Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1905 — A Dry Country. [ARTICLE]

A Dry Country.

A practical illustration of the curtent «aying, “as broad as It is long,” comes from the Denver Republican. A man who’drove across the country last summer to a little town in Western Kansas met a farmer hauling a wagon load of water. “Wihere do you get water?” he asked. “Up the road about seven miles,” the farmer replied. “And you haul water seven miles for your family and stock?” “Yep.” “Why in the world don’t you dig a well?” asked the traveler, excitedly. “Because, stranger-,” the fanner said, calmly, “it's just as fur one way as the other.”