Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-30
Topics Of the Times

II NVpICS VI tNC imCS !
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
j. Edward Giles. the vegetarian.
points out that Leonidas and his little
band Of Spartans defended the Pass
of Thermopylae ON a diet of lentils.
This may account for the strong de-
Tense they put up.
The following from the Parkersburg
Eclipse. is unique in church notices:
"The Congregational Church:-Com-
munon service in the morning. In the
evening the subject will be, 'Shrewd and
Tricky. Yet Uonored and Great being
the first OF series of sketches OF
character TO be given In the evenings
I'VE spalpeens. all sleek and as sly as
snake.
Whom a dog would despise, yet good
saints We may make;
But your chances are few, quit your
meanness. and rise,
And make with all speed. like lark,
for the skies"
The report that 200 annual railroad
passes will be called in from Wood
bury county under the new law indi-
Gates that If the Blythe outfit intend Ia
best be about It.
Why is It that every standpat paper
thinks it necessary to introduce quo
tation from Julian Richards as "the
well known and reliable newspaper
correspondent
The proper conduct OF a stammer is,
of course, embodied in a limerick, for
limericks cover all time and all exis-
tence:
Said the old man of Abinger Ham
Who was blessed with a wife-and
stammer:
"The plague of my life
Is my -w-w-w-wffe.
D-d-d-d d. dammer!"
London Chronicle
In winneshiek county the supervis
ors have purchased 81 voting machines
for $4,000, one for each voting pre-
cinct in the county But the people
are not wholly satisfied with the trans
action. according to the DEBORAH Re-
publican. The Winneshiek voters ara
not alone in their misery. The rail-
roads have been using a machine that
has cost them twenty times the money
and it doesn't achieve the results ex-
pected
Buxton, the negro mining town to
which Oskaloosa Is building an inter-
urban trolley line, is acquiring a repu-
tation for murderous crime that rivals
Buxton needs fixing.
The ennnciation of Hon. John He, |,
good in these days of party turmoil'|
and party isruption--Counci Bluffs |
Then why didn't the Nonpareil use
its influence to have him endorsed by
its county convention? He is the ninth
district candidate 60 you know. =
Boone News.
They have new women in Japan. 4
One of them recently arrived in Ia |
coma, Yessu Hattori, widow of thir-
ty-five, to enter Witworth College to
study domestic science She said to a !
Tacoma Ledger" reporter the other
day: "Oh, am only thirty-five; l have
plenty of time; / can stay in America |
five--ten years, if 1t takes that long"
Yessu Hattori comes from Formosa
island, where for ten years she has act
ed as trained nurse in one of the hos
pitfalls. 1t all sheen her ambition for
years to study American methods Of
nursing and to perfect herself in the
English language, and it is with this
md in view that she has worked and
saved since the death of her husband
,ast her on her own resources severa!
,ears ago. She has one child a
laughter. who is fifteen years old, and
S taking a course in a high school at
Toxic while her mother is acquiring a
college education in America.
It's often mighty hard to tell
The ways of drugs an Ticker,
Sometimes they help you to git wei. !
Sometimes they make you sicker.
Washington Star.
TIL German patent office comes in for
much censure One would suppose such
IN institution to exact no more inven-
ors han is needed to pay current ex
lenses, but in reality the charges are
10 high that the state pockets half the
ncome as profit. 1t is pointed out that
or poor inventors matters are al
most as bad as they were when Guten-
,erg, after inventing the art of paint
ng, lived in poverty, and finally had to
lawn his apparatus.
If your stomach troubles you do not
conclude that there is no cure, for a
,reat many have been permanently
ured by Chamberlain's Stomach and
liver Tablets Try them, they are GER
ain to prove beneficial. They only cost
quarter. Sold by all druggists