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Show Wanted A Corpse. To the Editor of the Sun Sir: Why doesn't somebody furnish tbe Herald with a corpse? If perseverance deserves de-serves success, surely the Herald's reward re-ward is overdue. For years it has been struggling to secure a first-class assassination of one or another of its correspondents. Quite recently even its chief was fired at. During our last war its correspondents met with numberless hairbreadth escapes. In Spain, Cuba, Turkey, and lar-away Alrica its agents have frequently been shot at, cut at, struck at, and yet, as corpses, they have proven far too healthy. Captain Jack and Sitting Bull both came within one of gratify- l ing tbe ambitious longing of the Herald, but yet tbe success failed of that perfection necessary to its happiness. happi-ness. The Mormsns, too, were appealed ap-pealed to. In despair the Herald has goue forth to make a corpse for itself, and it has found one called the democratic dem-ocratic parly. If the democratic party will consent to lie quiet, as a corpse should do, there need be no further noise over it; but it not, somebody some-body must furnish a body, even if it be a mummy, so that Herald readers may "have a rest." New York Sun. |