Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1913 — Disgusting Inquisitiveness. [ARTICLE]

Disgusting Inquisitiveness.

“How long did you hold public of-i fice?’’ “Four years.” “And your salary, I believe, was $4,000 a year?” “Yes.” “I can’t figure out bow you went in with nothing, and retired with SIOO,000.” “It’s queer how many people are bothering over that matter just as yob are. 1 can’t understand why it is that men waste so much time trying to figure on things that are none of their business. Sometimes lam so disgusted with my fellow eitizens because of their inquisitive ways that I am almost tempted to go far from here and never come back again.”