Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1920 — WAIL FROM THE PESSIMIST [ARTICLE]

WAIL FROM THE PESSIMIST

Unkind Remark Might Have Tended to Becloud the Happiness of Pro- . spectivs Bridegroom. * He was a young man who had come into town to be married. At the station he inquired for a minister and the names and addresses of several were given him. But all of them seemed so t far from the station that he asked for one nearer. “Well, I don’t know of any nearet than this one,”' the informer pointed to one number. “But you’ll find a justice of the peace just about a block from here, son.” The young man shook his head. “I don’t want a justice of the peace,” he said. “I don’t like the sound of that." . A ms'll leaning against the window rose. “Oh, you won’t mind so much afterward about that sound,” be said. “Thia affair is goin’ to mark the end of all the peace you’ve ever had.”