I wouldn't want to have you bounce a young man who's doing the best he can, but it doesn't do a newspaper any good to speak of Dan Patch as a trotting-horse or give the record of my two-year-old filly Penelope O as 2:09-1/4 when she made a clean 2:09.
You've got to print facts in a newspaper if you want people to respect it.

How about that, Morton ?" "You're right, Aunt Sally.

I'll speak to Atwill about his horse news." He began to wonder whether she were not amusing herself at his expense; but she gave him no reason for doubting her seriousness.

They might have been partners from the beginning of time from her businesslike manner of criticizing the paper.

She had not only flatly refused to sell her shares, but she was taking advantage of the opportunity (for which she seemed to be prepared) to tell him how the "Courier" should be conducted! "About farming, Morton," she continued deliberately, "the 'Courier' has fun every now and then over the poor but honest farmer, and prints pictures of him when he comes to town for the State Fair that make him look like a scarecrow.