Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1900 — Willing, but Not Ready. [ARTICLE]

Willing, but Not Ready.

The red-nosed vagrant stopped the preoccupied citizen at the street-cor-ner. “Beg pardon, sir,” he said, “but may I ask ” “You may ask if you want to,” interrupted the preoccupied citizen, “but. I can’t tell you. I don’t know when the blamed century begins.” And he hurried on.—Chicago Tribune.