Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1914 — Better Drained Now. [ARTICLE]

Better Drained Now.

Once an old Scotch weather prophet at Whittinghame informed Mr. Balfour that “it’s gaun to rain seventytwa days, sir.” “Come, come," said the statesman, “surely the world was entirely flooded in forty days. “Aye, aye!’* was the response, “but the warld wasna sae weel drained as it Is noo.”