Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-02
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/ Prof. Hicks predicted a shortage of
rain in June and here's hoping that
| this time ne is no false Prophet Iowa
crops can stand plenty of hot, dry
weather from now on and prosper.
/ The Sioux City Journal thinks the
chances are that after all the old sol
diers are dead, sooner or later Mem
orial day will pass from the calendar.
| 1t is possible that the Journal is mis-
| taken, however, as the holiday has
rooted itself in the common heart too
deeply to be easily eradicated or for
| gotten. Possibly formal celebration Of
the day as a soldiers holiday may
cease but the annual tribute of flow
ers is likely to be laid on the graves
of all future time.
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William Jennings Bryan will speak
at the Marshalltown chautauqua on
The Inspiration of an Ideal" From
here he will go directly to the demo-
cratic convention at St. Louis. If that
isn't versatility, what is?
DR.. Wolf a Vienna specialist. in
sists that beer drinking in the princi-
pal cause of cancer, and that the alb
stainer from lager will be practically
immune. But DR.. William George,
Beare, of London, insists that it is
the smoker who is never immune. but
always subject to the attack. while
DR.. Won Schlichte, of Munich, declares
that to eat meat is to invite cancer.
There is ground for reasonable sus-
picion that all these doctors are in
league with the breakfast food people.
The Nonpareil imagines If Tom Dem
nison is being entertained in Iowa
next Memorial day, he may find It
difficult to get leave of absence 10
visit the cemetery. He will also find
difficulty in earning the influence of
railway attorneys or impressing them
with belief in his innocence by running
niggers into Council Bluffs to vote for
a railroad candidate.
Rosebud lands and $40 acre home
steads doubtless offer great temptation
to people of speculative disposition, but
speculation is two-edged weapon
that is as likely to cut one way as an
other.
The attendance on the opening day
of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
is now officially reported to have been
1878. When the great White City
in Chicago. in 1893. unbarred it's gates,
the assemblage numbered 137,557. But
that was more than a decade ago, and
this country has made amazing prog
ress In population and national devel-
opment since then.
President Thomas of the Lehigh
Valley road proceeds to tell us that
anthracite coal is a luxury as much
SO as diamonds. He might have made
his proposition just as clear by say
ing that diamonds are as much a
luxury as anthracite coal.
Oskaloosa. finds consolation in the
no further down the ladder Oska-
loosa should read the column of per-
centage up.
Miss Sullivan, the teacher ompan-
ion Of Helen Kellar, is no admirer of
modern kindergarten methods. Il
don't want any more kindergarten
materials" she is quoted as saying.
Il used my little stock of beads, cards.
and straws at first, because l didn't
know what else to do. am beginning
to suspect all elaborate and special
systems of education. They seem to
me to be built up on the superstition
that every child Is kind Of idiot who
must be taught to think. Moving
about freely among real things, COM
bining impressions of himself, he will
have more growth than sitting indoors
at little round table while a sweet
voiced teacher suggests that he build
stone wall out of wooden blocks"
A majority implies a minority, and
there always are, and probably al
ways will be, a few Des Moines Regis
ters and Leaders and Marshalltown
Times Republicans.-Gate City.
This assurance OF the Gate City will
be taken very kindly by highly re-
spectacle class of newspaper readers,
that would miss the honesty of con-
viction and fearlessness of expression
the Gate City, ETC., finds so annoying. |
A Chicago girl wrote the beauty de-
partment of "a local paper and asked,
What is good for big feet?" Promptly
the reply appeared, Big Shoes" -
Houston Post.
1t would be about the right idea
for the American marines to capture
the sultan of Morocco and hold him
until he delivers the bandit leader on
board an American war ship.-Cedar
Rapids Gazette.
This is an excellent suggestion. Why |
not tell it to the marines?
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
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