The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-03-07
Cheek Checked.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
81 see you beat the record this morning.
said the horse reporter to the law editor, as
these two powerful minds were conveyed to
the fourth floor OF the Tribune building
Yesterday morning.
"What did you say, sir?" replied the law
editor in an interrOgative manner, as he
az. i iixedly into the surrounding atmos-
phere.
my remark" resumed the personal
friend of ST. Julien. was intended to con-
vey the idea that when ii comes to writing
anything about horse race the average
law editor is as certain to fail at the first
hurdle ms Maud s. is To beat an omnibus
with eighteen passengers in it. I'm not an
editor myself-nOthing but simple, blue
eyed deck hand-but ii ever made such
breaks as some people do when they tackle
a subject so completely ipterwoyen with
our social fabric as is horse racing,
would at once curb my journalistic pro-
pensities and start peanut fake on some
prominent street corner"
IL presume you REFER" said the law edi-
tor, still regarding the atmosphere with
great attention, ito an item which hasti-
" tossed off for tO-day's paper about a
suit before Judge Blodgett, relative to n
race which took place last summer, in
which the animals respectively designated
as Belle of Nelson and Wolverton were
among the contestants
That's the item," said the horse re-
porter. "You tossed tina, of, did you?"
The law editor nodded.
"Well,- remarked the authority on
CURLY hooks, 'if you had only tossed it so
far that it would have landed somewhere
else except in the Tribune office, the hot
blood of shame would not now be mantling
the editors brow. That was little the
sickest item that ever got INV peppers on,
and the next time YOU feel like tossing of
another one you will greatly subserve the
best interests of journalism by going down
to the lake-fTont and facing east"
"Perhaps vou will he Kind enough to
point out where that item was incorrect.
Was il very bad"'
well. should mutter. Ii reads like
YOU got the word on break and never
struck YOUR gait again until the heat was
over I'm the first place, it calls Wolyerton
u trotting no SO. doesn't it,
The law editor glanced at copy of the
paper and nodded assent.
~
of the 80 list. except perhaps China
man or two i'm Wyoming, knows that
Wolverton was thoroughbred runner and
couldn't trot a lick There's fine send
off to give an item"-and the Young mans
upper lip curled haughtily. "Then after
trying to tell what kind of race it was
that the horse was in, and not stating
whether it was on the fiat, over hurdles or a
steeplechase, you calmly allude to Belle of
Nelson as stallion, Now, If / had a seven
year old boy that didn't know that old
yellow mare | would send him to an asy-
lum for incurables. The idea of referring
to Belle of Nelson "a him makes ME tired,
and causes the dim vista of the future
to assume dull, cherries hue"
"Well," said the law editor, "when !
was on the Rockford Gazette"
ooh, you came from Rockford, did you
That was all right-Rockford is q good
place to leave--but you were headed the
wrong way when you started. You should
have steered for KenOsha."
BY this time the elevator had whizzed
through the air to the fourth story, and
both gifted journalists got out. The horse
reporter went straight to the managing ed
iitor's room.
"You ought to put q new man on the
law reporting" he said.
"Yes," replied the managing editor, 81
know / had. There are a lot of chumps
like you around here every day telling me
what to do. Probably you are right. Amy.
how you can try Law reportingfor while
The novelty Of the thing would amuse
you, and your appearance in any other
role than that of doing two hours, work fol
days pay would create sensation"