The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-20
A GREAT BLUNDER.
1t Was Dreadful But Then It
Won a Bride.
Drunkeu Eph's Mistake, and the Profound
Sensation 1t Crcated--An Editors
Lilo Endangered - Tho
Happy Finale.

Gentlemen" said the Western
member of the group OF newspaper
men in the hotel rotunda, II can't
blag of any such sensational scoops
as Won have been telling OF for the last
hour OF so. My newspaper career has
been rather of the humdrum order. l
never camped on the trail of a county
'boodlcr. l never reported a secret
political meeting by crawling into the
drum of Il big stove and taking notes
on what | overheard. l have never
even solved the secret of mysterious
double murder. Hard work one day,
drudging the second, unremitting toll
tho third-that's about the story of my
life since l was the 'gallcy-boy' on an
Omaha paper twenty-five years ago.
But there was one romantic incl
dent in my carecr--just one. 1t oc-
cured when won my wife through
the CHASTITY blunder of Drunken Eph
was running little evening paper
in Il Colorado mining town then. That
was twelve years ago. Drunken Eph
was my right bower. was editor-in-
chief of the paper, managing editor,
news editor, telegraph editor. sporting
editor, business manager, cashier and
book-kecper. also occupied the re-
sponsiblc position of the affidavit
editor, and carried four routes on the
paper after my other duties of the day
were over Eph was city editor and
tao staff of reporters. Besides that he
acted as foreman of the mechanical
department, and when he wasn't en-
gagged in filling his notebook with
local items or his stomach with
whisky he would put in his time
swearing at the slow compoSitor or
throwing cm-quads ut the devil. Eph
hadn't been for his habit of looking on
the wine when it was rcd--or any
other colOr--he might have lived to
manage one of your Chicago papers to-
day.
"But to tell you my story. One day
found myself head over heels in love.
II all happened so quickly that it al
most takes my breath away to think of
ii even now. She was bcauty--a
dark-hnired. dark-eycd, Greek-featured
maiden--from somewhere in the South,
/ understand. Her father. ruined by
the war, had moved out to Colorado to
retrieve his fortunes at mining. Like
many another adventurer. the poor
man failed completely. Within two
years after he entered Colorado he was
in his grave, his daughter being left
an orphan. She took the matter ter
ribly to heart; but she was n plucky.
high-spirited girl, and soon settled
resolutoly down to make her own liv-
ing, which she did by keeping a small
notion store. Well, / worshiped her
at distance. and it was long time
before made up my mind to boldly
seek her acquaintance, WOO her. and
lay my somewhat prospectus fortune
at her feet. delayed too long. Be-
fore could begin my wooing-before
! could even become acquainted with
the lady-Charley Pate, minc-owner
aud man about-town, stepped in and
married her. 1t was a hard blow for
me. For about week | set aside
small portion of each day to cursing
myself and my cowardice. However.
finding that blasphemy did no good. L
tried to forget my sorrows by burying
myself in such problems as how TO
make twenty dollars in cash pay forty