Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-15
Topics Of the Times

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| What has become of that old famil-
lar democratic cry about "sumptuary
| legislation? 1t served as plank in
democratic platforms SO long it seems
as if something were wrong about 1t.
But then it might not fit in the Hearst
Ilatform.
The New York Tribune says: Sem
tor William Pinkney Whyte's appeal
to the south to save the democratic
party from Hearstism has found a
wide response in the southern press.
| Most of the representative democratic
newspapers in the south are intensely
and balk at accepting the wholesale
radicalism preached in this state by
Mr.. Hearst and in assachusetts by
Mr.. Moran. The poles are not wider
apart than the point of view OF these
semi socialistic agitators and Jewellers
and that of the old slave-holding aris-
tocracy with which Mr. whyte is still
intellectually and in feeling associated.
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"The World and His Wtfe"says that
the beauty doctor" has begun to dis
cover a demand for her services of a
new kind. Female employees as
shop girls, milliners, dressmakers, and
those in other situations--try to retain
as much as possible bright look of
youth, from no coquettish desire to
preserve their good looks. but simply
under the grim pressure of otherwise
inevitable loss of employment.
Give the republican party a square"
deal by placing an x in every square
on the republican ticket
"Why are you late for breakfast,
sir?" asked Bobby's father as the boy
slid quietly into his chair.
well. you see explained Bobby,
when you called me was just having
mighty funny dream. and I just
slept a few minutes longer to finish It,"
Puck.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says that
when Senator Beveridge referred to
Governor Cunmins as "that splendid
republican, a small army of standpat
indians simply took a firmer grip on
their political scalping knives.
[ Editor George D. Perkins says he is
standing by the head of the ticket
with meat ak.
China has issued an edict against the
use of opium in that country, the re-
form to be introduced gradually and
completed in ten years. The opium
vice is to China what the rum traffic
is to the United States and other coun-
tries.
One lesson that the farmer needs to
learn is to stop the waste. President
Hill, of the Northern Pacific, empha-
sized this point in his recent speech.
An eastern paper commenting on this
point, makes the assertion that where
the American farmer takes care of his
land, harvests his crop and husbands
his gains like The French farmer, he
will be able to feed a population Of
300, 10000 without adding another acre
to the ground now in cultivation.
A Kansas paper proposes the follow
ing problem for calculation: A farmer
and his wife decided to weigh pig,
and had no scales. The man weighed
100 pounds and his wife 139 pounds.
They put board across fence so
that when they sat upon each end of
the board it exactly balanced. Then
they exchanged places, the wife taking
the pig in her lap, just balancing the
board again How much did the pig
weigh?
Landlady-Been turning the door
knob for an hour! Why don't you use
your key?
Mr. Latebird-'scuse me; thought
waser stenlwinder
A Polk county jury recently fixed
the value of a mans arm at $1,000, Civ
ing a verdict for that amount against
railroad in the case of a man who
had lost an arm in the roads service.
and who sued for $4,000.