Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1886 — The Fireman’s Story. [ARTICLE]

The Fireman’s Story.

“Where have you been?” asked the foreman of a Western volunteer fire department of a member who arrived soon after the fire had been extinguished. “Been (hie) workin’.” “Been working? What kind of work have you been doing?” “Been (hie) to the drug (hie) store t’get some chemicals (hici for the engine.”—New York Graphic. Though the principles on which an arch was constructed was not entirely unknown to the Greeks, yet their universal use of the columnar style of architecture and general deficiency of roads, aqueducts, and bridges, rendered its use unnecessary to them, but the Romans employed it extensively in all their great works. Dr. R. Butler, Master of Arts, Cambridge University, England, says: “St. Jacobs OU acts like mama.’*