The Idiot

tless; and yet when he so far forgot his natural propensities as to meditate, they did not like it. It made them uneasy. They had a haunting fear that he was cons

n of thought-to put obstructions upon his mental track, as it were, and ditch the

urself this morning, sir

the Idiot. "And who

omething on your mind that worr

"I was thinking about you and Mr. Pedagog-which implies

d holds any gray matte

I should say,"

nd Mr. Pedagog. I have a great scheme in hand, which only requires capital and the assistance of those two gentlemen to launch it on

itechoker. He had often felt that he would like to die in comfort,

money to be made out of journalism, particularly

to five?" questioned Mr. Pedagog, w

e millions will stand a big capital S with two black lines drawn vertically through it-in other words, my idea holds dollars, but to get the crop you've got to sow the seed.

lar for the idea," s

u aren't the workman to manage the tool. I will go as far as to say, however, that without you and Mr.

est," said Mr. Whitechoker. "Do

of the scheme-but it isn't the idea. I propose to start a n

or a comic paper, or what

. It's a

d-milk can by mistake. "There isn't a single scheme in daily journalism

o many columns of murder, so many beautiful suicides, so much sport, a modicum of general intelligence, plenty of fires, no end of embezzlements, financial news, advertisements, and head-lines. Events, like history, repeat themselves, until people have grown weary of them. They want something new. For instance, if you read in your morning paper that a man has shot another man, you know that the man who was shot was an

ent in some church. You can calculate to a cent how much has been stolen by a glance at the amount of space devoted to the account of the crime. Loaf of bread, two lines. Thousand dollars, ten li

t. The expected always happens, and newspapers ar

" put in the School-Master,

ill devote its space to te

one," said the

hink," returned the Idiot. "It has never

d Mr. Whitechoker. To tell the truth, he was greatly disappointed with the ide

NOT MU

u tell what has not happened. There is a variety about it. It has the charm of the unexpected. Then you might say: 'Curious incident on Wall Street yesterday. So-and-so, who was caught on the bear side of the market with 10,000 shares of J. B. & S. K. W., p

T SMITHERS HAS

e School-Master. "You'd earn $1,000

ontrary, you call attention to his conspicuous virtue. You are in reality commending those who refrain from criminal pr

Mr. Pedagog and I are essential to

sity on my own part on that p

ciliating smile as he prepared to depart. "You both know so