Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1905 — Fair but Deceitful. [ARTICLE]

Fair but Deceitful.

Chlmmy—l told her I’d die if she refused me, an’ showed her de dime I’d saved fer carbolic acid. Johnny—Au' wot did she do? Chlmmy (groaning)—Do? She jollied me along till I blowed de dime on soda water, and den refused me.—Puck. Few men ever attain the popularity of a minister during the first five or six weeks he occupies a new pulpit