Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1875 — A Discouraged Editor. [ARTICLE]

A Discouraged Editor.

He was a sad-eyed, meek-faced man, and we supposed he merely w ished to give us a news item; hut when lie commenced telling us about building a barn on his ranch 190x280 feet, seven stories high and ornamented with bay windows, we thought it was time to check him, and so we commenced: “ Well, we must admit that that is a pretty large barn for this country, but hack in the States our father built a barn 323x300 feet, line stories high and furnished with steam elevators; the-— ’’ “ Back iinhe States,” Interrupted our listeuer. “Why, that wasn’t much of a barn for the States, I remember now, that when I was quite young my father built a chicken-coop 550x892 feet. I don’t recollect how many stories it was high, but I know there was a cupola on it for the roosters.” “About how high was that cupola?” we asked. “ I don’t remember the exact height now, mister,” was tlie reply, “ but I know’ it was so high that the fourteen upper tiers of roosfers died from the effects of the light atmosphere the first night.” Then we went out and sat down on tlie wood-pile and wondered why somebody was always outstripping us in the race of life. —FairpUiy (Col.) Sentinel.