Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1898 — His Clothes Were Deceiving. [ARTICLE]

His Clothes Were Deceiving .

A. queer Incident took place yesterday ip the office of one of the natural gas companies. A seedy-looking and poorly dressed kAn entered the office and asked for the president. The clerk whom he addressed had been annoyed more than usual of late by beggars and tramps and replied brusquely: "Well, he don’t want to see you, so clear 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 desire us of taking some stock in a pew 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. I will pay the gas bill for my North Meridian street house, however, and I suppose you will be good enough to take my money.” The clerk’s eyes bulged until they were in danger of dropping from their position when he was handed from a Well-filled wallet a hundred-dollar bill to change in payment of a good-slced monthly account He had been dealing with one of the city’s most prominent and prosperous workingmen who did not see it necessary to cease bls man* ual labor because he had accumulated * fair proportion of wealth.—lndianapolis Sentinel.