Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1911 — FARMER HAD HIM SIZED UP FARmER HAD HIM SIZED UP [ARTICLE]

FARMER HAD HIM SIZED UP FARmER HAD HIM SIZED UP

Decided That Tramp Who Wouldn't Work Was -OrtO of New Invest!- M gating Commission^.” A tramp slept in the barn of a farm near Raritan a few nights ago, and In the morning presented himself at the house for breakfast. The family gazed at him in astonishment; fo* such hair as his bad never been seen. In that farming community. It was as thick as it was long, arid it came to his shoulders. It stood out aggressively, as did his untrimmed whiskers. On top of his head was a small derby hat, incongruous In size and shape. After be had eaten heartily of oatmeal and cream and ham and eggs, the fanner got up courage to ask him If he would work, as he was short-hand-ed for the threshing that day. “I am forbidden,” loftily replied he of the redundant locks. "Who forbade yon?” demanded the farmer. "The government,” solemnly affirmed the tramp. “The government’s a durtsed sight too paternal,” roared the fanner after the retreating figure "And \l’d like to know where reciprocity comes In,** he added. “There goes my food and I get nothing for it.” Later in the day, when he learned that the Tramp had gone to the next farm and claimed a second breakfast, he was still more enraged. “I suppose the government told him to eat at every farm —threshing time, too—-and never do a lick of work. Say, I bet he’s one of them investigatin’ commissions. They never do any real work; That’s what he Is!” —New* York Herald.