Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1914 — Didn’t Want Much. [ARTICLE]

Didn’t Want Much.

It was in the far south. ‘ How’s times?” asked the tourist. ‘‘Pretty tolerable, stranger,” responded the old fellow who was sitting idly on the stump of a tree. “I liad a pile of brush jto bum, and the lightning set fire to it and saved me the trouble of burning it up.” 1 “That was good.” “I had some trees to cut down, but the cyclone leveled them and saved me the trouble.” "Remarkable! But what are you do ing now?” “Waiting for an earthquake to come along and shake the potatoes out of the ground.”—Detroit Free Press.