Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1919 — Figured Out a Profit. [ARTICLE]

Figured Out a Profit.

. Colonel Kolb is telling the tale of a colored speculator who was an incurable optimist. The anecdote was in answer to the pessimism of one of his friends who hoped that America would do as well in these piping times of peace as she had done in war. r It seems the colored man, who was a farmer, had bought a hog for which he paid $lO. Then he had to Invest $5 in corn to feed his porcine majesty. When market day at, last arrived he received but $11.50 for the animal. One of his friends poked fun at him. “Jou didn’t, pan out wid dat hawg, did you, ’Rastus?” . Rastus grinned from ear to ear, as If he had made a handsome profit/' "Ah didn’t do. so well on de corn, man,” he answered, “but on de hawg Use done cleared; a dollah an’ a half r —Philadelphia Ledger.