The Very Man

"Yes, I am ín need of a reporter," said an editor, replying to a man who liad entered the office and applied for a position; but I want a startling sort of a fellow - want a man who ;an make news: in other words, 1 want a man who is not aíraid to tell ' a lie." I think that I am the man." That may be, but you must stand that the man I want is to be able to tell a phausible lie- one that has every phase of tho truth." "I still say I .am thí man." Have you ever done much newspaper work?" "No; I have I have r.ever written for a newspaper." "Then.liowdo youknow you can write plausible lies?" "Beoause I havo written war articles for the magazines." The editor grasped the applicant's hand. "My dear man," he said, "I want you." Thomas A. Edison is thought to havo cleared two millions out of his elecirical inventions. His purchase of a rual residenceat $400,000 cash to take his wife to is regarded by hia intímate friends as no great extravagance. In appearance he is a, cleanshaven nian, youthíul in face, aud eo nearly dea: that a talkw has littlt fuá iu maldng himsclf u&deretood.