Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1911 — Just Putting Him Wise. [ARTICLE]

Just Putting Him Wise.

A tall, thin man stood on the deck of a battleship and watched the target practice just outside of the mouth of Chesapeake Bay one morning last April. Near the tall man, who was dressed in civilian clothes, stood a young engign in natty uniform, his chest stuck into the foreground like that Of a pouter pigeon. Ensigns, as a rule, feel indescribable contempt for civilians, civilian clothes and civilian brains. There was the heavy boom of a discharge from one of the other battleships and a shell, going wide of the target, kicked up a cloud of foam far out to sea. , “That shell,” remarked the civilian, “fell far to the left.” "The hell it did!” contradicted the ensign, and continued to gaze toward the horizon. ' The tall, thin man regarded his companion in silent amusement for a few moments, and then remarked: “I suppose I’d better Introduce myself. I’m the secretary of the navv." Whereupon the ensign, remembered the naval regulations against profanity, and lost his appetite for three days.—Popular Magazine.