Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1911 — A Gift for the Editor. [ARTICLE]

A Gift for the Editor.

-- - - - • • "The only *ay I purchase stamps these days—and I use a lot of them—is In the little hooks which the government charges yon a cent for/ said a man who writes things for magazines now and then. ’lt will be a . long yme before 1 forget how the last lot of loose stamps got away from me. I bought' |2 worth and after holding them so that the gummy sides wouldn’t meet I carefully placed them In an envelope. It happened that envelop contained a bit of verse that I had prepared a couple of days before and addressed to an editor, but had not sealed, intending to glance over it once more. "Well, I did not look at the stuff after all and, of course, forgot about the stamps and sent the letter off. Shortly afterward the verse came back with the usual regrets. A postscript was attached which read like this: ’P. 8. Don’t bother to send stamps with your next dosen manuscripts. Your credit will be good/ " ... \♦. T' %:¥; £»•■.JBa *MH