Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1909 — The Penalty of Folly. [ARTICLE]

The Penalty of Folly.

Methuselah, Jarah, Lamech and the others had gone to the old settlers’ reunion near Ararat. It was Methuselah’s nine hundredth birthday, and he capered around like a kitten, throwing balls of ophlr wood at the rag dolls, taking chances In the grab bag conducted by the Canaan church and acting a perfect hog about the pink lemonade barrel and the candied popcorn stand. “Better be careful, Meth,” Lamech warned him. “You’ll overdo yourself, old nmn.” But the ancient cutup paid no heed and proceeded to ride on the merry-go-round with n woman of the Tuballtes. Alas, how fondly foolish Is age! In ifxty-nlne fleeting years the old man tvas dead.—Puck.