Life — April 14, 1898 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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es from Havana will contain Gen persoval denial of his death, with his views on how it feels not to be assassin- State that Blanco and Congo: peered and set the dogs on you, and t the Spanish Navy is laying in stores of gar- lie and language. Serawls! Make a story a conversation between Sagasta and Weyler, overheard by a waiter in Barce- lona, arranging for a declaration of war next Wednesday unless the Ancients of Boston are disbanded. Go over to Second Avenue a et the waiter's portrait, Luryd! Sink the Baltuwore off the Philip. pine Islands Monday evening, giving the story of Survivor Jones of the starboard watch, picked up with the fatal torpedo in his hand by a Portuguese man-of-war. y may discover a Spanish plot dy Roosevelt, and circulate the story that the new Spanish Minister is a nephew of the editor of the Sux, Later you will prepare denials and interviews on > LIFE: these matters, That will do for to-day, Now . Turning to the trembling‘remnant left, he thundered: “Go forth and raven! Sweep the gutters; scrape the garbage scows; filter the sewers; listen at doors; peer at keyholes; haunt kitchens and back alleys; fake, lie, misrepresent, and be up to date.” Turning to his secretary, as he rose with clear brow, the Managing Editor said: “If there is nothing in the ottices of our miserable rivals that we need, you may dismiss our special housebreaker, Lam going to lunch, Then the Moulder of Public Opinion walked into the streets, conscious of duty well done; certain that a Great Circulating Cesspool was doing the work of morality and civilization, That night the Devil said to Moloch: “Molly, old boy, Iain going out of business; I feel like an a the Yellow Hot. dona phe Smith, ITE old are more cheerful than the young: they have no future to vorry about. A CHECK MATE. “ARE YE READY, MIKE +” Yes, LET MER— Comicbooks.com