F. F. MURRAY. JAMES M. PLACE.
R. W. CRISWELL.
FRANK W. TRUESDELL. GEORGE E. MAPES.
“LEND ME YOUR EARS.”
When the Colonel and Joseph Pulitzer disagreed—they “never spoke as they passed by”—he went with Cockrell to the Commercial Advertiser, for which he has done some of the brightest work in the newspaper-kingdom. He now edits Truth. “Mark Anthony’s Oration Over Cæsar,” from “The Comic Shakespeare,” will dispel the gloom and indicate the rare brand of Criswell’s vintage:
“Friends, Romans, countrymen! lend me your ears;
I will return them next Saturday. I come
To bury Cæsar because the times are hard
And his folks can’t afford to hire an undertaker.
The evil that men do lives after them,