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Show OLD REPORTER WAS HARDENED. Probably Not -His First Attendance at an Execution. Sir Wemyss Reld wrote as follows ot one of his early experiences as a reporter: "On tho first occasion ot witnessing an execution, as I stood trembling at the foot of the scaffold on which the victim was about to appear, ap-pear, I noticed an old reporter, for whom I entertained a great personal respect, pacing up and down beside me, reading tho new testament. "In the passion of horror and pity that filled my young heart I concluded con-cluded that my friend was seeking spiritual comfort in view of the event In which we were about to tako part as spectators and recorders. I said something to him about tho horror of tho act we were shortly to witness. "Ho looked up with a placid smile from his reading and said gently for he was essentially a gentleman: 'Yes, very sad, very sad; but let us bo thankful it Isn't raining.' And then ho calmly returned to his dally reading of the Word." |
