Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-11-23
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TO know when the council proposes to
order a street lamp at the corner of
Seventh and Walnut streets to light up
the dismal darkness that stretches it,
self along four blocks Of that vicinity.
The Tribune's query Is vastly more
pertinent to the people of Eddyville
than any question of AIMS age or
whether the man goes round the SOUR
rel when he goes round the tree. The
weekly that devotes its energies to To-
cal matters. takes note or the absence
OF street light and urges local I'm
provement and reform has no need to
defend It's circulation against the in
roads of the dailies. 1t becomes quite
as necessary In its field as the daily in
It's wider sphere.
Panama will not be lonesome In her
expressed desire to have the good Of
fees" of the United States. Messrs.
Cleveland. German and a. lot of other
democrats are suspected OF cherishing
hope along the same lines.
When Editor Funk. OF the Spirit Lake
BEACON. declares that "tht editor of the
Armstrong Republican is an expert liar
as we'll as an expert accountant, tho
by far the best equipped for the former
position. The people Of this country who
know his Shiny record have no doubt
his poison will carry its own antidote.
he makes US all curious 10 know just
what note OF discord the Republican
struck in the harmonious chorus which
Mr.. Funk's projected removal awak-
ened. The paragraph reads as tho Ma
jor Rathbone had dropped into the
Beacon Office In his vacation wander
ings and penned line or TWO for prac-
.ice.
This is a great apple year, at least
In quantity. The quality is not the
highest. 1t is estimated that over &c.
100000 barrels of apples have been
raised in the United States this year.
That means about 0.000.D00.000 OF APP
pies. The Cleveland Leader figures that
il the population of this country is now
so,000.O00. there have been about 375
apples grown for every man. woman
and child in the United States. That
means an apple a day. every day In the
year, for every one. with few left
over.
The Drovers' Journal calls attention
to the fact that during the past decade
thousands OF men who have been farm
hands have left the country and taken
themselves to the city for employment.
To skilled labor the city offers superior
advantages. but to the ordinary laborer
the advantages fail TO keep pace with
the addition cost Of living. An eco
nomical farm hand, at the close OF a
seasons work. may have savings
amounting from 800 to the full worth
OF his wages. In the city this is an
absolute mpossibility. '1,he time will
come, we hope, when there will be a
marked decrease in the tendency city
ward. Farm wages already offer an
advantage over the city for the man
who Is endeavoring cons,ientiously to
establish for himself a competence for
his old age. Unless the man Is deter
mined on the skilled classes OF labor he
is better on the farm by many fold. And
even then 1t is question to what ex-
tent he will achieve greater success by
abandoning the farm ana Its advan-t
tages.
See the gobbler, feathers gay.
Spread In gorgeous clusters:
After next Thanksgiving day
They'll be feather busters.
philadelphia Press.
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In the death Of General Francis NJ.
Drake Iowa loses one of Its prominent.
figures. His biography is as interest
ing as a novel and Is part of the his
tory of the great national and state
changes in politics and general devel-
opment which have crowded the last
sixty years. He was a Californian Ar
gonaut, a soldier of the civil war and
a builder OF railroads. He was liberal
man and gave freely OF his great
wealth to church and educational insti-
trltions. His most recent gift was do
nation to the Memorial University at
Mason City.
He was a modern barber, and
His shop was always clean;
Els towels all were snowy white
No fairer e'er were seem.
He kept his brushes sterilized,
He used no powdered chalk;
And while he shaved he sprung line
or antiseptic talk.
Baltimore American.
Sunday School Teach'sr-We should
never do In private what we would not
do In public.
LEnfant Terrible-Hrw bout taxi
ing bath? Princeton Tiger.
An interesting experiment Is to be
made in Germany for the conveyance
OF live fish from the coast to the in
land towns. n Berlin merchant inter-
ested in the transportation of fish to
the German and Russian markets has
devised an arrangement by which a