Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-07
militia Of the Philippines to use gov

ernment vessel stationed there. When
committee informed him that no mere
meetings of the committee would De
held. MIR. Taft, undaunted, saw eslcn
! member of the committee and got 4
/ favorable report by polling them. Then
| the bill was passed during lull in
business and the senate adjourned
without learning how the big secretary
managed 1t.
| The opinion is gaining ground that
! men who balance the profit on cain
non crackers and toy pistols against
| the lives Of their neighbors' children,
fall considerably short of what good
citizen ought to be.
George KEENAN, says the president Of
the Russian douma. Professor Serge
| Andreyevich Muromtsef: He is a
man of profound learning, wide ard
varied experience and courage teni-
pered by prudence and sound judy
ment. His political program is that Of
the constitutional democratic party 10
which he belongs and may be sum
med up in his own words as follows:
Our task is to secure a constitutional
form of government for Russia and 10
defend that form Of government when
we shall have secured it, AS writer
on legal and sociological subjects Pre-
fessor Muromtsef is known turnout
Europe"
Mrs. ]. B. Henderson, wife of the
former Missouri senator, who convert
ed WI Ting-Fang to total abstinence
and vegetarianism, is as much opposed
to gambling as to indulgence in intox-
icants There is, however, one kind OF
gambling upon which she looks with
liberation at least. This particular
brand came under her knowledge in ST.
Louis, where two young married men
of her acquaintance practiced it. Mrs
Henderson rather sympathized with
one of the young wives on her hus-
bands weakness. ooh, that's all right
was the cheerful reply. You see. he
only plays poker with Mr.. Blank. Mrs.
Blank makes her husband giver her all
his winnings and then she gives the
money to me- / hand her in my turn
all the money my husband has Won
from hers. And 50, you See we both.
get our own husbands money and have
twice as much as we'd be able to get
out of them in any other way
Il 4
"A good augury of the future of Ire
lands that without opposition the
Irish laborers' bill has been read Sec
ond time and referred to a grand COM
mittee. 1t offers mitigation and q
hope for the most wretched class OF
white inhabitants in King Edwards
domain. Fifty years ago a prophecy
that in half a century the imperial gov
eminent would be substituting Irish To-
cal authorities to build cottages would
have been secuted as incredible.
The July number of the Century
Magazine is a fiction number. Love
Laughs at Lions a story by Edna
Kenton, is one of rare humor and
cndrm. Inc lUed OI IL Is DIS WHIMSICAL
as it is novel, and the delicacy of fits
style and it's satire place the author in
the front rank of American writer's.
"The Shadow Of Tragedy by Grace
Eleanore Towndrow, is another of the
good stories of the number. Among
the special articles is one by Julia
Scott Vrooman concerning the friend
shi pthat existed between Robert Louis
Stevenson and Jules Simoneau keeper
of a little Bohemian restaurant in Mon
terey, Cal.
In McClure's for July Ray Stannard
Bakers New Music for an Old World
describes DR.. Thaddeus Cahil's marvel
Gus instrument for producing music
music by electricity. Henry Ander
son Latter records his San Francisco
earthquake experiences in MY Sixty
Sleepless Hours" The installment Of
Carl Schurz' "Reminiscences contain
anecdotes of Mazzini and Kossuth.
Perhaps the best article in the Pill
grim for July is "A Vanished Corner
of Cathay,'' a description of San Fran
cisco's Chinatown There are also sew
eral patriotic excerpts as we'll as some