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Was it unnatural that Najib should have substituted for these the mythical general of whom he thought he had seen mention in the news headline? But, soon after dusk, Kirby had reason to know that his words had not all fallen on barren soil. At close of the working day, Najib had brought the manager the usual diurnal report from the mine.
A death at our store yesterday, Watkins?" Mr. Forbes had caught sight of a headline half across the paper. Mr. Watkins bowed; he could not speak. His employer opened the paper and scanned it hastily. "Ah! That's right! That's right! Gibson is a clever man! He makes the thing sound right before the public!
"Let the Gold Dust Twins Do Your Work" is a headline which no doubt attracts the favorable attention of many of this class, who might utterly ignore "Let the Gold Dust Twins Save You Money." The favorable attention of the fat man is very evidently gained most readily by that which appeals to his physical senses and appetites. This is because the keynote of his nature is enjoyment.
Link by link the chain of evidence that the accidents and murders are each part of a general and concerted movement is built. "Martyrs or Murderers?" This is the interrogatory headline that appears in every paper. The events of the past twenty-four hours have been so unparalleled that men dare not jump at conclusions.
On Wednesday the headline was "British and French Check Germans"; but still the retreat went on. Back and back and back! Where would it end? Would the line break again this time disastrously? On Saturday the headline was "Even Berlin Admits Offensive Checked," and for the first time in that terrible week the Ingleside folk dared to draw a long breath.
"Wheat soaring," said one headline. "Frantic scenes in the Pit," said another. "Wheat reaches famine price," blared a third. Beale passing through to Whitehall heard the shrill call of the newsboys and caught the word "wheat." He snatched a paper from the hands of a boy and read. Every corn-market in the Northern Hemisphere was in a condition of chaos.
"Rather," says Old Hickory, pointin' to a Wall Street daily that has broke loose on its front page with a three-column headline. "See what the Curb crowd did to G. L. T. common yesterday? Traded nearly one hundred thousand shares and hammered the opening quotations for a twenty-point loss. All on a rumor of a passed dividend.
He had struck other fierce blows, but this was the most terrible of them all. Alarm spread through the whole North. Lincoln and his Cabinet saw a great army of rebels marching on Washington. A New York newspaper which had appeared in the morning with the headline, "Fall of Richmond," appeared at night with the headline "Defeat of General Banks."
From them we were lucky enough to get the London Courier of that very morning. It was interesting reading so interesting that I had to announce it all to the crew. Of course, you know the British style of headline, which gives you all the news at a glance. It seemed to me that the whole paper was headlines, it was in such a state of excitement. Hardly a word about me and my flotilla.
I had no success and could not get a word out of him, until, one morning, I chanced to see a sensational headline in a local paper about a suicide in a neighbouring town. On passing my workman, he immediately broke out in great excitement, "Did you read in the paper about that bloke who went to his father's house at W , sat down on the doorstep, and cut his throat?"
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