The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-21

cause we neglected the Phi. d. after
his name in the Sunday church no.
ticcs. All my brother editors know
the bores. We meet all corners.
Yet what shall be said for the town
angels? Verify, there are many of
them and they do bolster up our
dropping spirits at times.
! First is the merchant who comes in
with his al and tells Us to "let Ter
make what she WILL" in the matter Of
space; who pays his bill promptly at
the end of the month, says he does
MT believe in newspaper advertising,
but goes right on just the same,
month after month and year after
year, and sticks his head il the door
occasionally to tell US who has just
been pinched down on Water street
for driving an automobile without a
/ license.
Next come all those good folk who
are tolerant with us and forgive US
when in the hurry of making up and
going to press we commit some aw-
full, awful blunder that causes them
to appear ridiculous in the eyes of
the multitude, or perhaps even costs
them money.
Now the wonder of it is that in
this aforesaid rush we do not make
more mistakes than we do. But that
does not excuse us. Things slip by
occasionally, and there is weeping
and wailing and gnashing of teeth in
the vicinity of the editors office.
| have had many terrible expert
ences with such oversights, and my
faith in humankind has been restored
when / was humanely forgiven for
these mistakes for which | was NOM
inally responsible. The trouble usual
ly arises from widely different arti-
Giles getting mixed on the galleys, SO
that separate stories, or parts OF
stories, are run together in weird
| fashion.
| remember most wildly the
story of a reception, given by the
wife of local pastor, which became
mixed with an article about he ac-
tivities of the Street Department.
The edition was already being hawk
, ed by the newsboys before we discov-
cred that our account read: "Thc
Rev. Mrs. Wright gave reception
I to the Ladies' Aid this afternoon at
. the Methodist parsonage. AS a hos
tess, it was agreed that Mrs. Wright
was hitching post two feet wide
and six feet tall which the Street
Department will put up on Cross
: Street as soon as the frost is out"
Mrs. Wright wanted me boiled in oil;
but the minister was good sport,
said mistakes would happen in the
best-regulated families, and renewed
his subscription. Thus did he heap
scintillating Goals upon my occiput.
The other evening up here in Yer
mont one of the boys 'pied" an obi
tua1y notice on the same galley with
the account of local talent play. In
the play was a young cut-up who was
the life of the piece. Judge my hor-
ror when l noted Qong after we had
caught the trains) that "the deceased
will always be remembered as
coming down stairs astride the ban
lister in his last appearance, with a
a huge lolly-pop tilted toward the pro
scenium arch"
For few moments l seriously con-
sidered Catching few trains" my
self. And yet was forgiven by
angels.
Once the dividing dash which
should have been there was inadver-
tently pulled out between the story OF
a pretentious wedding and the ad of q
furniture store calling public atten-
ton to its line of perambulators to
accommodate twinsl have somehow
withstood the shock when a para
graph from a man posting his wife
for desertion got mixed up with the
county court news, and the said hus-
band was made to announce in type
that "My wife, Mary Jones, having
left my bed and board without cause
shall . ask that the verdict be
set aside until the Hon. Elisha PerE-
Tins can clear himself of the charge"
/ could fill a volume with some of
the fearful and wonder fui combina-
tions of rhetoric that occasionally oc-
cur in even the best-regulated news
paper offices. We even got part of a
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