Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1914 — FURNISHED BOND OF AMITY [ARTICLE]

FURNISHED BOND OF AMITY

Discomfited “Good Samaritan'’ the U«v willing Means of Bringing Rival Humorists Together. * . Once upon a time two humorists dwelt in the same small town and both contributed to the Sunday Star. As was but natural, they became wildly jealous of each other, and when one would win a little more prominence than his fellow the other would have seven kinds of fits. "Your Pleasant Valley Items give me a pain!" Quoth one. “Your prose rhymes make me 111!” retorted the other. As they were about to eome to blows there appeared on the scene a Good Samaritan* and to him they appealed. "Which of us Is the funnier?” they asked. “Neither!” was the prompt reply. “You are both as unfunny as wart hogs, and as tiresome as a trip across the Sahara!" Thereat they both set upon the gentleman from Samaria and beat him full sore, and dwelt together In amity forever after. Moral: From this we should lean that while humorists delight in quarreling among themselves, they frequently resent criticism from outsiders. —Kansas City Star.'