Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1886 — Quite Another Thing. [ARTICLE]

Quite Another Thing.

“Wiliam, ray son,” said the old man, > as he walked with him toward the depot, *you have been appointed an Indian agent. Promise me, in the most solemn manner, that yon will never take one penny belonging }o the Government.* “I promise, father.* «. Two years later, when he came home and bought a couple of farms and began the erection of a $30,000 house, he remarked: >• % “I have kept my promise, father; I made all this wealth by cheating the Indians.*—fPail Street News. , • i • , « ‘ " ‘ « " . f *■* . '