Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-26
Topics Of the Times

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A case where marriage seems to
| have been not only a failure but a
fizzle came up at Charles City last
week when Ida Fizelle was granted a
divorce from her husband, A. Fizelle,
on a charge of cruel and inhuman
| treatment
Those who think October is, the
date set for issuing winter clothing
to the Russian troops, too early should
remember that it will he a long cold
day when kuropatkin eats that dinner
| in Toxic.
Politicians in Wisconsin are said to
| be in frenzy of rage at McClure's
| Magazine for the offense of printing
the truth about the LaFollette situa-
| ton. Politicians in Wisconsin can now
realize family the sensations coursing
up and down the Rockefeller spine
when Ida Tarbel did some work for
McClure's.
/
| Governor Terrill, of Georgia, who
has ordered a trial by court martial
| for militia officers who failed to pre-
vent the Statesboro lynching, says
that ''the crime against these negroes
is of small Importance as compared
with the great crime against the law.
The law has been whipped, overcome,
| 1,1rf rho
negroes may not have deserved better
but surely the law did"
| With the Standard Oil people sore
at Ida TarbeTs articles, the democratic
| committee sore at William Allen
Whites account Of the postal frauds.
and the machine politicians in Wis
consin sore at Steffen's LaF'ollette
write-up, McClures Magazine is ex-
| printing the news.
The tendency back to agricultural
pursuits is evidenced by the movement
| that is now setting in among college
graduates toward this field that has
hitherto been regarded with less favor
than the so-called learned professions.
No less than ten college graduates will
enter the College of Agriculture Of the
University of Missouri this fall. The
! "profession" and practice of agricul-
| ture has good living in it which is
more than may be said of some of the
overcrowded learned professions.
Farming" is just coming to its own.
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Who says that Smith must beat his
wife?
Who says Jones leads double life?
Who says that Brown makes party
strife?
They.
Who says the Blanks i'll treat the
cook?
| That Robinson some trust funds took:
That Newrich had crooked look?
They.
Who knows the man that's bound to
! win?
Who knows the man who can't get in?
Who tells your every fault and sin?
| Iley.
Who says the words that sting and
| smart?
Who incognito plies the art?
/, And yet of whom you are part?
They.
With the Japs storming at the gates
Of Port Arthur and cholera claiming
its victims inside the wall. the defence
of the doomed Russian fortress is
| likely to take historical rank for its
stubborn determination and bravery.
Ex-Congressman LATE Pence tells q
story of an old lady who always knew
everything before anybody else. One
day her niece saw her passing the
house, and ran out to meet her. DO
come in, aunty," she begged, "and
help us. We are making charades."
"Certainly, l WILL" answered the old
| lady. Il knew you were making them
because smelled them as I came a.
long"
Passing on the case of a reform
school youth taken in charge by a
policeman who found him consorting
with thieves, Judge Hanecy says it is
unconstitutional to arrest a man for
keeping bad company He may run
in bad company without being run in.
Judge Hanecy is an excellent subject
for Chicago voters to run out of Office.
1
II the 1roquois theater is to be re-
opened for business what will become
of those indictments OF the grand jury
] for criminal negligence in connection
1 with the terrible disaster?
The only woman process server in
| the world is said to be Mrs. Harriet
A. Carr, of New York. She is employ
ed by four law firms, and earns more
than most male servers, because she