Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1919 — STORIES from the BIG CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STORIES from the BIG CITIES

New-Born Baby Buried Several Hours; Dug Up; Lives * , ~u . C LINTON. MASS. —Some one rang up Jack Magee, chief of police, about 11 o'clock in tfie morning and told him |o get a shovel and do a bit of prospecting in the rear yard of .’>o Cltit'k street. “What is It?” demanded Magee. “Who is,talking? What’s the idea?

Can’t a citizen bury something in his own back yard?”/ “Never mind who I am and who ft was who buried it. Only I’d dig and dig quick.” Police Chief Magee pondered over this mysterious communication. It worried him. He didn’t want to make a'*fool of himself. Finally, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, he summoned Patrol man Robert Trlmball and got a

shovel. He made a quiet entrance Into tiie back yard of 50 Clark street, which Is occupfed by a family' named Sullivan. There was a patch of recently spaded earth. He scraped away the loos,- earth rather gingerly to a depth of 12 inches and uncovered a goodsized bag. He ripped the bag open. Naked, brown and wrinkled and apparently dead a baby girl lay in the chief's broad hands. Rob Trimball says that the chief uttered something that sounded like a gulp and ran down the back street with the midget in his hands two blocks to the home of Dr. George L. Tobey. Doctor Tobey gave the little thing a couple of slaps and .turned it over once or twice. A thin wail issued from the baby’s mouth and the transparent eyelids opened. ? ,

Chinese Have the Devil of a Time at a Funeral finished a bad second the other day in a race against tin automobile hearse from the loop to RosehLU cemetery. In the hearse was the body of Lee Lan Seu Other occupants were Louis

Sing, Lee Si Wing and Lee Yen Ny. They went along to prevent the devil from overtaking the hearse. Ten thousand small strips of paper, each of which contained nine ijerfonitions, were thrown from the hearse and cast to the winds by Sing and his companions. According to Chinese btdlfTjtTie'deviihacl to gather up every one of the 10.tM.Kl strips of paper and crawl through each little hole in order to catch Lee Lan Seu. Did he catch him-? Louis Sing

says the burial ceremonies were over with and he on the way naca irom the cemetery when he passed the devil at North avenue, still gathering up slips of paper in Lincoln park. “If you get the body in the ground.” said Louis, “and the grave covered up before the devil gets there, everything is all right. We buried Lee Lan, burned incense over the -grave, and left him with a small roast pig. He sure go to heaven.” Lee Lan Seu was saved from the potter's field by a collection taken up by his countrvmen to defray funeral expenses. He was seventy years old. and had lived in Chicago half his life. Once he was a well-to-do merchant. He had lived off the last ten or fifteen'years. ‘Gambling‘with him was a passion. His many exploits of twenty odd years ago were the talk of every Chinaman in town, and also of colored and white gamblers.

Forty Sophomores Regin Year by Taking a Bath VANSTON. ILL.—Will Northwestern university freshmen doff their caps L to upperclassmen and write to mother every night and let the coeds alone? Thev will not. They expressed their declaration of independence in deeds * ' earlv in the' semester. Forty sopho-

mores were made violently aware of it when 200 freshmen pounced oh them and tossed them into Lake Michigan. The sophomores met defeat just as the kaiser did. They proclaimed themselves masters of the campus without taking adequate precautions against tin uprising of their foes. They began by, posting placards ordering “the scum of the earth” to obey the , XQllo»4xig,i'.iileSL. 5 ... “Wear a green cap. Wear a fire-

nmn's haircut. Bathe at least once a week. Apply to sophomores for campus passes. Do no fussing on the campus. Wear short pants to all classes!»r Use no tobacco. Provide self with handkerchief and use same. Refrain from •childish practice of eating jawbreakers after 7 o’clock at night.” H iving defined the proper conduct of a freshman, the sophs neglected to organize against a rebellion. The freshmen rented the Star theater in Evanston. assembled t.heir forces there and then caught the sophs unawares. tine incidental casualty was reported to the Evanston police. The sufferer was William Sadler. Evanston correspondent for a Chicago morning paper. The class partisans buried the hatchet long enough to chuck Mr. Sadler into Lake Michigan. -We don't like the kind of stories you've been sending to your paper,” the chucking squad explained. The Evanston police said Sadler made no, kick.

Jury of Thirty Women Approve a Love Marriage n T. LOUIS. —When George E. Carnes, sjxty-eight years old, who lives at the 0 Memorial home. 26Q9 South Grand avenue, an institute for old folks, asked Mrs. AnntW-Wn-ife*. fifty-five, also living there, to accept him in marriage, Mrs.

Waite, by the rules of the institution, was compelled to refer her suitor to the board of directors of the, institution, which deliberated the question ■ and gave its consent. « The wedding took place on a Sun- * day afternoon at the home before , nearly 100 other inmates. Rev. William E. Wheeler of St. Mark's English Lutheran church officiating. Carnes has been at the home 18 months and his bride two years. Both have been married before, Mrs.

Carnes' former husband having diet! at the home. It was a love match and hiXbride admit iD-and the board of directors, consisting of 30 women, sitting in solemn seston, affirmed and approved it. The courtship of Carnes began several months after Mrs. Waite’s husband died. With due ijuodesty she accepted the attention and shortly thereafter Carnes popped the momentous question. Mindful of a rule of the institution and having no stern parent to approve his request. Mrs. Waite said: “Von will have to obtain permission of the board Of directors.” Carnes then asked the advice of Mrs. C. R. Springer, president of the .board. ' She asked him if be was sure he loved Mrs. Waite, and that infatuation or fascination had not prompted him to propose the marriage. Carneswas gqre it was true, love, Mrs. Springer said,’ but slq? told him to think it ovt£r for Ume elapsed and Carnes again appeared'before Mrs. Springer to Dress for approval. Mrs. Springer then laid the matter before the directorate, which formally went info Session on .the subject with the result that love was triumphant -by a unanimous vote.