The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-11-26
OF "BUFFER"
MA NEWSPAPER OFFICE
is the Young Fellow Alb out the Office of a Big Met.
ropolitan Journal Who Stands Between the Work
ing Editors and Outsid Annoyances and Takers

slapped his face and then embraced
him, after which she was willing II.
accompany him down the elevator.
A man who had attended a secret
meeting OF revolutionists and heard
OF a plan to overthrow the govern
ment in some South American coun.
try asked $500 for this "exclusiye~
story. He produced q small antique
knife which he said belonged TO ono
Of the ~revolutionists. He continued
lowering his price successfully from
$500 to $500 to 800, and finally L.
SO cents Before going away he wa~
satisfied to tell all he knew about it
for the making OF a cigarette and
a match.
A Staten Island woman caller with
a bulky umbrella was indignant be-
cause her picture had been printed IN
the paper without her permission. she
was not afraid to make herself heard,
swinging her umbrella the while, up
setting portable lamps. ink bottles md
desk furnishings generally.
With a smile beaming over her
Wrinkled face a feeble old d..
scrfbing herself to the elevator men,
passengers and Watchmen as "Cncle
Sans grand old lady" called to re-
quest the editor to give her $500 TO
get her: teeth fixed: also to have the
newspaper nominate her nephew for
the presidency.
One day Col. William jennings Rry
an called to visit the editor. The
colonel requested the office boy .
inform the editor mat Mr.. Bryan
wished to see him. The boy asked
the colonel his name, address II
a dozen Or mor questions. Whe. the
youngster was exhausted putting MI
Bryan through a third degree h.
strolled up to the editor and said
Say, there's a guy named Bryan
outside and he wants ter see yer"
The boy was cautioned to We more
courteous. On his way out M Bry
an slapped the boy on the back and
slipped a tifty-cent piece int" hts
hand.
A boy called to give a story al :
mar who a just returned from the
west after an absence Of twenty year
The man, a wealthy mine owner. had
run away from home when q boz
and returned to Brooklyn TO find h+
mother in dire need. The boy was
all details. He promised to get pic
lures Of mother and son A reporter
assigned to investigate it found il
was only a pipe dream" Later IN
the day the boy returned TO the of
flee bearing two pictures. When IN
formed that h had been found ou'
he confessed and said the two pic
MEMORIES OF A BUFFER .-TWt
lures were taken from his mother
album.
A large crowd followed Nan Fat
terson when she called at the news
paper office after being acquitted =
the charge Of murder. They mad
their way into the corridor aaG
SWarmed into the elevator after Nan
One woman's skirt caught betweef
the elevator and hoor and was Yankee
off. h didn't seem to mind II bu
kept right on.
\ reporter saw a countrvman stand
ing in Newspaper Row, carrying At
old-fashioned carpet bag. The r.
porter. seeming a character sketch
invited him to the neWspaoer office
But Mr.. Rube lac been warned
against gold brick" men, and Al
though he went he was manifestl'
suspicious. He found the city room
thronged with reporters, and suddenl,
persuaded himself that he had beer
entlced into a gambling den. In
panic he flew around seeking an exit
and he didn't regain confidence unit
he regained the street.
A baby elephant went a-visiting on,
day. It was brought from Coney Is
land by the press agent OF the me
~nagerie.
Another animal trainer brought wv
non cubs. hey were placed on
roll-top desk and treated to a beef
steak, r~eportorial work being suspend
ed meanwhile.
A quack doctor came In carrying
a small letter bag containing tw,
black bottles. The fluid in the blacl
DotIIeS, ne said. was a sure cure 70
rheumatism. Whoopfng cough, diph
fherla- smallpox and every othe
known -a1lrnent. Asked II II woulr
SHINE SHOES, h doctor said he ha
used 1t himself for that
CHANGE IN CORRESPONDENCE