Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — Charles Landes as a Minister. [ARTICLE]

Charles Landes as a Minister.

Charles K. Landes, the bright and genial editor of the Delphi Journal whose benign and innocent counte* a nee has made him to be frequently taken for a minister, tells the following story on himself in this weeks issue of his paper: Several weeks ago the Journal man went to Lafayette. At Colburn two honest, motherly looking ladies boarded the train, and when they caught sight of the Journal representative they half smiled and nodded. Possessed of the proverbial modesty that clothes every member of the profession, the newspaper man gave no encouragement to the inquiring, semibeseeehing glances of the good women, Who ever and anon, would turn around and attempt to secure recognition. At last the sitnation became embarassing, and with one of Tliose smlTesTieJias so often used with great effect while soliciting su bseription, the writer Of these lines said, with an air of innocence and frank ness:

“Ladies, you appear to know me.” “Yes,” replied one of them, with a great, big, honest expression on her face “Aint you Brother Jenkins, of Battle Ground ?” 1 “No, madam, I have not that honor. I am only a poor newspaper man, trying to make the world better by publishing a Republican organ, and now traveling to your county seat on a pass.” “Well you look exactly like Brother Jenkins,” the the writer, recognizing that further conversation, without the formality of an introduction, would be a breach of decorum, let the matter drop. If Brother Jenkins would like to steal away for a quiet fish some Sabbath morning and keep his audience i n ignorance of his absence, let him address a confidential note to the Journal office, enclosing a postal note or money order. Wawill help him out.