"I'm half way through another one I think myself'll be a good deal better. I'm not goin' as fast with it as I did with the other one, and I expect it'll be quite a ways ahead of this one." She again employed the deprecatory little laugh. "I don't know how I do it, myself. The family all think it's sort of funny I don't know how I do it, myself; but that's the way it is. They all say if they could do it they're sure they'd know how they did it; but I guess they're wrong. I presume if you can do it, why, it just _comes_ to you. Don't you presume that's the way it is, Mr. Dill?" "I--guess so." They had reached his gate, and he stopped. "You're sure none of your family have heard anything to-day?" he asked anxiously. "From Aunt Julia? I don't think they have." He sighed, and opened the gate. "Well, good evening, Florence." "Good evening." Her eyes followed him wistfully as he passed within the enclosure; then she turned and walked quickly toward her own home; but at the corner of the next fence she called back over her shoulder, "I'll leave it with your mother for you, if you're not home when I bring it." "What?" he shouted, from his front door. "I'll leave it with your _mother_." "Leave what?" "The _poem_!" "Oh!" said Noble. "Thanks!" But when his mother handed him a copy of the first issue of _The North End Daily Oriole_, the next day, when he came home to lunch, he read it without edification; there was nothing about Julia in it. THE NORTH END DAILY ORIOLE Atwater & Rooter Owners & Propreitors SUBSCRIBE NOW 25 Cents Per Year Subscriptions shloud be brought to the East etrance of Atwater & Rooter Newspaper Building every afternoon 4.30 to 6. 25 cents. ======================================= NEWS OF THE CITY ---------- The Candidates for mayor at the election are Mr P. N. Gordon and John T Milo. The contest is very great between these candidates. Holcombs chickens get in MR. Joseph Atwater's yard a god deal lately. He says chickens are out of place in a city of this size. Minnie the cook of Mr. F. L. Smith's residisence goes downtown every Thrusday afts about three her regular day for it. A new ditch is being dug accross the MR. Henry D. Vance backyrad. ;Tis about dug but nobody is working there now. Patty Fairchild received the highest mark in declamation of the 7A at Sumner School last Friday. Balf's grorcey wagon ran over a cat of the Mr. Rayfort family. Geo. the driver of the wagom stated he had not but was willing to take it away and burg it somewheres Geo. stated regret and claimed nothing but an accident which could not be helped and not his team that did the damage. MissColfield teacher of the 7A atSumner School was reproted on the sink list. We hope she will soon be well.