Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1913 — Ever Hear of Fish Scales on an Alto Horn? [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Ever Hear of Fish Scales on an Alto Horn?

PITTSBURGH, PA.—Who put the Bismarck herring in Harry Baker’s horn? City Hall threatens to be rocked by the controversy that has arisen over this simple and almost personal question. At least that’s what the gosslpers say. To tell the truth Harry refuses to be interviewed when the reporters attempt to get him to tell the details. Now Mr. Baker may be the innocent victim of irresponsible and unrelenfe ing scandal mongers. And again Mr. Baker may have incriminated himself by simply refusing to be interviewed on the subject. At any rate the tale remains undenied, and in that event It is too good to let slip by without snaking some mention of it. Harry Baker is one of the crew that guides the destinies of the mayor’s •office. In this capacity it is one of Harry’s provinces to see that the gang that congregates about that sanctum every afternoon behaves itself with proper decorum while waiting for the summons to enter the holy of holies where the mayor ’sits with his feet on the mahogany desk. As a further detail of this tale, Harry is credited with being an artist on

the alto’horn, which he plays with great technique and feeling in one of the Northside Germah singing societies. Having neither seen nor heard the gentleman in question on a toot, his friends hesitate to endorse his musical ability. But it is rumored that Gabriel will have to dig some to hold his job when Mr. Baker gets a little more practice. However, it happened that Harry was blowing himself prodigiously the other night in the German club and someone playfully inserted a flock of Bismark herring in the end of his horn. * The possibilities of such a situation will naturally suggest themselves at once to the reader with an original turn of mind.