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Show Reprinted by Request. An editor in the Blue Grass state has been trying for a long time to Inject In-ject himself into politics and get elected elect-ed to something. At last he was made a delegate to the state convention conven-tion of his party. The day on which the convention opened was also the date of Issue of his militant weekly newspaper; and ,in the excitement of the moment, he had forgotten to write his usual burning editorial. He was reminded of his dereliction just as he was leaving town for the convention. "Oh," he said to the genial factotum facto-tum of the mechanical department, "just reproduce last week's editorial, and state that it is reprinted by request" re-quest" The Intelligent foreman followed instructions, in-structions, and the editorial was served up to the amazed readers under un-der the startling caption: "Reprinted by Request of the Editor." |