Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-08

Topics Of the Times

The cartOoniStS tell oi n man ut the
lunch counter who had ordered break
fast sausage aud who Immediately
kicked the table over when he picked
up a newspaper and read the govern
ment report on the packing houses.
cent McClures and of the life he de-
voted to chasing the scoundrels out of
life insurance is the story of nation
al hero. His biography should find a
place in school histories.
I'm London 100000 people live in sim
gle rooms; 10000 live five in room.
ing is the rule. fresh milk and good
food the exception Babies fed on cold
cabbage and kippers, with an occas-
ioial nip of gin and water to hcmten
them up. rarely develop into strong
men. and in the United States we can't
get help enough in our Kitchens or on
our farms.
Minnesota is spoken OF in the Minne-
apolis l.umberman as the last home
Of the pine But ten thousand men
are yet engaged in cutting down the
that next to agriculture the lumber
business Is yet the largest industry in
the state. But practically all the tim
berland has been absorbed by II few
men, under the familiar operation of
the Communication clause OF the home
act Having a monopoly of the pro-
duct. they have put prices up to such
figures as to seriously retard the set
Element of Northern Minnesota. They
make no provision for renewing the
forests. 1t is a curious spectacle. to
see fir lumber from Oregon and Wash
ington on sale in Minnesota towns yet
almost surrounded by pine woods
pine which the people cannot afford
to use,"
After claiming to have predicted the
San Francisco earthquake disaster, the
Portsmouth peace conference and
Whites fall from power. Willis Mar
shall, a former Sioux City high school
teacher, makes further prophecies.
professor" Marshall now forsees the
assassination of President Roosevelt
before the expiration of his present
term, and says that William Jennings
Bryan will be the next president elect
ed by popular vote. The rest of us will
add prediction that the professor" will
soon be living at Cherokee.
At wedding feast recently the
bridegroom was called upon. as usual,
to respond to the given toast. in spite
of the fact that he had previously
pleaded to be excused. Blushing to
the roots of his hair. he rose to his
feet He intended to imply that he
was unprepared for speech making, but
he unfortunately placed his hand upon
the brides shoulder, and looking down
at her he stammered out his opening
and concluding words:
This er-thing has been forced
upon me. "-Philadelphia Ledger.
The packers have been hard hit. They
are now inviting foreign experts to IN
vestigate their plants. The doors are t
thrown open TO the public and incl
dentally there is a house cleaning IN |
progress around the places of meat
Graduating girls have been given
this advice by President Roosevelt: |
'sIn forming lofty ideals as to what
YOU are going to do in great crises, re- |
that the only possible way by
which any one of you can herself meet !
a great crisis is by doing all of the |
ordinary humdrum workaday duties as
those workaday duties arise. am 7
speaking this to you. but it does not
apply only to you. 1t applies to every
man and every woman who counts in
the world. 1t applies just as much to
the bishop, to the admiral, to Gen
eral Wilson there, as it does to any
one Of you"
An effort to ride the rate bill to
death has been discovered in the anti
pass section which forbids passes being
given to railroad employees and their
families. This section will be chang
ed in conference.
The log cabin in which Lincoln was
born will soon rest on the soil on |
which it was built 1t has been bought I
by the Lincoln Farm Association and |
has started on it's journey from New
York to Hodgenville, KY, it's destina- (
ton.
Sioux City boys stole so many dime
novels of a news dealer there that the |
latter destroyed the stock he had on |
hand-not because he was losing by |
the thefts but because his conscience
troubled him for keeping them and !
thus encouraging boys to steal.
The man who never lived in the
country when a boy, MIXED the cows.
kissed the pretty girls at the husking
bees, stacked hay in the high winds,
swallowed quinine in scraped apples
and castor oil in cold coffee, ate mo-
asses and sulphur, Wore sack OF
assafoetida around the neck and drank
tea in the spring to purify
his blood, has lived in vain, says the
Lock Haven Times.