Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1905 — As a Precaution. [ARTICLE]

As a Precaution.

The old story of the man who saw on the rail of the organ gallery in a little Western church n placard bearing the words. "Don’t shoot the organist. He is doing the best lie can,” has lately been matched by another somewhat like it. A ulan recently returned from a mining where, on Sunday, he attended a service In the only church Tor miles around. As he entered, the strains of an organ, napparently in great distress, reached his ears, and when he was seated he looked np to discover who the player Wits. On the back of the parlor organ which stood on the platform was a neatly lettered square of pasteboard which read, "Come up and try it yourself!"