Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1911 — SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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NOT RIBKINQ BPEED LAWS. A ■well-known amateur yachtsman of New York tells thl® Joke on himself. With is few friends he started on a cruise by way of Long Island sound. They kept close to the shore and, owing to the lack of wind and to the slowness of their boat, they were still drifting by familiar country a week or so after they left Gotham. At one point of land they passed, a solemn Individual sat fishing. For some hoorß the boat made virtually no progress, and after a while the fisherman roused himself sufficiently to ask: “Where a ye folks from?" '* “New York.” “How long out?” "Since July 1.” Then, after a- pause, the man asked, “What year?”