Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-29
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

/ TOPICS OF THE TIMES !
l Should the experiment of treating the
/ dipsomaniacs In insane asylums utterly
fail, why not try the auto maniacs?
DR.. Parkhurst's reference to Presf-
dent Roosevelt as IAN accident" leads to
the reflection that most Of our great
discoveries have been somewhat acct
dental. Even Dr.. Parkhurst is very
likely an accident, tho scarcely great
ore.
The Official Messenger of st. Peters
burg enters a denial. probably with
government authority, of the reported
order issued by the minister Of the in
terror practically forbidding Interior
ence with the Kishinev nnassacres. II
| is unequivocally declared that no such
order was issued. This Russian denial
should in justice be as widely and as
prominently disseminated as was the
accusation. Even an explicit denial will
fail to satisfy large number of those
who know Russian methods best.
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| The new iron liberty pole at the
memorial hall in Hampton was broken
by the recent storm and section OF
about twenty feet in length driven down
thru the cement sidewalk to sufficient
~ n FIRMLY in tho earth
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A stakeholder Of Yankton bank was
arrested the other day for drunkenness.
!! The sensation in connection lies in the
| fact that the stakeholder is an Indian
and owns $4,000 worth of stocks.
sas
A Missouri paper states that the 9TH
er night, when one Of the young men of
Moore, with his best girl, was driving
home, the conversation drifted to the
subject of fortune telling. The young
man asked her If she believed in palm
istry She looked at him with dove
like expression upon her face aud said,
II think I could foretell more pleasure
IL could see the lines in one of your
deep thought until several miles had
been Travelled, when an expansive smile
Illuminated his face, he took the lines
in one hand and grasped the situation.
The assertion that the extraordinary
foreign immigration 20 the United
States will result in showing the Amer
lean workman higher up the scale may
be entirely true, but the American
workman is likely to turn black and
blue under the process.
No one has suggested that the heavy
rains are attributable tc the meeting
OF the prohibition convention.
Germany has an association for COM
batting the use of spirituous liquors,
and at It's recent meeting, held at Bres-
lau, 1t was declared that the empire
spends $750,00O,000 annually on spirits.
wine and beer, amounting to about
s12.50 a head of the population. Ger
knowledge that its people drink more
than is good for them and that the
practice is prejudicial to the countrys
prosperity. 1t increases crime and lu-
macy and poverty. diminishes the eff
cheney OF workmen, and is in all ways
injurious. An abstinent Fatherland, in
view of its historical practices, would
be curiosity, but over the waste of its
beer deluges, old as the Baltic pretty
nearly, the dove Of reform may be
winging, in which case it is an an
doubted pioneer.
That summer thoughts are robe enough
For sultry days has been suggested:
Thus lettering, cool, beneath the shade
In naught but airy dreams invested;
And minds where thought has left it's |,
seat, 4,
Yet hate the heat and sadly fear it,
VIII find the open hose and waists
Come mighty near it,
In his diary Samuel Pepys
Sat writing one day on the stepys,
While his wife from above
Was accusing her love
OF consorting with French demi-repys.
--Lippincott's
An American journal which has re-
Gently changed it's address to London
has adopted an unusual shift to build
up a circulation. The editor evidently I
believes that all men in these days have
literary aspirations. In a London pa
pei, appears an advertised invitation for
stories or articles. You are to apply at
the very respectable address of the
London daily. In reply the editor of
the Anglo-American journal says that
you have been placed on the list of
and the editor will beA