The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-12-01

Such, as is sometimes said, was the
first issue, complete, of the North End
Daily Oriole. Florence was not i'm
mediately critical of some distortions
of meaning in the body of her poem,
due partly to Atwater & Rooter's nat
ural lack of experience in a e and
exacting trade; partly so their enviable
unconsciousness Of any necessity for
proofreading; and somewhat to their
haste In getting through the final, and
least interesting stage OF their under
taking, Fiorence's poem being, in fact,
so far as the printers were concerned,
mere hack work and anti-climax.
And as they later declared, under
fire, anybody that could make out
more han three words in five of her
ole handwriting was welcome to do
1t. Besides, what did it matter If q
little bit was left out at the end of
one or two of the lines? They couldn't
be expected to run the lines out yer
their margin, could they? And they
never knew anything crazier than
maxim all this fuss because: What
If some of it wasn't printed just ex-
actly right, VINO in the world was goin'
to notice it, and what was the diff
ference of just a few words different
in her ole poem, anyhow?
For, by the time these explanations
$50 to call them) took place, Florence
was indeed maxim a fuss. Her emo
tons, at first, had been happily stimu-
lated at sight of 'By Florence At
water" A singular tenderness had
risen in her-a tremulous sense as of
something almost sacred coming at
last into its OWL and she had hurried
to distribute, gratis, among relatives
ole, paying for thesn, too (though not
without injurious 2rgumeDt) at the
rate of two cents q copy. But upon
returning to her own home, she be-
came calm enough (for a mcment or
sc9 to look we the poem with at
tention to details. She returned has
tily to the newspaper building, but
would have been wiser to remain
away, since all subscribers had re
their copies by the time she got
there; and under the circumstances
little r~epAration was practicable.
She ended her oration-or pr0fessed
to end it-by declaring that she would
never have another poem In their ole
gile newspaper as long as she lived.
You're right about that" Henry
.ooter agreed heartily. 1--WE wouldn't
let another one IN Ii. Not for fifty
Just look at all the trouble
took moiling and tOiling to get
ole poem printed as nice as we
could, SO it wouldn't ruin u newspa-
Der, and then you comm over here
md goin' on this way, and all this and
hat, why, / wouldn't go through it
again for a hundred dollars. We're
maxim good money anyhow, with our
newspaper, Florence Atwater. You
think we depend on you for
'ur living!"
'That's So" his partner declared.
knew you wouldn't be satisfied
anyway, Florence. Didn't we, HenryY
II should say we did"
eyes, sir!" said Herbert. Fright
when we were havin' the worst time
ryin' to print it and make out some
: the words, / said right then, we
we're just throwing away u time. 1
aid, What's the use? That ole girls
ound to raise Cain anyhow, so what's
use wastin' a whole lot of our
God time and brains like this. inst 70
nit her? Whatever we do, she's GER
ain to come over here and insult u.s.
;n't that what / said, Henry?" !
eyes, it is; and 1 said then you
ere right, and you are right"
"Cert'nly I am" said Herbert.
Didn't I tell you she'd be just the ,
ay some of the family say she is? /
good many of EN- say she'd find
MA with the undertaken at her own =