Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1910 — Made Emerson Blush. [ARTICLE]

Made Emerson Blush.

▲ number of army officers were stopping at an hotel, and among them were Captain Emerson and Captain Jones. Emerson and Jones used to have a good deal of fun together at the table and elsewhere. One day, when the dining room was well filled’ Captain Jones finished his dinner first, got up. and had walked almost to the hall door, when Emerson called to him in a loud voice: "Halloa. Jones! Look here; I want to speak to you a minute.” The captain turned and waited back to the table and bent over him, when Emerson whispered: “I wanted to ask you how far yon would have gone if I had not spoken to you." The captain never changed a musciy but straightened up and put hie fingers into his waistcoat pocket and "Captain Emerson, I don’t know of a man in the world I would rather lend a fiver to than to you; but the fact Is, I haven’t a penny with me today." And he turned on his heel snd Walked away. * Emerson was the color of a half-*, dozen rainbows, but he had to stand IL