Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1915 — Why She Wept [ARTICLE]

Why She Wept

Governor Dunne was reminiscent. "When I was a boy in school,” he said, “we always had a lecture every Friday afternoon. One Friday a geologist lectured about Niagara Falls, and told us that in the course of some 200,000 years they would have worn their way back to Erie, and that town would be left high and dry. Suddenly the lecture was Interrupted by one of the girls in the class, who began to sob hysterically. “ ‘Why,*Edith,’ sried the teacher, ‘are you ill? What is the matter?* “‘Oh,’ wailed the girl, Tny sister lives in Erie.”