Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1917 — INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES

Took Freak Ordinance to Set Matters Right

KANSAS ClTY.—Something new in the way of freak special ordinances was discovered In the council docket. The ordinance, if passed, would have the council settle a private dispute over a S2OO police court fine —a

matter which ordinarily would be threshed out in the criminal court or before a justice of the peace. The dispute is between Mrs. Archibald A. Marrs, 3841 Wabash avenue, and Mrs. E. T. Bicknell. At the instance of Mrs. Marrs, her husband waa arrested and later Mrs. Bicknell waa also warned in the charge. They pleaded guilty to the charge against them in the South side court and*were fined SIOO each by Judge Tncanh IT Kalrnon Afrs. Rickndl

paid the S2OO. Later Mrs. Marrs ‘complained to Burr N. Mosman, assistant city counselor, that the money with which the fine was paid had been realized from the sale-of some diamonds belonging, not to Mrs. Bicknell, but to herself. Mrs. Marrs wanted the S2OO. There had beeq, no Intention on the part of Judge Keirnan to collect the fine, he having levied It merely as a club to keep Mr. Marrs in order.. Consequently, when Mrs. Marrs had succeeded in interesting Mayor Edwards and several others in her case Mr. Mosman drew up and recommended the passage of the special ordinance. The ordinance. Introduced by Aiderman Townsend and approved by the ways and means committee, provides that the S2OO be taken from the city and given to Mrs. Marrs. ' Marrs is a traveling salesman. It Is Said he and his wife have settled their matrimonial troubles and are living together again.

Unable to Enter Army, Youth Will Work Farm

NEW YORK.—The patriotic spirit of the youth of this country has manifested itself again and again among the untiergraduate student bodies of the universities in this city. Each day brings stories of heroic deeds per-

formed on the battlefields of Europe by New York college men and of the students here forming into fighting units in preparation for the conflict. Now comes the tale of a group of young men eager to serve their country, but who because of physical disabilities may not go into the “first line.” -Their patriotic endeavor did not end there, however, and now having failed In their attempt to-arm they will farm. Mr. H. H. Van Aken> a senior in the New York University School of

Law, was one of the first applicants to present himself at the offices of the Training Camps association after that body issued its call for men to enlist in the Plattsburg camp. The rigid physical examination prevented Mr. Van Aken from becoming an officer in the United States army. His application for enlistment in the regulars was also rejected and It then became necessary for Mr. Aken to turn his mind to other channels In order to serve his country. He decided to utilize a farm which had recently come into his possession In Ulster county just south of Kingston, N. Y. As soon as his decision to return to the farm had been made, Mr. Van Aken announced his intention to his classmates, and in less time than it takes to tell, enough men to work the farm all summer had volunteered their services. In each instance they were men who had endeavored to enter either the army or the navy and had been rejected because of physical disabilities. Beans and potatoes will be the principal articles grown, and chlehens will be raised.

Visitor Tempted Fate, and Retribution Was Sudden

DETROIT. —Well, he is dead, and I killed him, and it serves him right! He’d been hanging around my desk all evening, doggone him!—and 1 was busy, too, trying to find out who did what at the Irvington flag raising, and needing

all my natural acumen for the business at hand. Then in he comes! At first I was inclined to be nice to him, because he was the first of his family to honor our city room with a visit this year, and I took his coming as an omen that spring couldn’t be more 'n six weeks off now. So I was almost polite. I said: “Beat it—can’t you see I’m busy?” Well, politeness was altogether wasted on him. He hung around and

hung around. I said, still with .the courtesy due a guest: “Dern you—l told you to beat It. Now, you beat It or I will heave a lead slug at you and squash you flat.” • - Still he did not go. He hung around and buzzed around, and I couldn’t think, or anything, and I said to the city editor that It was something awful the way anybody was allowed to come loafing around the city room and bother the reporters when they were trying to work, and he said something about how we always gotta be polite to visitors, without exception, because some time mebbe they will have a scoop and give it to us, or something. So, for awhile I tried to ignore this party that kept bothering me, and tried to keep on writing, and even moved a paste pot so he wouldnJt sit in it, and never said a thing when he wiped his feet on my coat, and then, just as I was chasing an elusive adjective up the tree of rhetoric, and all but had It treed on the tiptop limb, this guy starts in to sing! Did you ever try to write something when anybody is singing? Well—it cannot be done. I glared at hfm horribly, but he kept- on singing. I said to hlmr "Don’t you know-any better than to sing around here at ten. o’clock at night, just before the bulldog is going to press, and sing?” And he got up right by my ear and began to sing again. And then is when I did It. He was the first mosquito!

'Bean Like Rare Gem Adorns Senator’s Tie

WASHINGTON.— Senator A. A. Jones of New Mexico, formerly first assista pt secretary of the interior, has recently been presented with probiib’y the most unique article of Jewelry known to the craft. A little spotted

bean, known throughout the Southwestern states —the only section of the country In which it thrives—as the Pinto, is now being worn in the cravat of Senator Jones. It has been handsomely mounted in a solid gold setting and was received by the senator with the accompanying letter: “You will find In the mail of | early date a registered package containing a true specimen of the New Mexico Pinto bean mounted on a tie pin. A few months ago it might have

seemed ridiculous to exalt the lowly bean to the realm previously occupied by the diamond, the pearl and other precious gems, but in view of the present prices which the legumes are now bringing, and their increasing scarcity, I have deemed them good material for the jeweler’s art. “Twenty-two million pounds of these beans were raised last year on the dry farms of New Mexico. This year we are working hard to double this amount, for there Is no better food for the soldiers or the civilian than the bean, and we believe there is no betterr bean than the New Mexico Pinta Should our senator, even for a moment, show his interest In our efforts by giving this little spotted bean a place in his cravat, our farmers learning ot the honor bestpwed upon it, would get busy and raise the largest and best crop of Pintos in the history of New Mexico, or break something in the effort

“M. R. GONZALEZ,

“County Agricultural A font “Las,¥egas, N. M„ May 10.*