Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-21
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Took twenty-five by the right hand
AS pilgrims to the promised land.
AT Temple Hill with good report
Triumphantly he holds the fort.
Will turn the tactics of mountain sport
To plead for higher court.
-Four other appointments yet to fill
South River. Mt. Vernon and Stand
ardsvillc
Three other denominations will
Hold forth III union at Ruckersville.
Farmers are following for wheat,
Have enough of Indian corn to eat,
Cabbage. potatoes. Irish and sweet,
With some delinquency in meat"
Travelling along the Illinois Central
some time ago the Looker-On met. day
after day, clerical looking individual,
who evidently was making the towns
in regular succession, and withal SEEM
ed to be very busy. Industrious man.
He was economical, too, for he patron
lied only the low-priced hotels, and
smoked the worst smelling self-made
cigarets the writer has ever known, and
his experience is not limited. Again,
this black-frocked man carried no bag
gage, evidently depending. as many
travellers do, on purchasing the needful
changes of clothing as he went along.
From his person there came mixed
perfume of dead ciCaret smoke and the
distinct odor of ten days steerage on
ship board, so that when inquiry show
ed that she was raising money to build
a church in Turkey" it was no surprise.
But it did surprise the Looker-On to
hear Of his successful trip. Nearly
every merchant in every town Clipped
in from % cents to 81 to build that
church in Turkey. If he keeps it up
long enough he can build a cathedral,
for he certainly raised SIS to $50 a day,
this from business men who never saw
him before. and probably never will
again. AT Alta he broke one merchants
heart. Said merchant, who is hard
ware dealer, gave him quarter to-
wards the church building fund. and
then was askeds'f he would not give
him that pocket nife. the poor minis-
ter evidently not Knowing he asked for
$1.75 four-bladed knife, just the thing
to help build churches in Turkey.
Only few years ago there was a
blind man and his dog who made regu-
lar trips up and down the - Central.
He sold poetry. for cents a poem, on
nicely printed cards. said poem elo-
quently portraying the terrible curse of
blindness and feeling allusion to his
faithful dog. And the passengers all
ways had nickel for the poem, the
conductors generally carried him free,
and allowed the dog to ride in the
smoker instead of the baggage car. and,
better than all, many hotel keepers en-
tertained him and his dog without
money and without price. Finally some
cold cruel travelling man found out the
poor blind man owned two good farms
in Blank county, told of it, and said
blind man changed his route"
There is little town In northwestern
Iowa where the finn fam game was
worked successfully the other day.
Two well-dressed men drove into town
and got dinner at the hotel. In settling
their bill $50 bill was offered and the
change given them. Part of the change
was in silver, and one of them. the
owner of the $40. did not want so much
truck, borrowed dollar of his partner
to pay the bill, got his $50 back. and,
by delicate manipulation and pleasant
smiles managed to retain $40 of the
change. Then they drove across the
street, one of them went in and bought
two cigars, produced a $40 bill, told the
same sweet story, didn't want so much
small stuff. got it back and So bill
with it, The victims to this day don't
know how it was done. only an hour
after the sharpers left town, by the aid
of lead pencil and a counting of cash
on hand the hotel man realized he was
minus a $40 bill. two dinners and two
horse feeds. The druggist was short
two 10-cent cigars and IS i'm money.
Strangers do we'll in not asking either
of these dupes ITO break a twenty"
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