Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1912 — 'Twas Ever Thus. [ARTICLE]

'Twas Ever Thus.

"Now, by me balidome!” stormed Sir Michael Be Byte, pausing in the donning of his clothes, "’twas a neglectful and slatternly housewife I got when I wed thee!” “What irketh thee. Mike dearT" asked his trembling spouse. * “What Iketh, There be three rivets out of my dean shirt of mail!” And she was fain to weep softly a§ he smote her with his mace.