Among Mr. Lord’s fortunate traits as managing editor were his ability to choose good correspondents all over the world and his entire confidence in them after they were selected. No matter what other correspondents wrote, the _Sun_ stood by its own men. They were on the spot; they should know the truth as well as any one else could. Months before Aguinaldo’s insurrection the _Sun_ man at Manila, P. G. McDonnell, kept insisting that the Filipino chieftain would revolt. The other New York newspapers laughed at the _Sun_ for seeing ghosts, but McDonnell was right. Newspaper readers will remember that in 1904 the fall of Port Arthur was announced three or four times in about as many months, and each time the _Sun_ appeared to be beaten on the news until the next day, when it was discovered that the Russians were still holding out. All the _Sun_ did about the matter was to notify its Tokyo correspondent, John T. Swift, that when Port Arthur really fell it would expect to hear from him by cable at “double urgent” rates. At midnight of January 1, 1905, four months after these instructions were given to Swift, the _Sun_ got a “double urgent” message: Port Arthur fallen--SWIFT. No other paper in New York had the news. The _Sun_ rubbed it in editorially on January 3: Deeply conscious as we are of the deplorable lack of modern enterprise which has hitherto deprived the _Sun_ of the distinction of repeatedly announcing the fall of Port Arthur, we have to content ourselves with the reflection that when finally the _Sun_ did print the fall of Port Arthur, it was so. Soon after the election of Woodrow Wilson, in 1912, the head of the _Sun_ bureau in Washington, the late Elting A. Fowler, made the prediction that William Jennings Bryan would be named as Secretary of State. Nearly every other metropolitan newspaper either ignored the story, or ridiculed it as absurd and impossible. The _Sun_ never made inquiry of Fowler as to the source of his information. He had been a _Sun_ man for ten years, and that was enough. Fowler repeated and reiterated that Bryan would be the head of the new Cabinet, and sure enough, he was. The _Sun_ correspondent in a city five hundred miles from New York was covering a great murder mystery. Every other New York newspaper of importance had sent from two to five men to handle the story; the _Sun_ sent none. The correspondent saw that the New York men were getting sheaves of telegrams from their newspapers, directing them in detail how to tell the story, and to what length; so he sent a message to the _Sun_ advising it of the large numbers of New York reporters engaged on the mystery, and of the amount of matter they were preparing to send. Had the _Sun_ any instructions for him? Yes, it had. The reply came swiftly: Use your own judgment--CHESTER S. LORD.