An Honor to His Profession

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 5, 11 July 1891, Page 4

An Honor to His Profession

it was the ' new , reporter who had -come in, . covered . with perspira~tiou and dust, as the last form went to press. ' Did it take you all day to ~do that park waterworks detail ?' snarled the chief editor. ' S-s-h, * speak low,' whispered the new • special' in the C.E.s ear. ' Got on to an Ai suicide out in the park — defalcation probably.' ' Great Caesar ! and we've gone to press,' gasped the editor ; ' the afternoon papers will get a beat on U9 to-raorrow.' ' Not much !* chuckled the reporter ; ' I knew I couldn't get here in time for the last edition, "so I just queered the find.' ' What do you mean ?' ' Why, I dragged the body into the bushes, and covered -it up with grass and things. A 'bloodhound couldn't find it. To-morrow we develop the claim, and give 'etii a two-column sensation.' With tears' in L , his eyes, the chief -editor arose' "and 1 fell upon his aub.'s neck. ' You aVe'an • honour to your profession, 5 he exclaimed ; ' I'll see that your salary ia increased two * pounds a. monta. I, will, oy jingo !'

Tke French Cabinet has made OTertaresto~(lie Federal Government for a commercial treaty between the two - countries, provided. ,the latter renounces it.«coanectiqr» with the German, Zbllverein -anß the Triple 'Alliance. In yieWof 'the' fact that a number of people do M not_he9t\tate to say that Garbine has'been^ harshly treated by the handicappertin, adjusting tits Melbdurne Cup TreightsiVths'/fol'o^i 111 ? particulars of the running in last year's contest will prove of interest : — •• Highborn *v"d Cor--reze made a'>'detßroainecl> run .at Carbine - at the half-distance, but Eamage, drawing his wjiig, sh,oqk_it, ,and-the, gr,eat racehorfse,. implied insult, --settled down into his'li/Si; swinging stride, - and drawing away won' easily at the end ,py one lengths \nd a halt"