The evening times., 1899-10-03

/ The prisoner made for the Wabash River,
and the boy was after him. firing as he
! ran. One bullet came close to the pris-
/ oner and he lodged into a lumber yard
. into which the boy followed, taking two
more shots. finally cornering his man and
marching him back TO the Jail
/ McCutcheon took his degree at Purdue
| University in 1889. His reputation in col
! lege was earned by writing although he
had attempted some peu-and-ink draw
ing. He wrote most of the stuff and
| drew nearly all the pictures for the first
annual ever issued at the university
and he was the author of a very clever
burlesque performed at the classday ex-
| ercises of his class. When he finished COL
| lege it was his intention to try for q
writing job on a newspaper, but after he
had looked around and observed the sup
| ply and demand in newspaper offices he
| decided that the larger opportunity and
| the more becoming salary awaited the
Illustrator. SO he came to Chicago in Oc-
tober, 1889, and succeeded in getting a
trial with the Record" He became a
newspaper artist. and in time developed
into a cartGOnist. against his will but he
never promised anyone that he wouIdn' [
De a frst-class war correspondent if he
found the right opportunity.
1t is true that he happened to be on
his way around the world, which proved
tEat he had the enterprise Of a traveller.
or, as previously suggested. was trying TO
escape the distinction Of being the man
who drew the dog. His arrival at Mrs
Bay in the nick of time was not in the
nature Of an accident. Neither was his
presence on the firing line during the con-
tinued weeks of fighting. This last surely
cannot be classed as an accident. 1t is
! ton prolonged.
McCufcheOD aufsrad IIafHIC= syit
ston. He entered San Fernando with
Major Bell. Probably when the United
States soldiers capture some more Filipino
capitals he will enter them with the ad-
vance guard also.
". drawing pictures or telling stories
McCutcheon has natural preference for
exact truth. He can't help it Formerly
when he drew men and women for the
stories in the Record he made real men
and women, such as you see in State
Street. Now that he is in the Philippines
he has been picturing what is there. The
| Times Herald would have him represent
| the FIipinos as strewing flowers in the
| pathway OF General Otis. But the Fill
| pinos have not been strewing any flowers.
and so. of course. McCutcheon couldn't
| make a picture of it. You can't make a
picture Of something that doesn't happen
| that is if you are truthful The oniy
| thing you can make out of something that
doesn't happen is an official bulletin
The man up in the Times Herald" office
says tha. McCutcheon appears TO have
been the crime mover in the attempt to
| override tfs judgment of the commanding
| officer in tSe Philippines There are
eleven correspondents. representing the
| press associations and influential news
papers, not including the Times Herald. "
which has no correspondent at Manila
| These correspondents are rivals and CON-
petitors-strivinx to outdo one another in
| securing and forwarding important news
| Anyone who can tnduce eleven independent
| and self-reliant newspaper correspondents
| to agree to any proposition against their
| separate wills is more than prime
| mover" He is a NarOleon.
| Yet this is what tie Times Herald
thinks McCutcheon has done. Either that
| or the entire eIeven fully believed what
| was written on the paper which they
| signed, and were not under the malIgn
| influence of the "clever cartoonist." Or
| again, it may be that they signed it as a
| favor to McCutcheon. because he was the
| man who drew the dog.
| Anyway. they shouldn't have signed IT,
| because it has made lot of trouble. II
| has put the Times Herald" into cold
perspiration.