Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1913 — IN A BAD WAY. [ARTICLE]

IN A BAD WAY.

NttMrt taw a tight that Mata Him Doubt tha Doctor. A doctor came up to a patient In an Inaana asylum, clapped him on tha back and said: "Well, old man, you’re all right Ton can run along and write year folka that you’ll be back home la two weeka aa good aa new." Tha patteat went off gayly to write hla letter. Re had it finished and sealed, bat when he wma licking the •tamp it slipped through his fingers to tha floor, lighted on the back ot n cockroach that was passing and stuck. The patient hadn’t seen tha oockroach. What he did see was his escaped post' age stamp zig-zagging aimlessly across tha floor to the baseboard, wavering up over the'baseboard and fob lowing n crooked track up the wall and across the ceiling. In depressed sltafte he tore up the letter that he had just written and dropped the pieces on the floor. "Two weeks! Not on your life!” he said. "1 won’t be out of here in three years."