Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1910 — His Mistake. [ARTICLE]

His Mistake.

The man is endeavoring to explain to the official Investigating committee why he managed his department as ha did. “Naturally, I took advantage of different opportunities to turn some transactions to my own profit You cafinot blame me for feathering my own nest. And this trouble would not have occurred if certain deals had turned out as I thought they would. But they went wrong, and then dame the crash.” “It may be all right to feather your own nest,” observes the chairman of the committee, with a cold storage smile, “but you should have known that it was Inadvisable t 6 count your chickens before they were hatched.”