The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1898-03-25

who scarcely noticed what he said, so
busy was he.
"Sir!" cried Mrs. Craclle "Will you
insult me? I'll talk with Mr.. Overjoy
and see if lie will allow lady to be in
suited in his Office"
"Oh, heavensl" unused Limmer, as Mrs.
Crackle disappeared rapidly upstairs.
81 knew it would come sooner or later
joy, who was appealing strongly to two
delinquent subscribers.
"AIr. Overjoy," she began, Twill you
countenarce such insults? I very per-
tinentiy asked Mr.. Limmer for print
"a proof, 1 mean-and he curly fn-
formed me that might go to the devil"
"Weil, why can't you? ?" inquired Over
joy, blankly, as he looked around the
corner for the delin1uents whom he had
on the point Of paying up.
"Sirl will you insult me, too?"
"Why, madam, I-you, Great Scotti
what did say? Oh, Mrs. Craclsle, you
misunderstood. Ha! Ha! Ha! That's
good!"
Good, is it, for a woman to be in
suited. "Pll-" but she was gone.
Overjoy sat and laughed. Then he
wrote a note to Mrs. Crackle telling
Ter in very diplomatic language that
Limner had reference to the printers
| devil, AID rot to the foreman of the
place that sinners flee.
"Mr. Cverjoy," said Mrs. Crackle the
following morning as If nothing had
happened, "how many words in col
umn?"
That broke the ice and the woman's
edition again went forward AT II
O'Clock Mrs. DeMur came rushing in.
"Oh, Mrs. Crackle," she gasped, 81
have another article Mrs. Anchovy, the
pastors wife, has consented to write
poem"
In her excitement Mrs. DeMur had
gotten too near the makeup stone and
was in danger of knocking several co.
umns of type to the floor.
Get away from there" shouted Lin
mer, in desperation, without stopping
to moderate his exclamation to suit
the occasion. "Tll be picking your
form off the floor in a minute"
"Sir! Sir!" exclaimed Mrs. DeMur.
"What do you mean, sir? Pick my form
off IT, , qoor! How dare you make such
personal reference? I'll tell my hus-
band"
Mrs. DeMur slid out as fast as she
had slid in. Overjoy came down ard
titteriag,y told Limmer that he hnr
explained TO Mrs. DcMur that form
in the Tripod Office simply meant the
Enclosure that contained the type. Mrs.
DcMur thereafter held Limmer in sus-
picion,
At last the woman's edition was out.
Severa, columns of delectabie literary
matter haG been crowded out and as
mary heartaches resulted. Mrs. De-
Laucy. who had written an article or
"Lunavilic's Love Tales" came into the
Office with flushed face.
Mrs. Crackle," said she you tool:
extreme pairs TO snub me. Asked me
to write for you and neverused it, after
had told al my friends. Mrs. Crack!e,
you need never speak another wore
to me-"
She did not wait to find. out that nc
such article had CONC to the Office. Eut
the day before Christmas, as she wSn'
through her husbands pockets, she
came across crumpled, dirty PAPER
ard at the top she read: ''Lunavi,.e's
Love Tales" But she was too proud to
make up.
Mrs. Whiler, though refusing to ac-
ccpt the business management. had
written ten-column piece on WON
ans Sphcah." But she never forgave
Mrs. Craclle that it did not a, get or
one ragc. Mrs. DeMur lost half dozeT
friends. Mrs. Jejune tried bravc,y to
settle all business obligations, but wheu
bills payable exceeded bills receivable
by sci, and there was no cash on hand.
she resigned, because Mrs. Crackie haC
dropped an intimation that some peo-
pie had no business capacity. An as
sessment of SLIGO each on A. B. c. men,
bers balanced accounts, but when the
club he'd its next meeting only seven
members appeared
81 have an idea" said Mrs. Crackie,
as she thereby startled the club to or
der. "that it would be wise to hold no
more meetings during the winter
months."-Detroit Free Press.