Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1910 — Faithful to Hia Trust. [ARTICLE]

Faithful to Hia Trust.

I was waiting near the .elevator in the factory building for my friend to come down when I noticed a small boy sitting In one corner of tbe hall holding a large, thick sandwich. He eyed the sandwich lovingly for a long time, then he carefully lifted off the top slice of bread, took out a piece of dill pickle, ate it, and replaced all as before. In a few seconds he again removed tbe top piect, extracted a piece of pickle and a piece of meat and replaced tbe top. Again'and again the performance was repeated ungl all the. pickle and almost all the meat were gone, the sandwich, however,, appearing intact as at the beginning. "Why don’t you eat up your sandwich and not pick at it In that way?” I asked the boy, with some cariosity. "Why, k * he answered, looking up with great Innocence, “it ain’t my, sandwich.”—Woman’s Home Compan-* lon,