Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1913 — George Brown’s Office Boy. [ARTICLE]

George Brown’s Office Boy.

George Brown writes the editorials and attends to the exchange work of a big metropolitan daily newspaper, all of which compels him to read oceans of other papers. It was his habit to send his office boy to the postofflce every day to drag back a tremendous bundle of papers. One day the boy. who was redheaded and hot-tempered, received his bundle in the corridor of the postoffice, cut the strings and scattered the newspapers in wild confusion all over the floor. After that he ran wild among them, kicking them and slapping them about. An official of the postofflce called up Brown's office with the purpose of informing him that he had sent a crazy boy to the office and that he had scattered the papers all over the building. Brown was not in when the call was made, but later the official of the postofflce informed him that, when remonstrance whs made to the boy, ho exclaimed wildly: "That fool gets too many papers, anyway! I'm onto him. I'm the only person on the newspaper that knows he don’t read half of 'em.”—Populai Magazine.