Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — The “Intelligent” Compouitor. [ARTICLE]

The “Intelligent” Compouitor.

“Queer things happen sometimes in a newspaper office," said W. C. Oooper, a veteran journalist, now taking his ease at the Lindeil. "I had several narrow escapes from violent death while engineering an afternoon paper in Texas. My foreman once got the suicldo of a prominent citizen mixed up with a.description of a new abattoir, and the result was appalling. Friends of the deceased insisted on shooting first and listening to explanations afterward. At another time he got a head intended for a double hanging over a swell wedding. It road as follows: ‘ Toughs turned off. A well-mated pair of brutes merrily meet their doom. A large orowd witness the rites preceding purgatorial pains.’ Well, I hid in tho chaparral for a month after that.” —Bt. Louis Globe-Demo-crat.