Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1914 — THE OFF HORSE. [ARTICLE]

THE OFF HORSE.

Could Not Fool Him Even If He Hailed From the City. Charles P. Neill, the United States labor commissioner is interested in the various charitable associations that send the children of the poor to the country durin* the hot weather. In New York the other day ho told a story about one of these children. "There was a little boy,” he said, “whom the Country Week association of Philadelphia put on a farm in August. One morning the little fellow took a walk to the village three miles away, and as he stood In front of the postoffice, a farmer got down rout of his double team and said: "’Hey, sonny, ketch holt o’ that boss’ head while I go in an’ see it that’s any letters. “’Which hoes’ head?” said the boy, advancing. “ *The ors un,* said the farmer. “ The orphan?’ said the little boy. ’How kin I tell which of ’em** an orphan. Don’t ye try to kid mo, mister.*”