Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1917 — Wound Up. [ARTICLE]

Wound Up.

A member of parliament had emptied the room with an interminable speech. Looking around at the empty benches, he remarked to a bored friend: “I am speaking to posterity.” “If you go on like this,” growled the friend, “you will see your audience before you.”