Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1911 — An Average. [ARTICLE]

An Average.

A western representative in congress was talking one day of his record while In that body. *Tm not ashamed of It,” said he. T think I*ve done very well, on the whole. When I reflect upon it, 1 am reminded of an epitaph that I saw once In an old burying-ground in a country town of 1 my state. • "This epitaph devoted a verse of four lines to the virtues of the good man who lay beneath the stone, and concluded with this line in prose; “ ‘He averaged well for this vicinity.’ ” —Lippincott’s.