Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1906 — Sooting the Celebrity. [ARTICLE]

Sooting the Celebrity.

•*1 am requested, ladies and gentlemen,” suavely said Colonel Handy Polk, addressing the beauty and chivalry of Torpidville, In the grand old commonwealth of Arkansas, assembled to enjoy the third fa the Lyceum course’s series of entertainment*, “to introduce to -you, in a—er-h'm!—few* well-chosen words, the distinguished gentleman who will' —ah—e’dify us upon this occasion, w wett by reputation, whose name i* a household word from one bound to this broad land to the other, whose delicate satire has amused and entertained the whole nation, whose wealth of' humor is the laughing link betwixt the north and the south, and—^er-ah! —well, I have now done so, and he will—Cr-er—now do so. Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you.for ty)—by the way, what did you say your name was?”—Puck.