Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1911 — Through the Lines. [ARTICLE]

Through the Lines.

The young man who- had come within an inch of being run over, said he always butted across the street that way to keep folks from finding out he was a country chap unused to city ways. “If I should hang- back;” he said, “everybody would take me for a greenhorn, and I want people to think that I at least know how to- cross the street city fashion.”' “But the real town: man doesn’t cross the street in that bull-dog fashion,” said a gray-halted relative. “HO drifts with the tide, instead of butting through the middle of a wagon' he ambles along beside it watching for an opening. Sometimes he ia carried 1 % block out of Ms war in tile midst of vehicles before he finds a way out, but he Is never in danger because he. is going with the current So if you want to be set down as a man who knows the life of city streets, don’t break through a heavy fine of trafße by main force, bat follow the stream and take advantage of the pofe»t o t least resistance”