Relative Importance of Individual.
Senator Ogle, a member of Pennsylvania Assembly, has been deputed to compose an address to the newly-elected President, Andrew Jackson. When the bluff old warrior submitted his .document to tho House, a fellow member, a dapper little fellow from Philadelphia, ovserved:— , t - ; "Pardon! me, General, I hesitate about making any suggestion to so distinguished an individual; but I cannot refrain from saying that it is- customary with cultured, letter writers to write the first personal pronoun with a capital T instead of a small ( i.' " ■ General Ogle returned a look of scorn. "Sir," said lie, "whon ; I write to so great a man as Gen. Andrew Jackson, Democratic President of the United States, I abase myself. I abase myself sir. I use is as small an T as I can put upon miner. But, sir, if ever I should have to write to a little snipe like you I would use an 'I,' sir .that would fill two pages of foolscap."— i New York Life.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 November 1911, Page 4
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