San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-03-13


II irish to kaOW arhdt hts story ronxus"
1t has been mentioned that Miss iati-
mer had scrap book. Now, one scrap
book differs from another scrap book "a
the north star differs from an ndiseiR-
guishable atom in the Milky Way, but
any scrap box is or may be valuable
The man or woman who keeps scrap
book as it may be kept becomes danger
Gus because powerful II knowledgr
really be power little bits of knowledge
rescued from among the flotsam and jet
sam of the printing press and preservedin
fashion that enables the possessor to put
his finger upon them become Ike 50
many dynamite cartridges stored away
for possible use and capable Of most e.
fective explosion. 1t is not given to
everybody to realize this; but as for me
Ipray that mine enemy may never keep
q scrap book If he should l hope he
may never know how to keep it well.
Miss Latimer's scrap book, it may be
said, was nothing more than one OF
those huge. nisshapen volumes, into
which are pasted, without order. and
often without reason, such scraps"
properly 80 called) as may chance b
strike the owners fancy ut the moment
they are perceived. These books become
in time stored, as many mems minds are
stored, with miscellaneous, unass0rted
collection Of general misinformatiop. Of
no possible t.a3 10 the owner or to any Of
the rest Of mankind, excepting on these
rare occasions when misinformation ex-
plodes in the hand of the holder and
skaters him in minute bits.
Even so poor thing as one OF these
gaudily bound, rattle-te-bang books,
however, may have its use. The Rame
of Allah, as the pious Mussulman re-
members, may chance to be inscribed on
any piece Of paper that blows a-down the
wind So it happened that Miss Lats-
mer came into possession of "a piece Of
paper without which q whole story
would have gone wrong. 1t came about
through curious development of mod
ern civilization. Partly also through
the economy of modern publishers
which impels them to print on both sides
of the same piece of paper.
Innsmuch as no human being has
time to read al that may be written
and printed il these later days on any
subject that may be of interest to him
or her Lew 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 SO much per
clipping By employing such an agency
the student may be reasonably sure Of
seeing al that Is said il Il thousand
newspapers on the subject that interests
him, whereas he could never search all
those thousand publications if he had
forty-eight hours OF spare time every
day.
So it happened that Miss Latin,er, 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 to ono 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
CLIPPINGS ah02. ciCi.itss, :%sI:ss of hor~
ticultur:ats, alleged witticisms, descrip-
tions of collections Of orchids, philosoph-
ical essays upon theluxury Of millioaairss
as ennmIiiliod 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, Cor on the opposite side Of the
paper from that where the orchids wers
she read an account By tho local reporter
OF stay of proceedings asked for by
Lawyer Playfair on behalf of John
Corkins, recently convicted % Burglary.
the prisoner having asserted, i. .-Iita OF
the positive evidence addUced at his
trial, that kU was not John CoTEIns at
all, but that lie was Daniel Tanning, Al.
D., of New York city. II appeared that
the stay of proceedings was soG;N tor
rs a preliminary TO y demand for new
trial, on which the prisoner pronlsoa 10
introduce new testimony. Aud she
further read Chat the court had denied
the stay and had csnsured the lawyer
for bad practice in making such re-
uuest on such frivolous grounds. And
she read moreover that the prisoner, stiH
ASSERTING: that he was not John Corkins,
had actually been sentenced to the state
prison to serve for ten years.
1t was technical sort of report, and
she could net fully understand it. The
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