Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1880 — How It Strikes Em. [ARTICLE]

How It Strikes Em.

tin.qurur’.fto hour ymtmday had plenty or proof as this, symAedwasarotti batihalf off**The other day he wss crazy on tire subject of politics, but yesterday when asked how he liked the nomination, he hhMNtf , ' “What in Texes have I get to de with polities? There’s too much politics lathis country*—too blasted much! I wonder whet in blares such weather was eent tow for? T • i The next man is generally looked upon BJSSt ■US “ Itj k JKnni HI Huj « IotUCI Idlufl aee it killed, and he refhaeato fish because he believes the kook harts ’em. Ho came along mopping his brow and trying to get away from a sticky undershirt, aad was Firstly asked if the weather suited him. l**Be* nere, began,* he bristled up like a fighting dog, “I mind my own ■bwiueet and deture other people to mind theirs! I never did strike e man yet* hut I want no impudence from you or any one else!” The next man was s lawyer. He ww asked if he could keep 0001, and be turned into the shade, pulled out his handkerchief end replied: “Attorney Blank insulted me in open court about a month ago, and though I did think I wouldn’t pay any attention to it, yet this hot wave nas convinced me that it ia my duty to slap hie month cm sight! H«ve y <f« seen him pass this way!” The next man has a local reputation as' a jolly, good-hearted fellow, and men have known him for years without hearing him speak a cross word. He toiled along in the hot sun, with the perspiration running down his cheeks, and as he reached the shade he w*s accosted by a bootblack. He took off bat* wiped bis face, and then said: “I believe you are the boy who cut off my horse’s toil, one night last week, and if you don’t go away from me I’ll do you a mortal injury !” There were several other instances going to show that‘while cold brings oat , the cheery hi manVi nature, heat pre-boils nis sentiments and hardens his better feelWL In cold weather men will hunt for a mend to drink with them. In summer they will sneak off alone and go into a saloon by an alley door.* Not one man in » hundred will refrise to sign a petition in the winter, bat when approached in redhot season they won’t even listen to two of Abe twenty-fonr reasons why they should sign. This mysterious change must have been forcibly felt by a leading citizen,'who, the other, day wrote » postal card saving: a «W]l Subscribed $35 to help bnilda new church. If you come now I will pay it. If yon wait till hot weather sets in I’ll repudiate the subscription and give yon a chance to lick the subscriber. —Detroit Free itui. ,ir t. i