The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-06
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+ebot tablei uFS JuSL lOdueu Lol clliA" mon beer. Hfe'Is got it all pat, and he knows that Ewle don't know anything about it, for Wd haven't yet had a peek even at the hed dimes.
 He begins to unreel it the minute he takes his seat at the breakfast table.
 'This's pretty good thing he says gazing leermghy around the table. Dentist chap in New York that that Prince What's s-h his-name had fiji four of his teeth charged the prince cool thousand for the job-guess that's goin' some, heyR
 You ohserve that the way he ex- pressed that itein of news wasn't very clear. Not much sense to be made out of it. But nona of the men at the ta- ,ble, all of whom are going to read the morning paper themselves later on, ask him to narrateB the story a bit more clearly. But the women at the tabde, who haven't god the slightest intention of reading the rlorning paper, immedi- ately chirk up and ask the beat you to it chap all about it. Then he goes ahead and elucidates the yarn, reading coplous extracts from the news ac- count while he Shoots little victorious gleams of his eyes, as much as to say, You dubs aren't within four hundred years of being up to date-look at me.
 The recital of that prince-and-the- dentist story of course takes away all of the fresh interest In that news mar ratiVe that we might otherwise have if we were allowed to gather the details at first hand from the newspapers our selves.
 When that item is sufficiently chewed up and clawed around. the beat you to it. duck takes up a fresh theme from the morning news
 Humph, he says, old man Platt came out pretty strong with those campaign contribution answers at the insurance investigation yesterday. Should think these revelations ud knock the stufIin' out of the republican party in New York.
 The two republicans at the table, although they don't want to be drawn into any argument, and are in a hurry to get through with the breakfast, so's they can have little whack at the morning paper themselves on their way to the office, prick up their ears at this. They don't feel like letting any wallops at Senator Platt get by with out putting up some kind of defense.
 This gives the fbeat you to 1t fellow a chance to dilate and expand upon the insurance investigation story in the morning paper, and he reads long pas sages from the testimony, ha-ha-ing and he-he-ing over those portions that particularly agree with the stand he has adopted on the insurance matter since the beginning of the trouble-and it's needless to say that he's an ardent Tom Lawsonite By the time he gets through rehashing what he has found in the morning paper about the insur- ance investigation all of the meat and good gravy has been taken out of that news feature of the paper for the rest of us.
 After the chaw about the insurance 1 thing has sort O sunmered down, and we're beginning to hope that we'll be able to break out of the boarding house with still little bit of interest left in the morning papar that we're intending to read, the get-there first nuisance turns over to the sporting page--al- i though he doesn't need to, having the 1 contents of that page already well salt ed away in what he pleases to call his [ r1ffJ-.a 1H nm o1r hot tv.,, keenly interested in, but that we par ticularly like to read all about our 4 selves at first hand
 Um, he says, I guess old Father Bill Daly didn't land good one at Benning yesterday, hey? He got List less home at fifteen to one-she just tow-roped 'em all the way
 Now, men who are interested in racing, but who cant get to the track themselves on account of business, are fond of finding out, as I say, the win ners themselves, at first hand I, for instance, like to turn the morning pa per over to the sporting page and look at the chart of the previous day g races systematically, and say to my self, of course, If I was there I'd sure have played this and that winner, and so on.
 But there is no chance in the world to do this with the getIthere-first chap around. As soon as he gets through telling the newspapers account of the Listness coup, some bonehead at the table foolishly asks him if any othel long shots won at Benning yesterday.
 This Is just pie for the beat you tc 1 1t mug. He runs his eye down the chart, calling off the names of the win. ners, and their prices, as he goes along.
 Let's see, he says, 'Freebootel wins at two and half to one-fayorite but a fifteen-to-one shot, Sheen, runs second in that Edict, the favorite al six to five, gets the next. Um, Del phit bets the next at three to one, with ten-to-one shot, Sunray second Then comes Llstless, the fifteen- -to-one shot that old Pa Daly got over. The odds-on favorte, Thistledale, wins the next, and--well, Evie Green, that wins the last, was right good shot-hel price was seven to one.'
 And that settles all interest we have a right to expect in opening the pape at the sporting page and getting the winners ourselves. We know tn names of the winners and their prices and so all of the point and profitable ness is taken out of the racing stor. for us.
 And that's the way 1t goes to tn, whole sheet. He just sucks all of tn
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