Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1913 — TOO HIGH. [ARTICLE]

TOO HIGH.

The Way wu Long and tha Hungai Groat Gut—'"Principle Is Principles" The New York Tribune says that an eU man boarded a train at a station on the Pennsylvania Railroad, carry lag la one hand an umbrella tled up with k ahbe string, and in the other an old vallae that looked as If it might hare been with Lee at Appomattox. He sat down near the door, deposited his property beside him, and beckoned to a train boy who was just then artth a basket. "Got anything ter eat, young feller T” “Sandwiches ham, chicken sad tongue." "Are they fresh r “Certainly." "There ain’t no ‘certainty’ about IV objected the old man. "The sandwich business Is mighty ticklish In hot "They're fresh,” said tha boy, impatiently, "only been made an hour.* "I’d rather like a chicken sandwich If I knowed I wouldn’t draw a wing." "No wings, sir; all dear meat.” ” ’Spots you let me see one of them sandwiches." “Can’t, sir; they’re all wrapped up. Take one?" "How much do sou ask for ’em?" “Ten cents." "I don’t want a doses; how much tor one?" "Ten cents." "Great day *n morals’!" gasped the old man. "Ten oents for two bites of bread an’ a smell of chicken. I’m hungry enough to eat a pickaxe, but Tm game, an’ I tell you what, before I pay ten cents for one little sandwich, 11l set here and roll my eyes end swoller, all the way to Boyltermar.”