Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1901 — An Editor and a Golden Hair. [ARTICLE]

An Editor and a Golden Hair.

“One beautiful spring morning an editor found a golden hair lying between the pages of p. manuscript,” writes Eaward Eok, in the Ladies’ Home Journal. “The moment he reached the page it gracefully fluttered out. Flushed with excitement, the editor caught it. It was not his hair, he argued, therefore it was not his property. Then, again, he thought, the owner probably lost it and might need it So he put it back. He was a methodical man and he replaced it exactly as he had found it. He was not many days older when he received a letter proving, by the very hair he had so dexterously caught and conscientiously replaced, that he never had read, nor even opened, the manuscript of the writer. Corid anything have been a clearer case against the editor? Most certainly not It was conclusive and final, don’t you see?”