Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1877 — Advice to a Rural Newspaper Correspondent. [ARTICLE]

Advice to a Rural Newspaper Correspondent.

A youth out at Reyuolus is. striving to hceunie famous through the columns of the Llemoerat,vby sending in funny communications frequently. Don’t seek so persistently for fame, young man, but seek fpr the love ttf some fair biscuit shooter, for -love abide’h forever, and isn’t qwue so fluctuating as fame. When this’ world is shipwrecked upon the unknown seas of eternity, lore shall like a phmirfx rise from • the ashes, and wing its way to the realms I of glory, where honor has no seal, and vv,’K*re thest«im of ambition is'bluwn off; fqpcver. This will fit ybu better; fir the Lord never intended you for » second edition of Mark Twain.—Monticello Democrat.