The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-04-29
You didn't want graurude,

your she whispered, with sad lips.
Soon she smiled at the blue ribbon,
patted the chair gayly on the back and.
seizing upon pencil and pad, dashed
into her work with rare energy. She
bent low over the desk, her pencil NOV
ing rapidly. She seemed loath to pause
for breath. She had covered many
sheets when Fisbee returned, and as
he came in softly in order not to dis
turb her she was so deeply engrossed
that she did not hear him. nor did she
look up when Parker entered, but pur
sued the formulation of her fast flying
ideas with the same single purpose
and abandon. So the two men sat and
waited while their chieftainess wrote
absorbedly. At last she glanced up
and made a little startled exclamation
at seeing them there and then gave
them CHEEKY greeung. Each placed
several scribbled sheets before her, and
she, having first assured herself that
Fisbee had bought his overshoes, and
having expressed a fear that Mr.. Par
ker had found her umbrella too small,
as he looked damp (and indeed he was
offered the reporters great applause.
'It is all SO splendidv' she cried.
"How could you do 1t so quickly? And
In the rain too, 1t Is just what we
need. I've done most OF the things
mentioned, think. and made a draft
of some plans for hereafter. Doesn't
II seem to you that 1t would be good
20 has -
Feminine Readers or or Interest to
Women'-once weekT
"A woman's pager exclaimed Fis.
bee. II could never have thought of
that. Could you, Mr.. ParkerT
Before that day was over system had
been introduced, and the Herald was
running OH II, and all that warm rainy
Afternoon the editor and Fisbee work
ed in the editorial rooms. Parker and
Bud and Mr.. Schofield (after his return
with the items and a courteous mes
sage from Ephraim Watts bent over
the forms downstairs. and Uncle Keno
phon was cleaning the storeroom and
Iscrubbing the floor. An extraordinary
number OF errands took the various
II
see the editor In chief, literally TO see
the editor In chief. 1t was hard to be-
lieve that the presence had not flown.
hard to keep believing without the re-
peated testimony OF sight that the din
gy room upstairs was actually the set
ting for their jewel. and a jewel they
swore she was. The printers came
down chuckling and gurgiing after
each Interview. 1t was partly the
Thought that she belonged to the Her
aid. their paper. Once Ross. chuckling
looked up and caught the foreman gig
CLING to himself.
what in the name of common senst
you laughin' at, Cale?" he asked.
"what are you laughing atT re
joined the other.
81 dunnor'
The day wore on, wet and dreary out
side, but all within the Heralds bosom
was snug and busy and murmurou.
with the healthy thrum of life ant
prosperity renewed. Toward 6 O'Clock
system accomplished. the new guiding
spirit was celebrating on policy, a
Harkless would conceive a policy wer
he there, when Minnie Briscoe ran joy
ously up the stairs, plunged into tn
room waterproofed and radiant an,
caught her friend in her eager arm
and put an end to policy for that day.
But policy and labor did not end a
twilight every day. There were even
ings, as In the time of Harkless, whel
lamps shone from the upper window
of the Herald building; for the littl
editor worked hard. and sometimes sh
worked late: she always worked early
She made -.ome mistakes at first an
one or two blunders which she too
much more seriously than any one els
did. But she found a remedy for a
such results of her inexperience, an
she developed experience. She set q
her task with the energy Of her you'll
fulness and no limit to her ambition
and she felt that Harkless had pr,
pared the way for a wide expansion {
the papers interests, wider then b
. knew. She brought a fresh poinr c
view to operate in a situation where b
had fallen perhaps too much in the ru
. and she watched every chance with
keen eye and looked ahead of her wit
clear foresight What she waited an
yearned for and dreaded was the tin
. when copy of the new Herald shoul
2 be placed I'm the trembling hands Of ii
n man who lay In the Rouen hospita
q Then she felt IL he, unaware OF b,
n identity as he was and as he was to
kept. should place everything in h
hands unreservedly. that would be
A tribute to her work. And how hard 81
!, would labor to deserve It'll
After time she began TO see that ,
), his representative and editor of Il
. Herald she had become a factor in di
a trict politics. 1t took her breath, b'
= with a gasp OF delight, for there W,
: something she wanted to do.
a Rodney McCune had lifted his hea
a and the friends of his stricken enen
a felt that they and the cause that Har
;. less had labored for were lost wit
II out the leader. for the old ring that Il
n Herald had beaten rallied around NJ
10 Cune. THE boys were i'm line again
> Every one knew that Holloway, dI
"a but honest man. the most available m
- terial that Harkless had been able
o find, was already beaten. III Jol
/, Harkless had been ION the ground
a work for him." 1t was said, Hallow;
v could have received the nominati
N again. but as matters stood he W
q beaten and beaten badly. and Rodn
n McCune would sit in congress, for mol
20 ination meant election.
IN But one afternoon the Harkle
st forces, demoralized. broken. hopele
N woke up to find that they had a lead
a There was a political conference
Judge Briscoe's. The politicians
,k scended sadly at the gate from I
NJ omnibus that had met the afterno
v train-Boswell and Keating. two e