Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1916 — COURTESY. [ARTICLE]

COURTESY.

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light. Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends And gives its owner passport round the globe. —James f. Fields.