Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1890 — Rare Gentlemen. [ARTICLE]

Rare Gentlemen.

Perhaps a gentleman" is rarer than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle—men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant, and not only constant in its kind, but e evated in its degree; whose want of meanness makes them simple, who can look the world honestly in the fade with an equ d manly sympathy for the great and small?—Thackaray,