Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-06
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is composed of ganders of the Ghoslin
family only. Great aggregation for
goose eggs.
A Sigourney man has bugs. His col
lection comprises 10000 bugs from all
over the world and his collection of
butterflies is pronounced by DR.. Pam
NELL. of the botanical department of the
State Agricultural College. who came
to see them. to be the finest he had
ever seen. Most of the insects have
been collected from the butter dishes at
summer picnics.
Dr. Albert LIE Fevre. the Cornell in
structor who has accepted the profess
sorship of philosophy at Tulane, will
be missed keeniy by the students at
Ithaca. He mingled freely with the
men, and his lectures We're popular, not
alone because of their substance, but
owing also to the personality OF the
speaker A southerner himself, both by
birth and education. he should be
warmly welcomed to the New Orleans
university.
Five young men of Centerville have
departed for far western points to es-
cape prosecution for the theft of ice
cream. Since Cealtervlle shut up its
blind pigs" the ice cream and lemon
ade habit is counting its victims by
scores.
We learn from the Ottumwa Courier
that Iowa farmers believe in the re-
publican protection policy that assures
them market for their produce at good
prices They do not cere for reduced
cost in what they buy so long as the
other is maintained. They expect to
vote the republican ticket next year"
This is standpatism. We are not
farmer ourselves Just now and can not
speak with the positiveness of the
above. but 1t has seemed to us that IL
the Iowa farmer is an average man he
would agree with the above doctrine in
so far as the prices Of the things he
abs TO buy are governed by the cost
necessary for American labor to pro-
tuce them, but that If he had a suspi-
cion that some merger or securities
consolidation was using its power to
control the situation to exact a few
extra millions to pay dividends on wa
tered stock he would care something
about reduced cost in what he buys.
This is what the Iowa republican plat
. nf,-rt.
i've tariffs equally opposed to foreign
control and domestic monopoly" and
for this reason should the average man,
farmer included. vote the republican
ticket.
Down at Shenandoah they put the
preachers and school principal on the
platform of public gatherings and make
the newspaper man pay to get In ana
sir on the outside circle like an asylum
boy at country kissing bee. The edi-
tor of the Post pleads for seat among
the select. He doesn't expect to be fed
on honey nor taffy and all he asks is
that he be given respectable attention,
for he thinks he is entitled to it, In
short, like the ancient sea captain, he
claims the right to Ordinary sel-vility."
Page county has shut out gambling
and hon ale from its coming county
fair. but will admit Shenandoah man
with a photograph fitted with horn
twenty-one feet long end more than
thirty feet in circumference at the bell.
A Shenandoah paper naively says
everybody will get chance to hear
it," Page county will fool around until
it gets a lynching on It's hands.
The forced resignation Of Charles M.
Sthwab from the presidency of the
United States Steel CORPORATION IS an
ether instance of the inability OF most
men to stand prosperity" Schwab's
gambling at Monte Carlo created a
public impression that he was an I'M
safe man to guide the destinies OF a
great corporation. His actions reflected
upon the stock of the steel company,
injured sales and dscre cited the cor
poraton. Scfwab lost his job precisely
as the trusted clerk or foreman of any
other company will do by following his
example. Mr.. Schwab retires wealthy,
but it might be we'll for the poker
playing clerk to remember that he will
have to hunt another Job.
Governor John II. Mickey, Of Ne
braska. will be one of the visitors at
the Iowa state fair, which will be held
this year on Aug. 2129. Governor
Mickey was formerly an 1owan. He was
a member of the Eighth Iowa cavalry
and he will attend the reunion of that
regiment, which viii begin on Tuesday,
Aug. 20. at the state fair grounds in Des
Moines The reunion II the Thirty
second Iowa will be held at the Same
time 1t Is expected ex-senator w. V.
Allen. of Nebraska. a veteran of the
will attend.
Newspaper nre must be strenuous In
Davenport when the circulation man
ayers rush to the editorial columns. The
Times is a case IN point. 1t says:
Since the Times announced its piano
contest one OF the other local papers
has, hustled around and made proNis-
ion for di1inutive competition OF just