Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1909 — He Was Slow. [ARTICLE]

He Was Slow.

Lincoln used to be fond of telling a story of a lawyer who desired the nomination for county Judge. On the morning preceding the evening on which the county convention was to meet he applied to the livery stablo keeper in his village for a horse and buggy In wldeh to drive to the county town, sixteen miles distant, where the convention was to be held. “Give me the best and the fastest horse you have, Sam,” said he, “so that I will have time to go around and see the boys before the convention comes in.” The liveryman, however, was supporting a rival candidate and gave thelawyer a horse which outwardly appeared perfect, but which broke down entirely before half the journey was -completed, so that when the candidate arrived the convention had adjourned and his rival had been nominated. On his return to the stable late the following afternoon, knowing that it was useless to resent the trick played upon him, he said to'the owner: “Look here, Smith, yon must be training this horse for the New York market .You expect to sell him to an undertaker for a hearse horse, don’t yon? Well, it's time wasted. I know from his gait that you have spent days training him to pull a hearse, hut he’ll prove a dead failure. Why, he’s so slow he couldn’t get a corpse to the cemetery in time for the resurrection.”