Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1889 — What an Observing Boy Learned. [ARTICLE]

What an Observing Boy Learned.

"Papa,” said the son of a railroad conductor who was accompanying his father on a short run. "who in that thin, sickly looking man in the front of the car?” "He’s agent for a patent medicine that is warranted to cure every disease that was ever known and restore anybody to perfect health.” "Who is ’that big. fat, jolly looking fellow in the seat behind him?” "He’s an undertaker.” "Oh! What does that little bit of a fellow with the duster on do?” "He’s going to play Macbeth in the next town.” "Who is that man with the sad eyes and the lonely look on his face? Hasn’t he got any friends?” r "Not many; he writes funny things for the hewapaper.”—Merchant Travel etv's