Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1914 — the ONLOOKER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

the ONLOOKER

by HENRY HOWLAND

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I met Bill Springer yesterday, his look was mighty I sad; I took him by the hand and says: “What makes you feel so bad'? Your corn IS purty fair,” says I, “so what's the matter now?" He heaved a long and troubled sigh, with wrinkles on his brow. "1 don’t see why you’re worried so,” I says In kindly tones; “Your health Is good, your wife fs well, you’ve got no broken bones; The rain has helped your crops a lot, your fruit looks

healthy, too, Bo I don’t see what cause you’ve got to make you look so blue.” Bill took a piece of timothy and chewed it fer a spell, And Anally he says, says he: "The crops are doin’ well; But crops are not the only things folks have to think about; We git our hopes raised high and then they up and flicker out. '"You know how hard I’ve worked and saved to send my boy away; He’s got through college Anally—come home the other- day; He’s graduated and he’s got a phle and lofty brow— The thing that worries me Is what to do to save him now."