Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-27

the armament brought to the Philip
pines by the lately arrived army of
teachers, and the returns are not all in
yet. Verify, they come we'll prepared
TO teach the young idea how to Shoot!
This is more ammunition than the
American army in the Philippines has
fired off in the last six months
Hall Game gets many of his plots from
the Bible. and for his new novel, THE
Eternal City," he has taken for his
theme the story of Samson and Delilah
with the effort to make of his modern
Delilah a sweet and sanity sinner.
On Monday Secretary of War Root
issued an INFORMAL order for the officers
On duty in the war department to ap-
pear during office hours in their regular
service uniform. This action was
brought about by the appearance some
weeks ago of Adj. Gen. Corbin in serv-
ice uniform. His action was followed by
several other officers. Some of the Off
GERS, however, in the absence OF special
instructions did not wear their uni
forms and one of them addressed an
official letter to the secretary of war
asking If it was desired that officers
should wear their uniforms. In reply
to this an identical note was sent to the
different bureau chiefs saying that it
was considered advisable for all officers
of the army to wear their uniforms
while on duty 1t is intended that they
shall appear in regular army uniforms
with az little display as possible.
$50
According to Dun's estimate, the cost
OF living is $9775 per capita per annum
Wonder how often oysters, potatoes and
fruit appear in his bill of fare? Now II
Mr.. Dun will kindly send US blank
form of contract to fill in at his figures,
allowing the above luxuries on special
holidays, it will relieve US Of load of
anxiety for which our prayers and graf
itude will follow him thru life.
Colorado is now producing great
deal of beet sugar" said Congressman
Shaffroth, in Washington the other day,
land the conditions in our state are not
excelled anywhere in the world. Not
withstanding the excellent condition Of
this new industry 1t Will not be able to
thrive If the present duty on sugar is
reduced. The sugar trust is trying to
crush out our new industry by clamor-
ing for the admission free OF duty of
Cuban sugar. do not believe they will
succeed, however, but there will be a
tremendous fight over the question at
the coming session" 1t is hardly possi-
BILE that congress will favor the trust.
Raise corn and you will wear dia-
monds is the motto of Iowans this
year. A short crop in the aggregate
has caused extremely high prices. but
Iowa, and especially northern Iowa,
has raised very fair crop and has
corn to sell.
Governor Cummins will decide
upon his various appointments some
time in December. A word to the
anxious should be sufficient.
The day of husking corn by hand
has reached Its passing. Almost as
soon as the free delivery Of rural mail
has reached every farm in Iowa the
corn shredder will be husking corn and
shredding the fodder OF every corn
field in the state. The corn stalks are
now cut and bound in bundles by ma
chinery. The shredder does the husk-
Ing and tears the stalk into shreds,
which make the finest feed imaginable
for livestock.
After all newspaper discussion upon
the subject has ceased it will probably
be found that Mr.. Herriott's COM
mittees In the state senate will be Mr..
Herriotts committees.
A man who used to farm twenty
years ago had occasion recently to
make a call into the country, but found
his man not at home. The wife step
ped to the telephone and called up her
sister-in-law about mile down the
road: Hattie. is Hi over there? oh!
Well. say. can't you come over?" And
in half an hour Hattie appeared with
her baby. The man from town realized
how the dreadful monotony of farm life
had been dispelled by the telephone.
Hi was headed off by a telephone call
to a neighbor farther down the road
and returned to meet the man who had
come out from town to see him.