Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1914 — Throwing the Stones. [ARTICLE]

Throwing the Stones.

Many unthinking chatterers have always said that Dr. Samuel Johnson’s life meant everything that is meant by gross, almost swinish, laziness and unkemptness. This same crowd has always thoughtlessly cackled about Poo’s drinking and shiftless habits, calling him a “never-do-well.” Indeed, these chatterers have said pretty much the same things about and have had a like scornfulness for other great men. And had they been as well as malicious, they had said that oM man Darwin was a slt-around like an old sick rooster. But, as a matter of foot, this is all merely a higher variation of the ordinary country crossroads soapbox gossip.