Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-11
Topics Of the Times

The assertion that life assurance
companies are not organized to make
money does not seem so far out OF line.
Disclosures indicate that they were
organized to give it away
President John A. Mccall says that
the people should be educated upon
the subject of insurance. Well, they
are learning. aren't they?
Two revivalists who have been con-
Quoting services at Neodesha. Mis-
souri,, took half page advertisements
In the local papers. One Of these ads.
read: "Ho, Ye People! Special Sale.
We are here with the goods. The
bread of life The water ofs life. Our
price. Come We and buy, without
money and without price We pro-
pose to tell the mean people of Neo-
desha how to get good and the good
people how get better"
ocracy. Visitors are received with
great simplicity. AS soon as one en-
ters he causes him to be seated in an
armchair by his side, chats. laughs and
relates anecdotes and stories. The oth
er day the pope while receiving some
women remarked that they had trains
to their shirts. This is not hygenic."
said he, "one gathers thus in the
streets u quantity Of microbes and
other things. AS to myself, when they
compel me to add train to my cassocl1
1t bothers me much. altho there are
four prelates to uphold it." But, Holy
Father" said one of the women, I'VE
hold up our trains when going in the
streets" THAT must be very incon-
venient,' replied Plus X, and passing
from word to action the pope made
several tours of the room holding up
his robe.
Wife beating seems to have become
a popular amusement or necessity in
Fort Dodge where the Messenger says
been in vain. Fines have not awaited.
Perhaps if the mayor would assign
the huskiest and most willing police
man in the city to these cases with
plenary powers to judge and execute
the epidemic might be checked One
sincere and Competent
officer with a No. 10 shoe would set
tie the whole matter at one call.
George Fitch, whose humorous coll
nmn in the Council Bluffs Nonpareil
has been an all sufficient introduction
to Iowa editors. has severed his con-.
nection with the Nonpareil and will
become editor of the Herald at Peoria.
While regretting that Mr.. Fitch's in
terests carry him outside the state, the !
will congratulate him upon
MS promotion and rejoice in his sue
cess. He has been the funniest in
Iowa and, best of all, his humor has
never descended toward coarseness. 1t
has been bright, keen and clean. The
r-R. wishes Mr.. Fitch all the success
ne deserves-.and then some.
A northern Iowa weekly quotes the I
Cedar Rapids Republican as saying
it is a great thing to love in Iowa /.
especially during the autumn months"
This fits in with rumors of the APP ,
marriage of the virgin edi-
or of the Cedar Rapids paper.
Nearly 10000 Spanish immigrants /
entered Cuba during the first three |
months of the present year. The Gu
pan consuls in Spain are instructed to I
lct as immigration agents and to set |
orth the opportunities for independ- |
,nce and wealth in the island republic. |
The experimental service on the Var
an railway, preparatory to a general |
of the Swedish state
ALWAYS, has now been six months in
course of construction, and next year |
t is proposed to extend the electrical
ion as far as Stockholm central sta
ion.
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.