Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1889 — Swallowing the Insult. [ARTICLE]

Swallowing the Insult.

“You saw% sir,” exclaimed the actor, choking with wrath as he rushed into the newspaper office after the evening performance was over and leaned over the editor's table, “how I w r as treated this evening. I was hissed, sir! I was called a contemptible scoundrel, sir ! The ruffians in the gallery threw cabbages and dead cats on the stage, and a cowboy in one of the boxes shot off a lock of my hair. It’s galling to my pride as an actor, sir, but I look at it in purely a business light. There w on’t be standing room the rest of the week. Do it up in a column article in to-morrow morning’s paper, with a scare head over it, and give all the particulars. Here’s $lO.” —Chicago Tribune.