Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — Relative Merit. [ARTICLE]

Relative Merit.

The super had not been paid for weeks by the hard-pressed manager, and *he had stsrrved and gone naif clothed and shelterless, until he could stand it no longer, and he went to the boss for money. "By thunder,” exclaimed that person, “I’vo got no money; hbw can I pay you any? I’m only human; I can’t do Impossible things." , “And I suppose you think I’m superhuman and can,” wailed the poor fellow in such a tone of helplessness that the manager lent bim a quarter to get his supper with.