Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-24
Topics Of the Times


The hardest worked women in Eng
| land are the chain-makers of Cradley
| Heath, Staffordshire. These women
have been known to work at the anvil
for fifteen hours and then go home to
do the houseworl1 and the washing.
They get four or five shillings for
every hundredweight of chain they
make which usually takes a day and
a half.
Little oak boxes are placed on some
of the tomb stones in Paris, and their
purpose is for receiving the cards of
those who visit the graves, that the
friends of the deceased may know who
else holds the departed in loving re-
membrance.
Employers: $50 you think your
grandmother will die soon? Is her
disease catching?"
Office Boy: yep! an pitching, too
New York Times.
Typhoid, that most dread scourge of
soldiers, has been about eliminated
from the Japanese army in the pres
ent way, and this is only one of a
number of achievements in the pre-
vention of disease and death which DR..
Anita Newcomb MCGEE sets down to
the credit of Japan in her account of
How the Japanese Save Lives" in the
May Century. Before we can ever
hope to rival the Japanese in the saw
ing of lives in war;" DR.. MCGEE says,
I'VE must be prepared for war even as
they are"
Standar: did that deaf mute orator
make set speech?"
Doyle: mo; he spoke off hand."-
Cleveland Leader.
Justice David j. Brewer made an
address nor long ago at Haverford.
After the address there was an infor
NAL little reception, and very interest
ing it was to hear the justice talk.
A Haverford boy said to the learned
man during the lull in conversation:
"Will you please tell me, sir, what
is the extreme penalty for bigamy?"
Justice Brewer smiled and answer
ed:
1.-TWO mothers in law"
That a profit is not always without
honor in his own country is proven by
the reception "The Faithful Brady"
Larrey Bowman's story in the April
McClure's, has received down in Ari-
IONA, where the scene of the story is
laid The Phoenix Republican calls it
zone of the best, if not the best Arr
iona story ever written" This is not
a sop to local pride either, for Mr..
Bowman is resident of the rival town
of Tempe.
From the establishment of the civil
service system in Chicago late in 1895
until the first of this year, according to
the annual report of Secretary j. T..
Corcoran, there have been $1,000 exam
nation applications, of which the totaal
for last year was 1915. OF the latter
total 4.S16 were for official and 1899
for labor service. These persons sat
in 113 examinations, of which eighty
two were for official service, and fifty
four of these original. OF 1854 persons
who tried for promotion 232 passed,
and 1850 who were examined for or
iginal entrance into the official service
scr %1o f,,1l
oval, how'd We enjoy tn sights in
New York;"
Spent tn hull time ridin' round on
that subway of theirs, an judging by
what could see from the winders, city
scenery amt what tn summer board
ers cracks it up to bel" = Brooklyn
Life.
Bulletin SO Of the bureau of statistics
of the Department Of Agriculture de-
votes a page to an exhibit of our ex-
ports Of farm products to the various
countries Of the world in 1901. Whar
countries are our best customers is
clearly shown. Confning our attention
to countries that buy $10,00O,Ooc
worth from us, we see that Cuba takes
s12,623,00O; Denmark, $13,172,000; Spain
s12 ,699,999; British South Africa, $10.-
$4,000; Italy, $24,762,O00 Canada,
27,550,0OO; Belgium, $35,341 900;
Netherlands, s5O,9s9,o0O; France, $780,
5000; Germany, $144,so2,0o Eng
land, $496, 100000. Our interest lies in
the cultivation Of friendly relations
with all nations, but particularly with
those that buy most of us. The MOTH
er country seems to be our best friend,
from the commercial point Of view, but
the Fatherland comes next The en-
tire expectation Of farm products in
1901 was 1851 ,62s,oOo; in 1903, $685.
48O, 900.
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
The Iowa State Register explains
that the dull gold finish in the interior
of the capitol dome may have been
specially designed by the commission
With view of not hurting the feel
ings of such Bryan democrats as visit
IT,