Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1904 — His I’s. [ARTICLE]

His I’s.

Gdheral Ogle, when submitting a letter for approval by the Pennsylvania legislature, which he had addressed on their behalf to the newly elected president, General Andrew- Jackson, was interrupted by a dapper little fellow from Philadelphia thus: “Pardon me, general. Ido not wish to assume to make a suggestion to so distinguished a gentleman as yourself, but I cannot refrain from saying that it is customary in the east, and I may say in almost all the civilized countries of Europe, to write With a capital ‘l’ Instead of the small ‘i’ in using this personal pronoun in epistolary correspondence.” General Ogle drew down his heavy brow-s, piercing the dandy's marrow with the fierce shaft of scorn that shot from his eye. “Sir,” said he, beginning with a hiss and ending with a roar, “when I write to such a great man as General Andrew- Jackson, Democratic president of the United States, I abase myself—l abase myself, sir! I use as small an T as I can put on' paper. But, sir, if I should ever get to such a low pitch as to have to write to such a little snipe as you are I'd use an ‘l,’ sir, • that would fill two pages of foolscap!”