Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-18

Topics Of che Times

much less than n ueslle 10 hoiu oosh
IA hand as Mr.. Roosevelt held in the
political game last ti,il.
Those eastern college professors
who find poker only pleasant pas
time probably never held full house
against four of a kind
Experts in Chicago estimate that
railroad managers in this country Will
expend this year no less than $500, 0O0,-
600 in improvements in traffic equip
ment and the prospects are of an in
crease in business that will warrant
the outlay Of so large a sum.
Extraordinary interest attaches to
the paper in the March Atlantic on
Present Tendencies of Russian Liber-
alism by Paul Milyoukov Mr.. Milyou-
kov, it will be remembered, is the dis
tinguished Russian savant who has
been 50 many times imprisoned and
exiled for his activity in the move
ment toward popular education in
Russia. In the present study he re-
counts the recent history Of the Rus
sian liberalistic movement very clear
ly and informingly. Mr.. Milyoukov
says: "a powerful wave of the peo-
pies wrath has risen from the unfath-
ENABLE depths Of the peoples soul,
and rolled over all Russia. st. Peters,
burg found itself before the horrible
~,
My st. Petersburg friends i. ;. af-
ter having vainly tried to avert the
slaughter, did their best to avert the
anarchy He points out that while
the enlightened liberals are in no wise
active in melting revolution in Rus
STA, they will be its natural hackers
when it comes.
Kuropatkin's break into the hills
was the first really strategic move of
his campaign. The short legged Japs
are certain to be at a disadvantage
in an uphill run.
Something about the Russian loans
is renindful of those life preservers
containing the bar of iron.
Since 1882 Prussia has spent $780,
100000 in custing canals from the
large rivers to the leading cities and in
canalzing rivers, and an additional
expenditure Of $7O,OO0O0O for the same
object is planned. Germany now has
5000 miles of navigable inland waters.
In the last thirty years France has al
lotted s1O0,O0o0o0 to the construc-
ton of canals free from tolls and pro-
poses to spend s110O0O,000 in the
same manner. With 5000 miles of ca
nails, and 1000 miles of navigable riv-
ers, many of which are canalized,
France still calls for more canals.
IT wonder why Osler did not advise
the chloroforming of women when they
get to be sixty years old?"
HE probably knows that women
never get that old."-Houston Post.
How many kinds of insurance are
there" asked a correspondent of the
Insurance Press. BY a coincidence,
that paper received in the same mail
the business card of an enterprising
local insurance agency in a western
city, which asserts that it has on sale
call kinds of insurance and bonds
Here is the western agency's list:
Fire, life, safe, rents, theft, credit,
patent, marine, tornado, accident, bur-
glary, sprinkler, lightning, plate glass,
transportation tuorists' baggage, bank
and messenger robbery, tailors and
furniture foaters, physicians and
druggists liability, travellers samples,
| fidelity. official, guaranteed attorneys
Department., contract, judicial and
court bonds, team, health, postal, ele-
vator, casualty, fywheel, leaseholds,
automobile, contingent, steam boiler,
| landlords liability, use and occupancy,
employers liability, workmen's collec-
tive, liquor dealers license, general
! liability, hold-up insurance and bank
accounts"
| Nobody worked "the Irish racket
! Yesterday. 1t worked without working
There are now but two Of the "con-
tolerate brigadiers" left in the United
States senate-Pettus and Morgan,
both of Alabama Brigadiers on either
side are growing scarce. The men who
lea the armies of the north and south
have nearly all passed away.
| Leslie's Magazine tells the follow
| ing: SIS there any sure test by which
to tell the sane from the insane?" in
qllired a student of the famous French
alienist Esquirol please dine with
me tomorrow at o'clock" was the
answer of the savant. The student
present, one of whom was elegantly
dressed and apparently highly edu-
| Gated, while the other was rather un-
! couth, noisy and extremely conceited
| After dinner the pupil rose to take
1 leave and as he shook hands with his
teacher he remarked: THE problem
is very simple after all; the quiet
we'll dressed gentleman is certainly
distinguished In some line but the
other is as certainly a lunatic an6
| ought at once to be locked up" you
are wrong. my friend" replied Esquiro
wish a smil. THE quiet. Well dressed
! man, who talks so nationally has fol