Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1912 — Knew His Rights. [ARTICLE]

Knew His Rights.

“No, indeed, I will not take it,” protested the destitute man. Nonplused, we gazed first at him, and then at the worn ten-dollar bill we had sought to induce him to accept for the benefit of himself and the starving family he bad mentioned with such pitiful effect. “No, sir,” he continued, "I am entitled to a nice, crisp, new ten-dollar note, and that’s what I insist on. I haven’t read these stories of philanthropy for nothing.”