Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1887 — THE RETORT COURTEOUS. [ARTICLE]

THE RETORT COURTEOUS.

Card From Hie Museum People. We, the Alusuein People, referred to by the Message, are sorry that we have only succeeded in “humdi ating to si lence” the cornet soloist and the dog in the wood-shed; as we have labored laithfully since we have been in your city, to effectually drown the torrents of oaths issuing from the youthfnl offsprings of the Consul to Turks Island, and their sounds of fighting and cursing which make day a bedlam and night a hideous night-mare, in the vicinity of the post-office. We have noticed a lofty, high-headed gent passing, with his chin elevated and a young lamp-post in his hand, to secure the freedom of the press; but we did not know him to be the ex-Consul to Turks Island, and the editor of the Message, and had we been so informed, we certainly should have sent so prominent (?) a citizen a com-

plimentarv ticket.

O. L. FLECK,