Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1902 — Spoke from Experience. [ARTICLE]

Spoke from Experience.

A man who tries to uphold all hli statements with the prop of personal experience Is pretty sure sooner ot later to find himself in difficulties. “What kind of posts should you say I’d better hare for my planar’ asked a summer resident of the oracle of Bashrille. "Cedarr “No," was the Instant reply; “not ‘less you want to pay for poor stuff. Git pine. Pine will last ye a hundred years.” “Are you surer’ asked the summer resident, doubtfully. “SureT’ echoed the oracle. “I never state a thing without I can prove It I’ve tried ’em both. Tried ’em twice on my south porch, I tell ye!”