Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — He Listened to All. [ARTICLE]

He Listened to All.

Fontenelle listened to everything, and he offended no one by disputing anything. At the close of his life he was asked the secret of his success, and he replied that it was by observing two maxims: “Everybody may be right, and everything may be so.” You can tell a year in advance when ; a man is a candidate for office; he is so genial, and pokes his nose into so many i things.