The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-01
Our Daily $bort Story

| thing that was going on and was in- l formed as to the people, relations and l importance of things. Collins had tried hard to meet this move, but had been unable thus far to find the right sort of a person.
 The result was that Collins, realizing hts weakness as to names and special l tion followed very closely after The l Clarion. Especially was this the case after he had printed several reports oi Swedish affairs in which the deductions and viewpoint of his reporter were al variance with The Clarion, and had been ridiculed or severely criticised by the people involved or their friends l Inasmuch as most meetings and we'd
 dings and social gatherings took place | himself by The Clarion, which was | printed twelve hours ahead of The Pal ladium.
 , Now every city editor, of whatever degree. has more than he can do prop erly. and 1t is in human nature to dodge needless work. So Collins grad 1 uafly acquired the habit of depending l more and more on The Clarion for his | reports of Swedish doings until finally
 he made very little disguise of simply | rewriting matter from the other paper. l or In the case of sermons or addresses l clipping them entire.
 Bemis, working hard one hot Sunday and writhing at the thought of Col lins basking in the presence of Caro- line Elizabeth. was moved to gnashing | of teeth at the thought that next day Collins would calmly scissor all his ! work. It was just then that Satan whispered to him and he paused and smiled. Then he whistled. Then he slapped his knee and laughed aloud. sOh. Carlson" he said to his Swedish reporter, who was staring at him in amazement That's a big temperance | rally at the Lutheran Church tonight, ain't it?
 .'"rhe biggest ever happened in town," replied Carlson. All the swe-
 dish churches join and they're going
 to keep up a campaign for two weeks "An right" replied Bemis, with an
 unholy chuckle, let's have a big report four or five colums. Trot along now | and get what speeches you can in ad- l vance, so we can have early copy" Then as the reporter left him alone he went to the window. stared into | the street for few moments and murmured:
 "Alrs fair in love and war, by gosh, and this is both"
 About 2 o'clock in the morning Be- mis sent the other reporter home and called Carlson one side and whispered | long story into his ear. Gus seemed mystified at first. then frightened, then he laughed with Bemis. Then old Bob | Jones, the foreman, was called in and soon the three were chuckling audibly. When the forms were all ready to go down at o'clock, Bob pulled the ! names of nearly all of the speakers 1 in the report of the temperance meet ing and inserted in their place names furnished by Carlson. They were the | names of notorious black sheep in the Swedish settlement. Two were saloon keepers. one was, a medicine fakir, two were notorious drunkards, two Nor | wegian toughs. doubiy disliked by rep | utable Swedes on account of the na- | tionality ard their habits, and one was an idiot.
 The forms were sent down to the press room and made ready and a half dozen good copies of the paper were printed. Then the forms were removed | and Jones put back the correct names | in the report All the copies printed in making ready were destroyed and Be- mis took possession of a half dozen good ones. He selected two and de- | stroyed the rest. Then he went and ate lunch and enjoyed a long smoke. At 6 o'clock he took the two special papers under his arm and went to the office of The Palladium all dark and deserted. The carrier boy had put two copies of The Clarion in the box. Be-
 mis extracted them and inserted his