Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1913 — MAN HE WAS LOOKING FOR [ARTICLE]

MAN HE WAS LOOKING FOR

Mr. Cutlet* Could Give Steady Job to r Applicant With Such^Qualification. Mr. Underdone Cutlets, proprietor of the Speedy case, was notoriously hard-hearted. The most weeping widow who ever graced a melodrama couldn’t have wept a slice of stale bread out of his reastaurant without the price. So, when a pale and timorous bum approached the desk and made a faltering appeal, it wg.B no surprise to. the lunch fiends ta hear a curt “Nothing doing. Beat it.” “I’m not a beggar;” retorted the hungry man. “I'm willing to scrub floors or wash dishes. I’m just out of prison and nobody will give' me work. I’m starving.” The proprietor portrayed a faint interest “What were you in for?’’ he asked idly. “I’ll tell you the truth,” explained the ex-convict “I was a kind of a counterfeiter. I used to take a SIOO bill and split it in two with a razor. Then, I’d paste the halves together, so I’d have two centuries, if th*e sucker didn’t look on both sides. It took ’em five years to catch me.” Mr. Cutlets beckoned the ex-prisoner behind the bar. “Order what you like on the house,” he whispered. “I’ve got a steady job for you. I’ll give you thirty a week, to slice the ham for my sandwiches.” — Lippincott’s.