Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-05
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An Indiana postmaster, who re-
signed lately, gave as his reason that
| the SO annual salary was too small
tto live upon decently.
Kansas is loyal, If nothing else. a
sunday school teacher at Kansas City
asked her class where Christ was
| born, and about half the children re-
piled in chorus, '.In Kansas
One of the most noted of American
surgeons has startled the fellow MEM
bers of his profession by his bold ex-
reriments in handling the human
heart In cases Of cessation of the beat
ing of that organ under the influence
of anaesthetics. He has been SO dar-
ing in desperate cases as to cut down
TO the source and fountain of the cir
culation of the blood and so to manip-
ulate the heart as to fill the arteries
anew from the pulsations which he
has excited. Such skill might be able
to incite Russell Sage to building Ii
braries.
There are 100000 workers in the
building trades of New York who are
getting ready to strike and three times
as many women and children who are
preparing to go half fed and half clad
until the strike is over. The women
and children should be permitted to
vote for or against strikes. They
have most at stake.
Under the Georgia act whereby per-
sons convicted of felony may be set to
labor on public highways 600 men will
be put to work on the roads Of that
state.
One of the English weekly papers
tells a good "caddie' story. A distin-
guished amateur came to the links
with the air of one who has only to
come and see in order to conquer.
"Haw, caddie," he said. Yes. sir
What is the length of this hole?'
Two hundred yards, sir" "Haw,
see. Just drive and putt" He
address the ball. swung and drove it a
couple of yards. Moo" said the cad
die, moo for the dell o a putt"
The speculative manipulation of the
cotton market has forced the Lonsdale
mills. one of the largest of the Rhode
Island cotton manufactures, to run
but five days In the week. Presuma-
bly, TO one of its employees speculated
in cotton, but they lost more than 1G
per cent of their weekly wages just
the same.
Consumption of horse flesh in Ger
many is on the increase. In 1901. H.
| 600 horses were slaughtered for food
| ia Berlin, and 10000 were consumed In
Prussia during the same year Horse
meat is used because there are not
enough cattle to fill the demand
Horses are slaughtered only after they
have spent a lifetime in the harness
and no one Will deny the fact that the
| food obtained from this source is OF
very poor quality. 1t is horse meat Oh
l
of inhabitants. because the govern.
ment chooses to keep out good Ameri-
can meat to suit the agrarians. who
own most of the land on which cattle
| are raised.
| Fire losses at Baltimore have been
scaled down to s32,00O,o00 instead OF
|
Baltimore keeps on cutting down the
estimate of her losses there will be
reasonable suspicion that the whole
affair was an advertising dodge
/ So
! Cornell College at Mount Vernon
will celebrate it's semi-centennial or
June 10 to 16. at which time its annual
| commencement will also take place. A
strong effort in behalf OF the college
has been making for some time past
and there is well-founded hope that
| the institution may be able to an
nounce upon its fiftieth anniversary
it's freedom from debt and capital oil
100000, inclusive of grounds, build.
ings and endowment. The friends OF
the school are anxious to be able tc
say, cornell is worth Million
|
1 Cuba's expenses the last fiscal yea,
were about sixteen millions and her In
come nearly nineteen millions. leaving
a little nest egg of nearly 100000 tc
Put by against the time when Cubar
| Legislators shall have become dis
trict walking delegates"
4 Mrs Bacon-I see by this paper thai
the average family in the United
States has four and ven-tenths per-
sons
Mr.. Bacon--I suppose I'm the seven
tenths in this family.
-Yonkers Statesman.
|
A Thoughtful Man.
M. M. Austin, of Winchester Ind.
knew what to do in the hour of need