Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1894 — A SNAP SHOT. [ARTICLE]

A SNAP SHOT.

“The Best Laid Plans Gang Aft,” Etc, W uhlngton Post. “J Among the visitors to Washington last spring was kodaker from the West, who announced to his friends his intention of securing snaps at the White House.children before he left the city. One day he spent the morning loitering about the rear Grounds until about 2 o’clock, and his patients was rewarded by seeing the little ones come down the south portico steps accompanied by their nurse. The photographer had, in the meantime, scraped acquaintance with the policeman on guard, and, having flattered his vanity by taking him in several attitudes, he was prepared to wink at the theft of faces. The children came nearer, probably on account of that mysterious attraction which always exists between nurses and guardians of the peace, and while the usual flirta- j tion was being conducted Ruth proceeded to peep between the grating j at the stranger. Everything was j propitious. The maid’s attenti6n was distracted, the child in a most bewitching attitude, while in the! carriage near by slum! en d the last scion of the house of Cleveland. “Snap” went the button, and the ! deed was done, and not till then did the maid turn around and find the evil that had been accomplished, for she had been warned against that! very thing, “the amateur “photog-| rapher,” under pain of dismissal, j Grasping the baby carriage by the | handle and seizing Ruth by the hand j she started off toward the house with ' a great shaking of her head at the naughty child, who hung back and wanted to-see more of the man with the “black box.” Meanwhile the much delighted pilgrim had walked off with his treasure with visions of the fame that should be his among his far-off friends, and not until he got back to his hotel did he realize that the whole scheme had miscarried owing to a very reasonable cause —he hadforgotten to take the cap off when he took the picture.