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Show I don't think now that I could possibly pot myself to fool as unembarrassed as 1 did that afternoon intho bay of Halifax. Youth and ignorance of Old World oti-quetto oti-quetto wero on my side, so I talked to tho prince with cntiro lack of restraint, and what was mora to the purposo, ho talked to mo. This was shortly after Beaconsfield and Salisbury had returned from tho Berlin conference and brought back what they called "pence with honor." hon-or." The prince talked very freely of this great achievement, and as he was and is very much under the Russian influence of his wife ho was not full of praise of those who had represented Great Britain at the congress. I made a two column dispatch of the interview which 1 had obtained entirely in a professional capacity, ca-pacity, and which I felt thoroughly at liberty touse. Thonewspapercontaining my interview reached England before the duke of Edinburgh did. When he Kot there ho was hauled up before tho boar'l OLD f Wl 11-POM Narrates Some Amusing Experiences of Other Days When a Exporter Was an Encyclopedia. . ACTRESS' TALE HEE HUSBAKD f i Husband's Sister, and a Scribe Who Had Trouble-Olose Eektions With a Banker. I never served very long as a reporter, j i some of my experiences in that ca- -ity were interesting. I fancy I could I ' have been a very skillful hand at j sonally gathering news, for very soon j fer I begun y newspaper career I was I sinoted to an executive position and , "m the direction' of those who had a :ter knack at that kind of thing than . in op gee returned. " He was given my card, " which stated that I was a reporter. He came in after a brief parley with the woman who had been watching me. The gentleman was excited, not only by his , matrimonial perplexities, but by some- ! tiling else which has the capacity to stir one up even when the domestic horizon is fair. My youth and embarrassment must have appealed to him, for soon he was in a most confidential mood and began be-gan pouring out to me the whole of his sido of the case. As he got along with the story his voice became louder, so that any one in tho house could hear what he was saying. At a most critical point in the narrative an acrid voice from the dimly lighted dining room called: j "William!" j He stopped at once and sobered down. . To encourage him 1 said: "You were saying" The voice ic sharp command interrupted inter-rupted again: "William, come here. William went. There was a long col- j loony in the dining room. I endeavored 1 not to hear what was bejng said, and if I did hear 1 have long since forgotten it. ; William re-entered the sitting room. You say." he said, "you are a re- P"Yes of course," I responded. -My sister says that you are not a reporter re-porter at ail. but a lawyers clerk come to worm my story out of me. ow I irint vou to get out of here. ! This was said in a most threatening; way, and 1 arose from the sofa on which , 1 had been seated. I -Your sister is mistaken, I expostu- lated. "Why does she think I am a luu-ver's clerk?" The lady had entered the room now, and stood by her brothers side and an-swered an-swered for herself: " 5, can't fool me. I know who you are you don't look like a reporter You a a layer's clerk. 1 knew it the moment mo-ment saw you." Turning to her brother Rh. added, "William, don't say another "resolved not only not to say another word to me. but evidently de-tt de-tt make me forget all he had said "r he took me roughly by the arm and shoved me toward the door As I left rt tSicer resounded around as h'oth a nrs. ass murder had been Unluckily for me a pohce-comm pohce-comm tted. unmo anJ man happened g Rob. SJ hSodyof this guar-n guar-n of Jeey on a charge of as-dian as-dian ot jerxy , bein marched nlt.ndbattoryndbngmi off to the station M heB n0 fair. -I acs t witted sister for consolation. ; Tttwas my initiation to the frater- srss a reporter in New York who would go near him. I was the city editor, and the chief had directed that certain questions be asked of this churlish inagnato. There was in the office a very gentlemanlike gentle-manlike young man who had recently been graduated from Harvard, and who had only that day reported for duty. I was sure that he would not shirk the job, for he did not know how disagroe-uble disagroe-uble it might be. I told him what I wished, and as he had only heard of Mr. Blank as