Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-21

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extent that it made most people feel
like lying in the sunshine.
A New York City fireman of the first
grade, who has served four years re-
ceives a salary of sl,40p. He has six
days off each month, without counting
/ special leaves, and he has two weeks
vacation each year. When he has been
on the force twenty years he can ask
for, retirement at half pay for life, and
his request must be granted.
|
The case of the army officer who
committed suicide the other day by
shooting himself while his wife was
| playing the piano would suggest that
he was better marksnan than his
wife was a pianist.
The leading article of the April Gem
tury viii be The Fights of the Fur
Companies" chapter of adventure in
/ the Louisiana purchase by Agnes G..
Laut, literally Illustrated With draw
ings by Harry Fem, Willard Bonte, OF
| to Bacher and Frederick Remington.
| The story begins with the mad rush for
| the new fur field following close on the
purchase of Louisiana by the United
/ States, and traces the bitter struggle
down to the time, a quarter of Il cen
fury later, when the American Fur
Company, the child of John Jacob As
tors daring and cleverness finally es-
tablished Its supremacy. A point OF in
terest in the article will be a hitherto
unpublished portrait OF Aston.
| 1t probably never occurred to Mr..
Young to write Funk's announcement
of withdrawal in the Capital office and
score scoop on Des Moines compete
tors.
miners have voted to accept reduction
| in preference to going on a strike. the
anthracite coal trust vii have to find
some other excuse for not making the
usual summer reduction of so cents a
ton in the price of hard coal this sum-
mer. A few days ago a feeler was sent
out to the effect that owing to the cer-
tainty that there would be a strike of
4 the bituminous coal miners and a con-
sequent scarcity of soft coal the usual
summer reduction in hard coal will not
/ be made But the soft coal miners are
| not going to strike and there will be no
shortage in the supply OF soft coal. OF
course this plan will not interfere SER
iously with the plans Of the hard coal
trust. 1t has no idea of putting the
summer schedule of prices into effect
| this season.
| It may only take 60 hours to read the
New Testament but it takes con-
siderably longer to grasp what's in
lit.-Hardin County Citizen.
| An considerably less to let loose.
|
| There ought to be an opening at
Charles City for journalistic ability OF
the sort displayed by the editor of u
| Superior, Wis. newspaper when he
says: Il regard Fred Singer Parker
as being one of the most 1neasly little
animals that ever came down the poll
| teal pike. Without either top or bot
TOM width or breadth-with no more
executive ability than my old tom cat
without thing under heaven to re-
commend him to the people of this city
but glad hand and an oily smile,
| it seems incredible TO me that the fell
low should be considered in connection
with the office of mayor for the flicker
| of moment. One would naturally sup
| pose that two years of vacuum in the
mayors chair would be enough to last
the people of this city lifetime"
DIR. Cecilio Baez the newly appointed
! Paraguayan minister to the United
| States vii arrive here this week or next.
For the last fifteen years the republic
! of Paraguay has discontinued her d.
plomatic representation at Washington,
and has maintained there only coun-
sci general, the Hon. John Stewart. but
has also maintained consuls general at
New York and other large American
cities. The international influence of
| the United States having grown up re-
Gently, and commercial and industrial
developments having considerably in
creased in Paraguay, the government at
Asuncion has considered 1t necessary to
send again minister to Washington,
A Mr.. Goodman of London bet that
he could smoke eighty-six cigars down
| to an inch in less than twelve hours.
He did it with forty-two minutes to
spare At last reports he was still alive.
], France holds the snail eating champ
ionship, and now it seems as though
| England is ahead in the cigar consuni-
| ing contest. The egg eating belt some
what stretched and strained, however,
| still remains retained and retaining in
the possession of the Aclkley man who
deyoured si1ty-five eggs in an hour.
Japan is the ideal club land. In this
country the world has a good
many classes and other limitations. But
| in Japan the system has flourished from
time immenoral, and enters into the
daily life of all sorts and conditions of
men, 1t no uncommon thing for peo-
pie of means to belong to from ten to
| ona hundred different clubs benevolent