Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-18

you constables arrest them?" The po-
liceman regarded the minister solemnly
Sir" he replied. there are thousands
of people going to he'll every day. Why
don't you ministers stop them?"
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! Correspondents in all parts of Kansas
are unanimous that this weeks five
inches of snow is the best thing that
could have happened for the winter
wheat, and live stock has not been in
| jured in the least.
Brooks" said Rivers, second time
you've used the term aching void How
can void ache?"
We'll" said Brooks, rehectively, mot
to speak of a hollow tooth, don't you
sometimes have the headache ?"--New
York Press.
Uncle Sans good work in Porto Ri
co is bearing unexpected fruits. The
Spaniards begin to realize the advan-
tage of living in a country over which
the United States flag floats, and hum
dreds of them who went home to Spain
from Porto Rico when that island be-
are now returning. In the last fiscal
year Sal returned and the number has
been increasing since June. They see
that Porto Rico is prosperous and that
they are better protected than when at
home in Spain.
A great many excitable people think
that Germany and England are trying
to knock a chip from Uncle Sans
shoulder.
The Kansas City Star wants to know
whether congress itself will use any of
the appropriation which it has made
for stamping out the foot and mouth
disease. Twill depend on the issues
which the loud ones seek to bring to the
front.
Charity Virgins, colored woman
and the mother of the well-known pi-
anist, Blind Tom, has just died at Bir-
mingham, Ga. She was born in slavery
James N. Bethune.
1t is limited in Washington that every
time Secretary of Navy Moody thinks
of Cannon in the speakers chair he also
thinks of what might have been. When
Moody relinquished his place in the
house he could not foresee that Hem
derson would resign the speakershfp.
The Massachusetts man would have
been formidable candidate, and even
had he been beaten by Cannon he prob
ably would have succeeded that gentle
man as head of the appropriations
committee-a position of great power,
as Moody well knows. Still more, he
might have stepped to the front as a
party leader in the house, with a pros
pect whose uttermost confines would
possibly include the white house. All
this is said to bring faraway look into
Secretary Moody's eyes once in a while.
The Ruling Passion.-Doctor-Y
temperature is up to LOT.
Auctioneer drowsily) -Hundred an
seven. Hundred an seven! Going, going
at hundred an seven! Who'll make it
a hundred an eight?--Chicago News.
A shrewd observer says this Is the
season when a shopper starts out to
buy for 81 a present that will look as
tho it cost So, and returns home with
a present that cost 1928 that looks like
seventy cents marked down from eigh-
ty-five.
The officials of the japanese govern
ment having in charge the establishing
of the government breeding stud are
the reputation accorded
the citizens of that young empire of be-
ing the most level-headed and prosper
Gus of eastern nations. Up to the pres
ent time they have secured two con-
signments in this country and they
make the announcement that not only
will still more extensive purchases be
made of the American trotter, but that
all of the foundation stock will be ex-
clusively of this breed. Japanese agents
visited this country and personally Sc
lected the horses purchased by the gov
eminent, and 1t is said they displayed
good knowledge of individuals and
breeding in making the selections.
Early Lessons il ORTHODOXY. -
Squire (to rural lad)-Now, my boy,
tell me how you know an old partridge
from young one?
Boy-By teeth, sir.
Sauire-Nonsense, boy! You ought to
know better. A partridge hasn't got
any teeth.
Boy-No, sir; but have.
Punch.
In New York City in completed con-
dition for the first time upon his recent
arrival from Europe. The Tribune
says: "Mr. Carnegie comes back to a
cold and frosty town. Nevertheless it
is likely that he can afford to buy coal
enough to heat his big new house in
Fifth avenue, one of the largest city
homes to be seen anywhere in Amer
ica.'
Sidney Clark of Black River. Wis.,
the inventor of the paper collar, is now,
at the age of SO, at work on what he
calls spring automobile.
Saved at Graves Brink.
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