Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1883 — The Hardest Thing. [ARTICLE]

The Hardest Thing.

Said Ito the old bank director: “Can a man be an honest stock broker?” He thought about it. “Pretty hard,” he finally said; “you see, when he opens an office lie must go among his friends to solicit business, and”—here the old bank director became positive—“he knows it isn’t right to tempt his friends to gamble'. He knows they may l>e ruined. X could n’t be-honest and do itA—New York Tribune. Thb beautiful alabaster clock in the White House, Washington, was a present from Bonaparte to Lafayette, who gave it in turn to Washington, who decreed that it should be handed down to his successors'in the Presidential office; And so, while the Presidents come and go, the clock ticks on, and tells ita tale of time to all alike impartially^