Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1915 — What He Expected. [ARTICLE]

What He Expected.

A bucolic individual paused the other day before a news stand and to the proprietor thereof put the following questions: "Been in town long?” "Quite a while," said the vender of news. "Know a man named Collins —Joseph Collins?” “No." • "Sure?” ‘Say, exclaimed the newsman, testily, “there are three million people in Chicago. Did you expect me to know every man in the city?” "No,” said the rural one, "but I thought you might have sense enough to know one.”