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THE GOTHAM PRESS New York Journalism and the Men Behind the Papers A NEW NEWSPAPER ROW Editor Reid In Building n ew Home for the TribuneThe Movement Up TownA Comparinon of the Old and Xew New YorkWhitelaw Reid has no fear that Newspaper Row will move H r Reid as a Buildar uptown He has bought 30000 square feet of land next the old Tri bune building and will not only cover it with an addition but will extend the entire structure to the height of 19 stories This reconstruc tion will complete a cycle of building in New York It is a trifle less than one generation since the present moiine Duuamg oi ten siories wus erected It was the marvel of Its day and one of the highest office buildings ever erected in the oldfashioned way before the steel skeleton method was invented of raising skyscrapers Its lower story walls are as thick as those of a castle on the Rhine I remember well reading as a lad in the country the description of the Tribunes new building and wondering if l should ever see it The avid memory of youth reminds me how the architect proved that
THE COLD TRUTH How much do men owe to newspa pers for whatever notoriety reputa tion or fame they may acquire or have thrust op them As the New York Press says before the populace in vainwithout the newspaper He spreadeagles the constitution in vainwithout the newspaper His clarion voice wakes up the universe in vainwithout the newspaper His most astounding fin ancial enterprises serve him in vain without the newspaper His scien tific researches and achievements are in vainwithout the newspaper His wireless telegraph would be an accom plishment of small meritwithout the newspaper His successes in every walk of life are in vainwithout the The newspaper is the Of course 4 Your great man Shines newspaper famemaker of the age some of the fame is cheap but it sat isfies the living wearer of the cloak even though posterity change it Let the newspaper cease to mention in any way the names of men who fancy that their fame is secure and they would soon drop out of signt Ex y y Weak Are due to indigestion Ninetynine of eveiy one hundred people who have heart trouble can remember when it was simple indiges tion It is a
Tf Me is an Jd story about the fSrir wrrA tois Wife who were not tali dird with their home and de eld 4 to pat their farm in the hands oan agent for sale Soon the realtor they read of a beauti tel place which they decided would exactly suit them They ailed on the agent only to find It was their own farm they had so jaech admired and as the agent had atated the facts they with drew it from the market They hai overlooked the good things round them antil a stranger had pointed them oat This is a very common experience We usually think the other fellow has the eas ier time of a better business be cause we dont know all about Ills troubles or disadvantages and because we dont fully appre ciate our good things Ex Your great man shines before the populace in vain without the newspaper He spreadeagles the Constitution in vain without the newspaper His clarion voice wakes up the universe in vain without the newspaper His most astounding financial enterprises serve him in vainwithout the newspaper His scientific re searches and achievehments are in vainwithout the newspaper His wireless
THE DUTY OP A NEWSPAPER Unfavorable criticisms of news papers are frequently made on the ground that they misrepresent things That is true They Ire qnently do But the newspaper which is trying faithfully to give the reading public the news makes remarkably few mistakes when it is considered how many state ments it is called upon to make in eachissue Those who are in the habit of charging inaccuracy in newspapers should remember two things First the average news paper makes certainly not less than ten thousand statements a year If none of these were er roneous or slightly misleading it would be astounding And sec ondly it is customary for one mis take in a newspaper to provoke more criticism than the nine thousand ninehundred and nine tynine correct statements And this very fact is much in the newspapers favor If the mis takes were so common they would not excite so much comment The record for accuracy and truth as held by a standard newspaper of good repute and enjoying a wide circulation among aa intelligent clientalle would put to blush any stump speaker platform lecturer or magazine lecturer in the land We once knew of a
J f I 1 I i IV II IJ I I JL I I FAS 11 I I X NT 1 fOrvTllEDEVELOFilEifiowtfc KB5i4lllMil ABE STELXBEEGER 4 SOM 100 A Tear n kixiM Ouk Aim To Tell the Truth Obey the Lav and Make Money Oub Motto Talk for Home Work for Home and Fight for Home fUMlKOl VOL 31 OKOLONA MISS WEDNESDAY MAKCH 11 1903 NO 10 SCIENCE AND SPIRITS longer IB William Crooka no stands for spirits and the open door to the unseen He frankly confesses that the chase in their direction has led him only to a brick wall There is no bridge between the spiritual and material world and I dont see how there can be is his latest utterance Coming from a man who has been deep in the merits of all psychic phenomena that the ag could roll up this dictum has forlornly the nature of a last word to the eager watchers at the tower which proud science haa reared for some defi nite peep into the spirit world That it still appends a hope that psychical science may perhaps stumble upon a soul a stray glimpse of tne spir itual kingdom is
City THE CORINTHIAN DAILY AND WEEKLY name has home of The not ed and City be J C MARTIN Editor and Propr SUBSCRIPTION 10c per Week Daily by Carrier Daily by Mail Sc per MoDth 100 per Year Weekly Special Rate Schedule f All meetings notices of secret socie ties fraternal orders or other organi sations churehes excepted and other adverting pertaining to same will be inserted in the Corinthian at the rate of five cents per line A half rate will be made on ourcti festivals and entertainments for the benefit of religious and charitable or ganizations n edly or TELEPHONE No 33 rhe Corlntaisn entered at the poatofBee at Cor lath Miss as secondclass matter March 13 1887 tor transmission through the maus DAILY CORINTHIAN Published Every Day Except Sunday WEEKLY CORINTHIAN Published Every Wednesday in His the out ANNOUNCEMENTS Candidates For Office Subject to Democratic Primaries For District Attorney J W BARRON GEO T MITCHELL Of Pontotoc County in of state Senate J O LOONEY For Representative P S GLOVER TERRY J DALTON G W BYNUM H H RAY For Sheriff W T McPETERS J E MILLER J R SKILLMAN For Superintendent Education H A HUFF W
THE TIMES OREflXVLK MI S3 JAN IT 19 V f Two Dollars a Year t I r k 5 rwain PTitn c I KWM PI THE BIG STOH JfjjE BIB STORE LQyl wU j i t as w IS m IS US US 8 Xminiiii aW ial 301 303 WASHINGTON AVENUE CORNER POPLAR STREET Wtol CO THE BIG STORE GREENVILLE Mississippi some royal relics peta Cctci Ui Company Stolen Bones of French Kings Com ing to America urloD Collection ot Crown Scep ter Funeral Robe and Jewel ry Said to Be Intended for t Ken York Museum In the last vears of the Second em lire a portion of the Ledru collection ef roval bones and other relics was secretly sent to tftgland and preserved in London by Thomas Sheruroke Now it is coming to the United States says the New York Sua Mr Sherbroke repeatedlyolteredhis toliectiou to the French government but evidently his oilers have been re jected because the remains of the kings f France are now destined to orna tneiil the showcases cf some New York museum instead of being sent to the Slusee tinny to Carnuvalct or to the Church of Saint Denis The story of
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