Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-27

his origin.
The Washington Gowa) Press pro-
pounds the query: rs 4 not our duty
TO ourselves and our friends to be sat
isfed with our lot, not TO the point OF
Ilaziness. but with a reasonable ane
we'll ordered contentment?"
The repudia ton of Tilman and
tGraves by a South Carolina newspaper
Will scarcely appeal to the reader as
heartfelt Mr.. Tillman has given ut
terance in the senate to the same senu-
ments he expresses on The Chautauqua
platforms and in so doing gained the
Applause of the southern people. 1t is
not Mr.. Ttllmans sentiments the south
repudiates. but his impolitic fashion OF
franlSness.
The Dubuque Times comments that
Minneapolis has taken up the move
lment for narrower roadways. She has
had her own sad experience with the
wide open town"
There isn't much different between
stealing a red-hot stove and the feat
of the Coon Rapids thief who carried
away two swarms of bees.
An Illinois man has accomplished
the feat of playing a piano continuous
/ ly for twenty-six. hours. but those who
have had musical neighbors will not
find much in the performance to aston
lish them.
The feud between the cattlemen and
the sheep owners In one district OF
Montana reached the vilest horrors OF
ferocity and cruelty wien band of
|cowboys captured ar unfortunate
shepherd and beat him with whips UNI
| til he was dead. His only offense was
that, having been warned to take him
self and his sheep away from that part
OF the state, he had refused to so. The
|lynching spirit of mob violence is pilinS
terror upon terror.
| w. ]. Bryan's daughter Ruth is to
|
staff and study sociology under Jane
Adams. She is 10, bright and capa-
BILE, with an ambition TO do good. II
she has 1.-THE of her fathers energy
and endurance she should succeed.
| Baseball of the kind INDUCED in ut
Orange City is likely to bring on hears
failure The Herald of that place thus
describes the game: "a deep and
death-like silence hung over the vast
crowd; the set jaws, staring eyes and
labored breathing evidenced an ex-
| traordinary excitement Was the audi
ence listening to the closing words OF
the orators eloquent peroration? Were
they waiting in silence for the decisive
ballot to be cast? Were they intent on
hearing the final blast from GabrieIs
trumpet? No, but Dick Rhynsbnrger
was at the bat, with two strikes al
ready thrown. two men on bases. TWO
out in the last half of the ninth, and
the score was to in favor of Alton.
And when little Dick made that hit
and George Ven de Steeg and Billie
Coad crossed the plate with the two
winning runs, the archangel couldn't
nave made himself heard with resi-
ment of artillery"
Don't pull yer gun inthis here court
Said the Billville justice. you've got
to respect the dignity which you see
lynn loose round here. If you want to
Kill man whilst courts in session, HI
fine you for contempt"
Atlanta Constitution.
The Philadelphia woman who uses
The monograph to teach parrots to talk
should be suppressed. parrot that
talks like photograph seems to be
about the limit of human endurance.
1t will be surprising to learn from
consular reports that there is substan-
TALLY as large a corn belt in South
America as In North America. TIL.
only reason Argentine corn is not
known in the markets better is be-
cause it has been easier to make money
out Of grain and grass than out of corn.
or at least it has involved less work.
But recent statistics show that even
az it is South America is raising corn.
Argentine is two-fifths as large as the
United States. but has only about five
million inhabitants. With this sparse
population it had 100000 acres of corn
Hast year, that yielded 130,600,00O bush
els. The United States had 94,000,000
acres and a yield of 2.523.000,000 BUSH
lels. Population considered. Argentine
makes very fiatterng showing. Ar
gentine's average last year was over
Thirty bushels to the acre, while the
average with US was only twenty-seven
bushels.
| A frugal old fellow named ---
! Put his savings away in a bank;
| But the bank it went bust"
And the old fellow cussed,
Saying, "---ity, --ity, -
Toronto Mail and Empire.