row looking for a job and get us to work on space because it bounds bigger to a sure they have space men here who amount to something fellows who get big money but they re not like us they make as much as seventy five and a hundred dollars a week but they re men old who have too big a pull and who are too sure of themselves to stand for the low they pay here but they re at the top we little fellows are told that staff about space but all we get is leg if you or i a book about should get hold of a good story don t yon ever think they d let os it i know that they d take it aw and give it to one of these fellows there s one now and he pointed to a large comfortable man in a light brown overcoat and brown bat who was bnt now in he one of my stories just the other day if they wanted yon for r work they d make yon take a regular salary for fear yon d get too of space they just keep us little fellows as to follow ap such things as they wouldn t waste a good man on and they re always firing a crowd of men every three or four m to keep up the np of the staff to keep em worried and working hard i hate the damned i told myself in h that i never would get back in it again bnt here i am i this revelation made me a little sick so this wag my grand job i a long period of for little or my hard earned money exhausted � and then just now he went on there s nothing d around tiie town or i wouldn t be here i m only staying on until i can something better it s a dog s life there s nothing � in it i worked here all last week and what do you think i twelve dollars and five for the whole week time included twelve dollars and seventy five it s an i agreed with him what is this time they i asked how do they expenses and sure they allow expenses and i m going to figure mine more liberally from now on it a a little they allow you for the time yon work but you don t get anything anyhow ill double any railroad fare i pay if they don t like it th can get somebody else but tbey won t let yon do too much of it and if you can t make a little salary on small stuff they won t keep yon even then he anything big goes to the boys on a salary and if it s real big the who are on salary and space also get the cream i went out on a story the other afternoon and around in the rain and got all the facts and just as i was going to sit down and write it � well i hadn t really got started � one of the a book about myself managing � there are twenty here � came ap and took it away from me and gave it to somebody else to write all i got was time i was sore care he added with a ill be getting out of here one of these days being handed this dose of inspiring i was in no mood for what followed i decided that this series of ills that were now him was due to the fact that be was older than myself and m be not very efficient whereas in my case being young etc etc � the youth hands itself � i do better but when it came to my this day and the next and the next and in addition i was handed the late watch my began to each day i was given unimportant or tales which came to nothing so keen was the competition between the especially between the world and the vn or the world and the herald that almost everything by one was looked into and by the others the assigned to me this second day were to visit the city e and there look ap the body of s and girl who was supposed to have drowned herself or been drowned and see if this was as another paper had said and of course she was not beautiful at all to visit a certain hotel to find out what i could a hotel beat who had been arrested this item although written was never used to visit a conference called to debate some supposed changes in faith or method of church development the date for which however had been changed without notice to the papers for which i was allowed time and my time setting aside the long and wearisome hours in which i sat in the office awaiting my turn for an me the handsome sum of two dollars and fifty cents and all the time in this very paper i could read the noblest and most about the need of a higher sense of and what not i used to frown at the shabby of it the cheap that would allow a great to and drive hia a book myself at one end of his and as to duty honesty at the other however despite these little and i was not to be discouraged the fact that i had succeeded elsewhere made me feel that somehow i should succeed here nevertheless in spite of this sense of i was strangely and made more than ordinarily by the ness and force and of the great city its startling of wealth and poverty the air of and indifference and that everywhere prevailed only recently there had been a exposure of the and 