Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-08

needs the discipline caused by contend
! ing with the adverse forces of nature.
Without this he would speedily relapse
into the condition of the aborigines or
prehistoric races"
The Hampton Chronic.. unkndly but
| scnsibly observes that IF the Des
Moines News would cut out some of
those nasty advertisements it would
] have more effect on the morals of its
readers than those double column four
| to-pica loaded editorials on the same
subject"
| A Quincy Clergyman performed four
marriage ceremonies in twenty-four
hours the other day, and the Gate City
suggests that should keep the divorce
courts busy for little while
eff the country schools were patron
izad by a full complement of pupils,
says the Rockford Register. say thirty
instead of five to ten. rs SO many OF
them are, there would be no trouble
in getting the teachers wages raised to
a decent figure, but the fact is that Ii
is not worth as much. is not as hard
work. to teach the small school as 1t is
the larger one, and so of necessity such
service Will not command as good
wages"
The Knoxville Journal thinks ut
isn't fair for Iowa people to fill Will
lam E. Curtis up with such yarns as
he has been printing in the Record
Herald recently. 1t is a mean trick to
take advantage of his gu'lelessness and
have him write stories about ESQ bush
els of corn to the acre and freight cars
that carry 100000 pounds of tubing.
William. William, my son. take hike.
Back to the woods! Give us interviews
with senators. tell us what the presi-
dent thinks, how the sultan SHORES. and
why the democratic party is failure.
That is your line, not farming and in
surance."
The Sioux City Journal has asked
the question. "Win Bernard Murphy
get third term as state printer and
the Pocahontas Sun replies: 1T looks
n little doubtful as we get closer to leg
islative times"
The Arlington News is figuring on
the problem: How much more COM
fort there Is in cord of wood at 81 for
man and his wife and children than
there is in a gallon of whisky at the
same price?"
"If the spirit of inf1delity ever did
rise in our minds" asserts the Hedrick
Herald, at is when we see a dirty,
drunken reprobate married to and
bounding the life out of a good Wife.
This weeks fair has brought out this
more noticeably than ever Charles
Smith. whose trial is mentioned else
where, was once rich, comparatively
speaking. so we are told. and married
level OF a WIFE, He took to drink and
is now dragging her around from town
TO town selling orange cider and con-
fectionery. She, still true to her love
of youthful days. helps him earn his
money that he spends for drink and
witness fees in the justice court We
wonder why the allwisa God lets such
an incumbrance live"
"There are yellow newspapers and II
would not be surprising II in the course
on time there would be yellow Chautau-
quas," says the Waterloo Reporter. In
either case It is because there are yell
low communities which call for that
sort OF entertainment and for that sort
Of reading
A Waterloo Man has invented stove
that will heat large house all winter
for less than $40. The Boone Repub
llcan does not know what paper he is
working for, hut Walter Wellman and
William e. Curtis had both better
guard well their 1aurels.'