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Show THE "ECOf.r 'A'RITER. ! I Tim Uiiu Aloux Wl.l.-h Ho W'urt.-fw tile lii "StUi-uie."-Method. A late aspiru.nl for honor III the newspaper news-paper world is the l.j-j::i writer." Ueetitcra j a Ujv.ii, and with Lis quick ee and acute, mind readily comprehcudi tue line alonj; which ho must w-jr. Uu U fertile in ro-toiiri'irs, ro-toiiri'irs, "subc-me," L: says, lie talks witb tome, of the leading men, and expresses his biirpriaw tijat a to'.vn so happily cituaui, .tii so many naLural advantages, has not lfjjio more widely knywu. There Is no eartnly r'-ii-nxi, ho Ravi, why Booirmlle uhouid not become a metropolis. Thousands , of people to the crowded states along the AXr j lautie coa.it are .-:ircbing tuo paper eagerly , frjr u wi(rn tuwnof promise in which to! inv.-t thir hoanla of wealth. The money: burns to 1)0 lu vested. All that 1 needed 1 to lot the-e gre,-ly people know about Boom-villi) Boom-villi) and It wonderful reMOurces. Having intereoted bis ht-arerfl, the boom writer now inaku-s a contract with the proprietor pro-prietor of the daily Gossip or the wewkly Tell Tale for a certaiu amount of space in each isHiio. Soon tbo quiet, alow going citizen sees In bis morning pajjer coluuina of burning, pro-phetic pro-phetic won U graphic pictures of Boom-vilk-'s prosperity and rich Hurroundlngri. il ! oixiu.s lin eyes iu aiuazeuient to think he has I lived lu BoomviUe so Iok and has never emaiicd these startling truths. Aliiteration runs mad in the columns of a paper which, but a few days ago, was content to chronicle the local g'"ip of the unnntning town. Poetry, putriotism, figurative tungiinga, columns of figures are crowded in aconfused mass. The boom writer knows how to make ; figures lie. j Enthusiasm Is contagious. Tho citizens of Bouinville grow interested. Real estate offl- 1 cea open in every vacant room, and trades la lots become tho chief business of tho day. All these are duly chronicled in the glowing words of the boom writer, who begins now to reap his harvest. He Re'ls copies of each Issuo of the paper in bundle's of hundreds to tho enterprising citizens, who mail them to friends anil acquaintances iu older towns. A subscription list is made for the purpose sending over tho land these graphic accounts of the new metropolis. The boom writer unfolds one scheme after another, as the excitement ex-citement increases, and hispocketbook grows corpulent. When his quick eye sees that the enthuat asm begins to waver, the boom writer remembers re-members that he Is engaged to write up the next town, and away he goes gayly, leaving BoomviUe to siuk slowly back into a quiet life, but not the same life, for the boom writer has so aroused the faith of the Boom-villians Boom-villians in tbo future prosperity of their city that years of dull times cannot wholly destroy de-stroy their confidence. C. L. Btonaker in The Writer. |