Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-16
Topics Of the Times

If every signer were charged a 20
cent fee for the privilege of signing a
petition, well, how about it?
Charles City women have started a
movement to prevent the coming of a
carnival company hired by the Com
mercial Association. Is nothing short
of "a lynching sufficiently exciting for
Charles City?
In the interim, before the next
Thaw trial, the experts might pass on
John Temple Graves. while they are
resting.
The higher law doesn't seem to apply
to such men as Thaw and White, and
such women as Evelyn Nesbit The
whole bunch belonged to the slums and
the only reasons they We're not there
were the accidents of wealth, talent,
and beauty.
Mr. Bryan does not intend to press
down on the Roosevelt forehead the
thorny crown Of a doublebarreled nom
nation.
Baron Speck Won Sternberg is on the
way over with tariff agreement that
may open German markets to American
ports. Here's to speck and beans.
When Congressman LongWorth said
"Ohio is the mother of presidents" he
misspoke himself. But she has a good
chance to become the step grandmothe,
of the presidents grand children if Mr..
and Mrs. Longworth live up to popular
expectation.
In the race between Wellman and
Peary the one that draws the pole wins.
Prospects are that the cost of living
in cannibal countries is to be largely
reduced A Chicago millionaire, N. w.
Harris, banker, has offered to go per-
sonally and at his own expense into
the foreign missionary fields. This is
one result Of banquet held there in
work of all denominations on lines OF
modern business. 1t is expected that
other Chicago millionaires will emulate
the example of Mr.. Harris, no two go
ing to the same corner of the world.
Thirty three wealthy New Workers will
go and about thirty from Chicago is
the number fixed upon. 1t is esti-
mated that for 50 each all the heathens
in the world can be told of the Chris
tan creed There are said to be $751;
100000 Of them and the new plan is to
spend $40,O00,00O a year in up-to-date
ways in reaching them Twenty thou
sand missionaries are to be sent out.
An elderly woman, on being exam
ined before the Magistrate of Bungay
as to her place of legal settlement, was
asked what reasons she had for sup
posing that her deceased husbands
settlement was at st. Andrews.
The old lady looked earnestly at the
bench, and said:
HE was born there, he was married
there, and they buried him there; and
If that isn't settling him there, I'd like
to know what s?"-Philadelphi In
quirer.
The fire department. of Cologne, Ger
many, has adopted as a protection to
the faces of the men newly invented
heat veil" This veil is made after
the principle of safety lamp, with
double windows. 1t is composed of
fibres of cane, which, as is known, pos
sesses the peculiar property of retain
ing water for a considerable length of
time. The veil is dampened before be-
ing fastened to the fireman's ordinary
brass helmet.
Edmund w. Pettus, of Alabama. the
oldest man in the United States senate
thinks that only young men should be
sent to congress. In a few months MI
Pettus will be Sc years old. While he
doesn't assent to the doctrine that an
Did man is worth nothing anywhere, he
feels convinced that the senate or the
house of representatives is not the
place for man who is in the declining