Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-21

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poles.
''In spite of the coal strike and TIL,
4 political hurrah against prosperity,
\ writes Joe Howard, observers know
very we'll that city men are living
| terribly fast life. It's life that cost:
.. heap of spot cash. To 1--we in pleasan
apartments. to drive home in a han
som. to belong to clubs-and use then
Ito go regularly to fist theatrica
nights. to take Il companion there ant
afterwards little supper or even {
| bite with cab thence home. can't be
done on wind, bluff or unsustaineG
credit. Generations of chaps who live
in this Way have come and gone in the
past forty years, to my personal knowl-
edge. We see them on the brink, we
observe their early cautionary days, we
linger for q glimpse of the wild, no,
plunge-and subsequently care nc
more until a death notice suggests a
wreath
THE time may not be very far
away. says the Eldorado Republican
when political speaking will become
lost art. There is a great deal more
WlndJaHmng going on, in political
way, than is necessary. The average
man knows his duty without being told
about 1t. and if let alone will do about
as near right as do the fellows who
made their business to tell how and
what to do, and how to do it,
rs your son gifted in any way?"
asked the visitor.
should say he is" answered Mrs.
Corntossel. about everything he has
was give him by u.s.
Washington Star.
Ground was broken in San Francisco
last week for the new Fairmount Hotel,
which will be built by Mrs. Hermann
Oelrichs and Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt, Jr..
on the old Fair lot, on the summit of
Mob Hill. The Australian gum trees
that have covered the lower part of the
lot for years are being cut down, and
the old Porter mansion will be removed
Hermann Oelrichs, who has charge of
the work, expects to have the hotel
ready for guests in eighteen months
The cost of the building alone will be
pected to be more gorgeous than those
of the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York.
1t is Hermann Oelrich's ambition to
make the Paramount the finest hotel in
the world, and certainly. as far as site
and prospects are concerned, it is UNI
excelled. The view will embrace San
Francisco on its many hills. the entire
sweep of fifty miles Of San Francisco
harbor, the Golden Gate and the Pacific
ocean as far as the eye can reach and
the mouth Of the Sacramento river,
with it's picturesque islands. With a
strong glass from the top of this hotel
one should see clearly Farallon Island,
forty miles at sea, and identify steam
ships miles away from the coast.
Poor Venezuela! In the throes of civil
war, it is wasting life and property and
morals in q reckless way. Now it is
said the late fierce battle, lasting a
week, was drawn affair. which means
more of it later on.
Republicans should not let that
Satisfied feeling" keep them from see
ing that it is assured for another cleo
ton period.
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The Kansas City Star states that the
Telephone system in use in the Coates
House and the Midland Hotel are prov
ing a great convenience to guests. In
very room and office In each hotel
here is telephone. Guests may sit in
heir rooms and with little exertion or
Ter newspaper or ice water, file COM
,laints with the management scold the
or find fault with the
,ousekeeper They also may converse
With friends in New York or Boston.
Denver or Omaha without leaving their
chairs. "A salesman may
eceive orders from local jobbers and
moment later transmit them to his
ouse in an eastern or western city
The mayor Of the City Of Mexico,
suillermo de Landa Y Escandon, is in
'aris to study the sanitary and other
nunicipal systems, which indicates an
p-to-date spirit in the leading official
t the chief city of the tardy old repub-
c. ,
Wedding Bells, but No Ring.-A
outhern ournal is "pained to chroni-
le" the following news item:
IA most unfortunate accident hap
ened at the wedding last evening. The
room had placed the wedding ring in
is mouth for safe keeping, as he was
earful Of letting it fail, and losing it,
eing quite nervous at the time; and
s he faced the preacher, and gulped
own a lump in his throat, the ring
,ent with 1.-THE had swallowed it,"
The Philadelphia Ledger has this
tory in which Senator Quay and a
hrewd Adirondack native figure: SEN
tor QUAY went to the Adirondacks a
ew weeks ago to prepare for the return
ONE of his family. He rode up the
fountain in a coach that was distress
Ugly tardy, and which was following
fter another that, If possible, was .
ven slower. He chafed for time at
he pace, and then hit upon plan he
bought would serve to speed both
cams. He leaned over to the driver