Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1915 — Omens of Springtime. [ARTICLE]

Omens of Springtime.

The u sual crop of “panhandlers" are making their appearance, and they seem to be in greater profusion than ever before. Not a day goes by but from one to a half-dozen of these apparent unfortunates evidently hnd it more profitable to beg than to work, strike practically eVery business house in Rensselaer. Only Thursday our old friend, the man"afflicted with palsy," who was through here about a year ago and induced the Republican to give The Democrat man a write up because, as he falsely alleged, we told him we “didn’t want any cripples" #o conne into the office, when as a matter of fact we simply gave him the cold shoulder w - hen he extended his hand for alms, was in town again. The writer first saw this same fellow at Remington more than twenty years ago, and gave him a calling—after having fallen for a quarter on his first visit—when he evidently had got his routes mixed and came through the town twice within a month's time. He has evidently worked this palsy racket all of these years and has possibly at last really become afflicted with the ailment as a result, of his practicing the deception so long.