Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1916 — His Identity. [ARTICLE]

His Identity.

We met a man with the most astoundingly lugubrious cast of countenance that we had ever seen. Gloom sat on his brow like a brooding condor on her nest and an abysmal sadness seemed devouring him. “Ah!” said we, "we perceive that you are a celebrated wag, for, in sooth, we have never before in all of woe’s appointed ways beheld such a personification of wretchedness." "No,” he replied, “I am not a humorist I feel as sad as I look. 1 am a pacifist, and believe that preparedness will inevitably bring on war.” “You do well to mourn your awful condition,” we returned. "If you were a humorist you might get over It But you are a dad-burned fool, and there Is no help for you!”