Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — Journalistic Perils. [ARTICLE]

Journalistic Perils.

W. C. Cooper tells us the following story of his journalistic perils. He says: “I had several narrow escapes from violent death while engineering an afternoon paper in Texas. My foreman once got the suicide 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 read as follows: “Toughs turned off. A well-mated pair of brutes merrily meet their doom. A large crowd witnessed the rites preceding purgatorial pains.” Well I hid in the chaparral for a month after that. I thought my time was up, and I tried to get a little consolation from the Bible, but the book opened every time at the passage, ‘Lo, the bridegroom eometh!’ 1 didn’t wait for him.” The actual value of the silver in one of the World’s Fair souvenir half dollars is aboutthirty cents. The coins sell for a dollar each. Counterfeiters can well afford to put as good silver into the bogus as in the good coins, A stylish skating costume is unde of plaided velours. The skirt is bias, bordered with martep fur.