Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1911 — Literary Persons Inferior Penmen. [ARTICLE]

Literary Persons Inferior Penmen.

The handwriting of literary mm is supposed to hare improved during recent years, but thaw are still a few with a fondness for helroglyphlcs. At a meeting of the Methodist conference in Melbourne, Australia, the other day Rev. Dr. Fltchett, author of “Deeds That Won the Empire," and other popular works, handed up a resolution. The president looked at It, turned ft upside down and roundabout, and at length gave it np in despair. The clerk was equally unable to decipher It “I must ask Brother Fttchett ” said the presided!, “to be good enough to rewrite his resolution and try to make It readable. At present it resembles a doctor's prescription.”