The Forrest City times., 1903-12-04
Scribner's Short Story
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 The other day | celebrated it's tenth birthday by losing a acrew Eight times SeFibner pushed The screw back into the hole where the thread asea 10 be The ninth lime be took j. o1 the table and headed for the nearest public telephone station.
 He telephoned the maker with some heat to call for the machine.
 Two hours later a small bcy ap- peared with twin 10 the decrepit type machine. done up in black cloth.
 Take this dod gasted internal ma chine 10 the repair shop" urged Scrib- neT. Tell 'em to clean t and fx 1t up" Then he set out 10 butter his daily bread with love story. Scrib- ner was 50 glad 10 have new ma~hlne 10 work with he could have composed serial romance had there been the ghost of chance of selling it
 From the very start there was trouble. Scribner opened the tale with hoycenish heroine swinging upon a low-hanging apple bough. He had 10 leave the lady up the tree while. with prayer and fasting. he sought 10 dis cover why the ribbon guide would tear of every time he slid the carriage up for fresh line.
 In about % minutes he discovered that one of the paper guides hung too low and caught the ribbon guide lie mended the machine with tack ham mer and helped the lady down from the tree.
 The villain came strolling through the orchard. The machine caught the infection Of his yiilainy Now the rib- bon guide fell of al the end Of the line instead Of al the beginning The remedy was easy. for The tack han mer was near
 The villain proceeded upon his crim- inal way and the hero was just spring ing over the low fence inciosing the orchard when the machine suddenly decided that twice as much paper was needed at one end of the feed as al he other. The hero defied the laws Of grayitation for half an hour until Scrbner found that by backing the sheet with six others he could induce more even feed.
 Then the hero lightly landed. and in half a dozen strides confronted with blazing eyes Jack Darlington. who stood with uplifted arm above the covering form Of Jessica Carew.
 Lay hut a finger upon this lady. " cried the brave Harold Vane, and Ill.,
 There was whirring sound that scared Scribner out of his seat With the aid Of wooden plug he mana ged 10 make the spring stay wound up and five minutes was all the time required.
 The machine ran very evenly for fully ten, minutes. Jack Darlington, with a muttered curse. had turned and dunk away with the appropriate re- mark about his time coming in the distant future. The brave Harold had been prettily thanked by the grateful Jessica, and had obtained permission to escort her to the house He was strolling back down the lane when suddenly Jack Darlington sprang through the hedge. Curse you." he cried
 His further comments upon the situ- ation were postponed and Scribner echoed the curse. Two letters had ap- parently raced up to the paper togeth- CT and were locked in deadly embrace. Incidentally they were tangled up in the ribbon.
 They were disentangled through the kind offices of the screwdriver, and Darlington was able to complete his heated conversation with Vane, who