Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1890 — He Took no Risks. [ARTICLE]

He Took no Risks.

“Charles, dear.” said a fond wife who was assisting her husband for a short journey, “what is this flask ol whisky for?' 1 “That,” said .her husband, suddenly looking from his v .lise. “O, that’s to be used exclusively in the case of suake bites.” "But. my dear,” remonstrated the little woman, “there are no snakes in the cars.” “O, yes there are, at times. You see, when they stop to wood up. or take water at some way station out in the woods—seme gloomy sw mp or bayou - the snakes board the train and crawl around the passengers’ legs. It’s mighty annoying, and dangerous, too. And then, too, I've seen men on cars with tbeirhoots full of a a axes — real serpents—none of your circus poster reptiles, but the genuine article. Yes, I shouldn’t consider my life worth ten *ents if I w-t-rs to leave that bottle of whisky behind.”