Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-27

full growth, maturity and pert actlon
| The finest wines and cigars We're
| served, and we watched the men at
work in the celebrated Culeba cut
until o'clock Il. IN. when our good
| wife called out, Ed get up quick. the
| lining has fallen out of the hard coal
| stove and the fire will be out n five
minuees It's 90 degrees below zero,
| and the house plants will freeze and
the goldfish will catch cold if you
don't get up this minute" We
didn', finish the fruit and wire, but
nshed the dumned old fire pot out OF
the ash pan with an old pair of tonss
and after arraying our alabaster feet
| in n pair of cork soled, lether lined
frost proof alligator shoes, made
from the hide of a Polled Angus yearl.
ing. we hiled out after kindlints wood
and then finished our repast with
| two pancakes and slice of sausage
and washed it down with a hunk of
cheese and a pickle.
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THE PASSING YEARS.
| [Jarnagan in His Cedar Falls Recordl
| Dennis O'Regan is dead-die1 away
| down in New orleans and was brought
DHch 10 lJuDu.iue IDI iIllciIllcIll. IlG
was one of the old time printers in
| Iowa He was not only a fine
printer. but an exceptionally versatile
| writer. Years ago he was city editor
of the Des Moines Register under
Ret Clarkson. In 1877, O'Regan, Tom
Echelberger, then funny man on the
keolluk Gate City, Bob Burdet-e. then
the noted humorist of the Burlington
Hawkeye. James T. Metcalf of the
Lansing Mirror. and afterwards super
intendent of the money order system
of the postoffice department, and the
present editor of the Record, then con-
nected with the Monroe Times,
chartered a sailboat on Lake Erie at
Put Bay and took spin when the
| whige caps We're splashing all about
US. None of us knew a thing about
| manipulating a sailboat and that we
| did not capSiZe was one of the mys-
| teries as we now view it. Many
| changes have come to pass since that
| day But very few of the old time
| editors are now on duty. OF all the
| active editors of the state Ralph
| Robinson, of the Newton Journal. and
Sara Sloane of the Charles City In
| telligencer and the writer, are the
only ones now on duty who We're on
that trip. Eichelberger, one of the
brightest photographers on the Iowa
press at that time has been dead
many years, Bob Burdette forsook
| the newspaper business and took to
| the lecture platform and now resides
| in California. James T. Metcalf,
| after serving the government for
many years is now under an indict-
| ment in connection with some kind of
graft, but none of his friends believe
| in his guilt And O'Regan is dead.
| He passed thru all manner of ex-
| periences since we first met him in
| 1877. His wife deserted him because
of his reckless habits. He became
an ordinary tramp printer at one time
| Later he braced up, and when he died
was filling an important position on
| one of the big daily papers in New
| Orleans.
THE PRESIDENT DID RIGHT.
Davenport Democrat
Notwithstanding the criticism of
| Congressman Baker of New York,
who is a democrat. President Roose-
welt did his duty as the representative
VI IliC S,ISeieSSe ISPo'1iS Oii Setl ILL., III
sending a cable of coincidence to the
car of Russia on the death of Grand
Duke Sergius. He would have eX-
pressed his sorrow if the Russian had
| been killed in a railroad accident,
waite hunting or in any other manner,
| 1t was all the more required of the
president that he express his horror
of the manner by which death came
to the coarse and brutal heir to the
| throne. 1t was not the character of
Sergius that the president thought of.
1t was the atrocious work of the muir
derer.
| Assassination is to be denounced
under all circumstances. Bomb-throw
| ing is the resort of nihilists and
anarchists. With three of our own
presidents assassinated the people of
| the United States have reason to
know what such terrorism means
Sergus may have deserved death for
his misdeeds, but encourage the bomb
| thrower, and the life of no one will
| be safe. President Roosevelt ex-
| pressed his detestation of towards and
at the same time compiled with a pre-
| cedent that amounts to custom all over
| the world.