Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1910 — MEN OF ACTION. [ARTICLE]

MEN OF ACTION.

Served m an Illustration For the Professor's Lecture. "How did you like Professor Newman?" one of the summer residents of Willowby asked of Hiram Gale. "I saw his name on the list of lecturers in your last winter’s course." Mr. Gale stroked his chin reflectively. “Well, some thought he was kind o’ stiff in his speech at first, but I tell ye what happened: “He got kind o’ worked up telling us what “men of action’ meant, what the gover’ment o’ these United States was doing in Alasky, the Philippines, an’ so on, an’ he stepped a mite too nigh the aidge o’ the platform an’ lost his balance. But as he begun to fall Sam Hobart an’ Pick Willis, that’were in the front seat, stood up an' ketched him, one by each arm, an’ brought him up standln’. He bulged out at the knees for a minute, but nothin’ to speak of. “'An’, says Pick to him, ‘The last word you spoke was ’omnivorous,’ an’ mebbe before you mount again you’ll •give us some kind of a hint what it means.’ “The professor looked from Pick to Sam an’ back to Pick again, kind o’ dazed, an’ then he begun to laugh. " ’You let me mount,’ he sayß, ’an' I’ll see to it that the rest o' my talk Is Buch you won’t need a dictionary.’ An’ he kep’ his promise. “Yes, sir, he gave us a fine talk after that, an’ he’s cornin’ again. We had him to breakfast next mornin’, and my wife aald she wouldn’t want to hear anybody talk more sensible or act more common an’ friendly than he did. But there was a piece in the Sentinel next week referrin’ to Pick an' Bam as ‘Willowby’s men of action,’ an’ I reckon the name’ll stick to ’em long as they live.’’—Youth’s Companion.