Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1893 — The Value of Imperturbability. [ARTICLE]

The Value of Imperturbability.

The trials of a man collecting bills sometimes take an annoying turn. One of those pleasant gentlemen stepped into an office, and, seeing the debtor talking to a number of lady friends, waited till he had leisure. Whereupon the debtor turned to the collector with a very pleasant manner and said: “I will loan you this much to-day. Come again when you are hard up,” and smiled one of those smiles that crack a looking-glass.— [Hartford (Conn.) Post “I got my start in life through picking up a pin on the street. I had been refused employment by a banker, and on my way out I saw apin and—” “Oh, thunder! Wnat a chestnut. I’ve heard of that boy so often. The banker was impressed with your carefulness, and called you back and made you head of the firm.” “ No. I saw the pin and picked it up, and sold it for SSOO. It was a diamond pin.”—[Harper’s Bazar.