Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1918 — Wild Guess. [ARTICLE]

Wild Guess.

“Why do they refer to a statesman as a solon?” “The word is derived from the dead languages,” answered the man who assumes to know everything, “and refers to a statesman’s instinctive desire to get on a platform and do an oratorical sdl<£”