The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-10-01
SOME WAYS OF MAN.

After a man leaves the city and a
lot of admiring friends in the lIreh, some
people '.cuss9 the newspaper man for not
giving ali the particulars, whether he
knows them or not. But what would
they Have said about it if the newspaper
man had stated before the 'friendo left
that he was rascal. Every mothers
son OF them would have been up in arms
against the newspaper man and would
have attempted to summary get even
with him for telling the truth about
their friend. The trutb of the matter is
that the people who willingly permit
themselves to be d. y in. such a way
are the fellows who ought to be written
up and thoroughly exposed. Among
such may be counted persons WHO think
home people are Of little Importance and
who demand that they be prompt and
punctuaI IN all. their promises and
pledges. no matter how well they know
them and how faithfully they have dis
charged their obligations. The eonsPic-
nous feature in many instances is to
make the home man ttoe the mark
Evidently this Is to make themselves
safe, or, in other words, to cover the
risk they run with persons who drop
in and ms drop OUT
History has shown, and shows even ia
the present day, that all comparative
stranger has to do is to mingle among
the people, identify himself with some
organiza ton, sing in some church choir
wear a different necIltie every day. hold
himself aIoof from the energy of the
place, be a gentleman, look wise and
pretend to be somebody, though he may
not have the ability to run a peanut
stand, and he is the real stuff Suct
u one may even be a sort of fellow
who ..spruces'' himself up and goes il
the very best of society, courts tho
daughters of the aristocracy of city
or town, and at the same time fails t
pay his board bill and IS confronted witt
a dun from the restaurant keeper, put
in Iegible and due form by an editor
at the request of the man. who n dun.
ming for the payment of meal ticket
for a week. As a parathentical clause
this is not figuratively speak. 10 the
contrary, the editors of the Telegram are
prepared to furnish the proof.
There is such thing, we have
5eard. as s.codnsh -asistocrasy ~ = Tn, /!
phrase comes from substantial country
people, and. they are intelligent ans
probably more scholarly than those {
whom the term i, applied. Just what
they mean by this nppellation we have
never undertaken to ascertain, but htH'
accepted it rs an expression of ridicul'
and contempt. Be that it may, per
sonal observation, even in clarksburg
convinccs one firmly that the term i
not inappropriate in many cases. cas-
ual observer viii see some one digSin;
up a '.stove- pipe" hat and a Prince Al
bert coat that has seen years of service
and parading the streets on occasions
even though that one has not the energy
to brush off the rust Of the years OF
time. and next day one can hear men Of
higher social standing remarkng on the
tlepraved conditions of society.
One may 20 still farther in his inves
tigation of these conditions ind situa
lions. He need not confine himself t
social features, but may go to the cold
hard phases of business. If he does hi
will find business men not only extend
ing credit to persons who are what they
are for appearance sake and for the pur.
pose OF doing some one, out are iIi9tst Ssii'
chat they buy of them, even, if they
have not penny in the world, and those
same business men spend more money
for the ink and books necessary t"
charge up the account than ever they
get out of it, for the reason that the
fellow whose patronage they arc 50 anN
ious for usually fnds it convenient t"
seek other quarters or to disappear al
together, never to be heard from again,
or, II located, in position, where there
can be no prosecution.
The newspaper man is in position to
be familiar with all these occurrences;
and vet there are only times that he Is
at liberty to disclose them. Still thero
are times with some people, II he does
not, when he is censured, but, Il, at the