Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1911 — The City Policeman. [ARTICLE]

The City Policeman.

“Thc man in uniform,” says Magis> trate House of New York, “is a target for street loafers.” "It’s a funny thing,” mused Officer Findley some months ago, “but everybody is against a cop. If he gets the worst of 1' In a scrap, everybody is satisfied, and if p. cop was to walk his beat with a blacked eye every citizen ’would laugh hisself to death in the matter. 'Kill the cop!’that’s what they shout. And yet what is he doing? He is doing big.duty. Take a fireman; he does his duty, too, but he’s a hero. Why? His work isn’t any more dangerous than a cop’-. Perhaps you think It’s a cinch to arrest a dangerous character who is waving a gun or a knife or a razor. Well, it isn’t, and a cop never knows when he goes out in the morning whether his wife will be a widow by night. And say! Imagine this town without any cops for just one week! What?”

Baby Was Mother's First Thought A story of a mother’s sacrifice followed by her death comes from Coventry. Mr. Walter Clifford of Coventry took his wife, their child and a friend out for a motor drive, and when about a mile from Stonebridge, where there is a narrow stone bridge, the car got into difficulties. It was evident that a collision with the bridge was imminent. Mrs. Clifford, seeing the danger, took up from her lap the child, 'who is two and a half years of age, and in a moment threw it over the side of the car on to the grass. The car Immediately afterwards overturned and Its occupants were thrown out Mrs; Clifford sustained a bad concussion and died a few hours afterwards. Her husband and friend escaped with mere scratches. The child was uninjured. ■ Choice Engravings. J ’ "America is not deficient In patriotism nor in love of art,” said the cheery citizen. "No,” replied Hiss Cayenne. "But, just the same, the general eagerness to posess twenty-dollar bills Is not due entirely to the fact that George Wash ington’s picture Is on them.” * -ho, account of the pillars of aocietyF "Oh, give ’em a cotmnn."