Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1916 — You Gan Never Tell. [ARTICLE]

You Gan Never Tell.

You can no more tell by a man’s appearance what he does than you can detect by the color of a dog whether he will bite. One of the smallest men you could meet was Charles H. Cramp, but he built battleships. One of the biggest and burliest, men I see nearly every day makes hairpins. The floorwalker in every department store dresses as smartly or a bit more so than the proprietor. I’ve seen 500 clerks file into the Bank of England in silk hats and frock coats. The governor of the hank wore no better. I heard the one-armed General O. O. Howard say in a Philadelphia speech that the biggest coward in the eleventh army corps, which he commanded, was a giant, while the bravest soldier was a shy hoy of 15. A Philadelphia bank president, who prayed nearly all’ day every Sunday and wouldn’t admit a man to his office who was smoking, robbed the bank of millions. Every one has read about the blustering capitalist who boasted that no one who parted his hair in the middle could work on his railroad, but lie wrecked the road despite his own bluffiing about honesty.

Joseph Chamberlain always wore an orchid in his button hole. Some said it was a sign of effeminacy, but he was the most courageous “big Englander" in the empire. Our most vituperative revivalist said a “man who uses a cuss word would strike liis grandmother.’’ But George Washington said da mm more than once;—Philadelphia Ledger.