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JULY 1,1870.
Episodes In tne Life of a Newspaper
RePorter.
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THE HURON ZXPOSITOR4,..
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Among all the various departments of a
great city Inorning newspaper, not the least
. important and responsible is that of the
• Night Reporter. When nearly all the oth-
ers on, the editorial and reportorial staffs
have finished their work and betaken them-
selves to the quiet of home or the eompan-
ship of frienas and the diversion of social
enjoyment, the Night Reporter begins his
• task, which is that of scenting out and re-
cording all that transpires of public interest
murders, suicides, burglaries, fires, etc.,
within the confines of the city during the
hours between nightfall and the time when
the paper must go to press. He is a sort d
joUrnalastic corsair, for his is a roving com-
mission, and the duties of his position are
circumscribed by no particular lines Within -
the limits of the city, nor by any special
instructions, he moves according to the 'de-
mands -of the situation as he finds it, and is
• often the sole judge to decide what- may or
what may not be done with °yenta that
COMO within the lattitude of his observa-
dons. The position is one that requnes
energy, enterprise, tact, judgement, a keen
scent for news and a quick apprehension as
• to the relative merit of events for making
an impression upon:the public. There are
incidents of enterprise daring and self -im-
molation in the life of a very successful
night Itepoater in the large cities which, if
recorded, would entitle them to a place a-_
mong the list of true heroes, while an en-_
tertaining volume might be made from the
• stories of the strategic tricks an. devices '
• employed to obtain news, a very intere.st
ehapter • of which would be that which
should relate the contests between those on
rival papersto outwit and defeat each oth-
er. We transfer to our columns a couple
of incidents of the late character, related in
a late issue of the Chi ago Tribune, which
are exceedingly charac ereStic and very am-
using.
Some time ago one of the Chicago night
reporters received a hint through a private
source that there had been .a serious shoot-
• mg affray. in a remote part of the city. Al-
though the hour was past midnight, he de-
termined to procure the particulars for the
paper of the morning. Accordingly he
flew to the hack stand, jumped into one of
the vehicles always on band, and gave orders
• to proceed with all dispatch to the locality
indicated, on the way either his spirits were
pitched to the highest' key, for he felt mor-
• ally certain that he should have a "scoop"
on his bieth.ern. On his arrival at the
scene he jumped nimbly out of the carriage,
but was completely dumfounded on seeing a
• rival reporter jump as nimbly from the dri-
ver's seat. For a moment he felt like kick-
ing somebody, but knowing that any such
exhibition of ill -will would lead to serious
• res7lts, and bring him no favor with the
profession, 'he determined to grin and beart,
the joke—for such it would he considered—
and abide his time. It appears that No. 2
had observed No. L rushing:wildly for a
hack, and surmising that 'something Was in
the wind, he had jumped upon the driver's
seat the moment his rival had .esconsed him.
The driver, presuming the two to be friends
had offered no objection. They found an
item of considerable magnitude—in fact, a
murder had been committed ---and the more
No. I turned the joke over in his •mind,
the less he found therein to relish, and he
• finally determined to get even at all haz-
rads.
It was 2 o'clock—wrinting but little more
than an hour from press time—and while a
pair of fast horses could make the distance
in forty minutes, a person on foot would be
unable to reach the office in time to make
,
his information useful. It was a_moment
for action, and turning to the driver he
spoke with decision:
"I engaged,you , I expect you to serve
me until I am done'with you. If you play
me any tricks I'll report you to the author-
ities. You had no right to allow, this man
,
to ride on the outside. I will not allow
him to return with us. Now, you know
your duty." .
No..2 saw in a moment that the "joke
had been rebounded on hirnelf. He knew
but too well that unless he couldave the
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benefit of a carriage, his cake wo ild be all
dough. But his appeals were in vai . Then
he threatened the driver with all manner of
dire consequ ences—but this individual knew
he was in the right with No. 1—and finally
offered him a week's salary for a seat on the
box. Nothing, however, would avail. The
driver slanmaed the door, j unwed upon his
seat, and away Went the carriaTt\t,t a tre-
mendous rate of speed. Again was No. F
elated with the visioi of a "scoop," again
were his spirits pitched to the highest key,
and, 'as the carriage whirled rapidly along
the street he drew upon his imagination for
pictures representative for the misery of his
rival plodding, wearily and dolefully in his
rear. He felt some pity for him, too; but
had it not been a game of 'diamond cut dia-
mond with them.? Yes, it couldn't be help-
ed. A "scoop" was a scoop, and there was
an end on't. In due time he got to the of-
fice, dashed away on his account, and got to
the conclusion just in time for the Press:
Then he sought blissful repose, and dream-
ed of glorious "scoops" all night. On ris-
ing, he glanced at the morning papers, as
usual, and was thunderstruck, amazed; yes,
petrified. Was he yet dreaming, or had his
senses forsaken him ? There, topped with
boldlead-lines, was an account of the affair
in his rival's paper, fully as detailed aa his
own What magic art had accomplished
this piece of wonderful journalastic ledger -
domain 7 Could the man fly? No ; ' but
he could ride, and that, too at another's ex-
pense. The moment the carriage started
No. 2 darted to the rear, clutched the broad
bads that usually ornament the rear, and,
getting a foothold on the springs, effected a
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safe and Wok -passage to the neighborhood
of the office.
