Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1916 — Wisdom of an Oracle. [ARTICLE]

Wisdom of an Oracle.

A certain Kentucky politician says that when he was a boy in Owen county, on the edge of the blue grass district, the local orator made a habit of sitting on a certain chair against a certain stone front on the main street of the county seat town at certain hours of the day, the weather being fair, to answer questions. To him one day came a young farmer who wanted to know how to rid himself of sassafras sprouts in his fields. “Well, son,” said the wiseacre, “off an’ on I’ve given the subject of sassafrack sprouts considerable study durin' the past 43 years. And here some time ago I come to the opinion that the only way to git shet of sassafrack sprouts, when they start in to take a place, is to pack up and move off and jest natchelly leave ’em.”—Saturday Evening Post