Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1915 — Safety First. [ARTICLE]

Safety First.

John Sharp Williams stepped out of the senate chamber in response to the card of Bob Gates, who is a Washington correspondent of distinguished appearance and much political sapience. Bob asked him a number of questions and then, in parting, he asked: “By the way, senator, have you got. a good cigar about you?”—putting the request under the head of unfinished business. , “No, I haven’t but one left—and I Just now bit the end off it preparatory to lighting It, replied John Sharp. “If I’d just been a minute or two sooner —” suggested Bob. “Not exactly," said the senator. “The fact is, when I started out here I'bit the end off the cigar just for fear you might ask for it"