The eagerness with which our heroes
clutch at the slIghtest clue to an item of
news, has often made them the victims of
rare "ells," and in one trying to overreach
the other, bot!i have often become victims.
An incident in point
,•One evening the night reporter of a cer-
tain paper entered the local roorn'of anoth-
er --there -is generally the very best of feel-
ing among individual repo-rteis—._and seeing
his rival hard at work at his desk, he ap-
proached in a, nonchalant manner, and re-
marked in the most casual way:
"That was a terrible affair, wasn't it I',
Now the "rival" had heard of nothing
that day in the leaat way deserving of so ex-
pressive an adjective, but determined not to
be sold—if a sell was the object—or else to
kat -her all the information that could be ex-
tracted, he answered:
"Yes, it certainly is one of the blood-
iest eagedies that ever came under my no-
tice. "
-.FM the first speaker was somewhat non-
plussed. "Has something terrible really
transpired" thought he, • and, as a sort of
feeler, he launched out with:
"How many were killed e
"I scarcely know," returned the other—
"1 have not been to he scene myself, but
some say two and others three."
"The deuce," thought the first speaker;
"there must -be really somethiva in this mat-
ter. 1 armglad I spoke as 1 clid."
Meanwhile he had approached closely to
the table at which the other was Working,
and glancing at the notes lying in scraps,
before him, discerned the words, 'depot,'
'two killecl."narro w escapes,' etc,' which had
reference to the falling of a derrick, by
which two horses were killed. "There is a
murder in the wind," thought he, "and I
bad better be on the lookout." With that
he left the office in apparent unconcern, but
no sooner reached the outside than he set
off for the nearest depot, and finding nothing,
visited the next, and another, and so on,
till he had embraced them all. Still with-
out a clue to the supposed tragedy, be fi-
nally made his way to the Armory where
lo! and behold, sat his rival, also in search
of that sensation. Both had played their
cards so well at the office that neither felt
himself on certain ground, and hence the
other had entered upon the wild goose chase.
On meeting at the Armory they indulged in
some further 'bush -beating; bat finally the
cat came out of the bag, and both acknowl-
edged to the 'sell' and to being 'sold.'
A Liaohine.
The pin machine is ohe of che closest ap-
proaches the mechanics have made to the
human hand. A machine, about the height
and size of a ladies' sewing machine, only
much stronger, stands before you. On the
side at the back, a light belt descends from a
long shaft at the ceding which drives &I the
machines, ranged in rows on.the floor. On
the left side of our machine hangs, on a small
peg, a small reel of wire, that has been
straightened by running through a smal: corn -
pound system of small rollers. The wire de-
scends and the end enters the machine. This
is the food- consumed by this snappish, vo-
racious little 'dwarf, He pulls it in and
bites it off by the inches incessantly -140
bites in the minute. Just as he seizes each
bite, a saucy little hammer, with a . concave
face, hits the end of the wire three times,
and 'upsets' it to a head, while he grips it in
a countersunk hole withhis teeth. With an
outward thrust of his tongue he then lays the
pin sideways in a little grooveacross the rim
of a smali wheel that slowly revolves from
under his nose, by the external pressure of
a stationary hoop these pins roll in their
places as they are carried under two series
of small files, three - in each. These files
grow finer towards the end ofleries. They
fie t a slight inclination on the pins, and
by a series of -cams, levers and springs are
made to play like lightning. Thus the pins
are dropped in a little shower in a box.
