Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1916 — WHO'S WHO and WAEPETORE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHO'S WHO and WAEPETORE

SUBTLE JUSTICE M’REYNOLDS

Associate Justice Mcßeynolds of the United States Supreme court prefaces nearly everything he has to say with a story. Occasionally Mcßeynolds tells a Btory with a point so subtle that only those with a keenly pitched sense of humor can “get” him. One night at a dinner he sprang something that occasioned not the slightest ripple of laughter. He waited a reasonable length of time and then observed: “Well, at least don’t cry about it.” Nobody got that either. They didn’t understand what it was that they weren’t to cry about. So Mcßeyholds added: “It’ll come in, may be by freight." An Englishman was seated next to! Mcßeynolds, and his curiosity was! aroused. “What do you mean when you say come by freight?" he inquired. “Slowly, like a freight train,” ex-!

plained Mcßeynolds; they’ll get the story If they wait long enough, don’t, you Bee?" T , . . A great light dawned in the Englishman’s eyes. “Ah, he exclaimed,; "you mean steam packet Story shipped by steam packet ’Twould be utterly absurd, wouldn’t it —ha, ha, ba.’’