Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-21
Topics Of the Times

keep a diary.
Mamma, what would you do if that
big vase in the parlor should get brok-
en?" said Tommy.
Mrs. Banks, gazing serenely at her lit
tie son.
"well. then. you'd better begin to get
up your muscle said Tommy, gleeful-
ly, "cos fathers broken, it."-Cardiff
Times.
There is no better time to give an
elastic currency fair trial than the
two weeks preceding Christmas.
Every cat owner in Berlin has now
TO pay a tax, which Use quivalent to a
license, and each cat has to wear
metal disk around its neck as evidence
that the tax has been paid. Any cat
found on the streets without this met
al disk is taken off to the municipal
iethal chamber by the police. This
method has already considerably less
ened the number of cats in Berlin. The
emperor-who has hatred of cats al
most amounting to mania-is said to
have induced the Berlin municipality
to take action.
Farmers little realize how often and
cheaply they could dispose of seed corn,
pure bred stock, special machinery and
~ 1: Po, tc XIV, MI tho q n
in the T.-R. 1t is estimated by expert
advertisers that 10000 people living on
farms read the Times-Republican ev-
cry day.
only few years ago fuel famine in
North Dakota would have been indica-
tive Of short hay crop. Now 1t
means a coal shortage.
A Des Moines county farmer has
been caught conducting an illicit still.
His share Of prosperity was all moon
shine.
Mr.. Rankin is again urging his state
marshaps bill, and, OF all places in
Iowa. he is being received with enthu-
siasm at Dubuque. The liquor inter-
ests may thus, take warning. When
Dubuque, rum ridden and crime-in-
Inundated, applauds the state marshals
bill. the possibility for extreme meas
ures is in the air.
No one need ever deny that the state
binder job brings prosperity in its
wake to the binder. Ed. Chassell has
proved it. Fully twelve days before he
comes into the perquisites Of the Of
flee he takes unto himself a wife.
Few people realize how far a news
paper like the T.-R. will carry inform
alton. For instance, the professional
advertiser will figure that on an aver
age $4,000 people will read each issue.
For one cent per word in the want"
colume, is cents per line on tie local
page, and 40 cents per column inch in
the display columns, a man can tell all
of these people what he has to sell.
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Rudolph Spreckles testified on the
witness stand that Abraham Reuf elab-
Grated to him a little scheme worthy of
a captain of high finance. Ruef had
called upon him at the time of the big
municipal bond issue and asked him to
form syndicate to take all the bonds
thus authorized. Mr. Spreckels was
unable to see what guarantee there
was that if syndicate were formed it
could secure the bonds, as under the
law they could be put UP at auction
and sold to the highest bidder. Ruef
informed Spreckels, according to his
testimony on the stand, that this could
be easily arranged, for he would have
"a general strike declared on all the
street railroads and tie up the different
lines. With San Francisco in this con-
dition relative to its passenger trans
portation, he calculated as Spreckels
said, no outside capital would bid on
the city's bonds, and the syndicate
would have clear field. Pleasant
reading for honest union men, isn't it?
Few people probably know that dead
flies have a commercial value. AS re-
ported from London, they come annu-
ally in barrels to the English capital,
where they are sold at auction, and
finally serve as food for birds and gold
fish. They come from Brazil, where
they hover close above the surface of
the Amazon river and are caught in
nets by the fishermen. Until recently
pound of dead flies cost in London
fivepence. but the growing demand, for
which there is no corresponding sup
ply has increased the price to shil-
ling and a half a pound. This should
be good news to enterprising lunch
counter proprietors.
Senator Hansbrough makes an in
teresting suggestion regarding the
causes of the freight tie-up in many
parts Of the country. We have heard
great deal of the shortage of cars, the
shortage of side tracks and the short
age of terminal facilities. but Senator
Hansbrough says that some of the
confusion is due to a shortage Of men.
Bill Nye late one night entered a
fashionable New York hotel and asked
for a room. He looked seedy, so the
be- diamonded clerk told him there was
only one room left, and that under the
cornice; and that he'd have to pay in
advance. "Oh, all right" was the hui