Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-15

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Sing song o'huskin!
Country full o. corn
Farmers feel their oats as
Sure as you are born!
Rubber tired carriages
Rollin' into town
Who wouldn't be a farmer
When the leaves turn brown!
Jack Dalton in Manson Democrat
With Missouri and Mr.. Bryan botf
in the doubtful column no wonder
poor Mr.. Parker finds himself speech
less.
The Russian advance movement was
more pronounced in Kuropatkin's or
der than in actual ground gained. More
mouth than miles.
Edward j. Sullivan who is at pres
ent American consul to Trebizond
Turkey, lays claim to be the first per-
son who suggested MIR. Roosevelt
name for the presidency. In support
of his contention to be the origina
Roosevelt man, he quotes from Il
speech he made at Rochester, In Aug
ust, 1895, when he said Mr.. Roosevelt
was n coming leader aud predicted
his nomination for the presidency.
Do you remember that IS you Dor.
rowed of me last June?
Well / should say / did; / lent s.
of it to Jones and the skunk hasn't
paid me yet!"--Puck.
An Indiana blacksmith who. finding
that his wife and daughter were both
in danger of tuberculosis and having
no money to send them to better eli
mate, built himself house on wheels
with blacksmith outfit attached. BY
living in the open air most of the
time he is curing his wife and daugh-
ter, at the same time earning more
money than he ever did located at one
place. His resourceful courage is
almost equal to the Iowa article. How
ever, an Iowa blacksmith would have
the means to send the women folks
west in a parlor car, while he staid be-
hind to look after the business.
Governor Odell says that Roose-
velts plurality in New York will be
from $4,000 to $4,000. Murphy says
the state will go $4,000 for Parker. 1t
is these slight differences OF judg-
ment that make horse races.
whats the matter with Ottumwa
having a representative in congress
once? asks Mr.. Brewster in the OF
tumwa Democrat Well, at present the
trouble seems to be mostly Mr. Lacey
The Alden Times tells of a funny
thing that happened on one of the
rural telephone lines out of Alden the
other day After using the phone, the
lady Of the house thoughtlessly laid
the receiver on a shelf, instead of hang
ing it on the hook This left the talk
ing circuit in operation. Later on her
husband came in the room and they sat
down and had q private conversation
near the telephone. From one to sew
en- other people, "who happened to be
listening caught the whole talk which
appears to have been worth listening
to. Hang a telephone anyhow. Es-
pecially hang it on the switch hook.
Can you conceive of Iowa having
any such ridiculous mixup as Wiscon-
sin now has upon her hands?" asks
the Des Moines Capital. Does the Cap
ital really mean it or is it attempting
to bluff Lincoln Steffens away from
the state?
The management Of the st. Louis
exposition has given out the figures
tober i. On the opening day it APP
pears the attendance was 125,754. Dur
ing May the attendance was 542,02S;
during June, 1,3s2,s63; during July,
1,514,75S; during August, 1,992,24s;
during September, 2.14s,035; total to
the list of October, 7,7O5,6S6.
why did she get so angry when
her husband referred to her as his bet
ter half?'
"She's his second wife, and I sup
pose it made her mad because he didn't
refer to her as the whole thing."-Chi-
cago Record Herald.
The Catholic church evidently knows
where to go for good thing. Re-
Gently three prists who edited Catholic