And when I opened my paper next morning, I more than half expected to be greeted with a black headline announcing the looting of the strong-room of La Bretagne.

But there was no such headline, and with a sigh, half of relief and half of disappointment, I turned to the other news.

But two weeks later, a black headline did catch my eye: MICHAELOVITCH JEWELS FALSE!

"What a thrilling headline it would make for the Brandon Sun: 'The Black Creek Stopping-House scene of a brutal murder.

Oh, death comes once to each man, and the game it pays for all, And duty is but duty in great ship and in small, And it will not vex their slumbers or make less sweet their rest, Though there's never a big black headline for small craft going west.

In the following references to the text the lines are numbered from the top of the page, including titles, acts, stage directions, &c., but not, of course, the headline.

It was the personal conjecture of the reporter writing the story which had given spur to the vivid imagination of the headline writer.

If the nightingale had but the peacock's tail It would merit a headline in the Mail.

All these picturesque facts, as was inevitable in America, had instantly reached the newspapers, which, lacking more exciting news for the moment, took that matter up with headlined characterizations of Professor Marshall as a "martyr of the cause of academic freedom," and other rather cheap phrases about "persecution" and "America, the land of free speech."

Opening the paper to the sixth page, he groaned; for the first thing that caught his eye was Willie Downey's essay, at the top of D.K.T.'s column, with Willie's name below the headline.

*** "What to do with a Wasp" is a headline in a contemporary.

In every article he was headlined as "A Distinguished Citizen;" "A Famous Critic;" "A Prominent Figure in the World of Art;" "One of the Greatest Living Authorities;" "Leader in the Modern School;" "Of Powerful Influence Upon the Artistic Production of the Age."

The earning of five thousand dollars reward-money by Cora McBride made an epochal news-item, and in that night's paper we headlined it accordinglynot omitting proper mention of the sheriff and giving him appropriate credit.

April Oursler Armstrong, Charles Fulton Oursler, Jr., Will Oursler & Helen Oursler Balaber (C); 14Nov66; R397009. Life for a headline.

Life for a headline.

Headline for Tod Shayne.

The Impossible headline.

WILSON, MAUDE (HEADLINE) MELLISH, ed.

April Oursler Armstrong, Charles Fulton Oursler, Jr., Will Oursler & Helen Oursler Balaber (C); 14Nov66; R397009. Life for a headline.

Life for a headline.

Headline for Tod Shayne.

That was the headline, and after instructions warning the people not to take part in the ceremony, the government order ended: "GOD SAVE THE KING!"

I remember that in one of the local papers there had appeared under the headline "Jottings" some very wonderful criticisms of the performances at the theater.

In all this the headline never failed to cheer.

The news was headlined in the afternoon editions.