Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-01
Topics Of the Times

Unless the reporter lied a man IN
southern Ohio has named his girl baby
Circumstance. Probably because II
was something over which he had no
control.
A real mean man on Philadelphia
paper has objected to the charge that
women are heartless because he oncs
knew a girl in Peoria who moved her
piano mile and a half into the woods
to do her practising.
Tt is said that agents of the Cattle
Growers Interstate Association are at
work in Iowa to bring political pressure
to bear upon Dolliver and Hepburn to
make them favor amendments to the
interstate commerce laws favored by
this association. IL the same thing
should be done by agents of the Anal
gamated Meat Cutters Union, what a
howl would be heard in the land.
An eminent physician asserts that
pure air will cure most diseases. If he
meant hot air he ought to be discip-
lined for giving away one of the prin-
cipal secrets of the profession.
Southern newspapers are seeking
justification for their negro burnings
in an extract from one of Roosevelt's
book entitled "The Winning of the
west" in which the writer on page 1872
saws: "In many Of the cases of lynch
law which have come to my knowledge
the effect has been healthy for the
community Comments on frontier
life in the early days of the west would
hardly apply to communities well es-
tablished and in possession of organic
ed institutions of government.
.'Why do you call your twins Cir
cumstances,' Jawkins?"
because, my dear, boy, they are
something over which have no con-
troll"
A st. Louis paper can see weekly
fair during the fall months. If the
st. Louis paper is seeing facts instead
Of "seein' things the fair should take
in $4,O00,000 in eight weeks and at its
estimated cost of $4,000 per day its
total operating expenses for the sum-
mer will be only s6,oOo,ooo.
Eight million dollars or more is to
be expended by the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
for improved rapid transit in the Bronx
and that part of Westchester county
lying along the Sound. Plans have
been made and estimates submitted for
"six-t tracking" the Harlem branch OF
the New Haven road, running from
the Harlem river at Willis avenue, and
133rd street to New Rochelle. OF the
six tracks from the Harlem to New
Rochelle four will be electrically
equipped with the third rail system
and two will be left for the use OF
steam trains. Two of the electric
tracks will be for express trains, rum
ming every fifteen minutes, and th=
other two for local trains, with the
same Roadway. The two tracks to be
used for steam traction will not only
handle the freight, but will be the out
let for the New York Connecting Rail-
way, running from the Harlem owe;
Randalps and Wards islands to Aston
la, where a connection with the Penn
sylyania railroad will be made.
The Des Moines Capital jumped al
that Tom Foster story as bumplSif
would grab for the wax fruit and Its
disappointment should have been the
same had not its pride been lost Ions
ago by repeated experiences of the
same kind. Democrats Nominate
Cummins Man I'm The Sixth" made
luscious headline for the Capital. The
next day other newspapers denied the
story by explaining that Mr. Foster
was a Cummins man but republican
and therefore not available for the