Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1917 — One Thing He Knew. [ARTICLE]

One Thing He Knew.

The police pipe band had been sadly depleted by . the departure of all the eligible members, and an effort was made to get others to fill their “There’s old Donald.” said the superintendent to the pipe major; “he’s a Highlander, and I’ll bet you he’s been a piper in his younger days. Try 1 him.” Donald was, accordingly, tackled on the subject of Joining the Jband, so* that it would be efficient to welcome theboywhomefrom the front when that eventful day came. But Donald protested that he knew “nothing whatever of music nor of ta pipes at all.”” “Come, come, now,” said the pipe major, Wyou don’t mean to, tell me that you don’t know how many beats there are in a bas?” “And jt’s me that’s not knowing at all how many beats are in a bar, but,” replied Donald, brightening and lowering his voice, “it’s yerself that -could be telling you how many bars there are in the beat.” — London Tit-Bits.