Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-12
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SdLililS ana iSHcnlnS the llSnl IllJl,
island isn't in it with the Unitet
States.
Professor Langley might make {
few necessary alterations in his airshil
and call it a submarine boat.
And now Or" Dowie proposes tc
have his own flag. The star spanglec
banner that all have struggled along
under for a century or so fails to con
form sufficiently to the Dowie ideal OF
beauty to float over Zion City. Blu,
Dowie fails to come up to the general
American ideal of anything but buncc
man. so that matters are still even be-
tween the United States and Dowie
The Boone News believes the con-
Isoldated Jefferson weelslies were wise
/ to avoid hyphenated name.
! Some young people of Norborne Mo-.
have invented cipher system for the
purpose of communicating with one
another. but it seems not always to
work well. On Sunday. says the Cali
fornia Dispatch, q young man sent a
mote TO a young woman in that town
requesting the pleasure of calling on
her. On one corner of the envelope he
placed the letters IS. b. N" An an
swer WAS received in due time, which
bore the letters "E. H. T. c. l. W.
When he arrived at her home she asked
what IS. Il. ~" meant. 1T meant Sent
by Niger of course" was his reply.
Then he asked what the letters on her
note meant why, john" she replied,
don't you know what those letters
mean? They stand for, Excuse haste.
the coon is Waiting"
y Belle PLANE farme~ asserts that
good roads are to a community what
good clothes are to an individual. They
are more. one can get along in over
alls. but not over bad road.
The human interest EDITORIAL fails to
touch the horsey man when it sets
rider astride OF Elastic Pointer the
blind PAGER, and makes The horse know
the pressure of his riders knees as
the Des Moines News did Saturday. 1t
knocks the faith out of harness
horse man to put a Jock up on his
favorite PAGER.
The newspapers of Oklahoma are Sc
we're on storekeepers who do not adver-
t!se properly. The following shows the
method of attack: "a donkey stepped
into a store and the proprietor APP
preached the beast and asked: What
are you doing here?' I am here said
the donkey, because / saw your adver-
tisement on the fence that surrounds
my pasture. l know you too, must be
u donkey or you would place your adj
Nerdsement in paper where 1t would
be read by people, not donkeys. Being
lonesome today / thought l would be
ana make a fraternal CALL"
A crazy rush to see :, fight was re-
sponsible recently for the death and in
jury of a number of psople at a ball
game. The man who s.ampedes at the
cry of fight" in any public place should
be jailed along with the fighters.
The mayor of Dumont has published
{. notice giving warning that the habit
of cursing and swearing and the use of
Indecent and obscene language upon
any of the public highways or places
in the town of Dumont must and shall
be stopped, and callinS upon all re-
spectacle citizens to aid in enforcing
the law by fling information before the
mayor or justice of the peace against
any one guilty of the same.
Harry to Olive.-Tess -Harry Good
ey is engaged to Olive Soberle; you've |
heard of it, of course?
Jess-No! The idea! 1 thought she
vas too much wrapped up in her tenn |
oerance work to bother with matr!- I
nony.
Test seems not BY the way, her
ring is quite appropriately I
Inscribed, the very essence of temper
ince-"H 9 o."
philadelphia Press.
DIR, r. T. Styll, of Newport News,
Va. who has been travelling in England,
,lams to have discovered that in the
slightly improbable event of the house
II Stuart being restored to the British
hrone during the life OF Captain j. T..
;. Stuart that gentleman would be le-
,al successor to the place now occupied
~ King Edward. Captain Stuart is the
My son of the noted confederate cav
dry leader.
That body can acquire during the
light different temperature from that
e the surrounding atmosphere has
,een demonstrated by Mr.. Well, an En-
,lish physician. If a Thermometer is
AIKEN from the window. wrapped in
otton and placed on the ground its
mercury will descend seven or eight de-
.rees. Vegetables similarly situated,
nd being bad conductors, may freeze
t a time when the thermometer does
lot mark the freezing polnt--proof that
he cold experienced by q plant may be
ntirely different from the temperature
{ the surrounding air. This low tenn
erature Of plants, however. only occurs
rhen the night is clear, since at this