Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1899 — His Greatest Blunder. [ARTICLE]

His Greatest Blunder.

“What do you consider the greatest mistake of your life?” asked the good man who was trying to turn the wicked to the path of righteousness. ? V “Well,” replied the convict, thoughtfully, “of course I hare made a great many mistakes in my day, but I think the most serious and far-reaching in its results was the mistake I made in stealing’from a private concern instead of going into politics and stealing from the state, like most of the wise ones,”" If s well to begin at the top of the ladder and go down-ln case of Are. If s better to be slow to anger than it is to be handy with a seven-shooter. "f V' v-,'.'A; ;