Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1901 — Averaging It Up. [ARTICLE]

Averaging It Up.

“Last year,” she began as she halted In front of the grocery to gaze at a pile of watermelons—“last year I bought sixteen different watermelons of you, and not one of them was ripe.” “Yes, I know,” replied the grocer. “And this year ” “This year, madam, you will buy sixteen others of me, and not ope will be green. That’s the way it goes, you know. Last year was an off year, while this one is all right. I’ll send down that large speckled fellow with a hump to it." I do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consumption has.an equal for coughs and colds.—John F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15. 1900. Ex-Mayor Hewitt of New York declares that to be rich and not to use riches for the general good is to be disgraced, “because after all riches are but the result of general co-operation.” For something good, try Mrs. Austin’s famous Pan Cake Flour: ready In s jiffy. Your grocer has It on hand.