Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-22

swallow the nauseous drug. There's q
good fellow. Do now, for my sake; YOU
know l would do anything for you.
/ Would you? said Ward, feebly
stretching out his hand to grasp his
friends, perhaps for the last time.
would, indeed said Robertson. Then
YOU take it,, said Ward. The humorist
passed away few hours later
Some one, apparently behind the
scenes, is moved to say the secrets OF
publishing houses, if they We're re-
vealed, might show more advances on
charitable accounts to authors than the
reading public suspects.
| A youth was engaged as junior eEsrk
by firm of lawyers and by way of fill-
| ing in his time and testing his worth on
his first day he was told TO write let
| ter demanding payment of debt from
client who was long in arrears. TO
| the great surprise of his employers q
| check for the amount arrived the next
day. They sent for the young clerk and
| asked him to produce u copy of the
letter which had had such an astonish-
ling result. The letter ran as follows:
Dear Sir-If you do not at once remit
payment of the amount which you owe
us we will take steps that will amaze
you
The st. Louis be-Democrat no.
tees that inventors are at work on all
sorts of fuel ideas. and the public VIII
be glad when they demonstrate that
anthracite is not the only pebble in the
mineral kingdom that will answer the
purpose.
Down in Missouri Nodaway county
farmers are preparing to fight an cpl
Gemic of blackleg among their horses.
4 Maryvlle veterinarian has vacci-
rated more than 800 horses in the past
five weeks.
Mrs. Sarah Ringing, the mother OF
the seven brothers of circus fame,
reached Atchison, kas last week. the
day the show was there. How proud
she must be of Them the Globe says.
They are genteel, sensible, honorable
men. and by degrees they have acquired
the greatest show property in the
world Their father, who was a mer-
chant at Baraboo, Wis. died several
years ago, but their mother carefully
looks after the seven brothers. and Wis
its them frequently to see that they
wear rubbers during damp days, and
put on heavier underwear as the fall
approaches. The Ringlings are fine
family; no kin troubles seven fine
sons of an excellent mother, and all
getting along Mrs. Ringing was pre-
scented with corn doll as souvenir of
her visit to Atchison."
Il tell yew," declared the agriculture
observation-disclosures IF firm Inn, hnlh
list with long whiskers, "if Thomas JEFF
ferson wuz alive he'd be a populist."
"Come to think of it, there is some
thing in common between Jefferson and
the populist party"
"Eh? Yew admit it?"
YES. Jefferson's dead."-Philadel-
phia Press.
Discomfort among the burghers in
South Africa is said to be growing
owing to the lack Of method in the
work of reconstruction by the British.
The delay in movements there creates
much uneasiness. johannesburg, with
Its mining population, whose patience
has been exhausted in waiting for the
revival of prosperity, is also seeth-
ing with discomfort and protesting
against Lord Miners methods Of adj
ministration. 1t can hardly be ex-
pected that wars serious and devastat-
ing effect can be overcome at once.
ssa
Western people should keep eyes and
ears open. The first thing they know
President Roosevelt will be lin their
midst
Sir Richard Sedden, premier Of New
Zealand, displayed great activity in
sending colonial troops to South Afri-
ca. On one occasion a political oppon-
ent said to him:
"You are ready enough to send our
sons and brothers to be shot at, but"
The rugged premier interrupted:
| Sir, this morning I signed commits
sion for my own son. He will be shot
at, too, and / dared him to come back
without a wound"
"The largest apple" continues to show
UP numerously in Iowa newspapers.
What has put her in such a nervous
state?"
Il can't be sure, but think it's hear
ling herself talk."-Chicago Post.
Carroll D. Wright, United States
commissioner of labor, in a Chicago in
| terview declared arbitration poor way
TIC settle strikes; both sides are usually
dissatisfied over the decision. 1t is
probable that dissatisfaction could not
be eliminated by any method.