Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1911 — BREAKS HOME [ARTICLE]

BREAKS HOME

because things were not done as fast as I could think of them, thus causing me to lose a very valuable girl, which has meant an awful lot of expense and loss to my business, and also throwing a poor girl out of a position who is the main support of her aged and crippled mother. “I can now see why there are so many crazy people cranks in the city, as this is enough “to drive any man to drink, and then coming home and because someone says something to him about drinking he immediately becomes mad and beats his wife o* children as If they had no feeling. “Not praising myself or saying any thing that is untrue, I would stats that before the past week l was considered a gentleman and with an excellent character, but this i»traln has been so hard on me that I have lost all this." , Mouse Darkens City. Plymouth, Mass. —A mouse put tne electric lighting system out of com mission for several hours the othe. night. It crawled Into the swltchborl at the power house, found a place in the insulation on the feed wire just big enough to admit its tall, then resting its nose on the returu. wlrfe, short circuited the system and incidentally gave up its own life. . Portugal Chooses Flag. Llsbbn. —After much discussion the new Portuguese Republican flag hse finally been chosen. It is ’divided perpendicularly, half red and half green. In the center are the ancient Portuguese arris, but without • crown.