Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-20
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| Dalton, OF the Manson Democrat, has
had so much Of Ill luck crowded into
his few short years that he sometimes
thinks that if we should die and, b,
hook or crook. manage to get into
heaven. the minute we arrived inside
the pearly gates the lights would go ou
and 1T would begin to rain"
| The help question is n serious one tc
Iowa farmers just at present. A can
vasser for the Brooklyn Chronicle re-
ports to his paper that farmers are Of
fering from 81 to $3.50 per day for
harvest hands and can not get help at
any price. He found women in the hay
fields in some cases.
The recent accident at Fort Dodge
where n woman was killed in attempt
ing slide for life from the court house
dome brought out comment from an
old balloonist ascension manager. who
says such performers are to be had
cheaply. You can get them from
% cents to a jump up" said he. The
parachute jumper Is the cheapest kind
OF help. once knew balloonist who
by an ingenious arrangement would
send a balloon aloft with a monkey at
tached and the monkey would come
down in parachute. The monkey was
at length drowned and it was cheaper
to get men,"
Iowa county Is dry" in the saloon
sense. all saloons having been closed
by Judge Byington's decision. A new
petition must be circulated and the per-
centage secured before the saloons can
operate again.
In a short time trolley cars will run
from New York to Jersey City under
the Hudson river Over 5000 feet of
the 7.000-foot tunnel is finished. The
scheme was halted fifteen years ago by
an accident that cost thirty lives Re-
cent work on it has been prosecuted
with entire safety.
A few years ago, when the Car AL
exander III. was alive. and his family
included three sons 1t almost seemed
beyond a doubt that the succession to
the throne was secured 0 his descend
ants. and that it could hardly pass to
his brother or nephew. However, the
eldest son, now reigning as Nicholas IL,
tho married. is the father of daughters
only; the second son is dead, and the
third son, now % years of age, lis I'M
married, and apparently content to re-
main SO.
Charles NJ. Schwab is reported miss
ing by the newspaper reporters. It
might be well to look about and learn
what Mr.. Schwab took with him.
Mary Mac, the girl from Buttee,
Who at this world turned up her snutte,
And called 1t all sham,
Has gone away, alas, alack!
We long to see our Mary Mac,
With her Dam. dam, dam!"
o, has some hero caused this lack
And HobsoniZed the Mary Mac,
And hushed her like a clam?
1t may be true. 1t may, we fear
We shall no longer Mary hear,
With her Dam, dam, dam!'
O, Mary Mac,swe pray come back,
The heat is making an attack
1t is the heat that am.
Come back and all our pulses stir
By greeting the thermometer
With your Dam, dam, dam!"
Chicago Tribune.
The effectiveness of the methods of
American sanitation experts is shown |
in the reports OF medical officers at |
Manila, which show a steady decrease
in the death rate in tho city of Manila |
as result of the operations OF the I
medical officers of the army. The death |
rate of Manila for the first quarter of /
the past four years has decreased
steadily from $3.50 per thousand of the
population for the first quarter of 1900
to 22.17 for the first quarter OF 1903. If
the war with Spain had accomplished |