Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — An Inexact Man. [ARTICLE]

An Inexact Man.

Rent day in Paris is a very important occasion. The landlord is king in a realm where exactitude is not only encouraged but enforced. An Englishman says he -once went to see a landlord about some matter connected with the house he had hired. The French man proved to be a suspicious and inquisitive old gentleman, who had made his fortune in the candle trade. “What do you sell?” he inquired. The Englishman acknowledged that he made his bread by writing for the magazines. The landlord shrugged his shoulders. “I am afraid,” said he, “that you will not be exact with your rent, on the 15th of the month.” He evidently had old-fashioned notions of literature as well as the other arts, and preferred that his tenants should be, like himself, comfortable in trade. So, in order to vindicate his vocation, the Englishman went to call upon him in person»on the 14th, with rent in hand. “I told you so!” exclaimed the precise old merchant. “I knew you would not be exact, at the day and hour fixed. You have brought your rent twenty-’* four hours too soon!”