Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1900 — Counting the Cost. [ARTICLE]

Counting the Cost.

Here follows an example of the alertness of the commercial mind:' A shrewd business man was being •driven in a crowded thoroughfare, when his horses took fright and ran away. He called to his coachman: “Can you stop them?” “No,” replied the man. “Then,” said the other, “run them into something cheap.” ~