Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1898 — Encourage This Great and Aspiring Soul. [ARTICLE]

Encourage This Great and Aspiring Soul.

The Lowell Gazette, a second journalistic blade of grass which is trying to flourish in a field which but scantily supported one, has changed hands. The new owner isS. C. Simpson, and judging from his salutatory he enters into the calling of country journalism with a full sense of the steadfastness of mind and the heroism of soul necessary to success in the seemingly most ordinary features of the vocation. Here for instance is a specimen sentence from his salutatory: Thousands of brilliant men have failed for the want of courage, faith and decision, perishing in the sight of less gifted but more adventurous competitors and so I ask you to co-operate' with me ana. I will give you value received, and for the benefit of the farmers I will publish each week the hay and grain markets of all the largest cities in the United States. Verily, we trust this gifted and aspiring soul will receive the necessary co-operation, and not fail for want of courage, faith and decision, and perish in the sight of his less gifted competitors, (Capt. Ragon and his sons of the Lowell Tribune,) in this great soul-absorb-ing and brain exhansting enterprise of publishing the grain and hav markets every week!