Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1903 — Not All Refermed. [ARTICLE]

Not All Refermed.

At a dinner given" by a philanthropist to tbe Society of Reformed Criminals a gentleman complained to his host midway through the festivities that he 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 lias a watch that does not belong to him. If by tbe time I have counted a hundred it is not placed on the ftoor in the middle of the room, the police will be sent for.” He counted a hundred, and the lights were turned on again. Thirty-three handsome watches lqy in the middle of the room.