Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-09
Topics Of the Times

I ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
| Secretary Taft has warned army
leutenants that they are not able to
| in the world for man with a pretty
uniform.
| Why not pay Mr.. Young his own
| price for publishing laws and turn it,
on that $1,000 due the state bindery?
| The Elikns olive branch is studded
| with thorns beneath the exuberant
foliage of the senator's profession.
1t is to be hoped that Colonel Temple
will take home the chair presented him
by the legislature May it never be re-
moved from his home and may he all
ways sit in it,
1t would appear from the vote that
the Algona Republican msjudged the
temper of kossuth county.
The fight on Haugen is a concerted
effort to teach an independent public
servant the lesson of subscrviency to
corporation dictation. However, it will
fail. The farmers of the Fourth dis
trict will see that Haugen is renom-
mated as he should be.
What effect the recent disaster in
which a professional aeronaut lost his
life will have on the Walter Welman
airship expedition is conjectural. but
it may be expected to Nocquet.
Lafe's anxiety to get higher rates for
printing recalls his earnest desire to
collect about $500 from the state COM
nlittee of 1901 for publishing news.
Billy Sunday never drew out
quicker profession of conversion than
the Cummins letter brought from Elk
ms.
Major Rathbun. standpat candidate
for governord, and his cousin a demo-
crat in politics, met up together in a
Des Moines newspaper office the other
day and fell into Renaissance of their
Quaker boyhood. The Rathbuns were
rank abolitionists in those days and
story related by the Major deals with
an amusing incident OF the UNDER
ground railway times. "The next sta
ton beyond his fathers" said the Ma
jor, referring to his cousin. was run
by an old Quaker. and he often told it.
Johns father once took a colored boy
to the Quakers home and told him to
pass him on the first cloudy night. In
a few days the night was propitious
and the Quaker told the boy to be
ready. When the time came to start
the boy said he wanted to make one
request. He said he would like to
have his host write letter to his old
master. The Quaker assented and got
some paper and ink and asked the boy
what he wanted him to say. The boy
said for the Quaker to say 1t himself.
But the Quaker replied that the boy
should say 1t and he would write it
just as he said it. Will you? asked
the boy, as a broad smile broke over
his face. Then tell him c. d.
him, and make it wusser and wusser
as you go along.'"
Not long ago Governor Folk. of Mis-
souri, upon reaching his office at the
capitol sin company with a friend,
found a number of men waiting in the
ante-room He paused as he passed
thru, and made joke that was a de-
cided chestnut. When the governor
and his friend were in the private Of
flee. the friend remarked:
Say, that was fearfully old one
you got off just now"
81 know it," was the complacent re-
plv.
"Then why did you do it?" the puz-
lied friend asked.
odd you notice which of those fell
lows laughed? Well, they are the ones
who have favors to ask" was the ex-
PLANTATION.
German punishment for lese majesty
falls especially heavy upon the SOL
der. If he says anything that can be
twisted slightly in reference to a GER
tain august and imperial parsonage it
goes hard with him. A private was
recently drummed out of the army and
sentenced to seven years imprisonment
for saying to comrade that the kaiser
might have slowed down the train in
which he was travelling in order to see
the salute of the soldiers who were lin
ing the route.
Here's a piece in de paper" said
Weary Willie, "dat says dark beer is
always best. / never liked pale beer
anyhow, did you?"
sure" replied Ragson Tatters, yer
git more dat way"
"Wa't way?"
"In pail."-Philadelphia Press.
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
BILLY Payne, of the Nevada Repre-
sentative, has picked Perkins as a win