Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-13
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The raging Iowa river is not only
purging itself, but all the farms along
its banks.
The early promise of a big apple crop
in the nation is not sustained by later
government reports. OF the fourteen
large producing states but two report a
condition above the ten year average.
Still apples viii be plentiful this season,
judging from other advices.
Texas has shipped nearly 5o,0o0,oO0
gallons of oil in the last six months,
and still has superabundance.
The investigation into the brace faro
deals and similar gambling schemes
somewhat more crooked" than the
regular thing has cleared the skirts of
Bat" Masterson. He was not party
to the frauds. But the investigation
incidentally shattered an idea. Mas
terson has confessed that he has never
killed his man. His reputation as d bad
man with an individual graveyard
stocked with the victims of his muir
derous prowess is gone forever. De-
prived of his gun, like Mr.. Casby shorn
of bis locks in Bleeding Heart yards,
the transformation is terrifying.
The crater Of an extinct volcano about
thirty miles from Kumamoto, Japan, is
inhabited by 10000 people, who dwell
within a pit surrounded by vertical
Wall 500 feet high. The inhabitants
rarely make a journey into the outer
world, and practically form a little ma
ton all by themselves.
Recently r. w. Richardson, secre-
tary of the National Good Roads Asso-
citation, who is preparing to take
good roads construction train across
the continent, said to Mr. Ware:
How do the farmers in Kansas
stand on the road question:"
up to their knees was the reply.
Mr.. Wares bon mot is equally appli-
cable to most Iowa roads during the
bad roads season..
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Fl. E. Oates, the new manager of the
Clinton Herald, is feeling the sings
and arrows of outrageous fortune in the
jocular admonitions by state newspa-
pers to make the Herald feel its
Oates"
when General Louis Botha passed
thru Vryheid a few weeks ago." says
given by his good spirits was that he
was pleased with the terms, while one
of the officers of his staff confidently
declared that peace would be pro-
claimed in q fortnight. The English
commanding officer went out to ex-
change oourtesies with Botha, and our
infantry gave him a guard of honor
until he Joined his own burghers few
miles out of Nryheid. All this is as
might be expected; but a strange in
cident occurred. The English officer in
charge of the escort was presented to
General Botha's secretary, Jacobus De
Wet who had been three years at Ok
ford, and to his aide de camp, Louis
Eslem also varsity man. They We're
evidently anxious to get speech with
our lieutenant, and their first words
We're, Who Won the boat racer"
Sir" said the young man, 81 assure
you 1 would love your daughter just as
much even if she were penniless."
THAT settles YOU" cried old Money
bags; Il don't want a fool for SON
in law" -Philadelphia Record.
Making 1t Simple.-The scholarly
looking man With the big eyeglasses
had been invited to address the Sun
day school, and was making few re-
marks concerning the lesson.
81 see the word line occurs here" ne
said Twill some one give me def
milton of 'line'?'
Nobody ar swered.
'It is very easy" he proceeded, en-
couragingly, tho you may find it a
little perpleXing to convey the idea In
simple terms Try again. Well,
the ordinary Specification of the word
is longitudinal extension, but here it
denotes predetermined boundary. |
am sure, my young friends you can re-
member that."-Chicago Tribune.
The only time Justice Gray, of the
United States supreme court, was ever
known to make joke while seated on
hte bench was one day when Judson
Harmon, then attorney general, was
arguing case before him. Mr.. Har-
mon had occasion to display map,
quite a small one, and he referred to
it as a "birds-eye view" The Justice
could barely see it from the bench, and