Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1908 — He Had The Idea. [ARTICLE]

He Had The Idea.

The position of librarian In some of our city libraries often calls for qualities which would at fist thought occur to one as indispensable to persons of the Sherlock Holmes persuasion rather than to those busy in the field of library work. For example, In one of the crowded districts a little boy appeared at the desk one morning and demanded a book by a feller named Dirt." Suspecting a discrepancy somewhere, the librarian searched the catalogue In vain, then had recourse to crossquestioning. This proved equally futile, and a note was sent to the boy’s mother, asking her if she would be kind enough to write the name of the book she wanted. In about half an hour he returned with a slip of paper on which was written: “Please send something by George Sand."