ONLY A NEWSPAPER GUY.

Evening Star, Issue 14637, 5 August 1911, Page 3

ONLY A NEWSPAPER GUY.

I see a man strut through a jam in a hall, Take a seat 'mid the speakers and chat with them all. "Is this Murphy?" I ask, "that the crowd he defies?" "No," eaya someone, "he's one of the newspaper guys." I see a man pushing his way through the Jines Of tho cops where a fire brightly glimmers and shines. "Chief Kenlon?" I ask, but a fireman replies ; " Oh, no, why, that's one of those newspaper guys." I see a man start on the trail of a crook. And he scorns all assistance, but brings him to book. "Mr Burnfi?" I inquire. Someone scornfully criee : " Burns'? Naw. He's just one of them newspaper guys." 1 see a man walk through the door of a show Where groat, throngs are blocked bv the sign S.R.O. " Is this Goodwin himself, that no ticket he buys?" " Well, hardly. He's one of those newspaper guys." T see a man knock on a President's door And the sign " _No admittance" completely ignore. " Is this Morgan, that privacy's right ho denies?" "Morgan? Shucks! It's just one of those newspaper guys." And some day I'll walk by tho great streets of gold, And see a man enter, unquestioned and bold, "A raint?" I'll inquire, and St. Peter reply : "WelK 1 should say not, he*s a newspaper —Carleton G. Garretson, in New York 'Globe.'