Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-10
Topics Of the Times

! While laying plans for Strengthening
4 the river, Des Moines should make ar
effort to get some of the crooks Out
of the city.
The way American newspapers are
| conducted does not suit Secretary
Bonaparte Is it possible that the pres
ident has turned the newspapers over
| to the cabinet while he personally looks
after the magazines?
| Some idea of the capacity of the pro-
posed ten million dollar battleship may
be gained by rejecting that 1t will have
in ii the price OF 10000 100-acre Iowa
farms at 500 an acre.
That an eastern judge has decided
that husbands must obey their wives is
the first intimation that any one ever
questioned the legality Of a custom old
as Adam.
| 1t is noticeable that Mr.. Carnegie's
assertion that the negro is the most
valuable asset of the south is not
backed up by a s20,OOO.00O offer, as was
| his proposal to purchase the Philip
pines. If the south were permitted to
realize on it's "most valuable asset"
every negro in the south would be on
the market in twenty minutes.
What would happen if Senator Till
man were called to the White House
and found Booker I. Washington
there?
Mark Twain's experience with the
Vassar girls marks the shoal water of
his career When men grow so old
that college girls may kiss them with
impunity it is all off.
No doubt a proposition to screw the
lid down. on Vesuvius would carry
without dissenting vote.
AS illustrating change. Dowie's ra-
wins differ greatly from those connect
ed with the original Elijah.
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E5eIdlOI I1ellltilNdy lGllS VI a Call
paign meeting III Iowa where the ora
ton of noted speaker was to be sup
plemented by some sideshow entertain
ments on nearby common. A POM
pous politician who had served a term
in the legislature was pushing toward
way barred by burly farmer. Make
way, there said the pompous gen
tleman. well. who are you?" asked
the farmer. "A representative of the
people, sir!" exclaimed the politician
Indignantly. The man grinned. "oh,
that amt nothin'," said he. I'VE folks
here air the peepul theirselves!"
A Munich professor has invented
remarkable sickroom clock. When a
button is pressed an electric lamp be-
hind the dial throws the shadow of the
hours and hands, magnified, upon the
ceiling, so that an invalid can see it
from his bed without craning his neck.
so you will make a dash for the
north pole by airship. Have you the
ship yet?"
"Uo-o, not exactly"
How far along are your prepara-
tions?"
I'VE have the air."-Philadelphia
Ledger.
A factor of the present coal strike
situation, according to the Railway
World, is the enormous quantity of an
thracite above ground, in the hands of
consumers and stored by operators for
ultimate distributions Within 100
miles of New York as many as 10000
000tons of anthracite have been stored
with a view to supplying consumers
and wearing out the patience of strik-
ers. Never before, says the World,
were the mine operators so we'll pre-
pared for crisis such as the present.
The strikers also have large resources.
1t is estimated they have in hand 49,
100000, consisting of 100000 in the
national treasury and s2,6OO0O0 in local
treasures. The strike fund is said to
average about $40 a man if evenly
distributed. But it is not evenly dis
tributed, the Illinois district having
100000 on hand, while some districts
have nothing. The prospects are that
as usual the consumer will be in the
consumme.
Attorney General Hadley of Mis-
souri,, whose vigorous examination
of the Standard Oil officials was in
marked contrast TO his youthful APP
pearance, is fond of describing an
amusing experience he had as prose-
cutting attorney of Kansas City prior
to the political landslide which swept
him into the attorney generalship A
venerable Missourian had dropped in
to the Office and had found the young
looking prosecutor at leisure Request j,