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Show WHY THE EDITOR LEFT TOWN. (Hera Id -Republican) Journalists rarely obtain the sympathy sym-pathy they merit due doubtless to their invariable appearance of affluence af-fluence and dignified mien. Their errors provoke only grins from the audience and scowls from the victim vic-tim instead of the compassion a broad charity should Impel Not one, we fancy, among its readers, exc.pt perhaps per-haps Mrs. Overlook, greeted -with other oth-er than a hearty guffaw the following pitiful plea by the Williarasville (N. D.) Item. "We wi?h to apologize to Mrs. Orlando Or-lando Overlook. In our paper last week we had as a headline. "Mrs. Overlook's Big Feet." The word we had ought to have used is a h rench word, pronounced the same way, but spelled fete. It means a celebration and is eonMdered very tony word." How faint the border-line between pathos and comedy! How cruel th last of errant fortune! It Is the little tragedies of life that cut deepest and we can imagine preciously how Wil-liamsville Wil-liamsville and the adjao ml neighborhood neighbor-hood behaved. Nobody congratulated the editor upon his enterprise in import im-port ion a tony French word and bringing bring-ing into Williamsville homes a touch of culture. Probably ven Mrs. Overlook Over-look overlooked the intended compliment compli-ment which the wise editor reserves for the truly great-After great-After the community had recovered its articulation and means of locomotion, locomo-tion, we can conceive all of Mrs. Overlook's Over-look's dearest friends mailing her marked copies of the Item by registered register-ed mail to insure delivery. And thp pH. ltor. denied the metropolitan alibi of dividing responsibility between the compositor and the proofreader be cause he is probably both, must needs seek seclusion from the chaff of his unfeeling acquaintances who couldn't tell a fete from the weekly hammer-fest hammer-fest of the sewing society. |