Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1919 — Remembers Great Statesman. [ARTICLE]

Remembers Great Statesman.

Frederick Edrupt, a former office boy empjpyed by Chalies Dickens, has recently retired after 40 years’ service at the Temple in London. He worked for Dickens when the novelist was con-

ducting All The Year Round, back in the sixties. Edrupt tells of seeing his employer one day In front of a little hook shop talking with “a gentleman with long curly hair, dressed In a deerstalker hat, checked tftmsers and a veV vet coat with pearl -buttons as big as five-shilling plebes.” He later discovered the stranger to be Benjamin Disraeli. prime minister of England. One of Edrupt’s'chief.duties was to gd about the city, pasting up posters advertising the latest books and writing! of Dickens.