Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-10-14

brac,s his heels against tbs wall little
above his head, and as he works he tcrsws
the nsils of his bootheels into the hard
wall hsrder and harder as he goes on. One
day last summer, while working with I'M
usual vigor on an editorial In reist0n ID
the ever-attractivs, bright-Ie1 cancer in
the Crown Princess throat be WIS
surprised to nee thirty or forty gold
Coins fall on his table Ike blessed adj
vance in his salary. Looking up he dis
cove ed that with his heel he had bored
hole into the vault Of the First National
Bank, next door. Carefully poking back
thu money, hs pastsd sheet Of pare' over
tbs hole, and, marking il Opened by
mistake" he put his hsels against the
drum of O light sorrel coal stove and went
on with his work.
He is extremely eccentric in msny ways,
besid % being thoughtful and painstaklng
liar. ,,|
But it is no. necessary that we abe uld
seek 20 enhance our greatness by assuming
disssreeatls ard offensive air of eccen-
tricity. I know an old newspaper man
who keeps all his memoranda on little cor
rers of envelopes, margins Of newspapers,
ETC., ETC., and preserves them all in the
cos n of his high hat. He else forgets
sometimei and puts burnt t,hes, cigar
clippings ard appls cores in the same plaza
while thinking OF something else. Oaeday
his plug Ia. blew off as he was crossing
ferry and the mkt day there was no paper
published ut lis Office.
certainly hope thst Mr.. Hammond will
insist upon habits of neatness AMI also tidy
aud methodical ussges among bis pupils.
Let them Re early taught thu proper use
of net shook. A lsrge duodeclmo note
book concealed in o shawlstrip, with
pocket inkstand sluug to the shoulder by
means of Russia CT alligator l.ather case
and strap, would be neat and convenient
method for young reporter who other
wise nigh. not be able to c,nvinte people
that he was rip)rter, 10 convey his sta
t'oae from place to place. It would also
cheer and very much encourage the party
to be interviewed.
POOR REPORTER.
A young reporter once came ID me at
my hotel or at least a hotel which had
laid for several times, bat had never ret lily
taken possession Of, and, throwing back
his Spiiog overcoat 80 as to show ell the
satin facing to advantage, he asked ms to
sign my name. :.
Ista.ed my name, residence and rlt-
gious belief. He then drew 'ostb note
book about tie size Of family Bible, and
wet the keen point of a hexagOnal pencil
against the rear of his pbarnypx. Although
was in the midst of personal CONVEX
satioa with a friend of mine in ria
ton to the recent death OF ii, little
child this young 10 lrnalist told me that
he had az ID to W, its a column about me
for his paper, and thus having scared out
of me every grn of ttoJghs and shut
MP the grsat desp, such az tasy were, be
filled hi, large REQ hotel register with cold,
disagrees bic facts, from which he made a
column and o half touched up with his
own scort ute humor, and cloeed by say
ing that l might be flaent writer, bat
that would hardly be selected at once as
a sprightly couverationa]ist.
TIE matter of textbooks is difficult
one, indeed, to treat, and ftar that /
have left very little space after all for even
q reference to it.
I believe that the student should at fist
begin to avoid al offensive, parade Of the
fact thst he is connected with the press
Those wto announce in clarion tones amorg
strangers that they are journalists are gen.
orally moe proud OF the fact than the pro-
fession is A lawyer who talks loudly on
board trsins about the cases he ia engaged
upon is generally ont of a job an d has TO 70
to j all personally to pick up itds pity
larceny cases t, defend. SO with the man
come led with the press. His large dis.
p.sy 10 that effect is generally sn injury TO
nis business AMI taxes the edge off biz
success.
Early lessons, believe, should be con-
Quoted with the uie of the blackboard.
For instance, let tie student write on the
board political paragraph winding up
with the quotation "Dinna we hear the
tlogen?' Next write one which will not
contain the same expression.
Write q brief description o. fire in
which there YVES loss Of $45, s32 81; with
$57, 900 insurance. Csuse of fire supposed
to have been incendisry. The account OF
the lie. t, speak briefly Of the fire depart
msnt, without referriug to the fact that
they we're fife ladies"
ONE WAY TO WRITE 1T.
Write in modern reportorial form, some.