Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1886 — We Pause to Hesitate. [ARTICLE]

We Pause to Hesitate.

When it becomes necessary to call a larger man a liar. When the assessor asks if there are any dogs concealed under the house. When an undertaker asks to patronize him as liberally as possible. When the clergyman hints that he would not be averse to eating dinner with us. When a bore enters our office, puts his feet on the table and expects us to spare his life. When the butcher asks us if we won’t just settle that little matter and be done with it When we are asked to join a temperance society by a man whose breath smells like free lunch and a brewery. When we are expected to eat the same old hash three times a day and lay aside the nails and things we find in it. When our beloved wife expects us to get up and light the fire about three hours before daylight on a cold morning-