Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1899 — A Reformer’s Hard Luck. [ARTICLE]

A Reformer’s Hard Luck.

Verily the way of the reformer is hard. Consider the case of poor penniless Bibcock, the great reform editor of the Jasper county Democrat, and how soon the career of a reformer has reduoed him from comparitive opulence to a condition of' utter poverty. On the 25th of March, 1898, he sold the Remington Press for S2OOO. Only six days later, namely on April Ist, 1898, as shown by i a statement subscribed and sworn to on April 11, 1898, by the Reformer, on the blanks of the township assessor, the S2OOO had wholly vanished, and all that he owned 1 on earth was $25 worth of household goods and two watches and clocks, valued at $6. Now, a year later, thisgreat-souled reformer has not? even any house-I hold goods or watches and clocks left, and swears that he owns not so much as a dollar’s worth of property on earth. Even the elegant $3 watch that he owned a year ago has not been spared to him, and, unkindest fate of all, he is now presumably reduced to the galling necessity of consulting that terrible court house clock, for information of the time of day! that dispised, reviled and hated court house clock! No wonder he was mad and mourned and was not to be comforted, when the clock froze up, last winter.