The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-03-01
LATEST ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Derrick Dodd, in San Francisco Post.
 Some months ago we called attention 10 the unusually ornate, not to say poetic, style of the Associated press telegrams from the east, and predicted that in course of time that corporation would be com pelled 10 employ novelist of great power to satisfy the growing public taste created for wild and weird tictions of the wires. Suppose the business man does grumble al having to wade through quarter column of associated sentiment 10 find out the price of pig lead in New York, wha, of it! The mind of the general reader craves something more soul-satis- lying than pig lead. If the politician who is forced to digest little four-stiek- tul novelette, in order to ascertain what the republicans did at their last Wash ington caucus, doesn't like it, why, he needn'. take the paper, that's all. What the great, big chuckleheaded public want Is all the romance, mystery, woe, scenery and things they can get for five cents, and if il is all wedged into the tele- graphic news, 1t saves time. They must have i, smoking hot and no nonsense. {. The old fogies who imagine that tele- graphic items should simply be plain, ex- act accounts of actual occurrences, are away off their center. How much, for illustr ation, would the woman of the period care to read of a tirst-class Boston divorce case if ,he eastern agent failed 10 throw around the cold, hard facts of the case the glamour of his own weirdly elo- qaen, word painting at eight cents a word, or whatever the tariff now is!
 "You see, my boy,' old Gobtight. the Washington A. P. representative. once said 10 the writer, " it $ tine dcrnesi hard est thing in the world to gi, anything to send. It's cold day when we can't pad oui a runaway milk wagon into national event.
 The same foxy old manipulator of the "pulsng arteries of the public heart :" .old a story of how one day during a re- cess of congress. when the office was ab- Solately hungering for news, the l" boys heard great crash outside. and. looking out oi the window, saw that a sign had fallen of the roof and killed corner loafer. Some one observed that the vic i'm wore white hat, similar to Senator Smith. of Mississippi.
 ',Great idea shouted Gobright. and m few hours it was dashed throughout the country tha, Senator Smith had been killed.
 0f course," Gobright went on to say oi course, we contradie,ed the report aeNt day, but 1t was leetle rough on Smith for his state legislature was in ses- sion when the news arrived, and they im- mediaiely passed a resolution to the effect tha, Smith was no good anyhow, and elected his successor of hand"
 With which harMoniou. introduction Te call our readers attention to the tol- lowing beautiful efforts of the Associated press romancers, received al the very mo- :nent of our going to press:
 WAsHINGroN, Feb. 9,h.-This after 1oon, at c.Io, portly, but hnc-looking gentleman, stood cautiously peeping ou, from the half-open back-door of an i'm posing white residence, about whose stately portals historical memories of our coun,ry's past cluster like holsehes on he tail of ! government mule. The man gore a Prince Albert coat and g. plug hat, and was carefully disguised by red wig and pair of over-shoes, He carried hshing-pole under his arm, while in one nervous hand he held a perforated tin box full of worms. Reckoning to a 'nenial, he said, in frightened whisper ls the coast clear?r "lt is, sire. ' Has the California congressman been hrcd out :' She is in the cooler, sire '' Are you sure that Wisconsin delegation ssn't hiding somewhere!' "Sure. sire. " No otfice-seekers lurking around the back gate. eh:' 'The bulldog has cleared 'em all of. sire" linen think can venture down to the canal for an hours catiishing,' and he slid out. It was President Arthur.
 NEw YORK, Feb. 9,h.-At exactly Io.i6 this morning the door of an elecan, though quiet residence on Twenty ninth street opened and two ladies appeared. One was whi,e-haired old woman of distinguished bearing, the other a superb beauty oi the patrician type. The latter wNeEe look of ill-concealed anxiety upon As- classic features, and even the pass- ersby noted the suspiciously eager man. oeE Tn which she strove to hasten the de- parture Of her aged relative. The nine reporters who were watching the house from ihe roof of a neighboring beer gar. den exchanged meaning glances A, last the old lady was safely slowed in a coupe and departed. The beautiful wo- man hastily closed the iron, door. In a few moments the back door of the same residence softly opened. and the mos, beautiful arm on the dramatic stage oeckoned to some one without. A fine specimen of the native dude. equal to the best imported, emerged from the shadow of friendly ash-barrel and entered ths house IL was Freddie.
 To be continued in the fourth edition.
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 A Story of Two Iournal,sts.