Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1915 — Convincing Evidence. [ARTICLE]

Convincing Evidence.

Lord Morley used to tell a quaint story of a man who wi® arrested by the French during the Franco-Prus-sian war. They found upon him a letter from his mother, dated Berlin, and jumping to the conclusion that he was a German spy, in spite of his ve- * hement protestations that he was an Englishman, condemned him to death. As he was being led to the place of execution he insisted that he had left something behind him and must go back for it He was told that he could not possibly go back, and was about to be shot “By all means,” he replied, “but I must go back and fetch what 1 have left behind.” “What is It?” he was asked. “I have,” he replied, "left my umbrella.” Straightway the French became convinced that no one but an Englishman could be so interested in an umbrella, »nd accordingly liberated him.