Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-04-28

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nis finger upon them become like so
many dynamite cartridges stored away
for possible use and capable Of most eff
fective explosion. 1t is not given to
everybody to realize this; but as for me
| pray that mine enemy may never keep
a scrap book. If he should | hope he
may never know how to keep it well.
Miss Latimer's scrap book, it may be
said. was nothing more than n Of
those huge, misshapen volumes, into
which are pasted. without order, and
often without reason, such scraps
~(properly so caleb as may chance TO
strike the owners fancy at the moment
they are perceived. These books become
in time stored. as many mems minds are
stored. with "A miscellaneous, unassorted
collection of general transformation, OF
no possible use TO the owner or to any OF
the rest of mankind, excepting on those
rare occasions when misinformatiOn ex-
plodes in the hand Of the holder and
skaters him in minute bits.
Even so poor a thing as n Of these
| gaudily bound, rattle-te-bang books,
however, may have its use. The name
Of Allah, S the pious Mussulman re-
members, may chance TO be inscribed on
any piece of paper that blows a-dOwn the
wind. SO il happened that Miss Lau-
mer came into possession of a piece Of
paper without which a whole story
would nave gone wrong. II came about
through a curious development Of mod
ern civilization. Partly also through
the ecOnom Of modern publishers,
which impels them 10 print on both sides
Of the same piece of paper.
Inasmuch as no human being has
time to rad all that may be written
and printed in these later days on any
sub1ect that may be Of interest TO him
or her a new industry has sprung up
within ten years. People read newspa
pers for other people. sending to their
| customers such clippings as may bear
| upon any given topic at 20 much per
! clipping. BY employing such an agency
| the student may be reasonably sure OF
seeing all that Is said in q thousand
newspapers ON the subject that interests
him, whereas he could never search all
those thousand publications IL he had
fortyeight hours of spare time every
day.
So it happened that Miss Latimer, af-
ter she had returned TO her city home
and had taken up the particular line Of
study that interested her for the time,
sent an order 10 one of the bureaus
where such work is done, for all the
publications that might appear about
the cultivation Of orchids.
To her presently then came various
a-.LTIa. w.ng-4a - h.
tculturists. alleged witticisms, descnp-
tons of collections Of orchids, philosoph-
ical essays upon the luxury Of milhOnaires
as exemplihed by orchids Of fabulous
price, and untold varieties of comments,
for orchids were Just then the fashion
able craze. And among all these scraps
came one from a Bloomington paper.
She wondered. as she sat with this last
IN her hand, whether it were the paper
or the whole world that was upside
down, for on the opposite side Of the
paper from that where the orchids were
she read an account by the local reporter
Of a stay Of proceedings asked for by
LAWYER Playfair on behalf Of John
COrhns, recently convicted Of burglary,
the prisoner having asserted, in spite OF
the positive evidence adduced at his
trial, that he was not John COrkns at
all, but that he was Daniel Farming, n.
D., Of New York city. 1t appeared thai
the stay of proceedings was sought foE
~ q preliminary TO Q demand for . nsv
thai, on which the prisoner promised d
introduce new testimony. And sh1
further read that the court had dhnicd
the stay and had censured the lAwyel
for bad practice in making such q re
quest on such frivolous grounds. And
she read moreover that the prisoner, still
asserting that he was not John Corhn
had actually been sentenced 70 the stat
prison to serve for ten years
It was a technical sort Of report, and
she could o fully understand it. Th'
reporter seemed to assume that the read
er had seen q previous story Of the trial
bat she gained a general understanding
from the few paragraph, and a. sh'
read she wondered what It could Al
mean Was It possible that this man
Daniel Planning, whom she-wen, whom
she remembered, was . convict
Over and over agAin she read the bre
story, and wondered - she read vha'
II CUu4u puonby 4o8l- ~ OCoAA - v
true, she thought, but even a. she tina
70 think 50 stories came 10 her mind o
innocent men who had suffered mis-
taken punishment, and she presently be
gan 10 consider what she could do
And the eminently sensible suggestion
came to her that she could at least fn6
out about il. Fortunately it was earl
in the day, and she was within q few
minutes in her carriage driving towar'
her lawyers Office
Mr.. Willwright," she said on enter
ing. HI wish 10 know at nce what thi
story means" and she handed him tn
slip.
The old lawyer read the story care
fully, and said without hesitation, /"
should say that it mean that the judg
! was entirely right in ~censurng that law
yer for q very irregular motion"
sSOhi bother the Judge and his cen