Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1876 — His Epitaph. [ARTICLE]

His Epitaph.

- "When lam gone,’* said Lieut Hobbs, huskily, to the oh airmen of the democratic oentral committee, “whan I am gono-V’ “Goln’ fur?” queried the ehalrman. “When t am gone.” continued the warrior, not noticing the interruption, “place this inscription above my voiceless head.” And he banded him this: “Here lies the standard bearer of the partg of reform in an irredeemable district. He fell a lingering victim of wrecked and blasted hope*, which was just bis blasted look. Mortal I sit at this little mound and stndy wisdom. When you make up your mind to be a reformer, see first if you would not make a better fool.”—Burlington (la) Bawheye.