Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-12-16

with his mind
made up that the theory of the at
traction of opposites died with it's
author in day long gone by. For
the probabilities are that the red
headed foreman and the brunette at
> the eight point case would have been
engaged in one of their hourly ex-
changes of doubtful compliments.
1t was a marvel how Elinor Davis
held her job. Another of the girl
typos had been bounced instanter, for
one tenth the offense she offered
every. day. Larry Corrigan asked
himself a hundred times a week why
he stood for it.. Down in the press
room where he retired after each
skirmish, he talked it over with the
machinery. She queered him with the
gang She made him look like five
cents and quarter every day. BY
the gods!he couldn't make out why
he didn't can her. Yet down beneath
his throat somewhere larry was not
a good physiologisD he knew the
reason lay. From one of his song
writing ancestors in the Emerald Isle,
Larry inherited touch of the poetic.
The first day she went to work, he
was struck by the fifty way she fixed
her hair. Looked like she had just
stepped out Of magazine cover. For
a week he caught himself swiping
chances at her. These stolen obser-
vations taught him how graceful she
was. He noted the just right taper
of her fingers, and one morning he
decried slipper that couldn't possibly
have been over a two, peeping out
from beneath her skirt. A minute or
an eternity, Larry looked and dreamed
and then woke up.
"H-ll I'm gettin' nutty" said
Larry, and whirled about and gavethe
uonpareil girl one of the worst of the
''jacking ups" for which he was justly
famous. He then went down to the
engraving room, hunted up a nice
quiet, unoccupied corner and kicked
himself for fifteen minutes.
Some time subsequent the new girl
made an objectionable error. and
came in for her first calling down.
When the foreman had finished deliv-
ering the same with due celebrity and
nicely, instead of the usual meek SUBJ
mission, he was treated to a sample
of the swiftest and most complete
tongue-lashlngs in the scope of DELI
cate English language. Larry was so
astounded that he made no protest
whatever, but dropped the subject i'm
mediately. Another visit to the err
craving room followed.
1t was about at this period that the
{. authenticated autocrat of the Graphic
mechanical .principality, noted with
alarm, signs of the crumbling
+. of his dynasty. Decidedly,
something must be done. That dis
turbing clement had to be eliminated
or civil war would result. Or, in
the dictator's slangy ultimatum:
"that Aoosy had to make it or the
whole works would be stalled And
be it to his credit or discredit, which
ever way you care to put it, he did his
best to accomplish that result. More
than once he walked to her case to
deliver her perambulating documents,
only to end with sarcastic criticism,
which was returned to him with
interest.
One morning, after an especially
bitter rejoinder on the girls part, he
strobe toward her, with wrath in his
step and dismissal on his lips. Then
he noticed what fine pair eyes she
had, and took it (. out in shootmouth.
After that he gave it up.
Meantime, things were not just as
they should be in the managers Of
ice. Do not imagine that Larry's
iaxity in the firing capacity applied to
any other insubordinate. Not for :
minute. On the first provocation the