Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1887 — Don’t Think Much of Him. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Think Much of Him.

The raciest testimony that ever came within my knowledge to the soundness of Emerson in pract cal matters was delivered by a sturdy, stalwait Vermonter in a tar on a Fitchburg railroad. My journey was to be a tedious one of 300 milcrn and when I took my seat in the car I felt that my fellowpassengers would give me no such glimpses into their character as would be afforded by a ride of ten miles in a stage coach. In a railroad car the passengers are gloomily reticent, as if they expected to be launched into eternity at any moment; in a stage they indulge in all tho fury of gossip and reveal themselves iyhile praising or censuring others. There were two persons in front of me, mighty in bulk, but apparently too absorbed in their own reflections to speak to each other. The train, as usual, stopped at Concord. Then one of the giants turned to the other and lazily remarked: “Mr. Emerson, I hear, lives in this unvn.” “Ya-a-s,” was the drawling rejoinder, “and I understand that in spite of his odd notions he is a man of considerable probity.”— Becollec ions of eminent men. A prominent farmer of Bowling Green, Howard CouEty, Md., Mr. J. T. Ridgely, said his four children were sick with sore throats and coughs at the same time. Red Star Cough - Cure cured them in a week. No opiates.