Twenty-eight pounds are a days' work for
one of thosejerking little antomatons. Two
intelligent machines reject every crooked
pin, even the slightest irregularity of form
being detected. Another antomaton as-
sorts half a dozen,length in as many boxes,
all at once and unerringly, when a careless*
operator has mixed the contents of boxes
from various machines. Lastly, a perfect
genius of a machine hangs the pins by the
head in an inclined platform through as
many slots as there are pins in a row of
paper.—Thesp slots converge into the ex-
act space spanning the length of -a row. Un-
der them runs the strip ofpin-paper. A
barb -like part of the machine catches one
pia from each of the slots as it falls, and by
one movement sticks them all through' the
corrugated ridges in the paper, from which
they are to be picked by taper fingers in
boudoirs and in all sorts of human circum -
the counsel, "the indictment isn't sustained
and 1 shall demand an acquittal GA direc-
tion of the court. • ' The prisoner is on trial
for entering s • dwelling iui the night-time
with infent to steal. The testimony is
clear that he made an opening through
which lie protruded himself about half way,
and, stretching his arms, comthitted the
theft. But the indictment charges that he
actually- entered the tent or dwelling, Now,
your honor, can a man enter a house when
only one-half of bis body is in and the other
half out 7" .
"r shall leaw the whole matter to died
jury. They must judge of the law and the
fact as 'proved," replied the judge. -
The jury brought in a verdict of "Guilty
• as to one half of his body, and not guilty
as to the other half."
The judge sentenced the; guilty part to
two years' imprisonment, leaving it to the
prisoner's option to have the innocent part
cut off, or to take it along with him.
• Pepper Pods.
BY JOSII BILLINGS.
if yu hav got a spirited and noble boy
appeal tew his generocity ; if you have
got a heavy and sullen one, appeal to his
back,
Nobothly but a 0.001 will spend hiz time
trieing tew convince a phool.
Thare i2 meimey a person who ken set
mousetrap tew perfeckshun, hut not satisfi-
ed with. such small game undertakes to trap
for bears and (-Tits ketched by the bears. I
Moral--stuthry ynre genius, and stick tew
mice. - •
"Let him go, mi son," said an ancient i
father tew biz boy, who had caught a young I
rabbit, and when,he gits bigger ketch him
a,gin."
The boy did az he wnz told and haz been
looking for that rabbit ever since.
The world owes allits energys and refine-
ments tew luxurys—digging roots for break-
fast and going naked for clothing is the vir-
tewous innocence of a lazy savage. -
Thare iz lots of folks who eat well, and
drink well, and sleep well, and yet are sick
are. all the time—theze are the folks who
alwuz enjoy poor health; --;
A peison with a little smattering ov •
learning iz a good deal like a hen's egg that
haz been sot on for a short time, and then
deserted bi the hen—it is spike for hatch-
ing ontR anything.
"People of good sense"- are those whose
opinions agree with ours.,
Experience don't make a man so bold as
it duz careful. -
'Mare ain't but very little ginowine good
sense in this world enny how, and what lit-
tle thare iz ain't in market—it is held for a
dividend. •
Adversity is a peultess which reduces our
vanity and strengthens our virtew—even a
boynever feels half so good az when he haz
been spanked and sot away to kool.
. Life -iz like a mug of beer, froth at the
top, cil -in the middle, and settlings at the
bottom. -
We should az tho we war 'walking on'
glaze ice, liable to fall at many momement
and to be laffed at by the bystanders.
Men if they ain't too lazy, sometimes liv
till they are 80, and destroy the time a good
deal as follows: the fust 30 years they
spend throwing stuns at a mark; 'tile second
30 they spend examining the Mark tew see
whare the. stuns hit, and the remainder is
divided in cussing the stone -throwing bizz-
ness and nussin the rumatiz.
This settin down and folding our anus,
and waiting for something to turn up, iz
just about as richa speckulation az going
out info a 400 acre lot, setting down on a
sharp stone with a pail beteen our knees,
and waiting for a cow to hack up and he
milked.
If pin want- your boys t� stay at home
and respect you keep their faith in 31ou
strong and unfaheilng,
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or before the 1st. of March next, otherwise -caste
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FURNITURE
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rp BELL ss now -prepared th fun' ish Houses at,
Toronto prices.
T.T1\TIDM
In all its departments, attended to in a satisfact-
ory manner. A heaxse for hire.
