FISBEE, "Editor 'Carlow Herald.' "_Dear Sir_: You have not acknowledged my letter of the 2d September by a note (which should have reached me the following morning), or by the alteration in the tenor of my columns which I requested, or by the publication of the McCune papers which I directed.

In this I hold you grossly at fault.

If you have a conscientious reason for refusing to carry out my request it should have been communicated to me at once, as should the fact--if such be the case--that you are a personal (or impersonal, if you like) friend of Mr.Rodney McCune.

Whatever the motive, ulterior or otherwise, which prevents you from operating my paper as I direct, I should have been informed of it.

This is a matter vital to the interests of our community, and you have hitherto shown yourself too alert in accepting my slightest suggestion for me to construe this failure as negligence.