Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1906 — The Reason Why. [ARTICLE]

The Reason Why.

It xvill be a sad day when everything is explained, and all mysteries are probed and reduced to scientific common setise. Then the charmed "light that never was, on sea or laud,” will fade away, leaving life in bald, prosaic outlffie. Yet there are some people who are never satisfied with anything which calls the imagination into play, and who are never at a loss for an explanation. Senator Foraker’s story, told in the Chicago Inter Ocean, deals with one of these persons. There was nothing which James Scarlett of Rainsboro could not explain. One winter night he was reading a volume of cheap fiction to his family, gathered about his fireside. With his spectacles on his . nose, he dremod along like this:

“Gwendolen de Yere Hastings lowered her limpid -Mue eyes, and Lord Algernon Mannering took her slim white hands in his, and crushed her to him in a passionate,ghibrace. “At that moment five minutes past twelve sounded from tb© east!® belfry, and ”

But here young Miss Scarlett interrupted, “No clock could strike five minutes past twelve." she said. “Certainly It could.” James sneered. “It was five minutes slow.”