Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1912 — The Department With the Deficit. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Department With the Deficit.

“Well,” says the man with the glad light in his eyes, “I see "we are to have a postal savings bank, after all.” “Postal savings!” growls the man with the scowling brow. “Postal savings! Huh! We never saw the day when the postal department could nave any money!”—From Judge’s Library.

“Why did he send his daughter to Europe to study music?” “So she wouldn’t practice at home, I guess.”

THE REASON.