Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1913 — SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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HELPING THE CAUSE. “A drummer,” said Metplll McCormick, “was waiting at Nola Chucky for the Southern Cannonball Limited. The .train crawled in wthut,nlne hours late—a ramshackle, clattering thing, as ridiculous as an old-fashion-ed high-wheeled bicycle. "The drummer got aboard. There seemed to be only one other passenger. The locomotive hooted, the bell clanged, the wheels spun around, and steam hissed, but the train failed to move. Then there were more hoots, more puffs and hisses, and still the train didn’t budge. Finally, after a third vain effort, the engineer got down and shouted to the passengers, whose heads stuck anxiously out of their respective windows: “-‘Say, I’ll have to ask you two gents to climb off till I get her started!’”—New York Tribune.