The Press: Potato Sage

All my life I have been cursed with enthusiasm and with fishlike people to pour water on it.

Hanging those who do not agree with us is about the only experiment in politics we have not tried.

It is a good rule to watch everybody; the honest man may be careless.

As soon as a man acquires fairly good sense it is said he is an old fogy.

Aphorisms like these are what made Edgar Watson Howe famed, first as editor of the Atchison, Kans. Globe, later, since his retirement 23 years ago, as editor and...

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