Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1917 — Found the Man at Last. [ARTICLE]

Found the Man at Last.

Von Blumer —“I had the most singular thing happen to me the qther day. Did you ever go into a man’s place to pay a bill you owed him, and And him out? Plankington (emphatically)—No, sir. Did that happen to you? "It did. I had a notion, or rather I nerved myself up to it, to settle up some bills that I owed. So on my way up from the office I dropped in to see my fishmonger.” “And he was out?” “Correct Then I tried my grocer.” “He was out?” "Right. Plenty of shopmen, but no proprietor. Of course, I left word that I called in to settle up, but wanted to see the proprietor first. Dispute about bills. Do you-twig?” “Oh, yes, that strengthens your credit.” “Exactly. Then I called to see my butcher, and I’ll be hanged if he wasn’t out also.” “By Jove! but you were in luck.” “No, I wasn’t.” “Why not?” “When I got home I found them all waiting for me!”—-London Tit-Bits.