Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1913 — WIT and HUMOR [ARTICLE]

WIT and HUMOR

SUPS ONE OVER ON FATHER Cleveland Youth Buys Silver Mine for SIO,OOO and Sells It to Parent for $30,000.

A certain Cleveland youth went out to Nevada a year or so ago to “seek his fortune,” as they say in the romances. And recently he returned home. His father had sent him forth that he might learn to stand on his own legs, we must understand —neither father or son was a pauper or anything like it. Well, when the boy got home he told his father that he had bought a silver mine for SIO,OOO. “I knew they’d get you, you unqualified dub!” stormed the father. “But, dad, I didn’t lose anything on it,” answered the kid. “You didn’t? Well, you did. But why do you think you didn’t?" “I, formed a company and Bold out for $30,000.” “YOu-—you—-where did you place the stock?” “In Cleveland.” “Great snakes! I’ll bet a million that I’m the man that bought it!” “Don’t bet, dad. You’d win, and I can’t afford to let you do that!”— Cleveland Plain Dealer.