Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1919 — INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES

Lose Election Bets: Punishment Fits the Crime NEW YORK.—Two men in early middle life—roughly dressed in army brogans, foresters’ trousers and khaki shirts —trudged down upper Broadway between Yonkers and Van Cortlandt park. At 12:55 they crossed the city line. The tall, slender hiker clapped

his bulky companion on the back and shouted: “We’ve gone over the top, W. G. 1” “Right you are comrade! Three hip-hips and a flock of hurrahs!” The knights of the road were W. B. Martin and William G. Sage, Chicago;’ business men. The little scene at t the city line meant they had completed a 40-day hike from Chicago to New York—“a hike of health,” they called it, occasioned by a couple

of wrong bets on the recent Chicago municipal election. Sage was for Sweitzer, Martin for Hoyne, and Thompson won. Said Sage: “It’s been the greatest, most healthful experience of our Ilves. „ Like Falstaff, I’ve ‘larded the green with my fat’ and we’re both hard as nails.” “And what we don’t know about the following commodities isn’t worth knowing,” put in Martin. “American mud, weather, hotels, farmhouses, blisters, socks and food. We walked through snow, torrents, mud, thunder, lightning and cyclones. The last at Napoleon, Ohio.” The hikers left the South Shore Country chib on April 15. They stopped one day in Cleveland, another in Poughkeepsie. The rest of the time they averaged 25 miles a day. The way led through Elkhart, Fremont, Cleveland, Erie (Pa), Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany. They slept in hotels and wayside farmhouses —mostly the latter. , Each carried a 20-pound pack with extra socks, shoes, shaving utensils and a medical kit. Each wore, out five pairs of shoes and 40 pairs of socks. Neither was sick for a day, although they encountered every variety of weather. New York was the most hospitable state they found. People were afraid of them in Indiana and drove them off. In Ohio the country folk treated'them with contempt. ' " They enjoyed a huge steak at the hotel, having lived principally on eggs, pork chops and fried potatoes. . They wired the University club, Chicago, that they had paid their debts and were square with the world.

The “Little Grenadier” Dies on Duty, at Salute CHICAGO. —When thlrteen-year-old Thomas Miller heard his dad tell his mother that Henry would be home from France before lopg he constituted himself half of a Chicago reception committee of two. The Baltimore and

Ohio tracks run along the rear of the Miller home at 1357 West Fifteenth street. The other half of the reception committee was Rags, the terrier. The little grenadier, as neighbors and railroad men had come to call him, tfras a familiar figure. Wearing his khaki suit and his Sam Brown belt, he would stand bravely at salute as the troop trains passel, ’ his tin sword in his right hand and a small American flag tn his left.

Henry was in France with the One Hundred and Ninth infantry. He has been gassed and has three wound stripes. To Thomas, Henry was a bigger hero than General Pershing. There was a great stir in the Miller household one Friday night. Henry, it was reported, might be on nine o’clock train. The folks decided they would go up to the tracks when the train passed. They told Thomas he had better stay at home; it would be too dark for a boy. Thomas said nothing. They left him at home. When they returned he was not there. The night passed and no word from him. Two track walkers early the next morning found a small, bedraggled terrier, shivering from the chill and rain, standing beside the crushed body of R bOV. In the boy’s right hand was a small tin sword, twisted out of shape; in his left hand was a small, mud-spattered American flag, torn to shreds. The little grenadier had died on duty, at salute. Human Nature Seems to Be Pretty Much the Same LAKE FOREST, ILL. —It seems that human pature is pretty much the same, whatever the stratum. Now, you take a certain .girls’ school here. Aristocratic folk all over this broad land who have daughter they want .finished ■ . . and polished in the most approved

style send her to this school. It is the ultima thule of gentility the last word in refinement —the humdinger of highbrowism, as it were. Yet, take it from Mrs. Charles Geppert, wife of the caretaker of the Robert G. McGann Lake Forest residence, the girls who attend this school, On occasion, have some very plebeian habits. The simple fact that five of these girls have been expelled, and 24 (Other held incommunicado, following

Mrs. Geppert’s testimony, appears tO bear out her opinion. The McGann house is just over the ravine from the school. Mrs. Geppert deposes that when she came to air out the place the other day preparatory for its summer occupancy, she ran Into a muss that staggered her. Mud, mud and mud. All over the place. Cigarette ashes, and cigarette stubs, sprinkled on top of the mud. 1 ■ - , My dear, you should have seen that studio! Trinkets of Mrs. McGann s missing. Letters of Mrs. McGann’s read and scattered all about. And the scent of the cigarette smoke and the hint of the giggles permeating the whole house! And somebody or bodies, ’pears Hke, had been walking on the beds in his or her shoes! " - ' , , , Miss Eloise Treman, principal of the school, says the girls don t smoke. Oh, they might have used some sheets to play ghost. The Costa Rican “Prisoner” of Wild Rose Farm GENEVA, ILL. —Mrs. Elita P. Crane, beautiful Costa Rican wife of Herbert P. Crane of Chicago, has filed a separate maintenance suit in the Kane county circuit court at Geneva. The twenty-one-year-old wife charges her

.sixty-year-old husband cruel and inhuman treatment. He sept the village constable last week to put her dear friend. Miss Ella M. Lang, out of the mansion at Wild Rose. farm, near St. Charles, she charges. Mrs. Crane' asks not only the custody of her son, Raphael Antonio Piza Crane, who is six months old, but wants to be supported in the luxury to which she, has-been accustomed, and wants an irijiinctlon to keep Mr.

Crane from forcibly driving Miss Lang from the house. She wants another injunction to prevent him from transferring or selling hiSjproperty and other wealth so that she shall .be deprived, of suitable 1 alimony. She says he threatened to arrange things so that she could get nothing. “ Mrs. Come- tells how she lived in luxury before her marriage; that her elderly suitor, whom she married May 5,1916, told her he could give her much morb than her own father could He did, at first, live up to his agreement.' Later he put her on Wild Rose farm and insisted upon her staying there the entire time—-a virtual prisoner. , . ' . < 1 ■ - V A’