Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1899 — Lost No Time. [ARTICLE]

Lost No Time.

The other night—or rather, it was early In the morning—the telephone In a certain newspaper office rang loud and long. Most of the workers bad gone home, but there was one man on the “dog watch.” At that hour of the day—somewhere about 3 a. m.—when the telephone In a newspaper office rings it generally means a police story that is worth looking up, so the/‘dog watch” hastened to answer the summons. “Hello!” said a voice. “Is it too late to get something into to-morrow’s paper?” “Not if it’s important,” was the response. “Oh, it is,” assuringly. The reporter rushed for a pad of par per and a pencil, screwed his ear up the telephone again and said: , “All right. Fire away there.” Then the voice was heard again, tremulous with emotion. “The engagement of Miss to Mr. is announced.” There was an explosion of wrath at the press end of the line, and the rules of the telephone company restraining irate persons from indulging in profanity were smashed into smithereens. - “Why under the blankety blank-blank (that wasn’t exactly what he said) didn’t you send in such stuff earlier in the day?” “But I couldn’t,” said the voices apologetically. “You see, It’s just happened.”