The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-08
MIR. PETERS DlSCOURAGING FAILURE
 By MAX ADELER
By MAX ADELER


 evening and wrote the following item:
 John Wilson was kicked by mule yesterday on Passyunk avenue"
 When Peters handed the item to the editor, that individual said:
 Peters, that is too snort. It is not full enough. You must expand it little
 So Peters sat down and rewrote 1t as follows:
 Yesterday, at half-past 12 o'clock. man named John Wilson, while walk ing along Passyunk avenue, near Clin- ton street, was kicked in the side by vicious mule, and badly hurt"
 Peters said the editor, as he looked this over, this won't do; it is not sufficiently vivid. What you want in an item is a picturesque quality you need the element of imagination. You must poetize your items, as 1t were l think l will pay you by the the proper direction"
 You want it poetized, do you?" asked Peters.
 Yes; work it up with an eye to dramatic effect"
 All right" said Peters, "I'll put it through in the proper style"
 So Peters went back to his desk, and an hour or two later he had pro- duced an item something like this:
 Yesterday (ah! yesterday! an other day added to the rolling tide of years that sweeps backward into the mournful past bearing with it bur- den of human sorrowD an American citizen (proud title! Prouder than the glittering baubles of rank be- slowed upon their creatures by pitt less despots; title that our revolu- tionary forefathers bore covered with halo of glory) named (What's in a name0 John Ca name borne by some of the greatest men that ever lved) Wilson, was walking (and no better physical exercise has ever been dis covered. It develops every muscle, and gives all the organs of the body free and active play) down Chat is to say southeast, with slight inclina- tlon to the southwark Passyunk av- eDue (so-called because the Indians gave the title of Passyunk to the creek that erst meandered through that region). It was about (we are not positive as to the very minute) halfpast twelve o'clock (high noon) the glorious sun was looming through the celestial vault of azure at the rate of millions a mile a second Chat is, apparently looming, for the as tronomers tell us that the earth moves and not the sun). and shining mean. time upon a scene of more than love illness. A mule tan animal well known to the early Egyptians, and traces of which are found upon Baby. lonian bricks) stood at the corner of Clinton street, calmly (the mule is al. ways calm. Where. where on earth is there spirit more imperturbed and less excitable than his?) eating (with apparent relish. tool some (perhaps dozen pounds of hay (timothty, we were informed) from the tailend of wagon. Ct was a Jersey wagon, without springs, and with yellow wheels.) MT. Wilson, casting his eye ffiguratively casting it, of course-not literally over the frame of the pa tient animal, observed burr (such as Is produced in the Jersey swamps in rich profuson) upon the tail of the mule He felt philanthropic impulse (known only to the hearts of the truly humane) to remove the tantalizing hn ic To fo1, for which see any classical dictionary substance, so as to make the mule more comfortable. He seized the tail with his left hand eff we are correct ly informed), and took hold of the burr It stuck. and it is supposed that in pulling it he must have hurt the mule, for the mule suddenly let drive with both feet (hind feet). and strueh Mir. Wilson somewhere in the vicinity of the firth rib Reference to a good picture Of e~skeleton will enable the render to locate the exact spot) While the mule, resumed with aD ap rearance of indifference it's frugal re. part MT Wi'ron v7 do1bled all up 0nd fis srir't vcn1e ea in the realms o nooneciq iqpsuoss He fthat is, AIr
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