Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1884 — The Reason He Wept. [ARTICLE]

The Reason He Wept.

“What are you crying about?” asked a kind-hearted stranger of a lad who was standing in front of a newspaper office weeping as if his heart would break. “Oh, dad’s gone upstairs to lick the editor.” "Well, has he come down yet?” pursued the gentle Samaritan. “Pieces of him have,” explained the boy, indulging in a fresh outburst of teary, “and I’m expecting the rest every minute.” —St Joseph (Mo.} Netcs. A Geobgia dog fell into a Georgia well during the summer. Not being a very good dog nb fuss was made about it. Seven weeks after the fall the owner of the well went down into it to see why there was no water in it. He found the well dry as a horn and the dog feeling well with the exception of being hungry. When Xanthus in Lycia was besieged by the Bomons under Brutus, 42, B. C., the men set fire to to the city, killed their wives and children and then themselves. The conqueror wishing to spare them, promised rewards to any soldier who would bring him a living Xanthean, but only 150 were savedImitation is the sincereet of flattery.—Colton.