WAR CORRESPONDENTS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5338, 7 May 1878, Page 3

WAR CORRESPONDENTS.

; ■ (From- the' Quesnsiander.) The’ war : correspondent is! hrioonsoiously ■ doing a great and a good woi’k He is render-' ing" warfare ridiculvHis'. ■ He ;is hastening the 'miileuhiumi'-'by 'a'-proceasSvhirih the’pld prophets' never dreairit of, ' If; anything 1 ’would induce men to turn their bayonets into toasting 1 forks, aud their'swords into tobacco-cutters,, it would surely’be the knowledge that the war correspondent has-taken the “shine” out,of both: • .Thanks to his turn 1 for minute! and’ persistent chipping, all, the ■ grand features of glory are clean gone—with his infarrialknack of snatching;.at,pettyndctaiil, he has not only ; stripped and: skinned -berosism, but! hast laid, open -the. contents -of .'its stomach.' This is a' specimen of how he does it. Tefifc Bey, 'guest-, ’■ prisoner of General Skobeloff, “ drank |a ‘ r glass of red-;;.wine,-;a.; glass; "of"sherry, -and. ' arcouple- .of glasses -of r champagne;”: This is / journalism-iin the uninet'eeathi ;■ cerituryH l , a marvellously close approximation’ to thp! chronicling,of amaff beer.-M A-decent-rh'an!can-’ - npt ralx his'. but : the r . glasses must be - ..mnltiplirid.by tens.-of thbusau(&, and'ripilt oyer,’! all the earth. But let us not revile.-the jour';!! nalist if he-hastens-thq l millorimuin:!’-; Men/will ’ think twice now.before .they become tire tools;' of ,c_apri,cious monarchs, or of,clamorous nations; at'the risk of haying. tjieir, stomachs turned'; outside, in for' a'curiousyworid to gaze at. !If the «&pfraiil|’ BliPPSht 'ltd realise that to' the; war porrespon-last-figure-he will cutin’histOryjwiljlj be that of a mere forked*'nudity, by, a certain quanHty.'of/liqiicr, he.w.Lll be apt -td question if’fhe” game'‘he worth' the candle’,’.' The proverbial 'ylalet' de‘ is no .such. destroyer of'heroes.'’a3,' ,i r Ouf "Obrrdspoudent at' the Seat of 'VYar.”’ :^ ;The , former at least owns , the, mafi’ asnis master.;','but’fhe latter uSek him ris his drum, 1 beats' himself into notice by means 'of 'him;‘and then opens him to see’ 'Where 1 the sound came from. What in the [name of' fortune I 'is 'the service' rendered to truth;’’morals, '’society,' 1 or to the men themselves, by scattering oyer the,-world 'the irifofmatibu that “they' both' laughed ?" Sd r db. we;We afe. ajt’the'fact that,’ 'the' wir .correspondent 1 , is .- running ,tb; sfeqd,' We ate’laughiri’g to' seefbat .the 1 ’aririaU of 'glory, canndt'keep'up theif’relish how without being! supplemented and cofi'diiioiehted with a'spice pf. broad farce. We areiaughing because, between, 'details' 'Of, horror and details of drinks,,tbeire iS' ) 'a i fair' oharipP 'bf I that’ long-lived impostor, , 'Glory,[expiring at last in'a delhium’. of. drivel. But prior Tefifc.Bey 1 ; wri'/fcaririot' dismiss him 'without' a ' wbnd 'rif; 'syinpathy.!! “Ho sopn ’again,’’-‘so says tße" ( 'hiat’6rian, “relapsed .into 'nleiaricholy'; bri’d ! gloom.lt was partly the despondency "and 1, sadness natural under 'the : 'circumstapbes;' partly' the' reaction, on (the ex-'. ‘tfeme excitemeht'and't'Pnsiqnol nerves,'during'' 'the’-'last’ few I days" : wheh. 'preparing ,'for: . thp. 'sortie;'''and J parfly'extreme',.lassitude and fatigue.”' ’ 'Tt;wasn't;’ .He baduT had a' morsel tri-'eat; siripe' i ffi6rning,. Snd'novy he had a glass , 6i'vfifllsa‘in’’‘l^iißj''aM. 1 a gliss'‘of, sherry,! and! a’ 'couple of [ glasses’ bf 'fchaihp'agrie 1 ! ‘,; ! Ahd' i tHea[!‘;he' laugHpi!. Arid. then 1 h’e' 7 bollapspdi 1 ' ’['His' eyri .had" suddenly,! fallbn' bfi’ : 'the‘’war''correspondent.' * Uis, '.own' iflpiety‘and! this 1 ihan’h inagpiety were hrirna 'iri’upbn hiin 1 simultanebusly. In a few daysIslam and air'the .‘woflji would know, that he •hadbroken IhSlaw bf'tne Prriphet,, \ ! j.