Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-31
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After election, Thanksgiving; after
Thanksgiving, Christmas; after Christ
mas. the bills.
Great Britain herself has been the
author of SO many sea outrages that
the sympathy of the world should be
extended mostly TO the families Of the
harried fishermen.
Nearly 100 of the representative bus
natl have forwarded to President
Roosevelt a protest against newspaper
guessing contests especially on the
election. They urge in their protest
or petition that the schemes complain
ed Of therein stimulate the spirit of
gambling, encourage breaches of trust,
create profligacy and mendicancy and
that they are as detrimental to public
morality as any lottery ever devised.
and being firmly of the opinion that
they are in contravention of the United
States statutes against lotteries and
schemes Tor the distribution of money
by chance"
A story revived in an account of the
killing of the train robbers at st. Louis
relates to the theft of q cow near
Washington some years ago by 6. man
and his wife. Some boys were watch
ing the cow and made her capture inn
possible. At last the wife went in
bathing in nearby creek and while
the boys were taking sneaking obser-
vations and surreptitious peeps the
husband made away with the bovine.
The moral of the story If it has one is
keep your eyes on the COW.
Lake township in Clay county, is
under consolidated school system.
Last year eight carriers were employed
at monthly salary of $40 for
themselves and teams. This year
arrangements have been made with
some Of the older pupils to do the car
rying. These furnish wagon and team
at SIS month, and have built barn
at the central school to accommodate
the sixteen head of horses necessary to
convey the pupils back and forth be-
tween their homes and the school
house.
An engaged Creston father, whose
daughter had been out riding until two
o'clock With a travelling man, hunted
the latte,. up at his room in hotel
and beat him over the head with beer
bottle so severely that a doctors SER
vices were necessary to patch him up.
The story is good as far as it goes
The sequel should show whether the
incident brought ordinary common
sense to the girl and taught the father
to look after his other daughters be-
fore their cases reach the beer bottle
stage.
One of the largest single shipments
of cattle made by one firm to the KAN
sas City market at one time recorded
in many months, recently arrived at
the yards. The shipment Included
fifty car loads Of mixed cattle from
the FL Captain Land and Cattle Com
pany, of Richardson, N. M. The ship
ment came in in two train loads, of
twenty-five car loads each, and att
tracted considerable attention. In the
string were 2-year-old steers, cows and
a few older steers. and about eight
car loads of bulls. The ages of the
latter could be imagined only after see
ing them, as they We're a hard looking
lot They were battle Scared, some
with horns on and some broken off,
while they bore deep gashes in their
bodies by fights out over the ranges
over which they had roamed for
all the way from ten to a dozen
years.
Father (who has been called upon in
the city and asked for his daughters
hand)-Louise, do you know what a
solemn thing it is to be married?
Louise--Ah, yes, pa, but it is good
deal more solemn being single-Judy.
s There are 1000 American teachers in
the Philippines, centered in 33S larger
towns out Of the 934 towns in the en-
tire archipelago. Two thousand pri-
mary schools are in operation, and
they employ the services Of 5000 native
teachers. The inhabitants there are
the only oriental people who have ac-
copied Christianity and shown >asp1ra-
tons toward civil liberty. 1t is a good
material for western educational meth
DDS to work on, shows good progress
so far and with better still in prospect
as the years go on.
Two hundred Cossacks are reported
to have come back recently from
desperate reconnaissance with every
man wounded. In view Of the reports
from Russian headquarters it would
be proper to ask how many Of them
were only half shot.
The Upton Advertiser calls attention
to the fact that in 1895 work horses OF
fairly good quality were selling for
from SIS to $25, when they could be
sold at all. In that year about the only
way the owner could get rid of his
horses was to trade them for Dakota
land. What a change has come about
since the country turned again to the
narty of protection to home industries!
A very common horse brings $125 now
and even Dakota land has become
mighty good property.
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