Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1889 — Poetry ComeS High. [ARTICLE]

Poetry ComeS High.

DeWitt Seligman is the proprietor of the New York Epoch. Some time since a contributor to that periodical handed in a set of verses, which were accepted and printed. Then it was timo for the contributor to be paid, and the matter was laid before Mr. Seligman by a subordinate. “How much shall I draw Mr. Jones a check for, Mr. Seligman?” asked the ’-’mate. “Well, see here,” Mr. Selijpv- - quid, “we pay Jones 6 cents a line for These lines are a little shorter than "a prose line would be; less words in them. Say we give him 4 cents a line.” “But you see, Mr. Seligman,” the subordinate suggested, “these lines rhyme. ” “So they do, so they do!” Mr. Seligman cried, “and he ought to be paid for it. Give him a cent more a line for the rhyme. Twelve lines—that will make 60 cents, and you draw him a check for it.”