The age-herald., 1900-06-03

to the task of making out the assignments He does this by calling up the men to nim, one after the other, and telling them just what they have to do, where they are to go whom to see, what they are to get, etc.
 It may be that the assignment will simply require the reporter to go to Madison ave- nue to inquire about a lost and lovely child-for all children, when lost, are lovely or it may require him to spend three weeks among the kopjes of the Shawang- unk mountains hunting for that child, and, of course, 1t follows that the reporter must be prepared to take instantly either as- .signment.
 In the giving out of these assignments
 the city editor has to consider the fitness of each member of his force for a particu- lar work, and it is upon this good choice of his men that the quality of his news largely depends. Sometimes a misassign-
 ment is inveitable, and sometimes the re- suits are curious.
 It is on record that, failing others, a cer- tain good fellow, whose good-fellowship had made him on that night an uncertain quantity, was sent to report the opening
 services of a newly formed congregation ui Seventh Day Adventists. When he re- | turned to the office he bore pile of notes l and more good-felowshp. The report l handed in after an hour of very hard lahQl was a curiosity. It began somethippavr 1 this style yon.@S III l
 l of the Manhattanville patn'entertainment | tist association wqret'tfIsy Dramatic Bap-
 their neat hea5efe held or conducted at
 lodge rooan'd and elegantly decorated | braces, ,5rns last night. The affair em- | thfed the rendition in admirable style of ll6at stirring melodrama, Nick of the Woods and the delivery of an exceeding ly impressive sermon in which the Rev. MT. Jones and all the members of the or ganiZati ton took part
 "The best scene of the evening that in which Hiram P MacDougall, as the sone-eyed trapper, rescued the Indian maiden, Miss Evelina O'Flynn, from the burning prairie, an incident which the preacher used with much effect upon his auditors. The church will depend upon voluntary contributions until its new edi- flee is completed, the dues of the club hav- ing been raised from % cents to half dollar a year.
 The report did not appear, and it was not until the next day that it was discovered what it all meant. It seems that the new Saturday Sabbath church and the Dra- matic club were holding forth in two ad- oining lodge rooms of the same hall In his disjointed condition the reporter spent his time partly in one room and partly in the other took copiouS and unintelligible notes in each, and then ingeniously dove tailed the two with the result given.
 When all the assignments have been giv- 6n out the cltY eQltOr 1eeIS nlInSel1 enIl- tied to an hours breathing spell, from which he returns in time to meet the man. aging editor, to discuss with him the out look for the day, to hear the stories of the reporters on their return from their morn ing assignments, to instruct them as to the extent and manner in which they are to write their reports and to make out the night assignments
 By the time he has done this the night city editor has arrived. To the night city editor the day city editor hands over his assignment sheet, with all it's promises. Then, with final pause for reflection. the city editor draws sigh of relief and leaves for home with the conviction that he thinks he has done days work, but isn't sure of anything.
 The exactions of the night city editors desk. I sometimes think are more raspinG on the nerves than those encompassing the day city editor e chair. By II well estab- lished law of society, more things happen to the square minute at night than happen to the square hour by day. The night hours are those of sudden crime, those of the idleness that breeds mischief, those of