Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-28

|: Topics Of the Times

1t seems to be all off with Grloft

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1t seems to be all off with G-loff.
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The Sioux City Journal has added
Will Chamberlain to it's special staff
and his humorous philosophy, pathos
and commoe Sense suggestion will be-
long hereafter exclusively to the Sioux
City paper.
Conditions in Belle Plaine have
reached the pass where the Union is
calling for a White Cap organization
or a law and order league to take the
matter out of the hands of the Off
GERS and do something. How would
diana plan do for a starter to work
gradually into a we'll organized ku
! klux system? Without doubt matters
must be pretty bad in Belle Plaine.
but it does not seem really necessary
to import those peculiarly southern
methods of adjudication into Iowa at
present.
$50 we'll has the work been done that
our opponents do not venture to recite
the facts about our policies or acts,
and then oppose them. They attack
them only when they have first mis-
represented them; for a truthful re-
cital would leave no room for adverse
| comment. Roosevelt.
If it is true that General Stoessel is
a Jew, Russia is fortunate that he
was not resident of kishinev.
Mrs Robert j. Burdette tells story
about the white ribbon which is the
sign Of total abstinence.
There were some persons" said Mrs.
Burdette, who don't wear the white
ribbon with any sincerity. They wear
it, perhaps, about as hypocritically as
it was worn by an employe of a certain
brewer.
This employee, after years Of dissi-
patton, appeared one day at the brew
cry with the white ribbon on his breast.
Nothing was said to him, and he wore
the ribbon for some months. Then one
day the head of the firm, happening to
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him.
"'Why, Frank he said, it is strange
to see you, q brewer, wearing the
white ribbon
ct does look strange, SIR the man
admitted.
4 "'Well,' said the brewer why 10
you do it?'
ct is like this said the workman.
I wear the ribbon because it makes
men like to tempt me; and when I'm
tempted l succumb, sir :"
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The scientists who are scrapping
over the truth or falsity OF the claims
of an Egyptian to be 100 years old,
should refer to Henry G. Davis. Per-
chance he may recall the incident OF
Ahmed Selim's birth.
Mr. Germans fankfng movement Is
likely to force Tom Taggart to fall back
upon Terre Haute.
The Ministerial Association of Des
! Moines has Joined hands with the Anti
Saloon League in conducting the cam
paign against the establishment of a
brewery in that city. The brewery
proposition doesn't appear to be pop
ular in Iowa. -.
1t costs to be democrat in Musca
tine where aldermen of that political
persuasion are being held up for $40
| ~friIr tn nd a
| Wades campaign fund "A democratic
congressman is an expensive sort OF
| luxury and his greatest e,xpensiveness
comes after election. Why not get
along without him?
Word comes from Mukden that the
Chinese "are extensively counterfeiting
Russian money" "Chinking' it IN
fact.
Irrigation plans already outlined IN
1 California, Oregon and the Dakotas Will
| involve the expenditure, in round num-
bers, of $27,O00000 and reclaim mill
ion acres of land, capable of supporting
a population of 100000. This will be
making blades of grass grow by the
acre where not single blade grew be-
fore. AS the money is to be repaid to
the reclamation fund from the sale OF
tn reclaimed lands, the processes can be
repeated indefinitely, until all the lands
known in America biographies of half
a century ago as 'The Great Amerl-
can Desert have been conquered to
the uses Of civilization. AS one thor
oughly familiar with the Western, It's
needs and it's people, President Roose-
welt has been the foremost champion
of irrigation, and for this reason alone,
were there not an abundance of Others
the great west will be found ranked
solidly in the Roosevelt column IN the
battle of the ballots on November 8.
Miss Caroline L. O. Ransome, OF
Washington, is the first woman from
whom the United States government
purchased painting for the walls OF
the capitol. Miss Ransome, who has
lived In the national capital upward of
a score of years, enjoys the distinction
of having painted the portraits oh
more statesmen than any other woman
artist.
Captain Harry Houston, whose home
is at Stanwood, Mich, is the only sur