Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1918 — HAPPENINGS in the BIG CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS in the BIG CITIES

Actually, Dear Reader, Here Is a New “Con” Game KANSAS CITY.—The car was not so crowded as usual when thecredulous-* looking man boarded it, there being seat room for one more person. The vacant spot was next to a window, and the way to it was blocked by a square-

set young man. “What’s matter?” inquired the c. 1. m. as he took the seat. “You expect to get off In a block or two?” 7 - “I’ll get off before you do,” replied the other, mysteriously. “You go fairly far out” “Thirty-fifth,” admitted the e. 1. m. “I knew it. I can always tell. I can’t explain it,” mused the mysterious one, “but I can study people’s faces and tell at what street they will get off. Take that couple across the aisle,

tor instance. Til bet you a quarter they get off at Twenty-eighth. I’ll risk a quarter on it. Are you on?” They shook hands. The car passed Twentyseventh street and the couple opposite made no move toward getting off. The mysterious man drew a quarter from a pocket. “Guess I lose,” he said. “But it never happened before.” Just then the man opposite leaned past the woman beside him and pressed the buzzer. The car slowed down for Twenty-eighth and they rose to leave it. “Don’t stare at them,” whispered the mysterious one. “They might misunderstand.” . The credulous man fished out a quarter and slipped it to his seat mate, and watched with a side glance. The couple arose and the woman smiled politely at the mysterious' man. “Well, gcod-by,” she said to him. • The psychic wonder still gazed stonily ahead. But he slipped up his port hand as if to scratch his ear, and furtively tipped his hat. He kept the quarter, too. And all the credulous man got out of it was a story. Sent Her Safety Deposit Vault to Be Half Soled »|*UCSON, ARlZONA.—Business was good with Engle the shoemaker. Many 1 persons attending the state fair had brought many shoes to his shop to be repaired, and his cash drawer was full of strange silver. Came a boy early one

morning bearing a pair of woman's shoes to be half soled. The boy departed. * Shortly afterward Engle picked up the woman’s shoes. From the toe of one shpe fell a purse, fat and tightly closed. Before the shoemaker had recovered from his astonishment another purse fell from the toe of the other shoe. Two purses, both fat. Engle open the first fat purse. There was S3OO in bills.

Then Engle turned to the second purse From that one came flashing diamonds, necklaces, rings and ear-drops. More than SSOO worth. The shoemaker gathered up the bills and the diamonds and put them safely away and turned to his work. Counting the bills or admiring the diamonds wouldn’t make money for Engle. Then a frantic woman btfrst into the shoemaker’s shop. No need for Engle to inquire what she wanted or why she was frantic. The shoemaker knew. The shoes belonged to her and so did the bills and diamonds and other gems. She had taken her safety deposit vault to the shoe shop. Almost in hysterics the woman recovered her money and jewelry, more than SBOO in all. She clasped the two purses to her and immediately a great relief spread over her. Placing 50 cents in the hand of Engle the shoemaker the woman left the shop. _ Jingle turned to his shoe repairing for business was good that week, it was fair week. - • ■ Too 111 to Marry, Too 111 to Sing, She Alleges NEW YORK. —Too cheerful conduct after avoiding marriage was alleged the other afternoon against John Rogers Everitt, seventy-one years old of 154 Bergen avenue, Jamaica, by Miss Florence L. Cooke of 7 Manhattan avenue, , “quite a few years younger,” who is

suing for SIOO,OOO damages for alleged breach of promise to marry. Miss Cooke asked Justice Gavegan in the supreme court to grant an order requiring the defendant to submit to a physical examination. This was denied. ' ' It was bad enough to be jilted, Miss Cook« asserted, but when she overheard the septuagenarian defendant comporting himself with undue cheeriness thereafter, singing

gayly, humming and smoking as he strode the veranda of his old homestead weih that was too much, If he was too ill to marry, she contended, he was too ill to sing and smoke. ‘ , Miss Cooke alleges that she expected to become Mt. Everitt s bride on December 21, 1916, but that he pleaded he was too ill, postponing the wedding two days and then indefinitely. He alleges that the plaintiff also was ill at the time and that the postponement was by mutual consent. He set forth in an affidavit that he suffers high blood pressure, asthma and other maladies. Miss Cooke made the assertion that when she went to see for herself after the weeding had been abandoned she saw the defendant singing and smoking very cheerfully. His counsel asserted that when Mr. Everitt inquired if she still was willing to marry, her counsel replied in a manner "which seemed to call for a financial settlement.” -

Boy, Elephant, and “Jocko” Mixed in Sad Story CLEVELAND. —“For who among you, in the heyday of your youth, never carried water for the elephant?” Before the case is completed some lawyer in Common Pleas Judge "Willis Vickery’s court will probably go on record as

having made this remark. When it Is all over, Harry Ingraham, eleven, son of Henry B. Ingraham, 1331 Irene avepue, Lakewood, will know whether or not It is worth $5,000 to be bitten by. a monkey. On July 19, 1916, the Johnny J. Jones Exposition Shows, Incorporated, were exhibiting under canvas on the vacant lots on Giel avenue, Lakewood, under auspices of the Lakewood,, retail merchants' board. Harry Ingra-

ham and other yougsters of the neigh- ' borhood appeared on the scene. According to the Ingraham petition the boys promptly closed a contract to carry water to the animals in return for an official document which would make them envied by their playmates and permit i thom to pass the gatekeeper without using such a thing as money. They passed the gatekeeper and were thoroughly enjoying the sights of the menagerie, when. It is alleged, a large African monkey got loose and began nyUgating the audience. Harry Ingraham claims that the monkey singled him out first and planted his teeth in the muscles of his right leg, causing injuries which entitle him to $5,000. t On the other hand, the show’s officials claim they did not hire young Ingra tMtm to cany water to the animals.