Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1908 — A Gentle Hint. [ARTICLE]

A Gentle Hint.

“I got a neat rebuke for my curiosity, once,” said a Well-known Baltimore man,“and. it was administered t 6 ms by a native of the Cheat river region In West Virginia. “I had stopped overnight In the district In question, and in the morning was strolling about the place, asking all sorts of quest lona Presently I met a lanky-mouritalneer, who greeted me with ‘Howdy’ and passed the time of day most pleasantly. _ Seeing that he was barefooted, a circumstance, It seemed to me, quite odd in a mountainous region, I asked: “ ‘ls it the custom of this country for the men to go without shoes?’ “‘Waal,’ the native drawled, ‘some on us do, but most on us atten’s to our own business.’ Llppincott’a