tribune. They also recall the terrific thunder of jocose Philippics Philip-pics which was apportioned to them, if the statistical statis-tical harvest was not exactly to his liking. As stated before, the reporters have seen a great light, and if there is an occasional lurid adjective ad-jective in their reference to the subject, it isn't because they love the Colonel less because they couldn't At the same time, Colonel Tatlock has suddenly become a great hero with local reporters who served or are serving a Tribune apprenticeship, apprentice-ship, and if he ever happens around the Press club, the cheers with which he will be greeted will be quite as sincere as they are vociferous. |