Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1879 — The Great Leveller. [ARTICLE]

The Great Leveller.

How things do change. Year by year a man grows old. So do his clothes. Since last I visited Osceola, Time has been very busy. I suppose he would have been just as busy air ihe same if I had never left Osceola. Ido not know just what he has been doing, but I know he has been busy. Time is a great leveller. All the same as a dirt scoop or a road plow. Time levels everything except a man’s back. He humps that up. And I don’t see whv either. It doesn’t appear to make the back any stronger, and it certainly doesn’t make it any prettier. But I suppose Time knows his business. There has been a great deal of change in Osceola. But the last circus took considerable of it away. It took away all of it the boys could get hold of anyhow.—[Burlington Hawkeye.