Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1898 — His Clothes Were Deceiving. [ARTICLE]

His Clothes Were Deceiving.

A queer incident took place yesterday in the office of one of the natural gas companies. A seedy-looklng and poorly dressed i*kn entered the office and asked for the president. The clerk Whom he addressed had been aanoyed more than usual of late by beggars and tramps and replied brusquely: "Well, he don’t want to see you, so dear out unless you have some business here, and if you have you can transact It with me.” “All right, I can deal with you. I did want to refer the president to a customer who Is desirf us of taking some stock in a new enterprise he is about to embark in. But I can see him at another time when he Is not so carefully guarded by such zealous subordinates X will pay the gas bill for my North Heridlan street house, however, and I •oppose you will be good enough to take my money.” The clerk’s eyes bulged until the;, were in danger of dropping from their position when he was handed from well-filled wallet a hundred-dollar bill to change In payment of a good-skied monthly account. He had been dealin,; with one of the city’s most promlnem and prosperous workingmen who di not see it necessary to cease bis mai ual labor because he had accumulate a fab: proportion of wealth.— oils Sentinel