Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1885 — He Stood the Expense. [ARTICLE]

He Stood the Expense.

Maj. Hammond is at present a resident of‘the South sea island, and he made a spectacle of himself to a select assemblage of naked-footed native ladies, having his boots polished. He was bland and facetious. “Ladies,” he said, as he got down, “pray step up and have your boots polished. I will be happy to stand the expense,” In an instant every mother’s daughter in the crowd produced solemnly from her petticoat a pair of shoes and laid them down to be blacked. The major did not smile when he paid. —Chronicle “ Undertones .” An ape is ridiculous by nature, but men become ssby art and study.