Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1889 — He Was Too Honest. [ARTICLE]

He Was Too Honest.

“I try~to be a man of my word,” he said, as he entered a Cadillac eating house yesterday, “but I can’t always do as I promise.” “What did you want?”" asked the proprietor. v “You gave me a square meal on tick two months ago. The bill was fortylive cents. I promised to pay in six week-s, but I am a little late.” “I don’t remember the circumstance. ’ - “Perhaps not, as you are a big-heart-ed man, but I db, and here’s your money.” » The proprietor pulled in , a $2 Canadian bill and flung out the change, rather disgusted with the man’s honesty. Ten minutes later, however, this disgust had changed to admiration. In making ehange he took a closer look at the bill, and on the back he found the stamp: “Suspended 1884.” —Detroit Free Press.