Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-27

I Topics Of the Times

| Many Il candidate VIII DC calltleu
tonight.
Russian generals may not be the
equals Of the ,Japs in war, but theS
could win against the world In a re-
lay race.
This is the year for the seventeen
year" locusts, those screaming cica-
dal with the letter w on their WINGS
plainly forecasting war. Possibly Con-
gresham Hull had a locust IN ms
pocket when he foresaw war with Ja-
pan.
j. J. Hill says that the present
standard of wages Is artificial The
same fault has been found with M +
Hills freight rates. The wage earn
ers are only charging what the "trai :
fic will bear"
Russian dispatches say that Rojest-
venslSy is not coming home. The Jap
aneset dispatches which state that
Jap squadron is busily searching for
the Baltic fleet go far to confirm the
| Russian report.
Mr.. Garfield's grading of the beef
trust herd as cutters and Gamers
may result in Mr.. Garfield himself
being canned
The wisconsin legislature is consid-
ering a bill which provides that If any
member of a city council in any city
In the state shall vote contrary to the
wishes of a majority of his constit-
uents on any proposition, petition,
signed by so per cent of the voters OF
that district who voted at the election
when he was chosen, vacates the Of
| flee, and that an election shall be held
at once to choose his successor. Such
a law would be boon to the dis
gruntled and disappointed agitator VINO
has assumed to lead Il public which
has turned him down. He could talk
forever, or at least until an outraged
people lynched him.
Among female Moors birthday cele-
brations are unknown. A Moorish Wo-
man considers 1t a point of honor to
be absolutely ignorant of her age. Here
a woman may make a little mistake
| of ten or a dozen years on her own age
but she knows to day the years of
evety year who went to school with
| her.
The Iowa City Republican says the
reason George l.. Dobson is disiked by
"a lot of politicians" who are knocking
him is that he is "a genuine republic
can" Perhaps Mr.. Dobson may be
classed as a genuine" Iowa City Re-
publican.
unenthusaistic Auditor: Eyes, |
know we sort o. handed We frost,
but they was just one reason why we
didn't give We any encores.'
Discouraged Entertainer (eagerly):
"And what was that reason?'
I'VE was afraid ye'd respond. BAL
timore American.
In his History of Coal Mining" X.
w. Galloway points out that what APP
pears to be traces of primitive state
of servitude existed in Staffordshire,
where the laborers employed In the
haulage of coal continued to be known
as ''bondsmen" a name probably
coming down from remote period, a
supposition which receives support
from peculiar service required OF
them. known as "biuldases." This con-
sisted in working at times in the
morning without receiving any pay
ment beyond drink of ale. This
custom of exacting labor without pay
is supposed to represent some ancient
service required from their tenants by
the monks of the abbey of Buildwas,
in Shropshire, whence the name was
derived.
Small Boy Gust home from schools:
Mamma, Miss Simpson says I'm des-
cended from a monkey
His Mother (glancing severely at her
husband): mot on my side, darling"
-Harpers Weekly.
OF the s152,362,116 total postal ex-
penditures in 1904, S67,931,429 was paid
for the transportation of domestic and
| s2,516,O53 for foreign mails, $43,31l, 645
| to postmasters and assistants, $2O,561,-
2OS for city delivery, and $1264O,070 for
rural free delivery service. Thus out
| of an average cost of 1.6 cents per
piece of postal matter, approximately
q cent was for transportation and n
cent for local handling and delivery.
OF the $143,5S2624 receipts, $131,943.-
| 1872 came from the sale of stamps, So
697,19S from second class postage
| newspaper pound rate paid in mon
i ey), $3,111, 573 from box rents, ETC., and
| $685. O2 from money order business.
| A man named Wirth is reported to
have defeated the Rockefellers in an
election in their own precinct. The
report is silent as to what it cost him
or what he is"wirth'' anyway.
ooh, papa, the duke has proposed
| to mel"
"He has?"
yes, papa. And he says l can wear
a coronet! Here's the pawn ticket for
| it!"-Cleveland Leader.
| Guin & Company have issued text
! book ON Government in Iowa" based