Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-16
Topics Of the Times


send in his congratulations before the
event. He is due to be Parkerized
a week from tomorrow.
1t is matter of historical record that
the participants in an ancient battle
readers of Des Moines newspapers are
wondering, since the circulation war
broke out again, whether even the fall
of Port Arthur might not pass unnot-
iced.
When Mr.. II. G. Davis of some town
or other in West Virginia eats his tur-
key it will be with thanl1fulness that
his check contributed to campaign ex-
penses had less figures than Fairbanks
majority.
The leading monthly magazines for
November published g total of 3,l2S
pages Of advertising at an estimated
cost of $1,OO9,7S3 to the advertiser. ac-
COTQlIS, W IIlIllCl Linz q aSAAcciN se~
thority on advertising. Over million
per month for magazine advertising a
lone spent by the most successful firms
in the world, and yet there are small
merchants today who will insist that
newspaper advertising does not pay!
A London crossing sweeper who was
supposed to be penniless was found
when he died to have been the pos
SCISSOR of $1,500. He had made 1t by
picking UP the ends Of cigarettes a1i
cigars, doing up the tobacco in one
cent packages and selling them to the
inmates Of cheap lodging houses.
The big poultry packing establish
ments are not the only ones trying to
corner turkeys and finding it difficult
nowadays.
Available figures go to show that IN
the twenty years between 1880 and 1891
there were 22,793 strikes, which cost
the country in wages. expenses and d1-
rect loss Of trade, nearly $400.O0O,0o0.
In the same time there were little
over one thousand lockouts,. costing
nearly s100OOo,000. These three items
of loss by no means represent Its full
extent. It would be a fair computa-
ton to estimate an equal sum lost d.
rectly and Indirectly by the general
public because of the strikes. They
would exhibit total of $1,000,0oO,OOo
for the twenty years, and would un-
doubtedly be within, instead Of beyond,
the mark Strikes and wars are about
the costliest experiences which modern
society can go thru, and they are alike
in this, that SO far no remedy has been
found for either the one or the other.
The Judge: you plead guilty, then
of running your automobile at speed
of fifty miles an hour, and incidentally
running down and severely injuring an
old man?''
The Prisoner (meeklyl II do, your
honor"
The Judge: ~ sentence you to thirty
days in Jail"
The Prisoner: "But, your honor, 1
own the car-Im not chauffeur"
The Judge; "Humph! Why didn't
you say so before? Pay five dollars
and git out!"--Puck.
That this is an age of reform was
never better illustrated than by the
protests of southern societies against
the use of military titles not won I'm
actual service. An overproduction OF
"colonels' and "majahs' is presumably
responsible for the agitation.
II the sons of the Kansas farmers
follow their fathers vocation the next
generation of Kansas farmers will be
well educated lot of fellows, according
to statistics sent out by the Kansas
state university. The number of stu
dents registered as farmers children is
three times that of any other occupa-
ton, Notwithstanding that there arc