Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-05
Topics Of the Times

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The march of evolution was never
| marked by more notable instance
| than when the son OF Jesse James went
lnorthwestsas lawyer and real estate
agent over the trail beaten by the hoofs
of the cavalcade lead Of old time by
his illustrious father.
A Louisville minister has assured his
hearers that Ybase ball will be played In
he'll. Some pretty hot games may nat
urally be expected and the climate
seems to be peculiarly adapted to the
base ball "fan.'
Perhaps In view OF all the trouble
and annoyance to which he has been
subjected, Mr.. Thaw better arrange to
have the others killed by the railroads.
Then nobody will fuss about II.
Just as the president was ready to
say .'skidoo." he noticed that Mr..
Stearns had ''skiddone."
However, IL Mrs Mary Baker Eddy
had not accumulated money it is likely
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Governor Pennypacker's anti -cartoon
law will be unanimously repealed by
the Pennsylvania legislature. Governor
Pennypacker was repealed shortly after
the law passed.
II: we insist on cutting schedules,
supping in New York and breakfast
ing in Chicago. does not some of the
blame attach to the passengers when
the inevitable crash comes?
1t is suggested to arrest the machine
instead Of the speed maniac, to put a
one or two year sentence on the auto.
mobile guilty of infraction of the
speed laws: in other words to separate
the fool and his folly. How would it
work?
A Chicago member Of the family Of
Eugene Field has run across an old
bank book of the Windham County
Savings Bank of Newfane, Vermont,
containing an entry dated 1854, credit
ing the author of Little Boy Blue"
with SIS and has discovered that the
principal and interest now amount to
se9.s7. This incident caused an old
time newspaper man of Chicago to re-
late the reply of the beloved Gene
Field to a peremptory dun from a st.
| Louis firm of haberdashers, Hart &
Leonore, at the time Field came from
l5St Louis to Chicago Turning the
statement over; he scrawled: BE still,
fond Hart; farewell my Leonore.'
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The Chicago w. q. r. u. Is, down to
the last 100000 in paying for the
| Woman's Temple which they hope to
make a monument to Frances p. Will
lard, whose project it was.
At the Chicago stockyards the spec
lulators in live stock, who say their
business is discouraged and even boy
cotted by some of the packers, now are
talking or reprisals by seeking indict-
ments against the packers they say are
combined. There are some 800 specu-
lators who have been buyers on the
market and they claim their presence
enables shippers to the Chicago mar
ket to get better prices than other
wise would be paid. They say their
profits are made out of the packers, for
which reason they are opposed. Ranch
men, feeders, and shippers will be be-
terested in the outcome.
IL the government has uncovered
nothing new in the Hartman investi-
cations why does Mr.. Hartman appeal
for fair play and beg for mercy?
1t is a bad system which obtains in
the senate to permit any one member
to talk a bill to death but when applied
to ship subsidies it has its compensa-
tons.
OF the flood Of writing about Long
fellow that has been called forth by the
hundredth anniversary of his birth on
February 27, perhaps the most inter
esting and significant that we shall see
is that contained in the March Allan
tic, the ma azine to which Longfellow'
himself was for twenty years ia con-
slant contributor. The leading place
in the number has been given to a fine
memorial poem by Thomas Bailey AL
drich, one of the most intimate of the
elder poets surviving friends. The
piece is in every way worthy both of
its subject and of its author. There is
also in the number a searching and
sympathetic study of Lengfeilow's
genius and his place in American let