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Oh, death comes once to each man, and the game it pays for all, And duty is but duty in great ship and in small, And it will not vex their slumbers or make less sweet their rest, Though there's never a big black headline for small craft going west.
"I will conclude with what to me is an example of the art of headline writing carried almost to perfection. Suppose that at Paris a long-distance foot-race between one of our countrymen and a foreign athlete had been won by our compatriot. The Réveil would probably say, 'Armand Wins at Auteuil, and go on to give the details. But observe what they do here.
One glance at the headline that confronted her and Grace's gray eyes grew black with anger. "How dared she do it! How could she be so contemptible!" Snatching the letter from the table Grace dashed up the stairs to her room. Tears of rage glistened in her eyes. She stood in the middle of the floor with set teeth, closing and unclosing her fingers in an effort to regain her self-control.
While the coffee and cigars were being served he fidgeted about the library, glancing at his letters the usual meaningless notes and bills and picking up the evening paper. As he unfolded it a headline caught his eye.
Her restless, bitter nature had been wonderfully changed into something exquisitely calm and poised, so that her very presence, silent in the room, could be felt.... Isabelle's eyes caught the headline in the paper she was opening:
Or, perchancely, who has been made to cower himself undertheneath of that fierce general's threatenings. See, it is there, howadji. There, in the black line at the left top end of the news. See?" Following the guidance of Najib's stubby, unwashed finger, Kirby read the indicated headline: GENERAL STRIKE THREATENED "Oh!" he answered, choking back a grin, "I see. There isn't any 'general, Najib.
I have purposely refrained from reading the papers lately. Chancing to open one to-day, after a month's complete ignorance of all that had been happening in the world, I saw the following headline: Suicide of a Lady in a Lunatic Asylum. And now I feel as shaken as though I had taken part in a crime; as though I had had some share in this woman's death.
It was dated Monday, the 11th November only a day old. The headline ran: "No Armistice yet." So Sunday's demonstration had been a sham and a fraud! I rejoined the others. They, too, had heard that no Armistice had been signed by Sunday midnight from a despatch rider who had, however, added that signature was expected every minute. We were back in camp.
"I see," said Anson Merrill to his wife, one morning at breakfast, "that this man Cowperwood is beginning to get his name in the papers." He had the Times on the table before him, and was looking at a headline which, after the old-fashioned pyramids then in vogue, read: "Conspiracy charged against various Chicago citizens.
The banker said it might do well enough for grocers, but that it would never be of any value to banking; and the grocer said it might do well enough for bankers, but that it would never be of any value to grocers. As Bell had worked out his invention in Salem, one editor displayed the headline, "Salem Witchcraft." The New York Herald said: "The effect is weird and almost supernatural."
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