Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1907 — Holding Hie Own. [ARTICLE]

Holding Hie Own.

Scattered through the pine clad mountains of California live some griz*ly old miners whose dry wit is often amusing. After many years’ absence a certain gentleman returned to the little mountain town that had been his birthplace. The first person he met was an old miner who had known him as a boy. “Howdy. Tom?” he said as he shook hands. “How*ve you been getting along all th6se years?” The old fellow shifted his quid of tobacoo, spat Into the dust, then said In the habitual drawl, “Waal, I didn’t have a darn cent when I come here forty year ago, an’ I’m holdln’ my own.”— Judge Library.