Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1891 — Wot Much Ahead. [ARTICLE]

Wot Much Ahead.

"You must lose a good many dollars a year by that man,” was remarked to a Woodward avenue grocer, as a citizen went out after “picking” at grapes, figs, apples, and other things. “Well, I duono." “Is he a good customer?” “No, a poor one. ” “Then all he eats is dead loss?" “Not altogether. There are offsets. ” “How?” “Well, all the boys are onto him. In tho last year we stole three umbrellas and two pairs of gloves from him, and you see be has gone out and left a chicken in that parcel, which we will at once proceed to cabbage. If he thinks he Is getting ahead of us, that’s all right ” —Free Press.