Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1917 — Fate Inevitable. [ARTICLE]

Fate Inevitable.

Harry Sfiunk, an Ohio product, w r ho has long been prominent in minstrel and vaudeville circles, is fond of employing his leisure moments in hunting out characters-and gaining odd sidelights on human nature. At a carnival in a southern towrn two colored boys stood near the edge of a crowd that had assembled to w-atch a high diver' —- As the daring athlete slowly mounted a tall pole to a tiny platform 60 feet in the air, a brass band- on the ground played “chills-and-fever” music. When the diver left his perch, plunged head downward Into a small tank on the ground, and “scooped” out onto the ground like a flash, the music broEe into a lively strain. The colored-hoysheld thetr-Tireatb until the dare-devil feat had been accomplished,then_one said to the other, as they turned to go: ♦‘Some, ilroe-dat ban’ am gonna play, and dat man ain’t a gona heah it.”