Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — His Memory’s Use. [ARTICLE]

His Memory’s Use.

The Philadelphia Times tcUs a pathetic story of poor, pati*ut little Ned,-, who bad been kept after school again and again to learn a simple stanza which all the rest of the class had mastered. At last he broke down and sobbed, “I can’t do it, Miss Gray; I just can’t do it. Father saya it’s because I have such a poor ”, • “A poor what, Ned?” “You know what it is,” a glimmer of , light flickering in bls face; “the thing you forget with.” • . No Doubt About Her Meaning. “Cheer up, old man. A woman’s ‘No* often means ‘Yes,’ you know.'* “But she didn’t say ‘No.* When I asked her if she would marry me eha said, T will, I don’t think.’ I didn’t even get treated with respect”— lb* dlanapolls Journal.