Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1912 — WOULD BE FATAL. [ARTICLE]

WOULD BE FATAL.

Senator Depew, at a dinner in New York, said of his noble oratorical gift: “I have received many compliments on my skill at after-dinner speaking, big. the naiveet compliment of all came from an up-State farmer. “‘Senator,’ said he, ‘you might have typhoid fever and recover, you might have pneumonia and recover, . you might have yellow fever and recover, but if you ever. get lockjaw, you’d bust!*"