Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1914 — Too Good. [ARTICLE]

Too Good.

“To say that honesty is the best policy—to say in other that the more honest you are the richer you will become—that is a silly and selfevident He."

The speaker, Harvey Woodruff, the well-known G. A. R. historian of Houston, had been discussing the honesty of George Washington. He continued: “To be virtuous means to be poor and wretched. Take the case of Auntie Martha Washington Clay.

“Auntie Martha visited the office of a Nola Chucky lawyer and said: *' 'Ah wants a divorce from mah husband Cal.’ I “ 'Why, auntie, what has Cal been doing?’

" 'He’s done got religion, sah, an’ ah hain’t tasted chicken fo’ free months.’ ”