Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1890 — Putting It to the Test. [ARTICLE]

Putting It to the Test.

Faith in the friendship of others is * very good thing to have, but it is rol always strengthened by the unexpected guise that friendship occasionally assumes. A young versifier, upon submitting one of his productions to hi* older and less dreamy room-mate, was asked, the verses having been read with great care: ••Did you write this stuff?” •yes.” 1 “Where will you send itP” “To Mr. Blank. He’s the editor of the W- Daily Joitrnai I it to him because he is an old friend ol my father’s.” “All right. I’m glad you’re going tc send it to Blank. Perhaps, for youi father’g sake,Jie will decline to prim it.”— Harper's Magazine. Postmaster-General Wanamaker wai once proprietor and editor of a news paper. When ho was J 8 years old hi started an amateur journal in Phils delpiiia. He obtained c. hundred sub senbers at the start and when thi journal passed away a year later iti circulation had somewhat increased The sheet had advertisement?, editor iala, and poems, ail of which were tbr work of tho proprietor.