The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03
MARSHAL HENKEL'S Pig TALE
REPORT or THE DOTNGs or AN
OMNIVOROUS SUOID.

The Beastie Goes Everywhere and Eats
Everything. Including G0vSrnment Sup
pied Radlshes q Terrible Fate
IL Near at Hand for the Animal.
Now that the Standard OIL and tobacco
trust officials are rounded up and every
BODY that's anybody is abroad or in hiding
tinted States Marshal Henkel has gone
back 70 nature and Ronkonkoma. Rom
konkoma like other towns not in Jersey
Is out on Long Island. There Dame Nature
reigns in primeval simplicity-she In wont
~ do this at certain places on Long Island
at this season Of the year--and the marshal,
rne r~narechsle. and ten embryo msrshals
and mar4chsles are prime favorites with
that old lady.
The marshal especially has made a hit
with the tickle dowager and the story Of
hs conquest has to do with radishes and
o rig. They were radishes. because the
racket Of seeds forwarded by the msrshal's
Congressman was plainly labelled "redishee q. "
They must he radiehes, az they weren't
rotatoes or beets. The marshal knows
. beet when he sees IL. ven a dead one,
and a beet doesn't have white tassels any
more than potatoes do.
The pig has been busy with the radish
BID. He probably knew that the seeds
didn't cost the marshal anything, and
Ike a good Federal pig he is thriving on
Federal patronage.
Query. Would he be 80 keen about
thriving IL he knew that the marshal was
going 10 give a pig roast to the Villa m
Henkel Republican Association this fall?
Answer: II is just as we'll that he doesn't
know, for what could he more fitting for
. Frliti1al nin roaa f fhon n nolifiNal Hir
fattened on Federal radishesp
The marshal has not confessed that he
asked himself these questions. but he is
plainly worried about the trend of the pigs
though thoughts; r,. And that , PIP posssssss almost most
than human curiosity. He has investigated
most things above and below the surface
Of the earth round Ronkonkoma. Whether
he can be vi this side of Montauk Light
when the roast comes of no one is so reck-
less as 10 vouch for. but ev~erybody-hy
everybody" is meant the William Henkel
Republican Associations hoping for the
hest.
4 pen has no terrors for the marshal's
pig. for roam he will in spite Of the marshal's
hest efforts. II he can't get over he goes
under. What are you going to do with a
pig like that? What the marshal does is
70 grab up a hammer and a handful of nails
every night when he eets home and board
w the latest means OF exit.
William. that pig was out again to-day"
is daily greeting now too monotonous to he
amusing. The marshal takes II seriously.
4 day or two ago he vas sitting in his arm
chair in his ONCE. Suddenly he Jumped
NJ and ran ~breathlessly to Commissioner
Shields's Office.
John. said he, Il wan your advice"
The Commissioner adjourned court, list
ened 10 the marshal's story with the gravity
heftting the situation. and delivered himself
NJ the following judgment:
Get an Injunction against he WORD
omitted pig. IL he don't stay in the Ian
other word omitted pen then send two
deputy marshals down there and cut his
two words Omitted throat
" ia rumored round the Federal Building
that the William Henkel Republican Associ-
tion is going TO enter an appeal.