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"COVERING*' NEWS. Getting a Line on the Mexican Situation.?How Press Men Work. y . . Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican ambassador to the United States, is an interesting person in this year of grace 1916. Likewise is Maj. Douglas MacArthur, the censor of the war department, and the man upon whom the Washington newspapers must defrkr thAir dailv supply of au pcuu IV* v thentic information concerning Mexico. Upon Senor Arredondo, Maj. MacArthur, Robert Lansing, secretary of State, and Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, are centred right now the eyes of every newspaper man in the national capital who is "covering" the Mexican sit' - . uation. g-- And how is this covering done? Whom do you see to get the real news, and when, and how much of what, you get must you print and how much must you leave unprint ed? These are questions which to the novice might at first seem more or less perplexing, but which to the ? experienced Washington correspondent become a comparatively easy ? matter, at least after he has paved the way before him by establishing a confidential relationship between * the paper he represents and the big men with whom he is to work from day to day. Beginning the day the big papers Wochin?tnn "cover" Mr. Arredon ' do, it being recognized that he is the gateway between the department of State and Gen. Yenustiano Carranza, t the de facto leader of the Mexican C government. # Spy Making the Rounds. The first call is made at the Mexican embassy at 10 o'clock ig the r: 1 morning. Mr. Arredondo's plans for the day are then secured. At 11 o'clock it is the secretary of State, j? y then the war department and the fev V secretary of the navy. That is the run for the afternoon papers, but it is much more complex and, at th'e Hi same time, more interesting as the day goes on. During the afternoon there is another conference with the ' four officials named, each lasting perhaps half an hour, the last of these being with Senor Arredondo. That . finished the man writing the story for the morning papers begins to check up all the day's stuff prepara tory to sending in his "copy." He y , . i has, meantime, while en route from one of the departments to another hastily read the afternoon papers and if there is anything in them which has escaped his attention, another call must be made upon the proper -and that official haughtiness which I clothes many officers, and which forms a barrier between themselves and the outside world. A Bit of Excitement. So when Maj. MacArthur gives the "boys" the tip that he is ready to talk business about what Carranza, Villa and others may be doing bef yond the great border line of the Rio Grande, every man takes out his pencil and note book and is. ready for the job. May be it's a real long story which must be prepared before it is sent to the "office." On the other hand, if it is a "flash"?possibly from Funston, or Bell or Pershing?there is a wild scramble for one of the half dozen telephones in the press room and in a minute the air is sizzling with reports going in with telegraphed dispatches received | from the front. Th^n aftpr Mai. MacArthur has an nounced that "the department is g: " closed for the night'' the newspaper man must again check up Mr. Lansing, Mr. Arredondo, Mr. Daniels and all other lines of communication, before he may feel safe in leaving his post. But all is not over yet. After Lansing and Arrendondo and Daniels and MacArthur have announced that they are done for the night, there is official either for a confirmation or a * ; 4 denial, if the situation demands a categorical answer. The morning man, with his data /. . before him, rattles off his "copy" and rushes it on the wires. That done, there is half an hour for a hurried dinner, but not always so. Indeed, there is many a Washington newspaper man who rarely gets home to the evening meal, and at times even the quick lunch must be passed up for a more convenient time. Then the big stories for the coming day are written, but the troubles of the "night run" man on duty at ai rti-i. j - v..:i j: j tiie outie, war aiiu uav^y uunuiug aiiu at the Mexican embassy are but just beginning. He must be everywhere at once. The "night run" is begun at about 8 o'clock with Maj. MacArthur, and a big help he is to the men who depend upon him for their nightly supply of information. Although he has been on the censor's job but a little while, he has made a friend of every newspaper man with whom he has come in contact, and they already admire him greatly. He gives out whatever is proper for the press in a business like manner but he is not stuck up, even if he is a major in the army, and is free of red tape / i FABULOUS PRICES FOR FOXES. Silver Variety Most Valuable of Furbearing Annimals. Prince Edward island, lying northeast of the State of Maine, has within a few years developed a silver fox industry of enormous proportions. /N1 * - ? /\n t at?