Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-01
Topics Of the Times

General Worthlessness seems to b.
very influential in the Cuban insur
| rection.
Mr.. Rockefeler's dive into TIL,
whiskey trust is scarcely to be classet
sas Immersion
The main difference between the twt
revolts seems to be in the spelling
| bombs" in Russia and buns il
/ Cuba.
| Honest now, were President Roose-
welt to write the newspaper men who
.are kicking on his photography some
| thing like this:
Dear Sir: In looking over appoint
ments. / find you have been mist. In
my revisit program you are cataloged
for the home post office" would they
criticise the spelling?
Mr.. Root might stop long enough on
on the way to straighten out the
Cuban tangle.
Each succeeding Iowa state fair is
best" We need new superlative.
When a man claims to be IAN or
ganized democrat" he comes close to
the democrat tradition that every good
democrat gets organized" OCCASION
ally.
If as asserted Croker is coming back
to New York political life. will he also
have grown conservative and sane?
Safe" is too strong word to use in
Croker connection.
Ohio is now getting ready to con-
siderably muss up one Senator Fora
ke:.
In Iowa towns that are suffering un-
der long dry SPELL" the topers don't
care whether Roosevelt spells it with
an &c" or just plain whisky"
When Mr. Cleveland became known
as conservative democrat his
populistic support failed. Isn't Mr..
Bryan overriding the safe and sane?'
The preacher who tainted during a
pulpit defence of Mr. Rockefeller. is
not the first man to fall down in an
attempt to justify the oil king.
The first deaf mute in this country
to become nun is Miss Eta Mae
Holman who was recently received in
to the Dominican order at Hunts
Point, n. Y.
Rev. DR.. Davis W. Clark of Cincin-
natl, o., is making an effort to secure
sufficient money to erect a monument
over the grave of the late negro poet.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Rev. Mr.
Clarke's father was a Shareholder, but
he says "the man who wrote When
Mandy Sings and When the Corn
Pone is Hot deserves a monument"
watch, fearing that he might learn to
take note of the passage of time.
Parisians are telling a somewhat inn
probable story of John ID. Rockefeller
! The tale seems to have been originated
by someone who is not entirely fam
| iliar with the oil kings characteristics
1t is related that while in Paris he call
ed at leading jewelry establishment:
and asked for some pearls. The jew
Keller, who recognized him, brought out
the very best pearls he possessed, and
Mr.. Rockefeller, after looking at them
pearl by pearl, inquired the price. With
some hesitation the jeweler asked
$4,000, remarking that they were ex-
ceptionally fine pearls. Il know" said
the millionaire; give me four yards OF
| them"
| Officials Of the national shooting
| tournament at the state camp, Seagirt
| N. j., are in a quandry as to whether
| to certify a woman to the war depart
ment as an expert marksman. The
woman is Mrs. Elizabeth Topperwelr
of San Antonio, Tex, the only competi-
tor of her sex on the range. She earned
marksman button and got 1T, but the
question of certification must be set
tied by the national board for the pro
| motion of rifle practice. Mrs. Topper
vein was excluded by their conditions
from the big machines, but she enterel
the national marksmen match, a con-
| tinous competition.