Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1891 — A Philosophic Merchant. [ARTICLE]

A Philosophic Merchant.

4n Arab water seller who was in Turkey during the last war with Russia was wandering about the rear of a battlefield with two freshly filled jugs of water, calling out: “Clear, cool water, 2 piasters a cupful,” when a shot bounding along smashed one* jug to atoms. The Arab wandered on without pausing, but he changed his cry to “Clear, cool water, 4 piasters a cupfuL” —The Jerter*