Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-30
Topics Of the Times

From the many accounts of the ac-
tivity of women in the cornfields 1t is
reasonable to suppose that the scarcity
of teachers may be due to the good
| wages for corn huskers. When any
person willing to hustle can earn from
50 to 81 in a cornfield why teach school
for a dollar day and board yourself
The row between Secretary Shaw
and President English of the Pittsburg
chamber of commerce over the post
office site seems to have gone beyond
the province of polite English and to
have evoked language that should not
| have been used by dam site.
The Washington Qowa) Press has
put in a new linotype machine and
changed form to a thirty-two page
magazine. The new form, while con-
venient for the ad man is not likely to
commend itself in the average family
where the weekly or daily paper that
brings local happenings is usually di-
vided into more parts than ancient
C;aul for the convenience of the vari-
Gus members of the family.
| Clay county supervisors are pointing
with pride to the thoroughbred cattle
nerd at the poor farm. Five years
ago the county invested about $1,000
in pedigreed cattle for the county farm
| against the protests of certain class
worth of increase has been sold at a
profit to the county of $4,000 and the
herd is worth much more than the
| original investment. 1t pays to con-
duct public business along the same
lines that have been proved successful
in individual enterprises.
Congress is quite likely to give the
doctrine of states rights and permit
manufacturers another shot by declar-
ing that no state has the right to coin
the lives of little children into profits.
Senator Beveridge is behind the child
labor bill and it could have no more
eloquent advocate or one better equip
ped to picture the sorrows of the little
white slaves to greed.
An English astronomer calculates
that there are only 64,1S4,757 stars but
ne does not incluje the athletic and
dramatic varieties In his census.
An expert estimates that the coal
supply will last about 1000 years. Any
one with time and taste for figures
can calculate the profits of the next
1875 generations of coal dealers.
Conditions in Russia are indicated
by the governments announcement
that it will carry no more money by
mail. 1t is unable to guarantee their
delivery and does not choose to be re-
sponsible for what it cannot protect.
Imagine the American government re-
fusing registered letters because of
inability to trust them to it's own
mails!
The German aremy now has, beside
the Eemperor Francis Joseph and the
Duke Arthur of Connaught, four field
marshals general-Prince Leopold of
Bavaria, Baron Won Loe, Won Hahnke,
and Count Won Hasseler-as we'll as
eight major generals-Grand Duke
Frederic of Babe, the Princess Ludwig
nd Of ySoy rio
the hereditary Prince Bern
hard of Sake Meningen the heredi-
tary Grand Duke Frederic OF Baden,
Ernest Elder Won der Planitz and Os-
car Won Lindequist.
Ambling Andrew-Turn back, pal,
turn back! This town you're a-comin'
to is awful.
Chilly Nytes-Wot's wrong with it?
Ambling Andrew-W'y, Everybody
keeps dog, there's three cooking
schools, soap factory. an the towns
name is Bath.-Illustrated Bits.
The Unitarians, Universalists and
Jews of Albany held a union Thanks
giving service this year. The meeting
place was the Temple Beth Emeth, OF |
which Dr.. NJ. A. Schlesinger, the dean
of American rabbis, is rabbi emeritus.
This is the house 'of worship in which |
a neighboring Christian congregation |
held services regularly for more than |
a year, while its church, which had |
been destroyed by fire, was being
built.
solution of the waste paper prob
lem in Los Angeles is offered by Ar
thur G. Graves, who has agreed to
place several hundred metal recepta-
cles in as many spots widely distribu-
ted throughout the city, in which peo-
pie may throw refuse products He ex-
presses Willingness to give the city
the use of these sheet iron boxes, pro-
vided the expense Of the removal Of
their contents be borne by the public
The waste thus accumulated it is pro-
posed by him to convert into paper
in mill which he will built. u
Young Jobson is of an exceedingly
statistical turn of mind He got mar
ried lately, and at the railway station