Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1913 — Gathered Smiles [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Gathered Smiles

1 WRONG CUE. One of the new members of congress is a very young man who, when he was making his campaign, had a great eye for publicity. As he was appealing' particularly to the labor element, he sent out a story telling how he liked to work on iron. Later, in order to make good on the story, he had a small blacksmith Bhop built near his stable. One day a delegation of labor men called on him and he boasted about his enthusiasm for making shoes for his own horses out of straight bars of iron. He took the delegation to the khop. “Jack,” he called out, when within a few yards of the shop, “where are some of those iron bars I use for making horseshoes?” “They’re all in here,” Jack called back. “I ain’t hail time to straighten ’em out since you hammered ’em up for that delegation yesterday.’’—Popular Magazine.