Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-07

the harvest of Intelligence, inference,
logic. Good newsgathering is q failure
without good writing. How difficult
good writing is after day and part of a
night of newsgathering in one of these
human maelstroms, known to the public
as national convention, no man knows
SO we'll as he who has tried it.
At Minneapolis there will be more
than the usual necessity for rapid work,
because the telegraphic service is not SO
extensive as that at Chicago or at other
cities in which national conventions
have formerly been held. There will be
rush for the wires, and the corresponds
emit who can get his facts quickest and
put them in words earliest will be the
man to win the plaudits of his manag-
ing editor. The newspapers of the coun-
try will report the preliminaries and
proceedings Of the coming national con-
ventions as they have never before re-
ported such gatherings
There are papers in New York and
Chicago which will want and have, if
the wires can be found to carry them, a
hundred thousand words from Minneap-
oils in single night. A hundred thou
sand words will fill eight pages of the
paper, and tn Geographic tolls alone to
New York will cost nearly thousand
dollars, to say nothing of the other ex-
penses. The big newspapers will each
have from five to twelve men at Mime
apolis, and the Same number at Chicago.
The special reports written by these re-
porters will be in addition to the rou-
tine reports made by press associations.
A feature OF newspaper work in the
conventions Of this year will be the il
lustrations. Four years ago newspaper
illustration had not been so fully de-
veloped rs it is today, and while some
capital pictures were then printed the
illustrations Of this year will be almost
as perfect from the graphic and the
artistic point Of view as those which the
weekly illustrated papers will bring out
ten days or so later. The modern news
paper has become such perfect photo
graph of the thought, the occurrences
and the incidents of the day that precious
little is left to the weekly illustrated
journal or to the monthly magazine.
The modern daily newspaper is the
cheapest thing in the world. There is
nothing else that compares with 1t in
value per price. For two cents one may
buy New York or Chicago paper of
sixteen pages. Think for moment of
what it is you get for the price of
postage stamp. First, there is the white
paper. It alone costs one cent, and
white paper, thanks to the development
of machinery and processes, is cheaper
now than it ever was before. To make
white paper, costly machines and appa-
ratus, marvels of ingenuity and intri-
cacy are required. The paper is shipped
to the newspaper Office in huge rolls,
and there it goes througha process com
pared with which its manufacture is
mere childs play. The big roll lies on
the sidewalk where it has been dropped
by the drayman. Tomorrow, you know,
it will appear worked up into printed
sheets. But what Is the method of
breathing the breath Of life, soul, into
this mass of white, inert matter?
EARLY in the morning hundreds of
men in Asia, Africa, Australia. Europe
are the first to contribute their share.
They are news gatherers, telegraph and
cable operators. They write of thrones
armies, famines, principalities and
powers. As soon as the sun has begun
to shine upon the western hemisphere
thousands--literally thousands--of men
take up their part OF the work. They
watch, inquire, note, write. They are
scattered from Hudson's bay TO Pata-
gonia, from ocean to ocean. Through
an almost infinite variety of channels
the results Of their toll, hundred times
abridged, edited, adapted, concentrates
upon the building before which you saw
the roll Of white paper Her twoscorc
Of trained editors winnow again the
shower of intelligence which has been
pouring upon them from the four quar-
tiers Of tho earth. They send Mt dark
the results of their labor to a room IN
which 100 men stand under bright lamps
deftly picking 1000, 600 pieces of metal.
All night long the shower continues,
the meteoric rain, and all night Icing