Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1903 — The Country. [ARTICLE]

The Country.

“What is the country?” asked a district visitor of a slum child. The quick reply was. “The place where things •re alive.” Yet many a country boy or girl says. “I wish I were out of this dead place and In the live city.”— Youth's (Companion.