Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1903 — Optimism. [ARTICLE]

Optimism.

When the optimist was dispossessed and thrown, along with bis household impedimenta, into the cold streeL he chuckled furiously. “Why do you laugh, my friend?” inquired a passerby. “Because I have just now been emancipated from toil,” replied the optimist. “For years my life has been one long struggle to keep the wolf from the door. But now that I have been deprived of the door I no longer am compelled to toil. Sweet, Indeed, are the uses of adversity!” Then the optimist walked off, whistling gayly, into the sunshlhe.—New Yot£ Sun. •