Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1910 — His Handicap. [ARTICLE]

His Handicap.

“The greatest bandmaster I ever knew,” says the man with the ashes on his vest, “was a little, slim, baldheaded, smooth-faced fellow named John Smith. As a band leader he made all these famous ones look like hopeless amateurs.” "I never heard of him,” argues the man with the reversible tie. “Of course you didn’t Nor did anybody else. Didn't I just say that he was a little, slim, bald-headed, smoothfaced fellow, and that his name was John Smith?”