The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-09-29

composition to-day, and finished up m,
own tonight. If we're both a day lat,
it won't make much difference. II
begin setting at once"
Hurrying down stairs to escape
Rowe thanks. I came upon q spectacle
which took my breath away. Standin.
at a case, sleeves rolled up, and thor
oughly at home, clicking the type int
his stick at q great rate, was Bud Has
kins!
"Hallo!" said he, looking around
'how's your editor, publisher, IL, pro
pri'tor to-day? Fin him pretty com
f't'ble?'
How on earth did you get there?'
demanded I.
Same way you did. Got to thinkin
that's ALL"
He turned round to the case again
wirking hard, as if something had gor
into his eyes. Mckay, positively smil
ing, came over from his place to shake
hands with Bud. and 1 rushed back tt
Rowe full of delight.
"Hurrah! The Spy'u be on time to
morrow" I exulted. bud can Sc,
type three times as fast as I can, and
do it cleaner, too. Now, about the edi
torials."
"No use talking of them" said Rowe
~despondingly.
But there is. I've got a scheme"
In a few moments 1 was scribbling
away on an improvised desk by the
bedside almost as fast as Bud was set
ting the type below. Scratch, scratch
think an instant-scratch, scratch
~again-think once more-and SO on I'M
til a pile of copy had accumulated.
hen l was ready to read. This was
the beginning:
"A Fatal Falsehood!
Our by no means courteous and not
in the least esteemed contemporary,
the Spy, which is at once a disgrace to
American journalism, a libel upon the
name of newspaper, and a blot upon
the fair city i'll which it is as yet still
scornfully suffered to drag out an
existence noxious to others and of no
value to ITSELF" etc, etc.
Rowe listened without saying a word.
At the end he quietly remarked:
That's a powerful article, Warren"
well, now, see how this one strikes
YOU" And I began reading again:
Despicable Deception! :!
I'VE had hitherto supposed that the
utmost imaginable depths Of reckless,
shameless, honorless, constituencies
mendacity had long ago been reached
by that sheet unknown to fame, but
intimately acquainted with infamy, I'M
der the name of the Herald"
Rowe bounced up in bed.
DO you mean to say you're going to
abuse yourself like that?" said he.
Il mean to say that such q savage
article as mine has got to be replied
to a little more savagely, if possible"
But to do it yourself
who will if L don't? That's what
I'm here for. By the way, do you usu-
ally call me a .falsifer' or an ignor-
amus'?"
Rowe, by this time, had taken the
humor of the situation into his fevered
brain. He replied family:
Il think you'd better call yourself
'falsifier' first, and save up the ignor-
anus for use later on. Toward the
last you might work in some reference
to your general resemblance to a dom
key, if you don't mind"
Mind? Why, it's the very point 1
want. I'll say that the only thing
in which I don't resemble a donkey
10 ~ uttCI lH'dDdtIlf u ally USEFUL
employment. That'n be sure to please
your people, for a good many of them
have told me so already"
Suppose you attack me again." sug-
gested Rowe, when the article was fin
ished. ''There should be at least two
sharp leaders in each paper. You might
the probability of my being
ridden out of town on a rail because
the citizens can't stand my continual
lying any longer, and, for a finishing
touch, remark that it's all I can do to
pay my bills. That lastIl be true
enough, anyway" he added, smiling
ruefully.
Its the same with me-, my boy.
Poor Bud hasn't had a cent Of wages
for three weeks. Well, never mind.
Let's go on"
Aided by Rowe's suggestions I wrote
until | had matter enough for four col
umns, two for each paper. There were
a pair of outrageously abusive leaders
for the Herald, a pair of outrageously
abusive leaders for the Spy, about a
dozen short paragraphs bristling with
libels, several scathing communications
from Indignant Citizen" Justice"
Taxpayer" and Fair Play" besides
two strings of satirical verses which
I Glanced to hammer out. Bud Has
kins and Mckay, working first at one
office, then at the other, got the pre-
cious stuff into type, and then. with
assistance, made up the Herald
and raj off the edition that night. Next
morning our united forces did the same
for the Spy.
All this was ten years ago. Gala
bash City is beginning to taunt chicago
with the certainty of being second to-
her in population, wealth and resources
by A. D. 1905 at latest. The Daily Spy
Herald is one of the leading journals
of the West.
Rowe and / might call ourselves rich
men-though we never do. We have
always been the best of friends
And always will be-" int: rupts my
partner, who has been reading what I
have written. I'VE wouldn't dare be
anything else after what we've said
about each other-eh. old faisifa.?"
Never, old mendacity!" I reply.