_ unmauc uuiiuiuuus iui uio cuiciprise are considered more favorable there than anywhere else. There are 233 fox ranches, of which 101 are owned by incorporated companies. In these ranches are nearly 2,500 foxes of all grades, of which 1,325 are classed as silver black. The provincial government derives I a revenue of 1 per cent, of the young foxes born from year to year, < and last year $37,000 was collected. At present the value of the foxes and the ranches on the island is more than $10,000,000, which is 25 per cent, in excess of the value of all the horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry on the well stocked farms of the province. The value of silver fox skins is shown by the fact that at the great auction sale in St. Louis, some single undressed skins brought $1,000 each. It is not uncommon for a coat of silver fox to cost from $5,000 to $10,000. The rise of the value of the first class breeding stock of Prince Edi ward island has been- meteoric. In 1910 a pair of silver fox breeders could be bought for $4,000; today they bring from $15,000 to $35,000. The average female fox will breed eight to ten times during her life and each litter will contain from two to seven duds. The silver fox is really a black fox, instead, as some persons suppose, of being almost white or a silver gray. The name is given on account of the presence of glistening white and grayish hairs which appear among the black. In the better grades the long, silky brush has a tip of pure white. About a quarter of a century ago the little animal, which weighs when full grown only about 12 pounds, became almost extinct. Because of the beauty of its fur, the species was trapped until the last of them had disappeared. For a long time the . standard price offered by the Hudson Bay company for silver fox pelts was arouncl $1,000, and the efforts of the* French-Canadian, half-breeds and Indian trappers to obtain this sum, to them a fortune, can be better imagined than described'.?Detroit News. KILLEI> BY LUMBER TRAIN. Walter Coxe, Deaf, Meets Tragic Death at Brownsville. Mallory, July 22.?Walter Coxe, aged about 60 years, was killed by a log train on the Marion County Lumber company's track, in Brownsville, Thursday morning according to news which reached his relatives here. It is stated that his head was completely severed from his body. The tragedy, though deplorable,.is believed to have been accidental, as the victim was completely deaf. He made his living doing odd jobs among his relatives and kindly disposed neighbors, and did a great deal of walking about the neighborhood. He had been hit by a train on a former occasion. The scepe of the killing was where the lumber road crosses the public road, about one hundred yards from where the deceased made his home. MILL MAX KILLS HIMSELF. James S. Jones, Boss Spinner, Fires Bullet Into His Brain. Anderson, July 19.?James S. Jones, aged 35 years, employed as boss spinner at the Gluck Mills, committed suicide at his home in the mill village this afternoon. He was at ' i.? TT. Home alone at tne time. ne uxy across the bed and fired one bullet from a thirty-eight calibre pistol through his brain. Ill health is said to have been the cause of the act. He leaves a wife and one young daughter. still one very important point which must not be neglected. See that no "late stuff" gets by you at the white house. That would be most unfortunate and would doubtless have a tendency to expedite the "firing" process, with which every newspaper man, big or little, is more or less familiar. When your stuff is all in and you think you have done about enough for the day, there are yet a few querries from the home office to investigate. Go to it, then you may quit?if it is anywhere near midnight?until the forenoon. But answer everything no matter whether it concerns a change in the Chinese government, a suspicion that we are short on munitions, or wThat not? answer it?then if you have time you may sleep for the nonce. Wake up again and it's the same old day. This is the routine of the Washington man covering the big. news of the day. He works hard but he likes it because he knows he is playing the game for all there is in it. I Real Enlightenment. "Father," said the son, looking up from a book with a puzzled expres-j sion on his face, "what is a pride?" j "Pride," returned the father, I "pride! Why?a?O sure you know j what pride is. A sort of being stuck J up, a kind of?well, proud, you | know. Just get the dictionary; that's the thing to tell you exactly what it1 is. There's nothing like a dictionary, Johnny." "Hrere it is," said the latter, after an exhausting search. "Pride?being proud." "Um?yes, that's it," replied the father. "But?" "Well, look at 'proud.' That's thu way you have to hunt these things i out, my lad." "I've got it," answered Johnny. "Pre?pri?pro?why?" "What does it say?" " 'Proud?having pride.' " "That's it! There you are, as clear as day. I tell you, Johnny, there is nothing like a dictionary when you are young. Take care of the binding, my son, as you put it back."