Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1913 — Giving Themselves Away. [ARTICLE]

Giving Themselves Away.

The late Mayor Gaynor was one day censuring a hypocrite. “Hypocrites,” he said, “whether they are correcting the social evil or starving factory girls, always give themselves away. They remind me of the tramp. “The gentleman who ran into this tramp had gone out on an all-day fishing trip, taking his lunch with him. -When he reached the river side, he discovered that he had dropped his lunch somewhere on the way, and so he hurried back to look for it. “After a while he met a fat, healthy tramp, who strolled along sucking a toothpick and looking very well pleased with life. “Did .you pick up anything on the road as yoil came along?” the gentleman asked. . “Nor, sir, not me, boss,*’ said the tramp. “I didn’t pick up nothin’. Couldn’t a dog have found it and et it, sir?”