Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — The Usefulness of a Jest. [ARTICLE]

The Usefulness of a Jest.

He stood upon the platform of his ear, serene and smiling, when every cardriw er and truckman on West street was swearing and curaing. The jam was tremendous and the street was packed frven curb to curb. Yet whenever he spoke it was with some good-natured jest, and the truck drivers turned out of his way and let car No. 78 go by. Ho hailed them all with merry badinage, and the surliest of them grinned from ear to ear and gave him back all that be sent. “It’s easy,” he said to mo confidentially. "When once you get a man to gntUe he’ll do anything you want him to 00. Did you see that surly chap driving the beer wagon? I kept chaffing him until I got him to laughing, and when a man once lets a smile chase over Mo face he’s a goner. I tell you, my friend, that even down here in West street good-nature will go further in getting your own way than all the yelling and cursing.” And the philosophical oar driver whipped up his horses and told the charioteer of the ice wagon ta front that no man could stop things up as he did unless he were from Cork. The ice wagoa turned aside, and the iceman grianod •nd said that he wan from Llmertcta-* New York Herald.