Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1906 — ODDITIES USUAL TO NEWSPAPER EXCHANGES. [ARTICLE]

ODDITIES USUAL TO NEWSPAPER EXCHANGES.

A look over the* exchanges that come to a newspaper office is interesting in many ways. Among the dozens that reacn this office are all sizes and grades. They are published by practical men, who are pretty well acquainted with the world, the flesh, and the devil, and in not one of them will be found a defense for immortally, no defense of whiskey, no trace of vulgarity, nor any that teach or justify dishonesty. Nor will one find sneers of purity, at religion at the best things in life. In many of them are excellent bits of advice and little homely sermons. Whenever the schools are mentioned it is in terms of praise and encouragement. The dominant note in every one is for decency, progress, enlightment, mortality. Ex.