Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1911 — APPREHENSIONS. [ARTICLE]

APPREHENSIONS.

A comet came some time ago. " . We tetred some deadly stroke. The days went safely by and. to! The comet is a joke. ' The trusts we used to grimly vow Disaster would provoke. r ~- But those predictions strike us now As something of a joke. They used to say the railways would Leave everybody broke. But they are trying to be good. :■ Our fears are but a joka. Each terror that looms up Immense, - All wreathed in sulphurous smoke. We always find, a few months hence. Was nothing but a joke.