He was still thinking of it and reaching certain real conclusions when the EVENING NEWS came.
His wife brought it up and sat down a few minutes while he read to her.
The EVENING NEWS was at present the most sensational paper in Raymond.

That is to say, it was being edited in such a remarkable fashion that its subscribers had never been so excited over a newspaper before.

First they had noticed the absence of the prize fight, and gradually it began to dawn upon them that the NEWS no longer printed accounts of crime with detailed descriptions, or scandals in private life.

Then they noticed that the advertisements of liquor and tobacco were dropped, together with certain others of a questionable character.

The discontinuance of the Sunday paper caused the greatest comment of all, and now the character of the editorials was creating the greatest excitement.