Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1905 — His Smart Trick. [ARTICLE]

His Smart Trick.

"I suppose there comes to every man a desire to do something smart on an occasion,” said the drummer as a sigh took the place of his smile. “Well, such a desire came to me as I was leaving a certain southern city after a week’s stay. The waiter at my table had called me ’glneral’ and been at great pains to care for me, and I made up my mind to reward him with a five dollar bill. It was a counterfeit with which I had been stuck, but I thought it would be the biggest kind of a Joke to work it off on Bob. “I bad got a hundred miles away when I was arrested on a telegram for passing counterfeit money, and when taken back I was arraigned in a United States court and had to give ball and appear on three different occasions. I had a lawyer and other expenses, lost a good three weeks altogether and Just escaped prison by the skin of my teeth. In addition to this I had to make good to the waiter, who sorrowfully shook his head when he received the money and said: “ ‘l’s sorry for you, glneral, but dls may be de means of savin’ your contemptible soul from the gallus! ’ Atlanta Constitution.