Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1913 — Loss an Illusion. [ARTICLE]

Loss an Illusion.

James C.= Mcßeynolds, who Investigated the tobacco trust for the government, thereby bringing on a lot of things, skys that just after he started practicing law in a small town down in Tennessee, a few years ago, stout hlllsman came into his ofllce one day and announced that he desired to sue a neighbor for SIO,OOO damages. “Two yearß ago,” he stated, “he called me a hippopotamus." “Two years ago!” echoed Mcßeynolds. “Why didn’t -you sue him sooner?” “Well, Bub,” said the injured party, “until that there circus come through here last Week I thought all the time he was paying me a complement”— Saturday Evening Post.