Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1900 — Chested. [ARTICLE]

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“Ah,” -*ald the groom, “here It Is I Here’s your friend Bardsley*s wedding present I” “Oh,” exclaimed the bride who was busy in her boudoir, “what Is It?” “An original poem of—let me see—five stanzas, with his book.” “Well! It does seem to me that after what I gave him and his wife they might at least have sent us a salad dish or a pickle fork!”—Chicago Times.