Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1884 — It Was Too Long. [ARTICLE]

It Was Too Long.

“In soft, adumbrant meshes of sieved silver the sunbeams melted through the leaves and dripped in spangles of gold upon the brown and black moquetrie of the shadows that led to the ragged edge of the curb, where a fragile little fragment of humanity lay moaning.” “That's all right enough,” said the managing editor, “but it’s a little too long. Make it shorter. ” “But what shall I say ?” asked the blonde reporter. “O, Fd just say, ‘Henessy Mulcahey’s little boy Pat fell into an open sewer and broke bis nose.’ That'll do for an introductlbn, and then, you can go on and -say what’s necessary about the careless manner in which these

things are conducted, and that under another administration of our local government, and so on, you know.. Give ’em a rap, that’s alL”— Pittsburgh Dispatch. /