THOMAS BELL'S
PATENT SPRING MATTRASS
Kept constantly on hancl and -fitted to any be
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When you want to insure your
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Apply to
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Promises to Children,
_Parents ought tb realize, when waking SEAFORTH FIRE MARINE AND LIFE
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promises to their children that failing to . _
keep them, unless good and sutlicieut reas-
on is given, is a grwr
ievous ong: (an ildren
lose courage under repeated promises that
lack fulfilment. Especially this the case
with fanners' boys.—They are often pro-
mised that if they will bliag up some calf or
lamb by hand it shall be theirs; their own
to do with astthey please. The ehild flush-
ed and eage takes the promise in good
faith, runs NA tends and feeds: his pet un-
til there spAgs up a mutual affection be-
tween the el, ild and the animal Sooner: or
later, the &rifler dasposes of the. animal to
the butcher. or trades it Off as coolly as if it
WaS his own, which it rightfully is not.
This is done again and again ; and by and
by the boy, discouraged with hopes proving
false, goes off into the world to labor, and
the man never ceases to wonder why none
of his boys will remain with him.
This matter was brought out in full foree
stauces.
a little -time iince, by the conversation -
of an old and respected citizen of B. Said
One Half Guilty. • he :—
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A fellow named Donks was lately tried
at Yuba, Cal., for entering a miner's tent,
and stealing a bag of gold -dust valued at
eighty dollars. The testimony showed that
he had bnce been employed there, and knew
exactly where the owner kept his dust;
that OP the night specified, he cut,a slit in
the tent, took the bag, and then ran off.
Jim Buller; the piincipal witness, testified
that he saw the cutasaw the man reach it,
and heard him ran away.
"1 rushed after him at once," continued
the witness ; "but when I cached hini I
didn't find Bill's bag ' but it was found af-
terwards where lie had thrown it."
"How far did he get when he took the
dust 'I" inquired the counsel.
"Well, he was stoppin' over, half way
in, I should say," replied the witness.
"May it please your honor," interposed
"I lost all confidence in my th
faer be-
fore I wa.s fifteen years old, and .lse a min-
ister, too. We. lived on a farm, and every
spring there was a lamb or two that, would
have died only for extra tending ;-and a
calf too handsome to be vealed; and it was,
`Theie is a job for you Hiram, you take
hold and raise them, and they shall be your
own.' So I would work and swear and tend
upon the handsome creatuies, until I had a
number of Animals virtually mine. Tliera
the 'first thing I knew be got pinched ior
money and sold them every one. At my
indigent protest against this proceeding the
answer was : Toh ! did you think I should
winter all that young trash and be snort of
Ne explanation to soften the disappeiut-
ment. The man continued:
"1 made up My mind that instant
to leave home as :goon as I was 41enough."
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INSURANCE AGENT, FOR
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(Canadian).
The Liverpool and London and Globe insurance
, Company, (English).
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The ()re District Mutual Insurance (ie.,
an •
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which divides nine -tenths of the profits every five
years amongst Policy Holders.
.Losses liberally adjusted and pronaptly settle&
Farmers are specially invited to consult the
advantages offered in perfect security and. in the
extreme lowness of rates for insurance on all de-
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MONEY TO LEND,
At moderate rates of Interest, and to be re -paid
by Instalments, which is the most suitable 'hild
safest method for Farmers and others to pay off
a mortgage. No Commission Charges, and ex-
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SEWING MACHINES.
The best Sewing Machines. for Family Use, as
well as for Manufacturing purposes, are kept al-
ways on hand. Both Single Threaded. and Dou-
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supplied. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed, and.
instructions given toTiirchasers gratis,
REMEMBER Wm. N. WATSON'S Insurance
Agency Office, and Sewing Machine Depot, North
Main Street.
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BOOKBINDERS, HULLETT
RE prepared to execute binding in every
style. Persons residing at a distance by
1a-ving their books at the Signal Book Store,
Godench, or st the ExpOSITOR office, Seaforth.
statin2 ityl a, m cy yt par "iliem ls.gingwe
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New Suits,
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ALSO A NICE STOCK OF
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NOTICE.
BATHS ! BATHS I
MR. PILLMANs
J'AS pleasure in announcing to the gentlemerc
of Seaforth and -vicinity, that the BATHS
formerly. kept by Mr. Lubelski are now read/
for use, and he hopes that by keeping everything
clean and comfortable to receive a hberal share
of public patronage. ,
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MR. PI LLMAN,
WOLID also beg to state that he is carrying
V V on the
TAILORING BUSINESS,
In all its branches, in the shop formerlyocc9ifs1
as a Barber Shop, and from his long expeller:10e
in this business, feels confident in saying that
parties favouring him with their orders, will
have there garments xna.de in ai manner which
will be second to the work of .310 other establish-
ment iii Ssaforth.
A TRIAL IS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED,
Seaforth, April 14, 18741
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