Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1899 — How It Happened. [ARTICLE]

How It Happened.

“Meterkin says the first edition of his poems has been entirely exhausted.’’ “Yes, that’s right.” “Why, it’s only three weeks since the book was brought out. It seems almost impossible that the public could have been so eager to get it.” “Oh, it wasn’t the public. The firm that printed it was burned out the other day.”