Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1899 — WHAT HE NEEDED. [ARTICLE]

WHAT HE NEEDED.

Young lu Bed Troubles, But Hot Sock as Hit Friend Had Qutaaei. The young man who sat with both 1 feet on the table gazing at a bookcase full of leather-covered volumes did i not seem exactly happy, in spite of the' leisurely comfort of his attitude. “What’s the matter?” inquired the friend who had been trying to engage 1 him in conversation. Got the blues?” “Not precisely.” “I’ll tell you what von want to do. You want to come with me to the theater to-night.” “What for?” “Why, for recreation. Yon want to get your mind off your business ” “No. You’ve diagnosed the case wrong. I don’t get through more than tiro pages of one of those books before some piano-organ comes along and begins playing a tune that I’ve got to whistle in concert with it, whether I want toor uot. By the time I’ve taken a fresh start and gotten half way through another paragraph, some man comes along with a hammer and begins to play the‘Anvil Chorus’ on a long iron stringer over by that new building. And before my intellect has groped along a few sentences fnrther somebody drops in and tells me a funny story. That’s all a mistake abouta man's wanting to get his mind off his business. What I need is something that will assist me in spiking my mind right down to business, so that every little thing that comes along won’t be sufficient to jar it loose.”—Washington Star.