Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1912 — An Explanation. [ARTICLE]

An Explanation.

. The steamboat came splashing along her course at full speed, and the first thing the passengers knew had crashed head on into the pier. “Mercy!" cried a passenger, as the bow crashed and the splinters flew. *T wonder what is the matter?” “Nothin’" said Pat, one of the deckhands. “Nothin’, ma’am—-ut looks to me as if the captain just forgot that we shtop here," —Harper’s'Weekly.