Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-24
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This story is told of cub reportet on his 1lrst assignment on q daily. He handed in the following:,'A man killed dog belonging to another man. The son of the man whose dog was killed proceeded to whip the man who killed the dog of the man he was the son of. The man who was the son of the man whose dog was killed was arrested OH complaint of the. man who was assault ed by the son of the man whose dog the man who was assaulted Lad killed:
 Leslie q. Niblack, editor of the Guthrie, 0. T., Daily Leader, has in- structed his attorneys to file q suir against Carrie Nation for t$20,OU0 for alleged libel. A suit was brought by Mrs Carrie Nation against the Leader company for $10,O00 libel on account of an article published in the Leader to the effect that Mrs Nation had sold building to liquor firm. After til. ing the suit Gathered Shenyes, a paper ill which Mrs Nation is interested, came out with an article bitterly denounc- ing MT Niblack. The article in Gath cred Sheayes is alleged as cause for Mir Niblack's action in bringing suit against Mrs Nation.
 A young man and q young womaE were contesting possession of a piece of property, the one claiming under an old lease, the other under an old will. Tt strikes me-" said the justice, "that there is a pleasant and easy way to terminate this lawsuit. The plaintiff seems to be respectable young man and this is very nice young woman. They can both get married and live upon the farm. If they go on with the law proceedings the property will all be frittered away among the lawyers, who, 1 am sure, are not ungallant enough to wish the marriage not to come off," The lady blushed and the young man stammered that they liked each other a lottle bit," so a yer dict was rendered for the plaintiff, Cn condition of his promise to marry the defendant within two months, q stay of execution being put to the verdict till the marriage ceremony should be completed. This is about the first cou- pie ever sentenced to be married in a court of law.
 Louis \. Megargee, the writer, who died few days ago ill Philadelphia had marvellous tenacity of memory and power of sustained effort. These qual- ities were exhibited at the time Thom- as A. Scott of the Pennsylvania rail. road died. Megargee was then on the staff of the old Philadelphia Times. Through some inadvertence the Obitl- ary notice had not been prepared in aG vance. Colonel A. K. Mcclure, editor of the Times, was close friend and associate of Scott's, and at f o'clock iL the afternoon of the railroad pres.- dents death he ordered that q com plete biographical sketch be written and that the full history of Mir Scott's life be presented, regardless of what space it might occupy. The task was assigned to Megargee He began writ inng with d pencil at 4:30 p. m., and by o'clock the next fmorning, without referring to a note and depending en- tirely upon his memory, he had com- pleted eight columns of an analytical review of ScOtt's life.
 A school teacher at Princeton, Ind, has introduced the daily newspaper into his tor her) school. For some time each day the paper is taken up and the children are given drill on the past events as chronicled in the press. This Is step in the right direction. No per son is properly educated in this age who does not keep up with the news of the day. And daily lesson with the newspaper as a suggester would lead to habits of research such as are somewhat hard to inculcate later on, as Elbert Hubbard pointed out in his Message to Garcia" Some of the school book writers who are, however broad in their intellect. largely sheep led by bell-wether as regards laws of composition. are apt to treat news paper advertising as term of oppro- brium, but it is, in the hands of some of the great newspaper makers of the country. direct and forceful method of composition. It should not be for. gotten that Joseph Addison, whose style none of the objectors to news paper English would fail to regard as a model, was newspaper writer. Ma caulay said of him that -one who would obtain good knowledge of how to write the English language should spend his days and nights in the study of Addison"