?Pathfinder. RAILf WAj Shall they be < Industrial 1 Federal j To the American P Do you believe in trial warfare? The train employe: are voting whether they authority to tie up tJ country to enforce the > million dollar wage in The railroads are ii your service. This ar the public service?yo You pay for rail tr; dollars a year, and A dollar from you goes On all the Southern railroads in 1 train employes earned these wag of all) as shown by the payrollsPassenger Range Average R Engineers. $^2 ?2306 oolU Conductors 1847 2696 ; Firemen . ^ 1209 D lo5J - - 1 CK7 Brakemen. I 1109 I 1736 . The average yearly wage payir ployea (including those who w sho'*- by the 1915 payrolls wer Passei Engineers. . $21' Conductors 17! Firemen 101 Brakemen 10! A 100 million dol men in freight and ) one-fifth of all emploj cent advance in all fr< The managers of tl for the public, have 1 i < burden on tne cost 01 without a clear mand bunal speaking for yc The railroads hav< ment of this controv existing national arbit ence to the Interstate sion. This offer has employes' representat Shall a nation-^ investigation 1 ernment deteri National Conference Co ELISHA LEE, Chairman. <> d AI nmr.UT non'l Matuurer. Atlantic Coast Lip* Railroad. L. W. BALDWIN, Gen'l Manager, Central of Georgia Railway. C. L. BARDO, Gen'l Manager, New York, New Haren & Hartford Railroad. E. H. COAPMAN, Vice-President, Southern Railway. S. E. COTTER, Gen'l Manager, Wabash Railway. P. E. CROWLEY, Asst. Vice-President, New York Central Railroad. G. H. EMERSON, Gen'l Manager, Great Northern Railway. C. H. EWING, Gen'l Manager, Philadelphia & Reading Railway. ?. W. GRICE, Asst. to President, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. ' ^ I WHAT PEOPLE READ. The Rooks From Which They Get Most Pleasure. A lawyer recently conceived the idea of taking the books he had read two or more times and which he still occasionally enjoyed "dipping into" and having them rebound in special covers, the World's Work for July asserts. His choice of pleasure-reading carries well back into his childhood. "Alice in Wonderland," "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood," by Howard Pyle, "Tom Sawyer," all hold their own against such books as "A Gentleman of France," and "The Three Musketeers." Out of the yearly deluge of sellers of past years; "Queed" and new works one finds one or, two best "The Broad Highway." And here one can find the owner's hobby in reading, three volumes of Stewart Edward White. That is not all. "Les Miserables," his most friendly volume of poetry, and others that you immediately recognize as pleasing?twenty-eight books in all are on that shelf, every one of which he, in different moods, enjoys picking up and reading in his leisure time. IOAD GES determined by Warfare or Inquiry? ublic: arbitration or induss on all the railroads ' will give their leaders he commerce ot the :ir demands for a 100 crease. 1 the public service? my of employes is in >ur service. msportation 3 billion cents out of every to the employes. L915, seventy-five percent of the ;es (lowest, highest and average Freight Yard lange Average Range Average f 1455 ?iqi? $1156 (./?/? 3505 $19 1 6 2424 31566 r 13o3 icon 10OO 1 rs a r 2358 1 580 1749 1245 848 979 488 777 1638 1302 .I5.5 958 ,?54 990 1834 | ifuo lents to all Southern train emorked only part of the year) as e? tiger Freight Yard 14 $1712 $1313 23 1488 1157 *6 865 688 13 845 868 lar wage increase for 'ard service (less than ^es) is equal to a 5 per sight rates. le railroads, as trustees no right to place this i transportation to you ' 11- ^ late trom a puDiic tri)U. e proposed the settlerersy either under the ration law, or by refer: Commerce Commis> been refused by the ives. vide strike or an under the Govmine this issue? mmittee of the Railways A. S. GREIG, Asst. to Receivers, St. Louia & San Francisco Railroad. C. W. KOUNS, Gen'l Manager, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. E. W. McMASTER, Gen'l Manager, J t -U- V-im Railrnnd. n nccnug auu i^aikv m -v. N J). 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