People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — Compensation. [ARTICLE]

Compensation.

It is said that Roger, the celebrated French tenor, was exceedingly loyal to his profession and was apt to take of fenne at any slight, whether or not it was intended. On one occasion he was engaged for the sum of sixty pounds to sing at the house of a rich financier. Roger sang his first song magnificent ly, but no one paid him the slightest attention, and the guests talked their loudest. Presently the host thought the time had come for another song, and sent for Roger. He could not be found, and that evening was seen no more. Next day a note came from him, accompanied by the sum of eighty pounds. The note ran thus: “I have the honor to return the sixty pounds which I received for singing at your party; and I beg leave to add twenty pounds more for having sc greatly disturbed the conversation of your guests.”—Youth’* Companion. If all the people of the United States were placed in Kansas, California and Nebraska, those states would not ba •o thickly Rettlcd a* Knglaad <a aw