The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-01-13

make both ends meet. the mother baked
bread for several families and took in
sewing. Before he was 10 years old. our
correspondent made his first connection
with newspapers-he began selling them
on the street
Kept the Boy spurred UP.
At this time his mother, with true
Spartan spirit. kept the boy spurred to
his best endeavor. She never let him
finch nor falter When he would come
home TO her in the evening, hungry and
footsore, perhaps with three or four pa
pers still unsold, she would question him
as TO whom he had sold and whom he
had missed on has rounds, then send nlm
back to make a clean sweep of his task
1t was this discipline and fond, watch
full partnership of his invalid mother
that stiffened the backbone of the
youth, and ins;iiled into his spirit that
iron necessary TO insure victory TO
man in the strife OF litc.
Before he was tall enough To reacn
the cases, the newsboy began TO set type
in the local printing Office He used TO
stand on an empty box while he mixed
tire Washington hand press. He folded
papers and helped to get out the mail.
Then. having acquired practical
knowledge of the mechanical side OF th'
business. he began to write In the
course Of time he became editor and
proprietor Of the little Local paper
where ne began as printer S devli,
and afterwaTd made II ore or tne pest
papers in the State.
Eventually the ambitious young MIS-
sourian decided 10 enter larger held,
TO become q contributor to the metro
noIftan press. At first he met with
heart breaking encouragement. On his
trips his remuneration wouid be so
small that he would have to sleep IN
chair-cars and eat at lunch counters.
For wears he could not sell enough
conv to keep himself afcat and pay hls
nofber's bills at home. Time aud again
he had TO raise money by other means,
AT such times he would work up VA
rions kinds os advertising schemes
wherever he happened 10 be "nen MS
funds gave out. but as soon as ms nnah'
COS heoan to mend he would he back
among the editors again, talking nope"
| fully and soliciting their assignments
Although turned down again ana again,
he ALWAYS came back smiling ana de
termined. He would not ne I; aenien,
Tho unshot of it all was that Haskin
eventually began TO get the assign
| mer+s and when he was sent after the
facts about something he always came
back with his story
Has Been All Over World
In the last eight or nine years ne mas
hoan ali over the world. He has taken
oil The chances that soldiers OF tortune
mnst take. He has trsmped WIN lhe
m,ncrs of the Klondike, has peen
,hrnnoh revolutions in Central America,
hos cTossed the Andes on muleoack' ms ms
hccn IN riots in Russia, has seen the
borrors of all sorts of epidemlcs ana
has been exposed to all kinds OF dan
neTe Tc has been in all of the EURO
5,can countries, as we'll as INDIA, .nl95a'
ganan. the Philippines, Cuba. Canhaa,
=, fact everywhere and anywhere
,,horo 49, things have been happening tha'
MennIc m" wanted TO hear about
prominent diplomat IN NaSp'sg, ny
ton fills an interesting story OF 'uF w
;udomitahJe will and perseversn nee o.
Mr. Haskin. During sensations, eur
~ W Mu stress. stress in Mexico few years
AGO. 90 the young Missour'an was - . edi.
de,rn there hastily by number pt ~, ,ho
enrs "a oet at the inside tacts ol 'to ~
mnnotarT situation, He determines tay ~
.no president Diaz and tax inc lia..nt -
gee .';fb him, and accordingly ne VEN
owe! .hm American Embassndor ana PR,
snnted his credentials, with tne regnoe. ne,c
shnt thc Embassador make the aiIa"5 a.
ots LA =" for The interview. h3tnips w. w.
me said that dignitary, aIthoIsm tic
iap apauage he used was more o'Pi'"'"''(