Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1887 — Always Tell the Truth. [ARTICLE]

Always Tell the Truth.

Boston Record. A careless man while at work in the Back Bay the other day dropped a brick from the second story of the building on which he was engaged. Leaning over the wall he discovered a well dressed gentleman with his hat crushed over eyes and ears and engaged in a desperate effort to extricate his head irotn its battered covering. ” “Did that brick strike any one down there?” the man inquired, bis voice quivering with apprehension. The afflicted citizen, who had just removed the dismantled cranial adornment, re--msiderable wrath: plied, witn “Yes, sir; it hit me.” . “That’s right,” came the cool and ex* asperating response. “I would rather 1 have wasted 1,000 bricks than to have had you tell me a lie about it.”