Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1911 — Foggy. [ARTICLE]

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Bradley Martin Jr. was congratulated in New York on the successful issue of his recent trouble with the customs officers. “There was a great difference of! opinion as to whether or not Jj should be compelled to pay duty onj my goods,” said Mr. Martin. "Some; of the reasons against my claim for, free entrance were as vague and unsatisfactory as the city clerk’s explanation of a sailing boat. I, however,- could iidt accept this vague reasoning, as did the clerk’s fiancee. " ‘Why do those Wats,’ the young lady asked, ‘sail from one side of the river to the other, Instead of going straight down?’ '“Well, you see,’ said the clerk, 'it’s like this. When the wind blowß crooked like, they have to go crook-, ed, so as to go straight along ’ ‘“How plain you do make it,' exclaimed the young girl. *1 never thought of that before.' ”