Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 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. It seems th*e 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. “You didn’t pan out wid dat hawg, did you, ’Rastus?” * , Rastus grinned from ear to ear, as if he bad made a handsome proflt. “Ah didn’t qo so well on de corn, man,” he answered, “but bn de hawg FSe done cleared a doliah an’ a half I” —Philadelphia Ledger. .