The sun., 1900-12-23
rIpEON A CAMPAIGN TRAIN.
,o,ryrigrs og COMMANDMENTS
MN GOt. ROOsstEJf'
. a., r,,es,sph Omse - w''hsps ~
p,.rs,ehe' p'm'o''ic' ~ os'eh'"s
,,,I,. IN. Ioosi Committees -tses
,,, ,IsIIsrcc q tommittee'

A., Iy.,E and gildcd luxury, pafucuIafv
=, ID. la clmpalgn train No one ever
,.',,I LOO, more wc1tisoms and ~orrl'oins
-, tho lsirnol darlington. Darlington
-. tb, .alrrrspondent of an evening news
,.,.r which took it,clf very seriously. THIS
"a. mite Ht'ing. because Bablnston. too.
ak himself seriously. Nobody ever saw
. .ory os h.s nnv,papcr In all the forty-hve
A.. ,hu Bnbingtnn labored on the train
r-,,,h carried col Roosevelt and his fellow
o,,,or. out to Idaho and back again. soms-
,lns, solemn suspicious wore srpressed
n,t Bab really had no connection with
,.ssraper. but was An emlssary of tho Hon.
,.rn shoe Bill stone Of Missouri masquerad-
icca-a newspaper man to spy out evidences
a, E.pghcan iniduity. or course all such
,,,g WA. mere badinnee. for everybody
krors that Gum Shoe Bill never wasted
az money on such trivialites a. finding
olt what thu enemy was doing. No mind
r.. .,r needed To- go to such needless expense.
Moreover. Seth. the colored porter. once
,erortpd to the rest o, the newspaper crowd
on the train that ho had seen Bah receive
n mail package that looked as II II contained
,eyspapers. but that Bah seemed very anx-
ious TO conceal II and took II in TO his berth.
After his disappearance there was great
rl.ting ~ paper within the berth and sue
cesNve lighting OF many matches. to which
the ever-vigilant Seth objected. Where
mon Bah had dressed himself and had gone
out INTO the city where the train was resting
for the night and had procured one OF those
incandescent electric storage lights, with
which he retired to hls berth and TO renewed
rlstlings. Questioned as TO the matter the
,e,t dav. Bah said that II Seth attended to
kn al n " oil
a. he attended 70 other peoples hs would
Sc. more quarters.
IN a spiri. OF widest hllarity one OF the
brethren suggested once that tho reason
why Bab so diligently y concealed copies OF
his esteemed publication from the rest OF
tae crowd was that each and every copy OF
1, contained a scoop on the universe and
,ba, Bah was afraid that II the other news
rarer men saw how superior to them he was
IN the profession their feelings would be much
hurt This was said. II should be remem-
herod as the widest sort OF Joke. Now.
in the course OF many days. the train came
70 the city where q bis newspaper was pub
ushed. The arrival was late in the evening.
and Bah had been getting more and moro
nervous every minute. His behavior had
been nosily attributed TO the fact that now
10 be shown that no such publication as the
Soutbucsterr Fpesore existed.
The train stopped. the airbrakes hissed-
the crowd surged past the windows of tho
good car Iris. yelling Teddy, Teddy. Where
Is Teddy' We want Teddy and then came
a regiment OF newsboys. Each and every
one of them was screaming "Extry Epesore.
et,-v pa-a-a-per. all about Teddy's doctor
~ 60 A. 4
Ext-y, E1try Epssore ra-s-a-per!' The
crowd looked at Bab. He bushed all over
hs fat and innocent countAnance. and stam-
merad things that seemed to be Of an ex-
piaratory nature. Somebody opened a
window and bought half dozen copies Of
the Fyssore After hurried glance at its
contents there was rush through the train
e. Gov Roosavelt's car. II was all too true.
There was the doctor and he reluctantly
confessed that he had come all the way from
New York and had been on the Governors
car all dsy in the disguise Of an ordinary
o-"ntv committeeman. There was no
gn't. : over the fact that Rab had discovered
IN only piecc of news worth special con-
.dcra,i,n which had developed on the train
for week and had made most effective use
OF it. There was session OF the clans at
WNl'N "" was not present IL was agreed
that undoubtedly he had been doing the
same thing day after day for a month or more
II was acknowledged that there was no
reason why he should not have tho FUN right
70 scoop anybody and everybody. He had
never asked for any business favors and he
had newer pretended TO offer any. From
that time on the nickname Hot Rock Bab-
va, removed from him and he was called
plan Ilab
Darlington cnme by the title Hot Rock
R,b easily enough. He had methods. II
such ways nay be called methods, that are
r""..lar to himself in e ling up his work.
q; ,ltler ponderous t-Irc and severely
te'Isht;ll mental habits ne was a man who
w01 e-ltom stll for n moment. Long be-
fn-' '1F oac else was up. he could he heard
t.r' ING ny and and down the aises. Any
'.' w1r was sufficiently aroused to look
s. 20, h,s berth saw person who seemed
Z. ..i fltt.r In his underclothas than in
r'"jI"'n dress cap"ring along with sheet
O.. trer IN one hand and pencil in the other.
st"r..1- ~ every section or two TO rest the
II.rr on his knee ard Jot down new thought.
o. ihur,iavs it was Bab's custom To pre-
pare a syndicate letter for number OF Sum
o1E newspapers. aud on such occasions in
et"Ed OF n simple piece of paper and pencil.
h. carried great bunch Of yellow tissue
paper and carbon sheets and a stylus. and
tAe carbon sheet, were always dropping
ont, and the iapanned plate on which he sup
po,t'i tdc t,-- ic sheet was always Clattcr-
Ins l. the houT when he stopped T. pick up
n" VarbouS. sometimes an early riser
woVli lind Bah outside the car on tie ground.
resting his paper on the s,dc Of IN" car a. far
~ a. he could reach, apparently, and IN
the most uncomfortable position he could
possibly have coutrvcd, writing away a.
il his life depended upon It, There was no
telegraph once near, ard be might have
written NJ his desk IN the car lust a. easily,
but th, thought had como ard he did not
meas, to risk IL by losing any tine N record
ins Il. Nobody co. Id ever say that Rab 10,
I.e3-t OF all could hn bc tha;gcd with ICh
carelcssncss by MhiSt,c-tiCH. Nhi-t.cstick
with an Industry all too rare H. his ;roIrssi IN
hl~ devoted all lit, n are tine o. tie coilpc-
don of eHspaper clippings on subjects or
which there are no recognized sources OF
statistical Information. These COLLECTIONS ht
had iolnd of great proat In wrltirs cucr-
mag zines ard weekly periodicals. HIS In
formation tends from the horse thief lynch
irgs In oregon to statistics OF the last Ncar''
reG-snapu"T catch ia Florida. Bah listened
20 his discourse on the sCrapbook system
all one evening and was apparently much
Impressed The Galveston disastrrihad tcoi
reported in the newspapers OF That CaN
At GCIock that mornin.: there came out 81
tho darAnes> the voice of Babinston, wall
Ing.
"whIs,lcs,ick, Oh Mr whistlcs,ick. wax,
W"
There were rnurmurS along the lire Of bcrths
bat none irOm NhistIestlCk. lie sICLt a.