Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1894 — Mahomet and the Mountain. [ARTICLE]

Mahomet and the Mountain.

It has always puzzled us to know why Mahomet hesitated about going to the mountain, expecting the mountain to come to him? It wouldn’t have cost him a cent to stay at the mountain as long as he wanted to. The Mountain House would have been glad to deadhead him, giving him the best suit of rooms they had. His arrival would have boen chronicled in the daily papers, people would have flocked to the mountain to see him, and he would have been a big card. He Is sometimes called the “/also Prophet.” but he would have been a real profit to the house where he put up. We are satisfied that in refusing to go to the mountain Mahomet, whose system needed bracing up, anyhow, lost one of the greatest opportunities of hia life. Come to think, though, it doesn’t Mecca bit of difference to Mahomet now.—Texas Siftings.