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Show ' ' we are to be excused because there are go many worthless wayfarers whono worthlessness has dressed them In rags, that after contact with many such fellows we come to regard the clothes as emblematic of the' man. But let us not forget that bright minds quite often have supreme contempt for dress fastidious dress and have no conception of Hie value of money, and as a result the least attractive man among our; visitors may be a person of intellectual worth and attainment. A STRANGER WHO WAS POORLY GARBED. A man stepped into the Standard ofllce about a year ago. He was poorly poor-ly dressed and 'somewhat modest In demeanor. He asked for a position as a reporter. Tho editor of a paper is supposed to read character at a glance, but too often he, as do many others, looks at tae clothes, and in this case he said: "Wo have more reporters re-porters than mo have posUons." and the stranger went out The traveler Inquired In-quired of another editor and received the same answer. Today we; learned that tho reporter who tramped out of Ogden without the price of a meal is one of tho editors of the Denver Post, receiving a salary 0f J150 a week, and he 13 required to write not much more than a column of brilliant comments. com-ments. In earning his salary. . Shabby clothes can hide a genius, and you and I can grow so dull that beaming eyes cannot shlno for us beyond be-yond the precincts of tho garments which are frayed and faded. Perhaps |