Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-13

Topics Of the Times
MISUNDERSTANDING,

!. lUplCO VI lAC AMMO j.
If a resident Of that city Harry
| Leher might be able to get on the pub
lie library board of Council Bluffs.
An eminent professor has calculated
that the mortality among bachelors
from the age of 80 to as Is 27 per cent,
whilst among married men of the same
age it is is per cent For Al bachelors
who attain the age of 40 years there
are IS married men who attain the
same age. The difference is still more
striking in persons of advanced age At
60 years of age there remains but %
bachelors for as married men. At 20, II
bachelors for q married men: and at
so, 3 bachelors for 8 married men.
e. c. Hillweg has resigned his rep
ortorial position, with the Des Moines
News to become telegraph editor of the
Times of Minneapolis.
finds a place on public library board
and Council Bluffs seems entitled to
four-fold sympathy In this respect
With four democratic members pres
ent and In majority at a meeting of the
library board of that city single
singled out and stricken from list Of
forty books presented for considera-
ton. The other thirtynine were pur-
chased. The four democrats as a unit
voted for Its rejection. Neither the
personality nor partisanship Of the
four members needs comment.
Many of the new fall suits are of The
divorce variety.
General Kuropatkin has made start
toward Christmas dinner but is likely
to find his goose cooked long before he
gets to Toxic.
There are thirty-seven vacancies in
United States marine corps Ca position
that pays $1,000 a year,, and Secretary
Morton will have to fill them by No
vember is. He will give preference to
boys from the west. Applicants must
be between twenty-one and twenty
seven, and as for the examinations Their
will be physical examination and
then a professional test.
Edith-When ] accepted Jack he said
he was in the seventh heaven
Ethel-Quite likely; he's been en-
gagged to six other girls this season.
Jester.
New York pavement experts note {;
strange thing. Prices for asphalt work
are still going down. Two months ago
bids at $1.S0 to $1.90 square yard for
large paving contracts were rejected
because they were considered too high
Today the same bidders offer to do the
work in some instances for SO cents
square yard and in others at "a cents
Three years ago as high as 500 a
square yard was exacted for asphalt
work. And the contractors expect to
make money at SO and "a cents, too.
The Centerville City council has
banished hitching posts from the city
square and substituted hitching places
erected on a tract leased by the city.
49,
Bob Fitzsimmons, who announces
his intention to quit the ring and the
stage for good is attempting to capt.
talize health farm for ladies and gem
tlemen, a sort Of strenuous sanitarium
to be presided over by himself and the
champion English female athlete
whom he has engaged. Prize fighters
and sports will be barred and all will
be permitted to use forks and napkins
at the table.
And now the south is rising up to
protest against colored garrisons at
at southern army posts. There may
come a time when the south will be
glad to see negro soldiers standing be-
tween it's homes and invasion. No
United States army post should be
barred to United States soldiers.
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Japanese officials are visiting Chi
cago this week and will make an ex-
tensive tour of the Uuited States in the
interests Of the commerce and agricul-
ture Of the Nippon empire. DR.. S.
Muva, director of the Japanese imper-
ial stud, and Hasshi Morto, member Of
the Japanese department of agricult-
ure and commerce, visited the Louisi-
ana Purchase Exposition and the Illl-
nois state fair, and before they return
to Japan they are commissioned to
purchase large number of horses and
cattle for the imperial stud and the de-
partment OF agriculture of Japan.
These Japanese officials will visit the
Stock Yards this week and inspect the
horse market and the packing Indus
try. If the Japs start into the harness
horse industry the one minute trotter
is due before long.
Aesop was about to be ferried over
the Internal stream.
"Charon," he said, "why doesn't Par
ker talk?"
THAT Styx me" replied the ferry
man, with grim humor
An Esopus quiesence reigned for two
days after this.-Chicago Journal.
Broke into His House.
S. LeQuinn of Cavendish. VT. was