Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1919 — INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES

Old Man Finds Relic of His Boyhood in Museum DENVER —ln the Colorado state museum hangs the tattered little coat of a . ten-year-ohl hoy, with its coarse, brawn,.-homespun weave, its frayed bands of black velvet about the collar and sleeves, its old-fashioned plaid

lining, its brass buttons, the rents at the shoulders and the legend upon the description card pinned to it, which - treads: —*===. “This hoy’s coat with other clothes was found after the battle of Tupelo, Mississippi, July 14, 1864, by J. R. Wylie, Company D, Forty-fourth lowa volunteers. Present address 175 South Franklin street, Denver.” Axx old man, gray haired and feeble, was among a crowd of visitors the other day. He was. accompanied

by his wife, hardly less gray, but with a firmer step. Suddenly the old man gripped the arm of his wife and exclaimed: | “That’s my coat! That's .the coat my mother made for me w r hen I was a boy. And I*hji going to take it back home with me.” ■ , To -Suwrtßtendent James Morrlqft and Curator J, C. Smiley he told the his mother from the neighborhood while the battle was on, returning later to find the house ransacked. To get his request before the board of capltol managers the old man wrote out this: ' **l find in the capltol basement, in case No. 3970, a copt of mine. This , coat was made by my mother during the Civil war, she having spun all the cotton and wool,--then weaving the same into cloth and made the coat from homemade cloth. Part of the battle of Tupelo,- Miss, was fought on my mother’s place. This coat and many other articles were missing after the battle. I would very much appreciate your returning this the first coat of my babyhood days back to me, I was raised in Tupelo, Miss. My present home is in Elgin, Tex. Respectfully yours, J. W. THOMAS.” Confederate Veteran Gets New Pair of Trousers LOS ANGELES. —Ezra L. Bliss, seventy-five years old, who was a sergeant in the Fourth Missouri cavalry during the Civil war and was once a neighbor of Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson, the Confederate leader, declared Jn the

juvenile court that, he had been assaulted; The weapon, it developed', was afonran candle- in the hands et Willie Brown, seventeen years old, a colored high school boy. Willie Brown went to court accompanied by his parents. The extremes met at either end of a long table presided over by Judge Reeve. Sergeant ■RIRsln full‘regfineptals, lobKed every inch the old soldier. He bears a striking likeness to the of Gen.

Robert E. Lee, with whom he said he . . , . . foughtT When the court asked Sergeant Bliss what the trouble was, h replied: “Well, sir, I was assaulted. ■ “What was the weapon V „ , .. — “A roman candle in Downey about ten o’clock at night- This boy fired it at me and two of the balls struck my trousers when I was only six feet awny I have the trousers here, sir, with the holes hurried in them.” The court released Willie Brown into the custody of his parents. “A very good way to straighten up this ‘bunch’ is,” he said, “to make a pool among them and pay Sergeant Bliss for a new pair of trousers. * Willie agreed to do this. ~ . irrpsir-B?rtrt-frrrs- 1 rousers cost from SL2 to sl4. His -pm form made of fine woolen army blankets. Bank Bandit Elucidates the Why and Wherefore n HICAGO —lt was In the new Sixteenth Street State bank at St. Louis avenue. C Behind the cashier’s cage were Jacob A. Kalis, cashier and pretty nine-teen-vear-old Elsie Landauer, collection teller. On a bench, Mrs. Rose Iio " en « J 1022 Central Park avenue, who had

just made a deposit, and Mrs. Mary liudnick, of the same address, who had just paid a note, were discussing “Hnlm In 1 “frbnt Of lllb cgshffeT**— cage stood Nathan Maltz, father of Samuel W. Maltz, president of the bank, discussing with David Flyer, -3M-1 West sixteenth street,, the, social unrest antr economic turmoil. - Elsie were—worrying neither of the high cost of!_ living nor of the social unrest. Jake

wjis showing a new revolver and telling what he’d do to bank robbers. Elsie was explaining how she’d telephone the police. • .. Then five young men entered with drgwn revolvers. Hands up. the leader. Up went the hands. A bafidit confiscated Jake’s revolver and collected about $5,000. They were so polite that as they left Mr. Maltz said “Why? Why? You’re all young men —fine/ healthy young men. .Why do you risk your lives this way? For this you will be hounded all your lives. Whv do yon. do It?" ——- - “pn fedr ydu wliy,’’ saidthe leader. “1 was In — “I figured if I came back alive things hack Juune would he-wnnderfu! r „ _ “Mv girl was waiting for me when I came back. There were all kinds of cheers and parades. We were married. That was six months ago. Then I started looking for a Job. I couldn’t get a Job. None of us here could get a lob My wife is going to be a mother pretty soon. And no work.’’ J Then he wheeled and the five walked out to a waiting automobile. Missouri Centenarian Who Has Never Quarreled _ RFCKENRIDGE, MO. —In Breckenridge is a man who has made it a lifeB long practice never to quarrel or argue and never to speak ill of any, person And that man is one hundred and one years old. He is Dr. Joseph S.

Halstead, who was Henry Clay’s physician many years. “There is no man equal to Clay in American public life today,” he said. “Yes there is; President Wilson IgJ* interrupted Mrs. Halstead. But the doctor merely shook his head and waived further answer. ' They never have quarreled, these two aged people, who have spent 07 years as* man and wife. The usvHH i family “spat” has been entirely un-

known to them. “We sometimes disa- , ■ ™" “lt b. t « never permit it to go to the extent of an »rgmMn.or qun’rrel,” Mrs. Halstead said. •That is one reason out love for each other la oo <rrpnt as it was when we were married. Dr and Mrs. Halstead are the parents of eight children. They have 88 deSC S,ctOT S Halstead Is an advocate of simpler foods, especially cornbread and mush and thinks them beneficial to the human system. predirt«a-te-W boyhood U°“dnys of practiJ as a physician he underwent aU the strain and hardships that are a part of a ® . * He finally quit practicing and became a farmer that he might be able to lead a life of more regular hours.