Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-09

Scott township farmer how the people
in the country are feeling over the beef
situation. Very WELL" he replied. 1--WE
ard not lying awake nights trying tc
knock down the prices of meat. A few
years ago the farmers We're down on
the cattle combine as manipulated by
the big packers, for they were told by
the newspapers that the corlbire was
keeping down the price of cattle. Then
we kicked and the onsum smiled
The shoe is on the other foot now. No
high prices of cattle will not do for a
| political issue in the country"
ABOUT TREES.
Mrs. A6alina Payne in Nevads Rep
resentative.]
Why love and regret an old tree?
Well, a tree embodies life and repre-
sents potency, service and inspiration.
Just a tree sweetened the bitter waters
of Marah a great while ago., and saved
the Israelites perishing of thirst, and
Just a tree has promoted lots OF COM
fort and health since then. "A tree
sheltered Abraham and the angels that
talked with him, ana a tree has can
opted many a conference of state and
lovers tryst from that day to this.
Trees furnished much of the life OF
Wordsworth's poetry. inspired some OF
the finest creations Of Bryant. and the
chaste ideals of Tennyson. 1t is not
to be supposed that those suggestive
trees We're all we'll shapen, sound and
healthy ones either: for the American
tree which today stimulates patriotic
sentiment most-the Washington. Elm
at Cambridge-is ugly in form, much
patched and iron-banded and braced.
There is something akin to humanity
or to God in the tree which draws
the healthy soul to it.
SOME FULFILLING RELATIONSHIPS.
Fairfield Ledger.]
A few years ago Michael ShonGel and
Worth Heckathorn were widower resi-
dents of Round Prairie township.
Heckathorn found a wife in a daughter
of Shondel, and Shondel returned the
compliment by marrying a daughter of
Heckathorn. Cchildren have been born
of both these marriages. The rela-
tionships of these men, their wives and
children are somewhat mixed, but some
other complications have been put into
the affair recently which make even
the fathers hesitate in asserting what
relation they are to their own children.
In this city last week James w. Shon-
| del, a son OF Michael Shondel by his
first marriage, and Olive p. Hecka-
thorn, a daughter of Worth Hecka-
thorn by his first marriage, We're made
husband and wife. The children of
| Shondel, ST., are now brother-in-law
and sister-in-law of Heckathorn, ST.,
and also his grandchildren. One of the
daughters of Heckathorn, ST., is his
mother-in-law and another is his sis
ter-in-law. Shondel's son is Hecka-
thorn's son-in-law, and also his bro
t~her-in-law. and Heckathorn's father
in-law is also his s~on-in-law. One OF
Heckathorn's daughters is a half-sis-
ter of her grandmother, while his bro
Their and sis~ter-in-law are his grand
| children. What a genealogy that will
be to trace a few years hence! These
people have certainly complied with the
Biblical Injunction to marry until you
know not your WI kindred.
ON BAD SPELLING.
[Clarinda Herald.l
County Superintendent Colbert
stated to a Herald man the other day
that out of sixty persons who failed In
their entrance examinations to one OF
our leading western colleges, the trou-
BILE was principally in grammar and
spelling. They We're given permission
to study up on spelling for several
weeks in the hopes that they might
then be able to pass the required exam
nation, but after all this preparation
twenty, or 33 1-3 per cent, made little
or no Improvement. The explanation
given for this marked failure is that
spelling must be learned in the early
years, while the mind is capable of be-
ing cultivated along the line OF mem
DRY. People who do not become good
spoilers early in life are not likely to
do so afterwards. Hence the impor-
lance of spelling "drill' in the lower
grades in school. 1t is to be regretted
hat the old-fashioned spelling bees
are going out of fashion. 1t is rare, in
deed, to find an old or middle-aged per-
son who in youth was a regular attend
ant at the spelling bees whose CORE
spondence is disfigured by misspelled
words. Perhaps it would be unjust
certainly it would be unkind-to say
that it is rare to find a poor spellei
among those who attended the olf
spelling bees as it is to find a goot
speller among the graduates of the
modern high schools, where they rigor-
ously eschew such antiquated amuse-
ments as spelling bees, chew gum anC
20 in for tennis and basket ball.
SERVING AS JUROR.
britt News.1
After w weeks service we have es-
cared from jury work at the count!
seat. We were on a case for three
days, where we We're compelled to lis
ten to the tedious harangue of the law
yers, following which we spent thirty
hours in the jury room, all night with
out sleep, trying with eleven others to
harmonic the evidence, the lawyers
pleas, the courts instructions and to