Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1911 — A Pill In the Jelly. [ARTICLE]

A Pill In the Jelly.

In -The Banker in Literature,” a re* -#lir nuKllafiP/i \PAt*tr lb(p InKaann , cenuy puuti*iiit?a wor» uy atr. aiMxmicMnr? Brigham, state librarian, of lowa, th#p|j is a suggestion for the banker of the period, whose daily mail frequent|g| contains requests to enhance his pdti|| larity by subscribing to worthy caußeß ’ To all letters soliciting a subscrip* tlon, Samuel Rogers, the English bank* er-poet, approvingly quoted Lord Erskine as replying in this form words: ■Sir, 1 feel much honored by application to me, and I beg to subscribe”—here the reader reached the bottom of the page, and to learn thsf ! amount of the donation, had to turn over the leaf. There he found after the word subscribe, the formal conclusion—"myself your obedient ant."—Youth’B Companion.