Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1905 — The Trouble with Him. [ARTICLE]

The Trouble with Him.

“I refuse to talk to you, sir.!" roared the indignant old father. “If you will come around when you are sober to ask me for my daughter I may consider the matter.” “When I’m shober? Thash all right, old man —thash all right. Glad to do it. Only I never seem to want her when I’m sober.”—Chicago Record-Herald. About twenty per cent of the young men who recently applied to enter the Naval Academy failed in the physical test, and the failure was largely due to the use of tobacco, resulting in the irregular beating of the heart.