Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1914 — TALKED TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

TALKED TO DEATH.

The toastmaster was in despair. Looking down the table he saw a friend, an Irishman, noted for his wit, and he thought that he might help. He called on him. With due solemnity the Irishman responded: "I cannot say what I want to say,” he began with "for we are'all limited to five minutes. So I will tell you of an Irishman who came to this country. He wrote home telling of things here, and recounted that no longer were men put to death In this country by being hanged. ‘The way they kill ’em here,* he wrote, ‘is by elocution.’ ” Raleigh News and Observer.