The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-19
HOW THE WORLD DID.
One of the Stories Covering the Shell
don Daily.

don Daily.
Fred Nye, the New York World CORE
spondent sent his paper the following:
Especial to the World
Topeka, March 1.-THE second issue
of the Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon's Chris
tan daily newspaper, although general
ly considered a trifie more attractive
than the first, failed to remove the i'm
preston of disappointment. The editor
himself in a talk to the CORRESPONDENT
this forenoon, tacitIy admitted that the
publication had not been an unqualified
success.
Il have made Mistakes he said, land
no doubt shall continue to make them.
The paper is bound to be imperfect, but
1 hope that in the trial of the expert
ments something may be struck out,
perhaps at random, which will be of
lasting benefit and lead to glorious re-
suits"
A cartoon exhibited in store win
dow today showed a man reading copy
of the Capital and pronouncing it "a
! fzZle." The picture was anything but
| funny, but crowds stopped to look at ii
and laugh and so far as known, no one
objected to the exhibition. The raid on
the speak easies" and iquor-selling
| drug stores continues. About twenty
| five of these resorts have been invaded
| by the police.
The proprietors are taken to court
and fined, and probably in a few days
| will be permitted to open again Their
/ business is constructed with view to
these raids. Not more than a half
! dozen bottles of liquor and a dozen
! glasses are used and the liquor is dis
| pensed over a rough board counter or
| simply from hand to mouth with no
| bar at ALL The confiscation of the
| whole stock in trade of such a place
| means the loss of only a few dollars.
Mayor Drew, when asked about the
raids today by The World correSpon-
| dent, said they were the usual periodic
/ thing, and had no connection with the
| publication of the religious daily. Mr..
| Sheldon'S paper continues to ignore
! them.
The preacher editor had an opportu-
| nifty to apply his new theories in jour
nalism in a striking way today. J. S.
| PETER, a son of ex-United States sena-
tor PETER committed suicide in Kansas
| City. The father and mother of the
dead man live in Topeka, and the city
editor of the Capital proposed to Mr..
/ Sheldon that a reporter be sent to the
| house to obtain what news was there,
| including the probable date of the fune
raj and the place of burial
! by no means" said the editor. I'VE
will not invade the sanctity Of the home
at such a time" When the press dis
patch conveying the story of the sui
eide arrived Mr.. Sheldon cut it down to
the smallest possible limit and added
| editorially the lesson which the tragedy
seemed to him to convey.
Another incident which showed the
kindness of his methods occurred in
| connection with a. series of interviews
| which he had instructed his reporters
! to get from railroad engineers and fire
| men on the question of Sunday labor.
| OF course the editor hoped they would
| protest against working on that day,
| and equally, of course as he had failed
| to foresee, they hesitated to put them
selves on record in that way, fearing
| the loss of their jobs. We all know
| what the average editor would have
said as the reporters struggled in to
announce their ill-success but this new
/ editor with the nervous and kindly
| smile said to each: Very we'll very
well; but 1 hope you did not bother
them, that you did not ask any man
for an interview but once. The Cap
ital wants no interviews that are not
voluntarily given
As the kindly influence of the
preacher comes by degrees to pervade
the Office one hears less and less of the
goOd-na tured jeering with which many
members of the force greeted his ad-
vent in their side remarks. They are
all learning to be friends with him.
| They still think that he is a pretty
poor editor, but they are convinced that
he is a good man and sincere to the
core
The rule against smoking has borne
some strange results. The assistant
foreman, who answers to the remark
able name of Kansas University Whit
ted has been an Inveterate smoker for
/ years. He had a hard time of it the
first day the new rule went into effect
'but it was easier for him yesterday, and
today he announced that he'd quit al
together One of the printers has
passed through the same process of re
form.
A curious rule which Editor Sheldon
t.has made is that all copy. typewriter
or handwritten, shall be prepared wi Il b
the lines close together, in order that
he may read two lines at a time. He
declares that he always reads a book
or newspaper in this way and has done
so since childhood.
He is having a serious time of it with
the doctors of the town. He sent writ
ten requests to each of them that they
prepare for him two hundred words on
l.'fWhat Science is Doing to Prevent
| Crime" He has received eleven re-
sponses and the shortest is / 200 words.
Editor Sheldon is receiving letters
from cranks and eccentrics Of all de-
grees. Today a letter came to Mrs
i Sheldon. In this envelope was a second
addressed to her husband, and in this
was a letter from a deacon in Indiana
He said that he wished Brother Sheldon
God speed, and that he had taken this
means of making sure that his message
should be delivered TO the editor him.
self, knowing that in the mass of cor
respondence any particular letter was
liable to be overlooked.
At the catechism class tonight, Edi-
tor Sheldon was asked why he eimi-
mated certain features of the news
which he knew that the public de-
manded For the same reason he
said, that I don't give my child every
thing he wants."
Then your editorial attitude toward
the paper is paternal?'
Exactly
The first morning after his all nigh