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Show NEWS IN BABYLON. The editor of the Babylon "Blower" was tearing his hair as the time approached ap-proached for baking the mall edition. The star reporter stood before him with a woe-begone countenance. "Well,, rasped 'the editor, "did you get that interview with Belshazzar?" "Yes, sir, I got it all right," answered the reporter, ."but the slaves who were carrying my notebook fell to fighting on the way here and used my notes for missiles. The notes weren't baked, sir, and, of course, they were destroyed." The editor seised a soft brick and savagely imprinted a string of cuneiform cunei-form characters on It. "Here is an order for your salary to date," he roared, "The Blower has no further need of your sen-ices." "'Put that account of Nabopolassar's last hunting trip into the ovens," he yelled down the tube to the foreman. Llpplncott's. |