Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1899 — The Only Way. [ARTICLE]

The Only Way.

“Yes,” remarked Sandy Pikes, “dat j wuz a pretty elever piece of business | in dat fellow pacin’ a train wid hisl bike, but I did de same trick walklng9 one time.” “De train wa’n’t movin’ fast?” “Yep! ’Bout a mile a minnet” “Do yer t’lnk I’m easy? How cud | yer pace a fast train like dat? “By walkin’ up an’ down on de roots of de cars.” M act More So. Mrs. Von Blumer—l don’t think tbero|l is anything worse than to ask one’s|| husband for money, do you? Mrs. Witherby—Oh, yes there is. Tb'a have him refuse it.—Detroit Free Press. In the Dark. “Young man,” cried the irate parent, S “didn’t I, tell you to leave when the- 3 clock struck 10? Now, light out” ■ “The lights been out for some tlme,”'| faltered the ardent lover. Recently a ship of only 2,500 tons caiv ; || tied from Para, Brazil, to New York » | cargo of rubber which was insured $3,000,000. I Don't call a big strong man a liar; lij is cheaper to hire some other fellow to-|| break the news to him. |