Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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The Gate City irreverently observes
that with bicycle revival in the east
and religious revivals in the west 1T is
anticipated that great many people
will try to keep in the straight and
narrow path.
A David Harum story comes from
Anthem Iowa. A horse buyer for the
British army was in Anthem the other
day trying to sell a pony which had
been foisted upon him thru cunning
trick at Cherokee. Horses for the cav
airy must not be under certain height.
The buyer used a cane to determine
how many hands the horses stood, and
when his back was turned farmer
who had pony which failed to come
UP to the requirements by an inch cut a
couple of inches off the bottom of the
cane.
Unto an ounce of brandy put small
dose of cocaine; drink the mixture, and
the mental and nervous condition
which is the normal state of the citizen
Of Butte. Mont" says writer in the
Boston Transcript 1t is probably the
only town In the country that never
closes it's doors. Men work in the mines
and smelters in three eight-hour shifts,
and the stores, restaurants, theaters,
etc, are regulated accordingly. SO the
life of Butte is literally a continuous
performance" There is no distinction
between night and day. 1t is glare and
hustle all the time, and there are no old
men in Butte.
In the entire state Of Mississippi
there are only two rural free delivery
routes In the Ninth congressional dis
trict of this state there are seventy.
The difference in the enterprise of the
ly be better Illustrated. From this re-
port and the Washington press dis
patches concerning Senator Monyey's
jack knife Mississippi is more given to
whiting than to reading.
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Two thousand workmen at Alton, ILL.,,
have agreed not to eat meat for thirty
days, the decision being in the nature
of retaliation against the beef trust.
Doubtless the high prices of meat at
this time will tend largely to vegeta-
rianism, but If all become vegetarians
49, 1,,l,1 u 10, ,ct Nhat
is needed is not retaliation, but regu
lation. Certain things are necessary to
the people. Trusts will control the sale
of these things If possible, and they
will exact unjustitiably high prices IL
permitted. The, Alton workmen have
only resoyled to do what many other
workmen have been forced to without
the necessity of passing resolutions.
"If we had the poetic talent of
Markham" says Kansas paper, 1--WE
would versify the man with a hole in
his pocket who made quite an exhibit
tlon yesterday by dropping pint flask
on the stone pavement to the great
amusement of bystanders and the hor-
ror of the sorrowing friends that had
Clipped in
Speaking of the possibilities Of re-
trenchment by reducing the size and
cost of our present army an eastern pa
PER says: THE $2,000.000,00O saving in
c single year would pay he entire cost
of the isthmian canal. In another year
1t would buy out the whole telegraph
system of the United States and pro-
vide US with government cables to all
our island possessions. In the third
year it would irrigate enough land to
support million families. In the fourth
year it would make ship canal from
Lake Erie to the Hudson by by which
the lakes would be given free access to
the ocean. In the fifth year it would
open deep-water navigation from Chi
cago to the Mississippi. In the sixth
year it would make every important
harbor on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts of the United States accessible
to the largest steamers
The Alden Times understands that
convention of bullheads and black bass
will be held next week to protest
against allowing j. j. Hosier to live lin
Alden and particularly to prevent him
from wandering up, down or across any
stream, creek, millpond or river where
any fish have been living the past year
on peace and security" If the Alden
situation is anything like the state of
affairs reported from Steamboat Rock
the convention can't be held too soon.
Secretary Shaw tells this story about
Professor Hyatt, the weather observer
at st. Louis: Professor Hyatt has the
appearance of business man. During
the recent street car strike he was
about to get on car when member
of the strike committee stepped up to
him and asked If he intended riding on
the car. The weather man replied that
such was his intention. The striker
sought to persuade him not to ride, but
the professor preferred riding to walk
ing, and started to get on the car.
well, If you ride on that car we will
withdraw our patronage from YOU"
said the striker. Il don't care whether
you patronize me or not I'm in the
weather business" replied Professor
Hyatt, as he hoped on the car.