Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-15
-TROuBLEsomE nra--
Not In The Pit, Blu, In y,r,o,

'hoUBLEsoME BrII
MOI IN 6he Pit, But In varioos
Ofices. "Pe
Inc telegraph editors yvorh
not always lead him along na,hso
easy progress nor where aeditin,
copy Is pleasure. Since the ad,oa'
Oh the typewriter and its eenora
adoption by telegraph comnanies oHa
news associations for the receivina ..
dispatches the editors work has hoo,
very much iessened, to be sure ,s ~,
no longer has TO wrestle, as IN forua
DAYS, with the good, bad az
'nulnerent penmanship ola multitnd,
of operators. ''uu'
Sun, even with the tvpow
bulls will occur that are AZ ono,
the persecution and the variety -
the editors life. Operators win GO,
careless, occasionally they NAV dror
asleep, and sometimes the wr,,iua
machine may be working "rotten !
mistakes, too, may occur thronah
troubled" or busted wires. hp, -
matter how, the fact remains th,t
the telegraph editor in his auwisa
knowledge is supposed to know
eAacliy what is meant when he
receives "bulled-up copy"
There are times, however wbon
even his erudition is stunned and tho
snly recourse left for HIM is TO con.
sign the offending ''copy. to the
waste-paper basket or preserve il as a
curlo for his relic museum. Tbis
'atter is what the writer has done in
a number o~finstances.
For instance in the follovip,
dispatch, the editor was surpassed 70
have corrected the errors, but failing
% DO SO n matter was ''set up and
duly corrected by the proof reader at
an extra expense TO the Office for
ring matter"
Cincinnati, Oct, 1.-The corper
stone of the Sacred Heart church the
only Italian catholic church in this
afternoon was LAID this afternoon
Ii Will cost $500 and will have about
seven hundred communicates.
1t is plaiSly obvious what the
operator meant to say, and also hat
the probable cost of the church was
more than SIS.
The following is an indication that
typewriters may Re subject to
lockjaw or some Kindred diseases:
New Haven, COM, J"lyb 6-The
passenger train which left Nov Hryn
~ $40 thi morning for New London
was desailed at South VINE The
engineer and tiremana ccordiny to
their stage cts cts were n hit con;yn
injured.
That was n of the few dispatches
that were given up as a bad Job, and
the public the following morning was
deprived of a thrilling item Of news.
Here is another instance where the
or operator, or perhaps
both, were not feeling very well:
Victoria, b. c., July 3O.-Without
my precautionary signs and without
any signal whatever OF impending
disturbance, the Gunong Aoovolcano
IN Sangir is started alto hloze on June
!, and after 81 hours the whole of the
prosperous country surrounding was
ieyasted. The volcano is situated In
chain OF Islands, near the PHILIPPINE
For four hours there was
me constinual stream of steam
)elching forth.
That was very ''rotten' copy" to
nothing of the poor spelling.
In the following item the operator
evidently must have gone into a
rance during the sending of the
TEN. He started it all right, but
asleep meanwhile, awakening in
lue curse to catch the closing
entence of another dispatch, bliss
ully innocent of the fact that he
lad lost auyuntng: -
Milwaukee, Wis. Aug. I6-George
Peppers planning mill vas destroyed
" fire tonight: loss SIS, 600; insurance
IA, 900. It was intimated that the
had by no means
its resources for the /
Encouragement Of anything like a
SYSTEMATIC way to deplete our gold
'eserve in the interest of foreign
'peculators.
These instances could be multiplied
ID infinitum, but they are enough to
how the reader what he might
in his paper if it were not for
editing and still more care
'ul proof reading.