Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-01
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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+. Six months in the penitentiary is
none too much for New York auto
| mobilist who carelessly ran afoul of a
trolley car and injured twenty-five per-
sons. lie will be careful after this.
| "Wel, there will be small need of af-
| ter election apologies for remarks made
! in the heat of this campaign" is the
conclusion of the matter as stated by
the Sioux City Journal. There is no loss
of friction without some gain.
The Rockford Register hits it about
right. 1t says "a citizen who will not
vote should be deprived of the priv
Iilege." He does not appreciate his
right.
| 1t would be foolish to throw away a
vote by casting it for the prohibition
ticket. Rev James Thomson. prom-
nent Council Bluffs clergyman, says: Il
| was at one time a prohibtionist and
believed that that law could be en-
| forced which even the majority of the
! people did not want but now l am of
| the opinion that absolute prohibition
and fanaticism have retarded the prog
ress of temperance for 100 years.
Some men," said Uncle Eben, uses
seen big words to 'spress a no-'count
idea dat dey makes me think of man
wearin' a fur-trimmed overcoat over a
suit of overalls. "-Wasiington Star.
Announcement is made that Mrs.
| Grover Cleveland, having seen her four
children beyond the very young stage,
will spend a good part of the winter in
New York mingling in social gayety.
All the children except the boy favor"
their father The exception is distinct
ly a Frances Folsom boy" so the
friends of the family say. Miss Ruth
has begun to go into society little,
she visits numerous families in the
Cleveland set.
Now comes the cry that rain is need
ed for the wheat in Kansas and it is less
than two months ago that Kansas was
almost inundated. But it takes a great
deal of sand to be a Kansan.
In noticing that the inebriate law is
to be tested before the supreme court,
the Iowa Falls Citizen suggests that
just why any one would want to knock
such a. law out is not especially ex-
plicable." Perhaps the liquor interests
could solve the problem.
In another column will be found
letter from a staff correspondent who
has been In the Third congressional
district for the past three weeks. His
opinions agree with private advices
that there Is need of every republican
vote to be had next Tuesday, to insure
the election of Judge Rirdsall. 1t will
be a standing disgrace to Iowa republic
cans if the stay-at-home republican
voters are the cause of the election Of
Ex-Governor Boies to congress. That
Mr.. Boies has strength in the east end
of the district is a fact that ought to
make republicans in other sections ac-
tive in getting out the vote.
The Missouri state board for the ex-
that Incorporate men under it's juris-
diction will lose their licenses. The
hand that swings the razor must be a
steady one.
In Washington more than 800 chry-
santhemum plants are on exhibition at
the flower show opened at the agricul-
tural department building this week.
They embraced 122 varieties. All were
propagated in the hot houses Of the de-
partment and many of them are tri-
umphs of the gardeners science and
skill. The largest and handsomest plant
is misnamed Black Hawk, for the blos-
SONS, which are twelve inches in di-
ameter, are white with a pink center.
A bunch of this variety was cut and
sent to President Roosevelt. The Jap
anese minister, Mr. Takahira, has been
one of the most enthusiastic visitors at
the exhibition, the chrysanthemum be-
ing his national flower
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Wife-Be sure to advertise for Fido
in the morning newspapers.
Next day the wife read as follows
in the newspapers: Lost NANCY lap
dog, with one eye and no tail. Too fat
to walk. Answers to the name of F'ido. |
If returned stuffed 81 reward."-Tit- |
Bits.
Congressman Robert w. Davis, of
Florida, was out hunting south of st.
Augustine day or two ago when a
large black bear took to hunting him.
The congressman took a shot at bruin
ing and the fugitive climbed a tree just
in time to save himself. He remained
there several hours before help came
and scared away his pursuer.
1t Is not generally known that the
shah of Persia has four sons now in
Europe receiving their education. They
are mild and inoffensive, with hardly |
enough spirit between them to declare
an opinion, such is their fear of their |
royal parent.
TITS almost impossible, dear, to lease |
a house for a shorter term than one
year, nowadays he said, so to pro-
tect myself must ask you"
ASK me what?" interrupted his
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