Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1920 — IT’S A GIFT [ARTICLE]

IT’S A GIFT

to be able to talk well. It made Patrick Henry a great American.’ It has made statesmen of newsboys millionaires of miners, bankers of book agents and politicians of pool players. It is a greater gift to be able to work. Work makes earth below a heaven above, (so I’ve been told.) Work and Hsten while you are young, and when you really have something to talk about. I have never missed a chance to talk to E. T. Harris. I enjoy it. We are both alike in one way, we are both so different. When he was young he did more work in a month than I ever will. (Lived ond cheap land,- up and at the cattle and crops at day break, walked to school, says for awhile he didn t make enough money to economize on. But he stuck it out, when others lost heart and went west. The Harris family stuck in old Jasper (poor aa she was) and today you can see the results. Harris is a reverend name, E. T. looks back with satisfaction, enjoys the present with a cultured family in a select home, and is prepared for the future with a new Franklin car. May he live long and have few punctures.