Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1911 — They Pass On. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

They Pass On.

xes, i naa giren a good deal of the Long island farmef, “when the idea last < suminer. It“ Had dottejj n^oW'- whgi' cner putting up sighs Earning their 1 or to keep nThirttdof at w gM What I did ns to put up signs for several miles aijmjid inviting the Wearies to call at my farm day or night and receive a cordial welcome. They averaged ■ thrveper day before tWtt l dta not get oae a week. Barty- in November a big husky came along and was passing by when I hailed him and asked him to come in. H« stood on otje foot for a minute and then asked: “Got any constables hidden In the barn*” “Not .a one.” - "Hpw many dogs you got?”? “Only this one, and he is harmk st.” “Any spring guns or bear traps lying ftround loose?” “Nothing of the sort.” 7. “But a feller has got to do a day’s work to git • meal?” “Nor work at all. You come right In and get a square meal and a smoke, and if you want to stay all night, I’ll give you the best bed in the bp’use.” .. . ‘“He looked at me in a puzzled way for a long minute,” Continued • the farmer, “and then indulged in a vink and smile, and said: , “’You can’t work that racket on me, old man! This is my sixteenth year on the road/ “Cut what racket do you mean?” “ ‘Putting pizen in the champagne and selling piy cadaver to a medical college for 25 bones! Oh, no — noth this ¥lme—s’mother time!’”