Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1909 — His Higher Power. [ARTICLE]

His Higher Power.

Senator Gorman was talking about a statesman whose great talents are coupled with an unusual mildness and gentleness of disposition. “Poor fellow,” Bald Senator Gorman. "His wife henpecks him. When he was Governor, he had a page boy who stole some postage stamps, and the Governor, in his gentle way, set out to give him a little religious admonition. “ ‘Willie,’ he Bald, ’don’t you know that there is a higher power- always watching us?” ‘“’Yes, sir,’ said the page. “ ’Who Is it,’ the Governor went on, ‘who sees and hears all we do, and before whom even T am as a worm?’ “ 'The missus, sir,’ said Willie.”