Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1914 — Half and Half. [ARTICLE]

Half and Half.

Hon. Horace E. Stanton, apropos of the mismanagement of a railroad that had gone into a receiver’s hands, said: “The calm and bland excuses offered for their mismanagement by the road’s various heads remind me of Smith. ‘Smith, last Sabbath, put in a strenuous day cleaning up his garden for the spring planting. “But Jones, his next door neighbor, tackled him indignantly in the smoker the following morning and said: “ ‘Look here, Smith, do you think I want all your tin cans and bones and old shoes thrown over into my garden?’ “ ‘You haven’t got ’em all, old man. You’ve only got half,’ said Smith calmly. ‘Brown, on the other side, got the other half.’ ”