A SHARP NEWSPAPER WRITER.
Mr. Herbert S. Stone, the publisher, recently described at a, dinner in Washings ton the amusing methods of a newspaper writer who used to write articles at 4. set rate a, column. He was one© commissioned to do a serial story for a Chicago newspaper. The story, as it proceeded from week to week, was interesting, but it contained many passages like the following: — " Did yon hear him'-". . "I did." " Truly?" "Truly." " Where!" ' '■ ' ". ■.' "By the well.'" "When?" "To-day." " Then he lives?" • "He does." "Ah." The editor, sending for the maa, tjaid:-- " Hereafter we will pay you by the letters in your serial. We will pay you so* much a thousand letters." ' The young man, looking ''crestfallen, went away, hut in the very a«st instalment of his story he introduced a character who stuttered, and all through the chapter were scattered, passages like this: " B-b-b-b-believe me, s-s-s-sir, 1 am n-n-not g-g-g-gudty, m-m-m-mj m-m-m----mother c-c-c-committed this c-crffiie."-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12663, 17 September 1904, Page 6 (Supplement)
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159A SHARP NEWSPAPER WRITER. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12663, 17 September 1904, Page 6 (Supplement)
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