Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-21
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
IN THE BALANCE.

What is needed in congress in X;
closing days is q little more republican
harmony and unanimity of action.
The Burlington Hawkeye agrcas
providing the subscriber will furnish 6
place to put 1t, that the water com pan!
will present a city lot free with eacf
years subscription. This offer holds
good both as to old and new subsarib-
ers. The turbid condition of BurIing-
ton water is driving the inhabitants tc
drink something else.
The president has signed the irriga-
ton bill, and it will soon be appropriate
to go out and irrigate.
There is to take placs in Miller coun-
ty, New, this month what is described
with pardonable excess of superatives
as a most unique picnic" In 1855 a
man named Wilson died. and was bur
led in cave with demiiohn of whis-
ky in his coffin. 1t was his dying re-
quest that at the end of seven years his
coffin should be opened, the denijonn
be brought out, and at the mouth of The
cave where he lay buried his friends
should gather and enjoy so much dam
cling, feasting, drinking and laughing
that his spirit would join In the reveal
ry. The end of the seven years came
just in the middle of the civil war, and
the demijohn and cave and Wilson'S
last request were forgotten. Since the
end of the war Miller county people
have been planning to hold a picnic al
which the demijohn should be opened
but the idea has never been cac-ied
out. Now gandson of Wilson'S living
at Brumley, Miller county. has take j
the matter UP and proposes to hold
picnic, to which all the people of Kill
Ter county are invited.
A well known judge on a Virginia
circuit was recently reminded very fer
chilly of his approaching badness by
one of his rural acquaintance.
"Jedge," drawled the farmer. ri:
won't be so very long TO you'll lev to
tie a string around yer head to tell how
fer up to wash yer face."-Chicago
News.
Senator Heitfeld tells story which
Is called to his mind by the prediction
that congress is about to adjourn, as
follows:
AN Irish friend of mine, named Fla
herty, had a conversation with me
about another Irishman we both knew
"'O'Grady seems to be doing well
where he is said.
"'Ah!' said Flaherty, but he'll not
lasht long in it,
why not?' I saked. He seems to
be doing WE'LL
"'Thrue for ye,' said Flaherty, but
he'll not lasht month. I've said SO lver
since he got the job two years ago, an
say so now"
Alfalfa is rapidly growing in ;mpor-
.ance, and becoming a consid .rablc
actor in the enlargement of the u;ea.
supply, largely taking the place of cora
n feeding west of the Missouri vail ".
The area is charging and the first cut
ing of this year Is very large. Horses
hrive on it with little grain; cattle
atten on it with finish of corn, and in
is use the hog has become a hay-ea.-
ng animal. 1t is to an increasing OK
ent taking the place of range grasses
n the economy of the cattle industry.
md the change will cause an enlarge
nent rather than q decrease OF the
neat supply.
In the great gambling hall there was
,reathless silence.
A poker game between two of the
was in progress.
About their table We're packed and
ahmed hundreds of curious, excited
people. watching their play with as
enlistment
"Tl bet you porterhouse steak!"
avs one.
Murnurs of awe rise from the
watchers.
Clear and stern comes the answer:
"I'll see that porterhouse steak and
aise you two rib roasts, pigs knucxle |
nd a can of oX-tail soup"
Thecqaoy-
Here the onlookers gasped.
One of them, indeed, muttered:
at is such things as this that make
But, pooh! What know the hoi poiloi
f sport ?-Baltimore American.
Weather Prophet Hicks has. another
uess coming on the dry weather aues-
ion.
There Is to be s125,oOooOO paid on. in
lterest and dividends in New York in