Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1914 — GATHWRES SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GATHWRES SMILES

BILLY’S COMPLAINT. "Men are queer animals.” “I know it; bus what prompted you to make the remark?” “You know Buttles, don’t you?” "Billy Buttles? Sure.” “He was complaining this morning —complaining bitterly.” “What’s his trouble?” “He paid SSOO several years ago for MO shares of mining stock which has turned out to be utterly worthless.” “Well, that’s enough to make almost anybody complain.” “But it wasn’t the worthlessness of the stock that he complained about. It seems that he had been renting a safety deposit box in which to keep the stock and the fact that it had cost him the price of two tons of coal made him bitterly declare that he was sorry he had ever made the investment.”