Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1913 — Could Not Enthuse Philosopher. [ARTICLE]

Could Not Enthuse Philosopher.

Herbert Spencer, the philosbpher, once attended, the Derby. Francis Galtrin, who was his guide, took noter of the Jaunt: “All went off well, except that Spencer would not be roused to enthusiasm by the races. He said that the crowd of men on the gras* looked disagreeable, like flies on * plate; also that the whole event was just like what he had Imagined th< Derby to be.’’ the costumes ol /the men who shouted the odds wat only what he had imagined then to be!