Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1916 — THE MISFIT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE MISFIT.

(By Walt Mason.)

Breathes there a man with -oul so tame, that when the home team wins a game, he doesn't throw a tit? Who doesn't help to make a noise, or take his place among, the bo vs who on the bleachers sit? If such there be, set him down as an incumbrance to the town, a brake upon its wheel; for any fellow is a crime who doesn't at the baseball time a glow of rapture feel. If he can view unmoved the score which shows us how the home team bore the foemen off the map, the soul within him is decayed; our councilmen should take a spade and plant that kind of chap. For he's the man who always grunts when wed put on improvement stunts, and pave the village streets, who always beefs about his tax, and sticks to pennies tight as wax, and prices downward beats. He is the skate who never gives much satisfaction while he lives, whose worth we can't discern; but when at last he cashes in, the people raise a joyful din, and costly fireworks burn.