People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — He is Whistling. [ARTICLE]

He is Whistling.

The last i&sue of brother Marshall’s most excellent newspaper contained the following generous reference to the “circulation edition” of the People’s Pilot: “A sow owned by a farmer near Morocco, according to the veracious Courier, lately increased the number of her owner’s herd of swine by 19, in one night, and then desisted only because the pen would not hold any more. The Courier wants to know who can beat that? We modestly refer the Courier to the ‘circulation editor’ of the Peo pie’s Pilot.” The above is of course an excellent joke and was intended to produce a general laugh, but apparently the only response was the echo of his own hopeful chuckle. If the application above to the Pilot’s steadily in- ' creasing circulation was intendied to intimate that it had reached its limit, because of the size the “pen” where it is printed, he has misjudged its capacity. It is the pen that the “circulation editor” pushes that bothers the brother’s dreams, and that adds new, bonafide, cash paying subscribers to the Pilot’s list,— subscribers who buy the Pilot because they want it. As to its circulation, perhaps it would do the weary eyes of brother Marshal good to glance at the sworn statement published in this issue.