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Show Shoe Evidently Fitted The rural editor was very busy setting up in cold type his leading editorial for the week, on "The Sublime, Sub-lime, the Beautiful and the True," when a big man who was very angry broke- in on him. "What do you mean by libeling me in your dirty sheet ?" exclaimed the angry man, as he doubled up his fists as if intending in-tending to strike the poor editor down. "I don't Keem to remember saying anything about you," explained the editor, putting on an non-committal attitude. "I'll read you just what you said and then you'll remember it," vociferated voci-ferated the big man as he pulled a clipping from his vest pockc-L "Here's the item; it reads: 'If somebody some-body offered prizes for the three meanest men in the United States, there's a man in this town who would take all three.' " "Well," said the editor, "that article arti-cle didn't mention you, did it?" "No," exploded the angry man, "you didn't mention any names, but who else in this town is there that answers that description?" Pathfinder. Path-finder. o |