The Springdale news., 1889-10-11

| things he had heard relative to the central committee. It was a good pointer and the reporter inquired how he had 'got onto it.. The artist with much show of secrecy then told the scribe Of a closet off the main shop which was next to the meeting room of the central committee and said that, in place of a window between the two, there was d wire screen, so that any one in tn closet. it being dark, could not be seen but could hear every word that was said. What snap for an am- bilious reporter! With some assistance from the barber he secreted himself in the closet during every session of the committee and his reports day after day of secret work caused con5tcrnation among the members. They could not imagine the source Of the papers in- formation and each one suspected the other of betraying his trust. They did not however change their place of meeting and that Republican paper had q continous grist of talk, moves and scraps of the committee during the whole campaign.
 Notwithstanding universal belief to the contrary, the reporter is but human after all and his cunning often fails to secure the hoped-for successful results. 4 young fellow was once sent to faith cure establishment. Arriving at the l place he saw q room full of people all evidently afflicted and desiring relief. He loo6ed carefully about him to see 1 fl there was any other reporter present or any one who might know him, and seeing the coast clear in that particu- l lar determined to try and get to the in side of what he believed was but q fake. He noticed a procession being formed for the purpose ot being an- nointed, that operation being a neecs- sary preliminary to entering the inner circle where the healing act was per formed. The reporter wanted to go through the whole business and he, therefore, joined the procession. He was marching along with solemn face. trying his best to look as if he had sOme- l thing the matter with him. anG had it bad, when to his surprise some one called out his name and with laugh said: "Got 'em again2' The reporter maintained his solemn visa9e and com pletely ignored the salutation. lie marched steadily on and was about to enter the annointing-room when one of the professors. standing at the door eye ing those who passed, gently laid his hand upon the reporters shoulder and said: My brother. let me ask, what is your ailment?n Staggered for q mo- ment by the sudden query, the reporter hardly knew what reply to make. and, catching a quizzieal glance from the doctor eye. his face broae into a smile ard lie said: "The liquor habit. T thought se,' said the doctor; you had better get out of line and take seat; l will tell you all you must know about thi5 matter after while you are q re- porter. The scheme did not work this time and the defeated but uua- bashed scribe waited and took what of fact or fancy the doctor chose to give him.
 In an Indiana town. some years ago, some women had organized a secret so- ciety. They used to meet regularly in school-house. and, whatever object they had in organizing. the society con- | tinued for many months. and for all the much talked of inability of woman to I,i n, forts 10 discover the reason of is ex- istence, and. so far as any revelations made by members was concerned, the society might be in operation still. The ladies were true to their oaths of se- crecy, but they had the unsuitable curi- osity of the persistent reporter to con- tend against. and that disturbing ele- ment of society brole them up and came very near breaking his own neck at the same time. This ambitious news paper sleu1h made quiet investigation of the sehool-house premises and found that over tho meeting-roOm was an attic, and in that, close to the head of the stairway leading to the attic was a stove-pipe hole. Tine door leading to the stairway was locked, but that diff culty tho reporter easily overeame by getting a key to fit, and thus he was enabled to leave the door as he found 1t after he got inside. He knew the day and hour of meeting, and after he had completed these arrangements he went to the place one day, determined to fathom the meaning Of the secret i conclave. Just before the time for the l ladies 10 assemble he put himself in a 1 position where he thought he might hear, if not see. what was going on; but before the meeting was called to order he saw that by changing his po- silon he could not only hear, but see, and he determined to try and se- cure that vantage ground. Slowly and quietly he moved himself about, gradually nearing tine place he coveted, when suddenly a slat he was bearing on broke. throwing him heavily upon the weak lath and plastering, which, giving way, he was precipitatcd to the floor