Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-06

pasted a card Whlcn READ. This is the
weight which your recent telegram
lifted from my heart"
The deer seem to be doomed in Min
resota. About 10000 hunters have OBJ
tanned licenses this year, as against
5000 last season.
A story is told of AL thur Balfours
experience as secretary for Ireland
which illustrates both his popularity
and the wit of the celebrated Father
Healey. Balfour asked the priest on one
occasion: do the Irish really hate me
as much as the newspapers say?' MY
dear sir" was Father Healeys answer,
"if they only hated the devil half
as much as they hate you my occupa-
ton would be gone
"Some folks" said Uncle Eben, sis a
good deal like mules. Dey uses up
enough energy to do days work
stan'in roun' an kickin'."
Washington Star.
Not in His Line.-''What is his stat
us in this community, If may ask?'
He amt got none that ever heerd
on. He run grocery for while down
to the Corners, but if he ever had any
status there 't'wa'n't KEEP out in sight
where anybody could see it.'-Chicago
Record Herald.
1t is noteworthy that the subject of
teachers salaries has a conspicuous
seventh annual meeting of the State
Teachers Association. to be held IL
Lincoln, Neb., on Dec. 81 to Jan. 2, in
elusive. Chancellor Andrews, of the
State University. is to have a paper on
the question, How Can We Secure
Funds to Increase the Teachers Sal
ary?" and State Superintendent Fowler
and Mrs. Emma RiddeIl, of David City,
are to lead discussion of the same.
Following this are papers and discus
sions on the topic: IF We Increase the
Salary, Shall We Demand Better
Equipped Teachers?"
The foot and mouth disease among
cattle in New England is spreading, but
it is believed that the prompt measures
taken to stamp it out will prove effect
i've
John d. Rockefeller's first business
venture was the raising of a flock of
turkeys. In remarking upon this the
st. Louis Post-Dispatch is reminded
that he has been gobbling things ever
since
Some Of the rich Kansas farmers are
inducing instructors at the State Agri-
cultural College to resign in order to
become farm foremen at increased SAL
aries, which leads to the suggestion
that several such cases are useful in
impressing Kansas with the necessity
of paying the professors what their
services are worth.
The postoffice department has pre-
pared a set of statistics, says the
Springfield Republican, which amount
to an Indictment against every fourth
person in the country for misdirecting
mail. The department handled 1885,
43T pieces Of mail last year which were
wrongly or imperfectly directed. Near
ly ten million Of these We're either for
warded with corrected addresses or re-
turned to the sender. The money taken
from the letters that found their way
to the dead letter office, and for which
no owners could be found, together
with the amount realized from the auc-
ton sale of unclaimed articles accumu-
lated in the office, aggregated $1S,45S.-
49, The annual auction this year is soon
to take place.
Lieutenant w. c. Fitzpatrick, Sew
enth infantry, one of the student OFF,
GERS attending the general service and
staff college in Leavenworth, Kas., has
Just sold part Of his oil land in Beau
mont, Texas, for $25O,0oo.
Mississippi had the earliest snow
storm on the 4th it has experienced for
years. OF course, business was sus-
pended.
Friends of the late Senator Vance of
North Carolina are raising funds to
purchase life-size marble bust of the
senator to be placed in the rotunda Of
the Carnegie library building at Char
lotte, n. c.
It is stated that several commissions
ers Of immigration who met in Wash
ington this week have information as
to several points on both the Canadian
and Mexican frontiers where immi-
grants have been crossing into the
United States unmolested, and arrange
ments are perfecting under which these
runways will be closed and a more
rigid inspection of the frontiers put in
to operation. An example should be
made OF those engaged in aiding this
worH.
In New York the estimate Of divi-
dends to be disbursed in January APP
proximates $150,000,000, an enormous
division of prosperity profits, exceeding
those for the similar date last year by
$25,000,000.
The beautiful snow may become so
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