Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1884 — He Explained. [ARTICLE]

He Explained.

"Pa, what does ‘carrying the banner mean?’” asked a precocious G-year-old of his parent. “It means walking arrund all night so as to be up early in the morning. But why do you ask.” “Because I heard ma tell the new oreaclier that, you carried the banner’ it the battle of Gettysburg, and that if vou continued as you were doing now, mu soon would be ‘carrying it again.’ F

“My boy, gO and tell your ma that if she persists in making the new minister ine repository of her domestic secrets, tnere will be wigs and falge teeth on the green,” said the grief-striekee husband, as he sank into a chair. Pretzel’s Weekly.