The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-09-09

Joseph Atwater's house where Mr..
Cairdyce, that amiable and robust
baritone, sang some of his songs over
quests for them held out. Florence's
poem may have begun to coagulate
within her then.
II ORGANEST
BY Florence Atwater
The organes was seated at his organ
In a church,
In some beautiful woods of maple and
birch,
He was very weary while he .layed 0ran
the keys.
But he was a great organest and always
played with ease,
When the soul is weary.
And the wind is dreary,
! would like to be an organesi seated all
day at the organ.
Whether my name might be Fairchild or
Morgan,
l would play music like n vast amen,
The way 1t sounds in a church OF men.
Florence read her poem over seven
or eight times. the deepening pleasure
Of her expression being evidence that
repetition failed to denature this work,
but, on the contrary, enhanced an ap-
precintive surprise at Its singular mer-
II. Finally she folded the sheet of
paper with a delicate carefulness I'M
usual to her, and placed Il In her
skirt pocket. Then she went down
stairs and out into the back yard.
With thoughtful and determined eyes
she obliqued her gaxe over IL. \,
t%ervening fences to the repell"'a .r,
line formed by the too-simpio rr..Nr
Of her cousin Herbert's fathers sta
BILE. Her next action was straight
forward and anything but prudish she
climbed the high board fences, one af-
ter the other, until she came to a
pause at the top of that wherein the
two journalists had lately made them
selves so odiously impressive.
Before her, If she had but taken
and the markings Of a profound tranI-
ton i'll human evolution. Beside the
old frame stable was a little brick
garage, obviously put to the daily use
intended by its designer. Quite as OBJ
%Niously the stable was obsolete; any
body would have known from its out
side that there was no horse within
it. Here. visible, was the end Of the
pastoral age, it might be called,
from the Heidelberg jawbone to Mar
conf. The new age begins with ma
chimes that do away with laboring ami
mails and will proceed presently to
machines doing away with laborlng
men, although 1t Is rue that cows
ma remain in vogue for some time.
In spite of the fact that they are
already MIXED by electricity, the milk
itself must yet be constructed by the
COW.
All this was lost upon Florence.
She sat upon tho fence, her gas un-
favorably, though w%istfully. fixed upon
a sign of no special esthetic merit
above the stable door:
THE NORTH END DAILY oRIOLE.
ATWATER & ROOTER OWNERS AND
PROPREITORS.
SUBSCRIBE NOW % CENTS.
The inconsistency of the word
daily did not trouble Florence; more
over she had found no fault with
"Oriole" until the "Owners and Pro
preitors' had explained to her in the
plainest terms known to their vocabu-
laries that she was excluded from the
enterprise. Then, indeed, she had
been reciprocally explicit In regard,
not only to them and certain personal
characteristics Of theirs which she
pointed out as fundamental, but in re-
gard to any newspaper which should
deliberately call itself an "Oriole."
The partners remained superior in
manner, though unable to conceal a
natural resentment they had adopted
"OriOle," not out Of sentiment for the
distant city Of Baltimore, nor. indeed,
on account of any ornithologic inter
est Of their own, but as a relic from
an abandoned club, or secret society,
which they had previously contem-
plated forming, It's members to- be
called "The Orioles" for no reason
whatever. The two friends had
talked Of their plan at many meetings
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