Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1882 — He Did Not Advertise. [ARTICLE]

He Did Not Advertise.

Bom fort’s Circular. * ’ A nervous-looking man went into a store the day and sat down for half an hour or so, when a clerk asked if there wai anything she could do for him. He said no; be didn’t want anything. She* wept away, and he sat there half an hour longer, when the proprietor went to him and asked if he wanted to he shown anything, “No,” said the nervous man, ‘*l just wanted to sit around. My physician has recommended ! perfect quiet for me, and says, above! all things, I must avoid being in erpwds. Noticing that you did advertise any in the newspapers, I thought it would be as quiet a place as I could find, so I dropped in for a few hours of complete isolation.” The mercnant picked up a bolt of cambrick to brain him, but the man went out. He said ail he wanted was a quiet life. , ■ T ir- -- "j - m» » -- " We are no longer happy so soon as w. 1 wish to be happier.