Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-30
Topics Of the Times

What is funnier than a dog 2" in
v quires the Washington Democra
i Two dogs?" asks the Keokuk Cat
. City.
What's the matter with Senate
Gates poetry?
Fatalities In the Central America
war are crowdng up on the record o
the railroads.
When we read of famine in China
4 the peasants revolt in Roumana, wa
in Central America, and the trials o
the rest of the world, a threatened rail
way strike doesn't seem such a teryibl,
} thing. after ALL
1 When San Francisco gets thru In.
dieting the bribed she should turn t.
the. bribers with the same medicine il
the same spoon.
4 When ask for the card at the cafe ant
the same old features are there
Y
or chops if you've money TIC
/ spare
7 foam meath my breath in frenzy. to
think they live better in Jail
Down south, where they're picking
green spinach, and lettuce, and
| rhubarb and kale.
Baltimore Sun.
| A railroad president charges that
| Roosevelt cannot see his own faults
/ Perhaps were the railroads to quiet
down and behave themselves for a
while, the president might have time
for introspection.
Robins, buttercups. daisies, wood
violets-and the lawn mower, "have
came"
Frenzied finance in Wall street
hasn't one-tenth as much to do with
prosperity as the condition of seed
corn. Have you tested yours?
Prospective candidates. find the re-
fusal of the country to accept Roose-
velt's premature resignation of re-etec-
ton chilling and annoying. This is a
backward spring for presidential
booms.
1t is better to be healthy, happy and
ordinary than aenemic, hypochondrIai
and ultra refined. 1t is better for
child to play marbles in the dirt than
to sit dressed up over the register. Get
outdoors, hunt, fish, drive horses, au-
let who will sheer at the boys play"
A healthy vulgarian enjoying life at
so beats regiment Of corpses.
AaA
The Anamosa Journal E. r. Moores
consistent and readable exponent of
democratic doctrine, and purveyor OF
county news, this week issued SOU
venir of Anamosa highly creditable to
the city and the press whence it issued.
$50 ~
do you consider chauffeur worth
5000 month";
"We1l, the last one I had ran away
with my wife, and you knew my wife,
old man."-Life.
When P. I. Barnum was at the head
Of his great moral show, 1t was his
rule to send complimentary tickets to
and the custom is continued
to this day. Not long ago, after the
n. Tx, Il,ar e,,ooaa5ad 70 4ba y,or
torate of the Rev. Dr. Hawks, in Hart
ford, there came to the parsonage, adj
dressed to Dr. Hawks, tickets for the
circus, with the compliments of the !
famous Snowman. DR.. Walker studied |
the tickets for moment and then re-
marked: DIR. Hawks is dead and MIR. |
Barnum is dead: evidently they |
haven't met"
A Buenos Ayres dispatch to the |.
London Times says: Immigration into /
Argentine during 1906 totaled nearly
100000, the highest figures yet reached
n the history of the country, the year
which runs the figure closest being
$3.50, with 21s,744. and this was due
o the existence then of subsidized
ines granting free passages. Accord
ng to estimates of the national inn
Migration office, 1907 should surpass
asst year, as it is calculated that over
CO. 900 Immigrants are due to arrive
lp to March 81. The South American
tate may yet become preponderantly
N Italian nation, just as. provinces of
Brazil are strongly German.
It costs New Workers s31 a head to
re governed. In Philadelphia and in
Chicago 1t costs only $13 a head and
itizens are provided with police fire,
and other protection common
o large cities. In Buffalo, according
Q Broadway, the figure is s12; in
Washington, Bridgeport, Schenectady
nd cities of that sort, 81 per capita
avs the tax; in Houston, Tex, the
barge is under $40; in lively Los An
eles, $3.50; Scranton and Seattle each
ollect $3.50, and Nashville, Tenn, is
t the bottoom of the list of progressive
tiles with a taxation of about Sc per
apita, less than one-fifth of New
'ork's rate. The average city tax