Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1904 — Fair Warning. [ARTICLE]

Fair Warning.

At one time Horace Greeley lived in n pleasant estate on the Hudson river. It was approached by a narrow lana from the street, says a writer in tha Springfield Republican, and was four miles out from the city hall on the Harlem road. The ground from the house on one Side sloped down to the river; on tha other was a garden which bore Irbit, accessible to boys. On Sunday, their day of freedom as well as Mr. Greeley’s, the boys sought the orchard. Mr. Greeley never saw or heard them. But Mrs. Greeley always saw them, and from her place on the piazza she would call to Mr. Greeley to put on his hat and "deal with them.” Mr. Greeley would never have disturbed them, but he always complied with his wife’s wish —in liis own time mid way. As he slowly reached for his hat, he shouted: “I'm coming after you. boys!" Of course not many captures were tu a de. i