Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1913 — Hard to Tell. [ARTICLE]

Hard to Tell.

“Old Rocks, the multi-millionaire, is feeling awfully depressed.” “What’s the matter?" “Why, he made a bad investment last summer and will lose SIO,OOO. It breaks him all up. Says he knows he’s on his way to the poorhouse. I pointed out to him that he could lose $lO,000 a year for 1,500 years without coming to the end of his pile. And what do you suppose he said?” “Give it up.” “fie said: ‘And what will happen to me then!’”