Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-26
Topics Of the Times

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The Morning Star, a new daily pa
per has been launched Mt Davenport.
1t IS alone in it's field since the sus-
per sion of the Republican and is offer
ed the promise of success. In politics
the new paper will be republican with
Roosevelt as it's PLATFORM
a. great many newspaper men who
are absolutely sure that Col. Hepburns
bill is not the right bill have had
about as much experience as shippers
~ last years birds nests.-Cedar Rap
ids Republican,.
From which it may be deduced that
they have had considerable experience
of Mr.. Hepburn.
a thirteen-y ear-od boy in Berlin has
be 81 convicted of lese majesty, crime
which In this country when committed
by child would be classed jas plain
sauclness and punished with n slipper.
The majesty which takes notice OF II
school boy is n long way from lion
like.
To find Phiander X. Knox in the
senatorial seat of Matt Quay is a
sly mptom that the world is not growing
worse at any rate.
A physician writes OIL "The Automo-
bile as a Prescription Like most
doctors prescriptions this one costs
about rs cents an ounce.
Mr.. Neidringhaus probably took the
view that contribution In hand was
worth two in the Busch.
Elizabeth Duse, the 17-year-od
daughter of Eleanora Duse, the Italian
actress. has. with her mothers appro-
val, entered an English college devot-
ed to the study of farming and horti-
culture. IIleanora would prefer her
daughter to play the milk maid rather
than the Duse.
The day when car could order
s'uDJCSI W JoIbp oNSh ~ pASSiPiNS '''eA'
the certainty of obedience appears to
have gone by. Just now the czar seems
10 be doing the jumping to avoid the
precipice of destruction.
According to Former Senator Man
derson, now an active railway mag
nate, it costs the railways of the coun-
try $35O,O0O,OOO every ten years to re-
fit their tracks with ties. Now IL the
senator will make an estimate on the
cost to railroads of keeping up certain
political ties for ten years he will add
a lively interest to his statistics.
Talk about Colorado women In poll
tics. Two Missouri women are fight
ing over whose husband shall be sem
ator while the men look on sheepishly
as men do when women begin to pull
hair.
A million a day wherewith to XIII
Japs joined to the slaughter of her own
citizens in the streets of her capital
is an expensive fashion of bolstering
up a throne rotten Il hundred years
ago.
That the department of agriculture
has imported from the Barbados some
woolless sheep for the warm southern
states. gives rise to the hope that it
may some day discover and introduce
the non -inflammable negro
One of the ways for identifying the
country in the Grand Duchy of Baden
without any ultimate expense to the
taxpayer is the planting Of fruit trees
along the government highways. These
are cherry, apple, pear and in some
places walnut trees. The trees are
planted thirty-two feet apart along
each side of the road, and when the
fgruit is ready for market 1t is sold at
public auction on the trees, the pur
chaser being obliged to harvest it at
his own expense. The amount realized
from the sale Of the fruit is applied
toward maintenance of the systematic
of young trees, their
planting, cultivation, etc.
Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky,
tells of good old Methodist minis
ter in his state in the pioneer days who
was a "muscular Christian
"One day." said the senator, after
the parson had found it necessary to
administer fistic punishment to several
young toughs who persisted in dis
turbing the meeting at one of the
churches which he served, one of the
flock. noted as something of a hard
hitter himself, got up in the meeting
and said:
cit is a solemn duty of this here
congregation to stand by Parson john
son. He does not seek trouble but he
will not show the white feather when
trouble is forced in his way. / believe
that unrestrained by divine grace, Par
son johnson can whip any man in
Kentucky. The Lord is with him. Let
us pray"
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES,
"Candidly, how many of our United
States senator's private lives would
hao. yonra craditobIy tha cor,,tinv