In WALPOLE'S time, not over nice,
Each man was said to have his price;
We've changed since then;
For, if my daughter's word is fact,
The world to-day is simply packed
With "priceless" men.
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Journalistic Candour.
"When a court-martial was opened for the trial of two sergeants at
Woolwich yesterday one of the officers questioned the right of a
reporter to be present.... The reporter was told to leave, which he
did, after protesting that an official shorthand note was an entirely
different thing from a newspaper report."--_Daily Chronicle._
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