|razor.--_Beloit Free Press._ |

Here the manner is the feature, but it is not played up in the first
line because it is too horrible.

=5. Big Stories.=--The big stories of catastrophes are usually handled
on a large scale--played up, as the newspaper men say. The story in
itself is of sufficient importance to make it unnecessary to play up any
single feature of the story. However, the reporter, in looking for a
good beginning, often finds it in the most startling fact in the story.
If he is reporting a riot he usually begins with the number of killed
or injured, the amount of property destroyed, the character of the riot,
or the cause, as in this example:

| In an effort to bring about the |
|reinstatement of one of their number who |
|had been discharged for non-unionism, a |
|hundred or more journeymen bakers wrecked|
|the bakeshop of Pincus Jacobs, at No. |
|1571 Lexington avenue, early this |
|morning.--_New York Evening Post._ |

In the case of a storm the human life element is of greatest importance,
then the damage to property, and last, the peculiar circumstances. For
example:

| CLEVELAND, Dec. 11.--Fifty-nine lives |
|were the cost of a storm which passed |
|over Lake Erie Wednesday night and |
|Thursday, and more than $1,000,000 worth |
|of vessel property was destroyed.--_New |
|York Evening Post._ |

If the story is concerned with a flood the human-life element is first,
then the damage, the cause, the freaks of the flood, or the present
situation. For example:

| PARKERSBURG, W. Va., March 10.--Three |
|persons are known to have perished in a |
|flood which swept down upon the city on |
|Friday when two water reservoirs on |
|Prospect Hill burst without warning. |
|Forty houses were destroyed and many |
|persons are missing. The property damage |
|will be nearly $500,000. |

=6. Police Court News.=--The ordinary run of police court news is in a
class by itself. Usually the only news value in the story depends upon
some unusual incident or circumstance that attracts the attention of the
reporter. This is of cours