Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1904 — A Hard-Hearted Public. [ARTICLE]

A Hard-Hearted Public.

Tom Tramper—Times ain’t wot they used to be. Pete Plodder —You’re right there. Things has got so now that yeh can’t get a night’s lodgin’ in a eomfertlble jail onless yeh rob a house, on’ that’s too much like work.