Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1911 — A Useless Implement. [ARTICLE]

A Useless Implement.

It is ret always safe to meddle ITh The unfamiliar. Mr. James Rns I, in "R°mir.is''ances of Yarrow,” Ives the following story rs illvs ’;at!ng the simplicity of the Ecotet •’armors of the vicinity. A well-to-do tenant a fro etr - at a public sain; -S'oon -sf'et ho jnh'-ls’cr asked him how he liked “Xpt, at i’ll,” returned the honest arn'cr. “It’s no the thing.” “In vhat way is it not the thing?’ “Well,” replied the Worthy parish an-er, more at home with shrep thar -.fierce. “It was nae easting up sic v-a ber as I wad have liked So h’nking there was something wrong ! took it doon and examined it, out M ' and in. “At last l discovered a lang glass tube wi’ a hole in the end o’ it. Niv p r dooting that was the matter. : s'cpped up the hole. But if It did iV .’f fore, it did napfhing at all aflei that!”—Youth's Companion.