Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1903 — A Changed Man. [ARTICLE]

A Changed Man.

A Scotchman had reached the summit of his ambitions, says Everybody’s Magazine, in attaining to the magisterial bench. The honor seemed to him a great 6no. and he tried to live up to it. With his head high In the air, he swaggered along till he went bolt up against a coyr which had not the manners to get out of the way, but continued to browse by the roadside in mild unconcern. “Mon.” cried the indignant owner, “mind my coo!” “Woman.” he replied, with fine dignity, “I’m no longer a mon. I’m a balllie.”