The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-04-07
NJ WSPAPER BLUNDERs
A stupendous One by the New York Trf-
bune and the Mail and Express.

Rev. DR.. J. c. Hiden. of this city. has
the following interesting notes and COM
ments in the Baptist Courier:
The provincial" newspapers DO not
make all the blunders The New York
Tribune published a story from man
who professed TO have had an interview
with President Lincoln after the capture
Of President Davis. This writer says:
Just after JEFF Dayis had been captured.
l called over TO the White House TO see
President Lincoln. / was ushered in and
asked him. Well. Mr.. President. what
are you going to do with jeff Davis%
Lincoln looked at me moment and then
said. in his peculiarly humorous way,
That reminds me OF a story" and then
comes the story Now, as Mr.. Lincoln
was assassinated on nth Of April and
Mr.. Davis was not captured Till May
10th. the Tribune has given us a pretty
fair specimen Of a ghost story. II
Horace Greeley had been living and
editing the Tribune when that trash was
sent TO the paper. il is a pretty safe
guess that the article would have been
turned over TO the editors best friend,
the waste-basket.
The New York Mail and Express not
long $40 said that William l.. Marcy was
Secretary OF State under the adminstra-
tion OF President Polk And this recalls
III. ~
Eyarts I'm his address TO the policemen
OF New York city: Gentlemen" said
the Senator, the difference between you
and tho newspaper reporters is. that you
know great many things that you do
not tell, and they tell a great many things
that they do not know"
Hotspur, In his teasing way. uncon-
sciousIy paid his wife Kate a very high
compliment when he said. II well believe
H.
know" ! can not pay the same cOmpli-
ment 10 the Tribune nor to the Mail and
Express. for they frequently utter what
nobody knows.
Or. William A. p. Martin, president
OF the Imperial Tung Wan College.
Picking. China. says that tip first books
put into the hands OF Chinese children
foster their love of country by glorify-
ing China, and by describing the bar
barism of foreign nations" and he per-
tinently asks: who shall say that the
writer's of these books are more TO blame
than the authors OF German school-books
who deter their readers from emigrating
TO the United States by describing the
dangers to which they would be expos
cd. and especially the liability OF their
crops TO be destroyed by troops OF vora-
cious monkeys? "A young Baptist
preacher, VINO WAS lNlnS IN certain
city Of Massachusetts,, was called 10 the
pastorate OF church in n Tennessee
town. and when no accepted the call
some of his friends expressed surprise
that he should risk his life by going TO
that Wild country" He ran the risk"
however. and lived and preached with
entire personal safety.
The life OF tho nation" is a phrase
"a
ears OF those OF us who lived through the
period OF Reconstruction" but there is
another phrase which is coming into
vogue-"the personality OF the nation"
Some speakers and essayists OF the moro
ambitious order are becoming quite enam-
ored OF the notion that the nation is
person" For Instance. "A nation Is
living thing. all its component men con-
btituting one great national man." Poe