Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-03
Topics Of the Times

/ E. H. Hartman says he wishes III
| could quit work. The public will agree
|with the wish if he refers to his hnt
work"
While Anna Gould lost her title o
countess. she regained the right U
count her own money.
Even those who buy their furniture or
Ethe installment plan aree opposed u
| the installment form of matrimony ad'
vocated by the trial marriage agitators
|
| Carelessness that kills "a railroad
/ president is an effective agent OF re-
form in the methods Of train operation
A Carroll county hog raiser has given
| his neighbors an object lesson in the
art of making one dollar breed two
Some time ago he paid over $500 for
brood SOW, and the neighborhood fore
| saw immediate disaster. She raised a
litter of five pigs, two of which ne mas
sold for $2325O apiece, and has refused
$3.50 for the remaining three. 1t Is
big profit on the original investment,
and one. let it be remembered, that
| everyone could not have made.
According to the Manson Democrat,
George Long. one of the brothers who
have made a success Of the Manson
Journal, is to enter the State Normal
school for a six months course prelim-
mary to matriculation at Iowa Uni
versity. Mr. Long, who is nearly 50
years old, has an illustrious example
| in the elder Cato, who learned Greek
after he had passed his eightieth year.
| 1t is his intention to fit himself for the
wider usefulness in the journalistic
J field which his natural ability as q
writer suggests.
| The Swiss Alpine Club has just is
sued statistics of accidents which took
place in the Alps last year. One mum
bred and seventy-two climbers persisted
but considering that the. tourists num-
bered 10000 the death roll is regarded
as low Ought to change the rules and
offer more open play. That reform cut
down foot ball casualties at least one
tenth OF one per cent.
Would President Roosevelt consider
the filming of a Mormon leader 5000
upon the birth of the forty-difth heir
to a man with five wives, in restraint of
the anti-race suicide idea?
has purchased an automobile for de-
livery purposes and will buzz around
his route in short order. However,
when the bottom drops out of the
roads next spring and some one whisks
by him on mule things will be differ
ent and sadder.
Some idea of the money in chick
ens'' may be obtained from the record
made at Grundy Center two days Of
last week. Friday and Saturday deal
ers bought 1900 birds that weighed
aUOul OU,VUU. &AilOSSSASA .lAASy OAON0 =
the poultry raiser who sold them about
$4,000. Four thousand dollars, forty
acres Of land Well, what could you
buy with $4,000 if you had it?
$50
The late General Shafter, himself a
man Of great avoirdupois, had pro-
found aversion for fat soldiers. either
as enlisted men or officers They're
no account for soldering" he would
buster in his tremendous basso. "They
pant they wheeze, they snort, they
choke, they grunt, they groan, they
waddle, they SLOUGH thru the world
Nor a particle of good on earth, fat
soldiers-would not have one of 'em
around IL could help it, "Er-but-
err you would not exactly-er-call
yourself slight, would you, colonel?" a
venturesome major once asked Shafter
after one Of these outbursts. Slight?
MOI" shafter hundred in reply. i've
been a fat, bobby old nuisance ever
since I tipped the beam at over 200
pounds, and right then ought to've
been court martialed and cashiered for
outrageous and malicious adiposity, sir
for scandalous corpulence to the pre-
iudice of military disciplined"
For good many years Speaker Can
non has had critics galore. but the one
person on whose judgment he ever de-
pended implicitly was his late wife.
Mrs. Cannon was kindly but severe in
her criticism. Many a time after
speech in the house, Uncle Joe, disre-
garding all other opinion, went home
to hear what she had to say. So1ne-
times it was unstinted praise and con-
gratulations, but again there were
times when Mrs Cannon would begin:
well, Joe, that was very good, but not
nearly as good as you are capable of
doing. If you had given that one point
little more study and investigation
you would not have doundered about so
in that last colloquy you had or "Joe,
you dragged miserably in your speech
That last story you told was so drawn
out that you quite lost the point you