Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1912 — Puts Job in Second Place. [ARTICLE]

Puts Job in Second Place.

A Humboldt rancher returned from a year’s trip through the east to And that a one-time neighbor of his, a ipan noted for his perfect patience, had been having a siege of bad luck. Upon hearing the news he immediately sought out the neighbor to condole with him. “Well, John,” he said, after greetings had been exchanged. “I hear you lost all of your timber through the forest fires.” The other man nodded. “And they say that the river cut off your best bottom land; that your hogs all died of cholera; that your wife and children had been sick, and that they have now foreclosed the mortgage on your other place. John nodded again. "Yes, it’s all true,” he said, looking about him at what had once been his prosperous farm, “all true. Why, sometimes I get almost discouraged.”—Ladies’ Home Journal.