Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1901 — An Exception. [ARTICLE]

An Exception.

“It makes me tired to see the manner in whieh these newspapers are run,” said the man in the smoking compartment as he took off his glasses and let his paper drop across his knees. The man who sat next to him had one lock of hair—an oasis in a desert of scalp—which.he spent most of the time In smoothing reflectively. “I s’pose,” he said, slowly, “that you could give ’em all points?” “I’m sure of it. Couldn’t you?” “No, I don’t think I could.” “Do you mean to say that you couldn’t tell the editor how* to run his paper?” exclaimed the. man who had spoken first, in a tone that had absolute dismay in It “I do, indeed,” replied the man with the oasis, earnestly. “Well, I must say there are not many like you.” “I know it. I used to be like you. But now I am trying to run a newspaper myself, and I tell you, my friend, I’m not sayin’ a word: not sayin’ a word.”