Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1914 — ROCK COULDN’T FEAZE HIM [ARTICLE]

ROCK COULDN’T FEAZE HIM

Big Stona Bounded Off Irishman, but Killed Polander, Who "Couldn't Stand Much.”

Representative Michael E. Conry of New York used to be employed in the coal mines of Pennsylvania. One morning as he was going to work he met another Irishman all fixed up in hie Sunday clothes. “What’s wrong?" asked Conry. "Nothin’ wrong," answered the other laborer. “But what’s happened?" “Nothin's happened. A man’s got to show some respect for the dead." "What dead?” ' » “Oh, that Polander I worked with died yesterday." ’ “What did he die Of?” “A rock fell and hit him." "You don’t say I How big a rock was nr “Oh, three or four tons, maybe.' Them Polanders can’t stand much. I purty near got hnrt myself yesterday.” ’ ■ < "How was that?" “The rock that killed the Polander hit me first, but luckily it bounced off.” —St. Joseph News-Press.