Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1915 — But He Understood. [ARTICLE]

But He Understood.

The artist was painting—sunset, red, with blue streaks and green dots. The old rustic, ah a respectful dis. tance, was watching. "Ah," said the artist, looking up suddenly, "perhaps to you, too, nature has opened her sky-pictures page by page? Have you seen the lambent flame of dawn leaping across the livid east; the red-stained, sulphurous islets floating in the lake of fire in the west; the ragged clouds at midnight, black as a raven’s wing, blotting out the shuddering moon?” "No,” replied the rustic, shortly; “not since I signed the pledge."—Tit Bits.