Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1902 — The Editor Turns. [ARTICLE]

The Editor Turns.

The youthful author pocketed his rejected verses, but he could not swallow the editor's criticism. “Sir,” said he, not without dignity, “a poet is born, not made.” “Yor.ng man,” returned the editor, blandly, “it won’t help your case to try to shift the blame on to your parents!” As James Russell Lowell said: “There’s a deal o’ solid kicking In the meekest-looking mule.”—Youth's Companion. < - .y ~ . ,* < We are never without a bottle of Piso'a Cure for Consumption in our house.— Mrs. E. M. Swayze, Wakita, Okla., April 17, 1901.