Show till FINAL CHAPTER A few ers ears 20 2 ago o when the sun was published in salina its editor trenal had no better friend on earth thin thi mr A 1 K AV williams illiams who used to tike take pride in throw throb in ing bouquets of insensate sweetness at the salina newspaper publisher this was at a time when the salina prevaricator was cirling the munificent of 30 per it all changed when the sun be began bean an cist cast in ing its warm and efful effulgent ent rys in R richfield ich field to the casual reader of the reaper it certainly must look as if the editor of that paper his lost all interest in and all loe loc for the sun min and the editor of the sun is wondering why because he remo demov ed to richfield he has lost loit one of the old time admirers richfield sun the editor of the reaper will assume that the editor of the sun really wonders at the changed conditions mentioned in the above we dont mind telling him and incidentally d the public we do not care to renew the old controversy which has bas been waged off and on between the sun suit and reaped editors dur in ing the past two yeats lint this is the last issue of the reaper tot foi tilts this ear car and we will wind up with sk a little history for mr howards pr par nicular benefit then we hope this incident will be closed forever it will be so far Is as the reaper is concerned up to the time the sun suit editor folded his tent in silina and and landed in richfield and foi some months i the edilou of this paper belie believed ed that the editor of the bun was vas everything that lie he pretended pie tended to be ach we h id admund his terse and epigrammatic stings it tings nt ings and commented fa upon them shortly affet opening his alws newspaper shop lit in richfield mr iio howard v without any pro provocation oca location tion began a sly surreptitious dundei handed attempt to bring the reaper into disfavor fa or and di dispute with the public we believe his motive was to create dissatisfaction and attempt to destio the confidence which the public lic had in the reaper tint that the sun bun might profit thereby A little later all reset ve was nas cist aside and the sun pot poi red column after column of the coarsest and roughest invective vituperation and falsehood at which he is an adept at the editor of the greiper aci per and has continued almost continuously by insinuation innuendo and direct charge endeavored to place the reaped in I 1 false falbe light beffie the people he it b deliberately pre anca arica and gone one out ot of his hii way to cast stig stigma ma upon the reaper in the light of all thit that abuse the editor of 0 the re iper could arrive at but one conclusion that mr howard hid h id theretofore under f filse ilbe colors that lie he N oi e a in isk of deceit ind hypo hypocrisy crib and when 1 til th it ws inn iain iside we beheld t man mail in whom we hid be ben been n de alicd ct bcd lie he the min m in we thought him to be knoma in hun jitni as he lias has ld cd himself can call my any on one onder thit ye we no not see him in the same light we once dida we had entertained a I 1 delusion it is i shattered mi howard himself has destroyed the estimation wt once placed upon him ve vc cannot but behold in all his hib glitter the veneer of a narrow soul the above aboc is i not uttered in a spirit of vindictiveness nor malice ni alLCe mr howard lias has by implication asli d for a reason fur certain things we hope we have nd him and now is above expressed we hope we shall never again have oc occasion cAston to refer to a matter that hat a most um pleasant demor memory for the editor of tile the reaper Wedes ve desire treto to go thead minding our own business we ame plenty to do and ha hae e no time for quarreling the reaper office has plenty of legitimate business to do and has no disposition to go out of its ils wa to interfere with a competitor finis |