Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-07


was his last baby Immediately sew
eral of the ladies began to shed tears,
everybody was somewhat excited, and
in the slight confusion the writer here
of found himself embracing a lady who
stood conveniently near and who
apologized to the lady and was for
given. He apologized again, later on,
to his wife, with no very definite re-
turns up to this date"
The grand jury in st. Louis declares
that it has been "the highest aim of
some officials in that city to swndle
offered. The presentment of the jurors
says further: "They have regarded Of
fetal position merely as a means of
making money more easily than they
could in private life, and have admin
istered the trust reposed in them for
private gain and not for public good"
with some good temperance work. The
extension of the free delivery of mail
in the rural districts of New York has
called out unexpected lamentations
form certain innkeepers and owners of
saloons, who say that when farmers in
many counties had to drive daily to the
country postoffice the sales of cider and
beer We're much larger than they can
ever be under the system of distribute
ing postal matter by carriers. This is a
peculiar result of the Improvement of
the mail service. Good citizens every
where will consider this an added adj
vantage of this great utility.
A missionary, speaking in London the
other day, said that in response to ap-
peals for various articles for use on an
African farm a milking stool was sert
TO him from England. He gave it to
the negro whose duty it was to milk the
COWS, with injunctions to Sc it. On the
first day the negro returned home from
the COW sheds bruised and battered, but
with an empty pail. When asked for an
explanation of his laziness he replied:
milk stool very nice, massa, but She
wort sit on i'll"
Few magazine articles have attract
much press comment as has followed
the recent publication in the Atlantic
Monthly of the Confessions of Pro-
yincial journalist" The June number
OF the Atlantic supplements this article
with a paper by Brooke Fisher upon
"The Newspaper Industry" which
treats at large the conditions of Nero
politan journalism. The writer claims
that the American newspaper has now
become an industry" managed from
the counting-room, for business only,
which has reduced even the great New
York dailies to purely local sheets, with
public teaching but a by-product'' and
public leadership "a creed outworn."
What is said to be the finest Panama
hat in Washington is worn by Senator
Frye. 1t was sent to him by a friend,
and came without a band. Senator
Frye sent it to his halter and directed
that a suitable band be put around it.
The halter returned word that he
would not put needle in the hat, rs it
was too good a hat to be punched full
of holes. The halter said the piece of
headgear was worth over 500. The
band was placed around the hat, with
out thread fastenings.
ISoron-What'S his hllS;neSS2
Egbert-Why, he's a drummer for
automobiles.
"Oh, they have drummers for those
things, do they? Well, it's good idea.
think it would be much safer if they
had drummer and fifer go in front of
each of the machines.-Yonkers States