The herald., 1898-12-31
DOWN the LINE

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who is usually responsible for this column
took the train. yester-
Our Sacramento day for the north, en-
Correspondent route for Sacramento,
whence he will give
The Herald readers the very latest and the
| most inside news concerning the senatorial
scandal. There is not man in the state TO-
day better posted on the many and devious
lines laid for the senatorshp than Otheman
Stevens and his dispatches from the front
will be awaited with much interest Stevens
is now one of Los Angeles veteran journal
lists and besides the thousands Of stories he
has written knows many hundreds more that
will never be revealed until the day of judg-
ment. He is a man of many friends and
very few foes, which is tribute both to his
amiabihty and his sound judgment after a
dozen years newspaper work in this city.
During "Steve's" temporary absence, Cos
siper, jr., will endeavor to keep his column
warm for his return, at which date he will
expect the subject of this panegyric to put
a supper for the crowd at the Press clubs S
table for value received.
o O o
Stevens has, during the last ten years,
occupied about every position on news
paper, from office boy
College Bred to managing editor.
Journalist but believe thisis his
first assignment a.
special correspondent in the field. That he
will fall as gracefully into the way of it as
he has into every other thing he has ever
tackled goes almost without saying. By the
way, "Steve" is a standing argument on the
right side of the old controversy as to
whether finished education is really ad-
vantageous in newspaper work or not.
"Steve" in his youth was afforded the oppor-
tunity to receive liberal education and
embraced it. Later he finished the educa-
tion off by foreign travel and study abroad.
He is of the type known in the controversy
as 'the college-bred newspaper man."
Alongside of him for the past ten years
newspaper men have been working who are
OF the type known as the "born newspaper
man." In their youth they played hockey
from school and went swimming in the mill
pond or carried water to the elephant and
saw the circus, instead of storing their
minds with useful knowledge for the future.
These are the newspaper men who occupy
the same positions on the paper year after
year, never going up or down the ladder,
until they are played out, and their places go
| to some younger man and they 60 to-the
devil.
Anyone who has followed "Steve's''
work of late years has not failed, am sure,
to note another advantage which the col
lege-bred newspaper man" has over the 9TH
er one. Whenever he was at loss for the
right idea or expression, all he had to do was
to slap in little French or Italian or Ger
man or Hawaiian idiom or phrase and the
reader who hadn't the least idea what it
was all about supposed that it was some
thing sublime, of course. And the home
made newspaper man turned seventeen
shades of green with envy of him.
o O O
j. P. Stocksdale, whose business it is to
see that you have good time when you drop
into the Columbia
Stocksdale's club rooms, was tax.
New Thing ing pains all day yes
terday to tell every
body that he has something new which he
hasn't had before for twenty years. He
had everyone guessing and was enjoying the
air of mystery with which he had surround
ed himself immensely. There were all sorts
of guesses, but the nearest, perhaps, that
anyone came to it was when a friend sug-
gested that it must be a clear conscience.
| The very mention of such a thing so ex-
asperated Mr.. Stocksdale that he refused to
permit the thing to go any further, and gave
it out officially that he has the pleurisy.
O o O
In the Nadeau corridor yesterday l
CHANGED to be, for a few moments, where
could not help but
An Honest overhear converse.
Assay tion between a gen.
tleman who is evil
IDENTIFY promoter of mining companies and
a gentleman whom took to be a capitalist
seeking investment in mining property.
"Why, look at the assay" says the promot-
er. Figure it out for yourself, man. Talk
about profts Forty dollars a ton as it
lies on the dump, and you can mine and mill
it for less thanSl0!"
But there may be something wrong with
the assay" suggests the man of money.
What? Something wrong with that as
say? Great heavens! Say, SO help me God,
the man that made that assay is the honest
est man l ever knew. He is SO honest that
| have often thought there ought to be some
bigger, stronger word in our language to ex-
press his kind of honesty. He's just simply
damned honest; that's what he isl
Then drifted out of hearing
O o O
Clarence Martin of Pasadena, who is a
royal good fellow, anyway, was telling yes
terday = speaking of
Martins Christmas = how he
Munificence and another Pasadena
chap endeavored to
have good time in New York city one
Christmas day about twelve years ago.
I'VE had made some money i'm Pasadena
during the boom," said he, 'and we were in
New York for good time. We were happy
and we wanted everybody else to be happy
too. As we walked along the crowded
streets in the. down town part of the city,
whenever we saw youngster who appeared
to be having poor sort Of Christmas We
would each take out silver dollar and
match them. The one who won was
obliged, according to our agreement, to give
the dollar he had won to the urchin. Final
ly, after we had made several urchins happy
in that way policeman caught us in the
act. We hadn't been particularly careful,
because we did not know it was against the
law.
Here, here here, move on there, lively,
now. III run yez in; no more ov that;
we'll have none av this Sandy Claus business
on tn sthrates Move on-not whord-rll
run yez in, shure."
We moved on.