Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — A Test of Honesty. [ARTICLE]

A Test of Honesty.

The highly respected French simpleton, Monsieur Calino, discovered the other day that he had left his umbrella somewhere. Ae he had visited three stores, he knew it must be in one of them. So he started back and visited all three in turn. “It has not been found here,” he was told in the first store, and Monsieur Calino shrugged his shoulders a little and went out. At the next store the same response was made. Monsieur Calino shrugged his shoulders still higher, and went to the third store. There the umbrella was waiting, and was promptly turned over to him. “Well,” he exclaimed with satisfaction, “I must say that you are more honest than they are at those other stores'.”