Journalists As Diplomatists

A journalist ought to look before as well as behind. He ought to bcar in mind that same day be iuay want to be a f oreign minister, and comport himseif ■with corresponding ilignity, otherwise títere will be times when the iron entera great journaliste' souls and they could almost wish there was a law in tuis country abridging the liberty of the prees. When Mr. Allen Thorndy lie Rico desired to fiay auybody alive in his Nortk American Review, he caused it to be done by Bomebody who signed the name of Arthur Richmond. Uut who Arthur Richmond was, the world kitew not. But he has not been forgotten. Perhaps, now that Mr. Rice ia eet down for RuEsia, that mysterieus individual will take hold and edit the North American Review. Then there are Mr. Reid, Mr. Haistead and Mr. Eugene Schuyler. If Mr. Reid's paper had not sided with Ireland, be might have been acoeptable as minister to England. If Mr. Halstead had not whirled his ponderous battle ax so dangerously near the ecalps of Republican senators it would not now hare asBumed the shape of a boomerang. If Mr. Eugene tíchuy Ier' pen had not been so sarcastic, he might this moment have been resting gracef ully in the chair of the assistant secretary of state and adorning all he touched. The merry comedy of "Box and Cox," at which all the world has laugiuxl, waa written by John Madison Morton. He is now a very old man and poor. He is spending his declining years in tho London Charter House, the asyluiu in which Thackeray's gentle old Col. Newcombe answered sol'Uy "adsum" and breathed bis last. Henry Irving, in Londoa, will give a performance for the aged dramatiat. Americans, too, ought to take it up. We shouid have theatrical enteitainmenia l.cro the same purposc A single performance of "Box and Cox" in nearly all our large cities would net a Bum that would soothe the dying days of the Lindly old play writer. It looks as tbough the faiiure of the Paris copper tnist might even have a poli&ical bearing. It has weakened for the time the credit of France. Rnssia, Austria and Italy are borrowers. France was a lender. The war preparations of Bossia and Italy will be hindcred for a time. They will be less civil to France. The equilibrium of Europe has been diatarbed for lighter causes than this.