Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-24


they are delivered to the former with
Mondays markets and Mondays news
nearly forty eight hours late, while the
special rural route edition of the T.-R
will reach him on the same trip with
Tuesdays markets and Tuesdays news
Farmers should not be fooled on this
point. The IRIS news and the T.-R. S
markets are telegraphed to it and
printed the same day the events occur
Philadelphia is not sanity in all its
features Perhaps 1T was selected for
nefarious work because it is a quiet
place.
Chicago will need 100000 turkeys for
Thanksgiving and will probably get
them.
BY far the most important develop
ments of late in the industrial situations
are the extensive advances in wages
by the leading eastern railways. In
thus extending the purchasing power
OF q vast army of wage earners, the
standard of living moves higher and
the products OF other industries are
consumed more freely. All branches
of manufacture must feel the helpful
influence.
The retirement of the Rev. DR.. Mil
burn, the blind chaplin of the United
States senate, will remove one of the
most picturesque figures from public
life in Washington. He has held the
office since 1893, and at. the time of
his election had bene the chaplain of
the house for ieght years.
She's evidently the apple of his
eye
He told me she was a peach"
so? Well. at any rate, they are a
fine looking pair. ''-Indianapolis News.
Objection to the use of the French
word chauffeur" in the ordinance reg
ulating the speed of automobiles in
Kansas City has led to the substitution
of the word operator" to designate
the man controlling the machine.
In Kansas Lyon county farmer
named Bishop with his wife and three
children. tried to cross the Cottonwood
river at Bakers ford Sunday, the 18th.
The team became stuck in the mud in
midstream and the family had to stay
there Sunday afternoon, all night and
!, H.
carriage We're pulled out by means of a
block and tackle. This will remind
more than one old settler of equally
grieyous experiences.
In an Australian theater recently a
man arose in the front row of the gall
Iery during the third act and remarked:
This is bad play, and the acting is
even worse than the play
The leading actor came to the foot
lights and retorted
You have no right to interrupt. II
you don't like it, go outside"
Excuse me- rejoined the malcon-
tent, 81 have the right to criticise what
have paid for. If I buy pound Of
butter and find it is bad 1 say so. I
have bought shilling's worth of this
show, and it is an imposition. | want
my money back"
At this point stalwart attendant in
terposed. Clawing, supplementary
language and smashing of furniture en-
sued Eventually the champion of
playgoers rights emerged triumphant
from the fray Holding shilling on
high, he exclaimed:
TITS all right; I've got my money
back The play can now proceed
Experiments in cotton growing on
the west coast of Africa show that 1T is
a paying crop, and can be produced in
unlimited quantities. This in time may.
and very likely will, make West Africa
more enduringly important to the world
at large than the southern section OF
the continent, with all its diamond and
gold mines.
Mr.. Wiggles-When ole I want only
the truth carved upon my monument.
Mrs. Wiggles-The truth as you see
It or the truth according to your
neighbors? -Somerville Journal.
A young clerk in the treasury depart
ment went in to bid Secretary Shaw
goodbye the other afternoon, saying he
was going on his vacation. How long,
asked Mr.. Shaw. Thirty days." was
the clerks reply. Great Scott ex-
claimed the secretary Thirty days!
WHY. I've only had three days real
loafing time in twenty-five years,
Good bye. Hope you have good time.
Two Roman lions, the architectural
decorations of the marble mantel IN the
state dining room at the white house,
washington, have reused merry War
of wit. A cabinet officer who was in.
specting the work of renovation stood
aehast as he saw the two rampant
lions. the symbol of British power and
supremacy the world over, showing
their teeth from an American state
apartment.
s"This will never do in the world" said
he in mock terror. What will the An
glophobes say when they hear about
this ?"
."That's all right" said one of the
decorators calmly. Now that you call
NV attention to it, I'll have it changed