Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1894 — She Considers It a Libel. [ARTICLE]
She Considers It a Libel.
Chicago Herald. Kentucky editors cannot be too careful about what they print. The citizens of the blue grass commonwealth are touchy, and statements published with the most amiable intentions are likely to cause trouble. Here is the editor of the Mount Sterling Timos, for example,who printed wljat he thought was a graceful obituary notice, winding up with the perfunctory statement that “the deceased had gone to a happier home.” He is now the defendant in a libel suit brought by the widow, and when he goes home after seeing the paper to press he takes the middle of the street and carries his shot gun at full cock. The notice was gratis, too. Edmund Yates reports that the Queen offered to make Mrs. Gladstone a countess if the retiring Premier didn’t care fo r an earldom for himself. Also, that in declining the offer Mr. Gladstone reminded her Majesty that he was only following the example of his first leader, Sir Robert Peel. Shiloh’s Consumption Cure i’ sold on a guarantee. It cures Incipient Consumption. It is the beet Cough Cure. 25 cents. So cents and tI.OO. “Henry is a great headworker,” said the fond mother. “He won several prizes at college for sculling.” Birds and flowers delight us, but we are enchanted when we behold the complexion of a young lady made beautiful by the use of Glenn’s Sulphur Soap, The rain-blaster may trust in Providence, but it will be more difficult to keep his powder dry.
