Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1917 — An Easy Job. [ARTICLE]

An Easy Job.

In an Irish courthouse recently an old-man was called into the witness Sox. and being infirm and just a little earsighted. he went too far in more than one sense. , Instead of going up -the stairs that led. to the box he mounted those that led to the bench. The judge, good-humoredly, said “Is it a judge you want to be, my man?” “Ah. sure, your honor,” was the repiy, “I’m an old man now, an’ mebbe it’s all Tm fit for!” The judge raised his spectacles.—New York Mall. - '