an eminent financier and conspicuous con-spicuous politician he was glad of the chance of seeing him. Arrived at tho Fifth avenue home of Blank, he was left standing in the vestibule whilo tho footman foot-man took in his card. Blank did not come down the stairs, but said gruffly to the reporter, who was in the hall: "What do you want?" The reporter told him. "Get out of here," yelled the angry banker, "and tell the man who sent you that all the fools are not yet dead." "But, Mr. Blank," persisted the astonished aston-ished reporter, "won't you kindly tell me so and so?" "No, get out of here, I tell you. Why don't you go?" The reporter's dander had now arisen. He replied: "That is scarcely the way, sir, for one gentleman to speak to another." "Who said you wera a gentleman?" growled Blank as he hobbled down stairs. Reaching the hall he caught the reporter, who towered some ten inches above him, by the ear and pushed him tothsdoor. At tho door tho reporter caught Blank in his arms, carried him tenderly down the front stairs and do-posited do-posited the now writhing millionaire head foremost in the slush and Know of the gutter. Ho raised his hat and walked quietly away, while liveried footmen ran to the rescue of the astonished Blank. The reporter had taken first prize the year before as the best all ronnd athlete in Harvard university. We did not print any account of this encounter, but we had lots of fun over it, and this fun was not diminished when the chief sent to mo a letter from Blank complaining of the brutal rudeness of the new reporter. re-porter. Beforelhadgivenupoutsideworklhad a curious experience at Hali fax, whit her I had gone as a correspondent to report the arrival of the Princess Louise and her husband, the Marqui3 of Lome, when he came to Canada as governor general. The viceregal party were on a very slow and uncertain boat, and Halifax was filled with newspapermen long before the ship was sighted. The beautiful little lit-tle bav of Halifax was alive with British men-of-war, which had come to participate partici-pate in the display when tho queen's daughter and .on-in-law should arrive to represent her in the Dominion. Among other ship was the Black Prince, in command of his royal highness the duke of Edinburgh. I had met the duke at ! dinner at the house of Kir Patrick Mc-! Mc-! Don"all, the commander of the queen s j forces in Canada, and had had some lit-i lit-i tie talk with him. ! It occurred to me that the people la ! New York might like to hear something I as to how a royal duke lives aboard ship, so I too a boat and was rowed out to where the Black Prince swung at her j moorings. Climbing on board I sent my card to the commander, and very soon was shown into his cabin. At this time I had never been in Europe, and 1 did not know how much in awe all the people there were of a kind of royalty. I CARRYINO OUT MR. BLANK. : of admiralty, which had while he was at sea promoted him to be a rear admiral, ad-miral, and questioned as to his object ia criticising the government. He got out of the difficulty by saying that he knew nothing about tho interview. It v.a-i I not of him, but another of his name. that the poet laureate wrote: "Truth teller wag tho royal Alfred calleiL" j J.VJ. Olt.MCIt Sl'EED. "TOU CAN'T FOOL ME." .Tlf had. Soon after I came to New and while 1 was learning somo-cs somo-cs of the city previous to talcing a on one of the great metropolitan I was one afternoon in the office tlle paper which had engaged my serv-aad serv-aad the city editor was looking ' a man to go to Elizabeth and get ae Particulars of a threatened divorce f. a brief mention of which was in an ;m? paper. He was short of men, 4 th the zeal of youth 1 volunteered - I have forgotten what it was all -t Eut there was an injured wife, 2 actress, I believe, and her husband in Elizabeth. To him 1 went for wmation. 1 arrived at his home in -' outskirts of that town about 8 o'clock we evening. He was out. but might I was told, at any time. ivig permission to wait for him as shown into a sitting room near the ' ;nt door. Another door led into what -Peared to be a dining room, dimly I could hear during the hour I ,utsi a soft step constantly moving ;Jla the dining room to the hall, and 1 J Painfully conscious that a very alert of feminine eyes were keeping watch Thi3 waa not pleasant, but I do nothing else than bear it. At the gentlexnaD I had gone to |