The evening world., 1912-04-26

~ buC VEN kTe6teSt. sNVW, LUut may
seem to you to be n RASH STATE
MENT: but LISTEN"
And most usually. unless he looks as
innocent and therefore a. dangerous as
Mr.. Murdoch and Mr.. Thompson, the
publisher signs. Meanwhile the pub.
l!sher-hunters. who canno 20 into thu
meetings, because all the sessions are
secret, prowl and prowl and try TO catch
strays who have wandered out OF the
corral. They have lairs all about the
meeting hall where they show mats"
original cartoons. and even 9s.cent die
t!onarles which they will sell you for
IS cents. worth 9S cents to he sold with
seven coupons a { an actual proht OF
50 centS. n make an IS per cent. In
reass OF circulation At the same time
Oh. take our word for II, 4 publisher
has his troubles.
suave and calm. ~ becomes one who
upon tho battieneids Of Juare4. we md
n. D. Slater Of the Ell Paso Herald.
Mr.. Slater deals In calmness and suav-
ity. wholesale and retail. II he lived
down In the lowlands district Of Juares.
where the explosive arguments Of Ma
derist and Orozcoist ny. perhaps he
would not be 30 calm. But so long as
there 10 a telephone TO the once from
tho blurs UP neal the smelters-oh.
Wois tHOTo u Uo TShSOu why u pun
Usher should be a prisoner to his office.
anyway.
ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF
BEING THIN.
Now. then. we observe tho door of
ne convention room being Unmatched.
but not opened, and see Mr.. Hal Gay
lord OF the Kansas City journal slip
forth. Mr.. Gleed OF the same outfit Is
not present, or botn might escape at
once from the same unopened crack.
There are advantages about being thin.
We noticed II ourselves. personally, In
the Waldorf yesterday afternoon. when
we got into the same car with seven
members Of the R~ubenstein Gu and
ne of their daughters. Publishers and
musical women ought not to meet In
the same hotel In the same afternoon
not Il fat reporters are to be on the
lob.
Stalking through tho press Of high
waymen and bandits who clustered
about the doors waiting for victims.
the eagle-eyed scribe OF The Evening
World observed the Hon. r. A. Croth-
ere Of the San Francisco Bulletin.
rNere was an alleged earthquake In
the vicinity Of San Francisco abou.
Mr.. Crothers? II did not. Everything
on the street level being all unused up.
Mr.. Crothers went down into the I'M
burnt district. hired tho roof Of q stor-
9 warehouse, built a newspaper office
one story high OF portable house equip
ment-and kept on publishing the Bull
'etin. The Leekennys and the Albums
and the Raypullmans and the Jabber-
wocks OF the Waldorf-Astoria's secret
caverns and shadows had no terrors for
such as these.
hANDsoMEsT MAN IN ALL THE
STATE OF TEXAS.
Neither did they for Lewis J.
Workman Of tire Fort Workman (1'ex.)
Star-Telegram. Mr., wortham's friends
admit that he Is the handsomest man
In all Texas. Take Mr.. Workman aside
where not more than two or three are
present and no will not deny It. In a
larger audience he hands the fragrance
Of modesty to beauty. Mr.. Workman
shaves twice a day. But. as Mr.. Long.
the conversational artist, has carefully
noted. Mr.. Wortham's hat does not.
Somewhere In this world there may
be somebody as ,ousy , Condo Hamlin
OF the Tribune QocaD was yesterday
while he was trying to get tickets for
the m nual banquet last night into the
hands OF those who had paid for them,
In this morbid pursuit. MIR. Hamlin all
day long wrote warning. exhortatory,
loving and threatening words upon a
blackboard IN the meeting room. But
nobody seemed to care. 1t was patheti-
cally certain that the owners of those
tickets were going to appear las they
did about an hour after the dinner
started last night. and pluck Mr., Ham,
Inns beard from his noble chin, hair
by hair. because he a no run around
town deliver ne them IN person.
Back OF Mr.. Hamlln. however. Il a
sturdy person whose portrait VIII be
found In aoout the centre OF our cut.
L.. II. Palmer. who Is the astute indi-
vldual that bosses the ass ociatlon o!
publishers from behind the scenes. They
th,nk they run themselves lust as they
;yrran!ze over the poor reporters who
crlnge and curvet whenever they walk
by. hoarsely murmurlng, work, slaves!
Work. But Mr.. Palmer 10 the slave
driver Of the bosses. With A. ". Kel-
legg Of Indianapolis. chairman Of the
Standing Committee. he 10 the tyrant
Of the satraps. The ggest publisher
Of the nation might have arisen in yes
terday's meeting 1--WE are guessing at
this. but We ere MOI 70 far wrong), anA