Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-26
knows where it will be appreciated and
do the most good"
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Judging from the lists of names OF
losing investors in the Minneapolis ton
tine diamond scheme printed in the Ce-
| dar Rapids Gazette, and from the news
paper reports from other places the
statistician who put the birth rate OF
| suckers at one every minute got his
average much too low HeAshould take
a new census.
That the fools are not all dead yet is
shown in the case of the one who al
lowed himself to be persuaded that he
could beat roulette game, and thus
avenge crony on the hacker of that
revolving and seductive instrument.
The $1,000 which he dropped in the ex-
pertinent gives renewed evidence that
people of his sort and their money are
soon parted.
! The school board of Muncie, Ind, is
endeavoring by legal process to GUST
one Professor Muncie from the princi-
professor is charged with, and admits
kissing a young lady pupil, but claims
the caress was of q fatherly nature
and refuses to resign His pupils struck
in sympathy with him. 1t seems that
this matter might have been settled
The father of the young woman should
have selected a cane of the proper size
and proceeded to devote quarter of an
hour of "fatherly' attention to the pro-
fessor. This would very likely have eff
fected change in performance If not
in principal.
Four st. Louis dealers have been as
sessed 500 fines for selling alum bak-
| ing powders in violation of the pure
| food la wof Missouri. There will be
further fines If the retailers attempt to
| dispose of adulterated and deleterious
| food products as an earnest attempt to
enforce the law Is in progress. An Iowa
law based on similar premises would
prove valuable.
An Iowa law that lacks much Of en-
| fOrcement is that pertaining to the
carrying of concealed weapons. Young
men and boys pack about in their pock-
cts revolvers of all sizes all loaded and
ready for use. The person who might
have legitimate excuse for carrying
weapons rarely has one handy and nine
out of ten of those carrying pistols
have nothing to protect with their
weapons except possibly their lives
which in many cases are not worth the
trouble. The custom of carrying con-
cealed weapons is dangerous and use
| less.
Rev. Granville Lowther, of McPher-
son, Kas., must stand trial on q charge
of heresy because he claims Ewes
| temptation and downfall was not ac-
complished by veritable serpent but
that the scriptural language used in the
account of that unfortunate luncheon
party was figuratiye. They insist on
| the actual snake down in Kansas.
In a letter to The Churchman the
Rev. w. C. McCracken, rector of the
Episcopal Church of the Covenant, of
Junction City, Kas., agrees with Bishop
Potter that prohibition tends to make
| frauds He formerly lived in a Mime
sofa town nearly as large as Junction
City, where a license fee of $1,000 was
charged, and he says that he has seen
more drunken men in Junction City in
| four months than he saw in the Minne-
sofa town in more than five years. Be-
| sides q number of saloons that are al
lowed to do business by paying fine,
there are eight drug stores where, ac-
cording to rumor, liquor is sold. i be-
| lieve," he adds, that every one of our
Kansas clergy who lives in a place of
any size will testify to the same thing
| of his own knowledge. if he tells what
| he knows, and not goody goody things
quarters. believe that this fraud, de-
ceit and5 hypocrisy permeate much of
| life here, and the whole thing is poi
son more fatal to Christian manliness
than an open regulated saloon could be,
or ever has been. Let me hasten to add
that have never used liquor as a bev-
erage in my life. am no wine drinker,
nor have ever used tobacco in any
form, and hate saloon"
H. -
Col. Robert C. Clowry, recently ap-
lpointad president of the Western Union
Photograph Company, is another illus
tration that pluck, ambition and capa-
i cty for hard work are the essentials to
success. Col. Clowry has worked from
the humble position of messenger boy
for his company thru the various grad
uations of the service to tbs head. His
story is an object lesson for boys.
|
| An exchange speaking of the illness
of Rev. II. Dewitt Talmage says the
death of Talmage would be a serious
loss for the Christian world, and asks
who is there who could take his place?
There is no doubt that the death of the
eminent preacher would prove a severe
shock to the Christian world, but his
place would be filled, nevertheless No
man has been so necessary to the world
that it stood still when he departed
from it. The ranks of the workers close
up at once and march on without los
| ing step, no matter who may fall from
| their array.