Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1901 — Man’s Harder Lot. [ARTICLE]

Man’s Harder Lot.

“Ma, I wish I was a girl.” “Why, Tommy?” “Well, ma, girls don’t have to fight on the way home from school.”—Exchange. Piso’s Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.—Wm. O. Endsley, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. The oldest firearms were used in China. The Chinese were fighting with guns at a time when Europeans u?ed bows and arrows.