Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-04-22
TOPICS OF THE TINES
Get few trees ready to plant next
Friday-Arbor day.

Cleveland. He has issued an order to the
effect that women out shopping on
Saturday night will not be allowed to
stop and gossip on the streets.
Officials in Luzon report that the F'ili-
pinos pay their taxes promptly and
without complaint. thus showing that
they are falling into line rapidly for orr
derby government.
The president of Venezulea has accu-
mulated ss,oOo,ooo during his short ca
reer as q political boss
The Maquoketa Excelsior begins to
show the effects of a few weeks of new
II appeared last week an
all-home-set newspaper, with strong
advertising patronage from home mer-
chants. The new editor, Mr., j. r. Cru
we'll. has the right idea that a weekly
paper In county seat town should be a
newspaper and give the news. He is q
college man of more than average liter
airy ability, but. what is more essential
for newspaper success, he is business
man of experience, sound judgment and
energy. The Excelsior will win. II
can't help but do il.
The bank clearlngs of last week show
a gain of T6.6 per cent over the CORE
spending week of last year, thus show
ing a three-fourths increase.
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'Phew" exclaimed the wood sawyer
Us he stopped to mop his brow. but
them folks playing golf over there have
a mighty hard time of it. They think it
is exercise, but it's darned hard work!''
Then he resumed his saving operations
With a sigh Of thankfulness that he had
such an easy time OF il.
Boston Transcript.
The Omaha Bee states that the cattle
losses in the west have been greatly en-
aggeratsd, according to the reports of
men who have recently been thru the
districts visited By the storms G. a.
Black has reached Omaha from Rawlins
after a tour thru Wyoming in the inter
esis of the Union Pacific Land Com
pany He says he found that many Of.
the men who We're reported to have lost
heavily during the recent storms had
suffered practically no loss. He esti-
mated that the loss of cattle would not
oxceed 3 per cent. Sheep shearing ls
TOW under way i'll the Rawlins and the:
Laramie districts. and the indications
are that there VIII be heavy wool cuts
ting this year. Charles Blixt is also just
returned from Cheyenne after two
Gays eross-eountry drive in that part
u The STATE. He says tina; the.rsports
lef cattle losses in the storms We're
stretched and that the real loss has
been small
Not to be outdone by Colorado's CON
tinuous performance in Billiards and
Snowfall, Ohio has surpassed her west
ern sister in stirring wintry and spring
events combined. lowa's turn Will
probably come along early In May.
The Reflector's sapient grapevine re-
ports about the T.-R. are ludicrously
cverworked. They have reached the
far-away phase of they say he said"
An Indictment in a Texas case charged
that the defendant did then and there
pnlawfully and wilfully, by loud and
.ociferous talking and by other noise,
towit. kicking joint OF stovepipe," dis
turb congregation.
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The British public is gloomily trying
Ito determine whether that $300,000,000
loan 10 carry on the war can be ex-
5tracted from the various pocketbooks of
the people.
The New York legislature has finally
succeeded in passing an act giving
wolves on Governor Odell's approval to
say whether property owners Of the fair
sex shall vote on questions Involving
appropriations in villages and towns.
The New York sun says: The Hon.
Charles a. Yowne, of Duluth. is presi-
dent of a new corporation which has a
capital of s1.0O00oO We trust that this
tribune OF the people is not on they way
tc become tool of the corporations and
to put the money above the man. The
sad example of Roger Mills. James Ste
Ihen Hogg and Gen. Coxey should be
brought TO Mr.. Towne's attention al
once" II looks as If Towne is dallying
With the octopus.
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pat" said manager to one of his
| workmen. you must be an early riser
always find you at work the first thins
| in the morning
"Indade, and Oh am, sor. It's a fam
lily trait, Oi'm thinking"
4 Then your father was an early riser
1907"
| Me father, is 1T? He roises that early
that If he went to bed a little later he'd
meet himself getting up in the mornin.'
It'd Bits.
1t Is said that President Mckinley
4 will promise the Cubans to Withdraw
4 the American forces on July II the,
accept the provisions of the Plat
amendment. He can probably make nj
better effort. as he has no latitude III
other directions.
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