The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-05-10
COMING JOURNALISM.
How News win bo Written Up IN
the sweet Bye and Bye.
The Daily Newspapers About to
Make . Startling Revolution
In 0ettang Up Matter.

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mas~es for poetry. Not costly poetry
such - Tennyson aud Oscar Wilde fur
nish; but good, plain, everyday, sub
stantial poetry, such as man can un-
derstand without being Obliged to wear
out dictionary or IN encyclopedia:
Something which will he crann,ned full
Of fact, related with rhythm and y flow
Of musical as the gurgle Of 81 whisky
cut 0f.an old-fashiOned Jug. The Re-
publican has seen this popular drift and
has employed seven daily poets, besides
which It has purchased at great ex-
pense number Of poetry machines in
vented by Il. Washington Childs Of the
Philadelphia Lcd0er. The entire force
was creased aud started up for a test
yesterday. One Of the new poet report
ers, the fellow who runs after the police
aud fire apparatus and stays up until
defed to sail in. In three minutes he
produced the following:
1.-The notorious woman. Mrs. Agnes Duncan,
A character both OLD and fFail.
Fail b, IL. w"yside yea:erlsy: :odranken
rni: H. % rni ~ ~ sis befae G the Judge viii amb,e;
(9ing Inv the winds IN bnddinx apple tree);:
And there &upon thts fact the reader fair can
She'll pay si0 for her bssstly SPREE"
The managing editor was delighted
with this aud started the poet Oft Oh q
fire item. make 1t something like .
symphony in red," he said; something
that will startle the population" The
fire reporter scratched his head for y
minute and dashed oft the following:
'.Out on the frosty midnight air
The lre al srunl ol~usOr br,1o,
And = stable In the rear Of 06
0lenarm .tuect went up III smoke.
Tue gallant 0re.uen are TO be
COnM~ntea for their great endurance
The loss on the pi0ce IN computed 10 he
500, no Insurance."
The editor said there was slig
break in the time. the item starting Oft
on 6-S measure and ending up in 81,
but it was very gOOsl, nevertheless.
The s.Niety reporter had in the mean
time been getting himself into shape,
and handed in n fugue in pale green. 1t
read:
ITO the dreamy strains Of waltz,
sweet IN . rOae In June
They flsatoi aud swung in thu pcrfumei air
To the tllrOb OF the waltz and tune.
The AFFAIR was recherche.
Miss Smith WOro u llresx Of blue,
Trimmed with valehcIennes. cod liver oil
Stuck on with pound Of glue.
Mis- Allie Kersands wore her hair In bangs
AMI ten button kids ana a smM.
And the table grtssned with It's sumptnous
And the music t:,robbed the while.
M1iai"oS. Mccarthy an, Moore, Messrs. FIN
erty. Faxln. Bro:'n "na Jones'. and other gar
loOts, galore
The managing editor put the society
reporter onto politics and telegraplletl
Fast for new man. The sporting edi.
tor then got in his work and chose for
his theme tl,e late race ut the fair
grounds:
''Unler the wire flashed Cherry and Black.
After II ~ ell the blue and b'ue
- When the judges market up the time
..coe."
The start was COOL one. hut alas
sisterIy cOllaresi u'.. hay ut the p"le.
A nd she threw up her tall. as sl' pascal her by
And put all her hctters /" the niue MOLE"
The sporting editor said that he did
not know the real ct,lOrs worn on the o.
casiOn and selected the ones purely hap
hazard. He was passed. as competent to
fill the place. The telegraph, editor then
give u ~, ,nplc of his skill. His position
Is by far the most important on the pa
per. under the new disl.i$Mti",l, US he
will be Obliged tO reconstruct all the tel
egrlph news that comes in, and form 1t
into poetry. lie picked up u sheet "i
telegraph, which just arrived u'"l rct'On-
structetl in this way:
,Specisl Corrcspond"oceI
"wash!ng.""' district OF Columbia April th'r-
The Peruvian inve*tigation'x getting warm.
,, Mr.. Blaine has i"tmated for Belmons's blood.
And callesl him na,.,cs creating much alarm.
Your special correspondent saw the President
And refused an invitation tn dine out
The bill i,'r the relief Of Mary Ann O'Keefe
The department will determine - extirpate the
Who :re Killing peor!s in New xex,co
And Cspt:i" jack tho Ute' " soi''er "rave d'd
And vas in turn, with a cannon big, laid
low.
The managing editor increased the
| telegraph mans salary Immediately,
and then sat down himself to complete
the test. He wrOte:
1t pain: q. quite exceedingly dear reader We
To be compelled to notice some things we've
In . paper called the H"yte, but in what We say
There vii nothing he of malice or of hate
We merely wish to mention i" san'i-c*sual
That ih,: man who runs the B'.ge - log,
A thief. y wo'nam.bcater, penitehttary ex-
An imhecile, q traitor and q hog.
The entire force ars'se rs one man and
crowned the managing editor with
! wreath Of laurel and shook him warmly
by the hand.
Obituary machine No. IL was fed
with handful OF type, bat u cog was
loose ami all that could l,e gotten out Of
it was:
"Our little May
we cried,
crazy
CerebrO men died."
The machine will he repaired tO-mOr-
row, and is guaranteed t. do good work.
The new departure will be great sue
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