Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1903 — Not All Reformed. [ARTICLE]

Not All Reformed.

At a dinner given by a philanthropist to the Society of Reformed Criminals a gentleman complained to liis host midway through the festivities that lie had lost his watch. The host was a man of great ingenuity. He caused all the lights to be turned out. Then he observed: “Some one here has a watch that does not belong to him. If by the time I have counted a hundred it is not placed on the floor in the middle of the room, the police will be sent for.” He counted a hundred, and the lights were turned op again. Thirty-three handsome watches lay in the middle of the room.