Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1915 — Hopeful [ARTICLE]

Hopeful

A tourist once happened to meet the usual “oldest inhabitant” of a Village. In the course of conversation he inquired of the ancient his age. "I be just a hundred,” was the reply. “Well, I doubt if you’ll see another hundred years,” st,id the tourist, trying to make conversation. “I don’t know so much about that, mister,” was the hopeful response. “I be stronger now than when I started on my first hunderd.”