Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-08
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
1owas live stock is worth s1sl, ooo,-

q thing OF the past and just north o.
the town a portion of its bed was
plowed up and put in flax, which
Yielded bountiful crop. Last week the
Boone at the same point was one-fourtf
of mile wide and eight or ten feet
deep.
The Fontanelle Observer tells OF one
Albert Zeitlow, who has for some time
employed an unusual method of disci-
pline among his cattle. When an AMI
| NAL becomes unruly he pours a few
buckshot into its front legs to induce
quiet. On Monday he chased a cow to
the limit of endurance and then re-
sorted to the shot remedy. BY acct
dent he missed the legs and the load
went thru the heart. The animal was
promptly butchered and now they have
an ample supply of beef. 1t would seem
from the Observers story that an in
terview of thirty days duration with
the proper officials might be good
| thing for AL.
| Billy" Sunday. reviva.ist, tells the
| Centerville Iowegian that he has driven
the "dastardly, contemplate, low-lived,
labomnable saloon out Of five counties
! III Iowa. "Billys" assertion is evil
IDENTIFY based on private statistics and
an individual idea of his Importance
but it settles one open question This
oratory is calculated not to drive a
man to drink" as some have suggested,
but to drive drink away from the man.
A correspondent sends to the London
Globe list of "howlers" perpetrated by
British board school children and col
lected by the master. On the nature Of
gases, AN oxygen has eight sides" In
natural history, "a cuckoo is bird
which does not lay its own eggs" "a
mosquito is child of black and white
parents" and "a blizzard is the inside
of a fowl" In geography the following:
The equator is a menagerie lion run
ming round the earth and thru Africa"
"a meridian is the place where they
Paris are called PARISHES Among an
swers we have heard before is that of
the child who declares "Izaak Walton
was such good fisherman that he was
called the Judicious Hooker" Surely
q little child shall lead Us in the ways
of humor if this last is piece OF spon-
taneous guilelessness!
The Shaw special to The Cincinnati
Enquirer is meeting with deserved rep
rotation from the respectable press of
the state. Precisely such journalism has
made it necessary for decent newspa-
pers to justify their claims to SINGER
ity and responsibility. Whether or not
Mrs. Shaw was by reason of indiscre-
ton responsible for the alleged facts of |
the article it's talebearing and malicious
character is sufficient to condemn it and |
its writer.
A man to whom illness was chronic
When told that he needed tonic
Said. ooh. doctor, dear,
Won't you please make 1t beer?"
mo, no." said the doc. that's Teu-
tonic" Princeton Tiger.
from China tells an extraordinary story
about a derelict which has been float
ing around the Eastern sea. The Fan
ME Kerr Is four-masted bark of 2.426
tons, built of steel. She left Newcastle
IN April, 1902. with a cargo of coal for
"a EraY1o ri IaI no nrv,I
safely, but her cargo caught fire in the
South Pacific, and after trying for
more than a month to eXtinguish the
flames the ship became so hot that the
captain and crew abandoned her on
June and took to their boats. They
anded at Kauai, an island of the Ha-
waiian group. made their way to Homo
ulu, where the captain made his report
and the crew was discharged. On March
10 last the captain of the steamship
Heathdene. bound from Yokahoma to
Eormosa, sighted vessel adrift, from
which smoke seemed to arise. Steam
ng toward her he discovered that she
which had been gradually drifting
westward several thousand miles for
nearly nine months, with her cargo still
IN fire.
Composer-That sailors chorus was
.wful What was the matter?
Stage Manageable tars couldn't
ret the right pitch. -Tit-Bits.
The citizens of Glidden voted down
,owling alley by a protest signed by
'ver 100 names and the village council
will refuse liscerse. Not that the :
people of Glidden are averse to games
# skill and athletics, but because bowl
ng alleys and their ilk become places
# resort for disreputables Proprietors
f places of amusement of the sorts re-
eferred to may find lesson in the
Hidden case If they will. /
Now an imperial mandate designates l
OIL towns in Russia where Jews may {
i've without restriction. However, this {
saves an immense number of Jews out
ide such privileges or concentrates the
Hebrew population into very small !,
ortion of Russia. The freedom of the
ew is not at all patent despite Rus
ian assertions to this effect.