Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1899 — Tells Its Own Story. [ARTICLE]

Tells Its Own Story.

In a pretty Wisconsin town not far from Milwaukee there is a “spite fence” whieh tells its own story to all the world. It is a high and tight board affair, and cuts off a view across a number of beautiful lawns. The man who lives on one side of it evidently feared that the fence would bring down on his bead the condemnation of his neighbors. Not wishing to be unjustly blamed, be has, therefore, paluted on his side of the fence, in letters that can be read a block away, these words: “He built this fence. I didn’t do it!” The man on the other side also had no idea of letting a false Impression get out. Accordingly he has painted on the other side of the high barrier: “I had to do it."