Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07
Topics Of the Times

\
in brain storm" whenever the Iowa
| legislature or the governor is mem
| toned.
| Senator Spooners voluntary retire.
ment is not at all likely to establish
| a senatorial precedent
| Col. Temple will mind the Fps" and
"qs" for the southern district just the
same. And George Christian may keep
hotel.
| No one has suggested looking under
the campaign fund for the missing
$4,000.
Two more years of President Roose-
velt Who will come after him?-Ce-
dar Rapids Republican.
Mostly everybody. Few have ever
been able to go ahead of him.
| Neither Senator Spooner nor Sec
rotary Shaw will vote anywhere but
in his native church.
The record of the F'orty-ninth con-
| gress is we'll under $50. But think Of
the pace maker it had!
Get garden spot this spring. Plant
| peas and beans and potatoes, SOW
| radishes and raise cabbages There is
health, economy and comfort in
we'll kept garden.
He (virtuously)-1 call it simply
outrageous for the newspapers to print
all this terrible stuff
She (sternly)-How do you know it
| is terrible ?-Baltimor American.
Belgium is land Of low wages. In
| Client the minimum pay an hour for
printers, roofers, glaciers painters and
| for ten hours work-and Of black
smiths, locksmiths, carpenters, masons,
| plumbers and electricians, eight cents.
| The greatest industry Of Australia
is sheep raising, mainly for the sake
Of the WOOL but also in part, of course.
| for the meat Australia now ranks
second among the great sheep raising
countries, Argentina being first with
| 92.0O0,O0O sheep, Australia second with
| 72,00O,000 and Russia third with co.
600, 600 Only a few years ago Aus.
| tralia was first, possessing no less than
106,260,O0O head of sheep. That was
| in 1891 Prolonged drouths were the
cause of the destruction of many mill
| ions of Australian sheep, but since
| 1902 there has been an annual gain.
| Yet these sheep were not Indigenous
| to Australia. They were first intro
duced in 1897, being of the Spanish
merino species.
| Thomas T. Crittenden is the Oldest
living ex-governor Of Missouri The
| state has had thirty one governors, of
| whom five survive-Thomas T. Critten-
den, David r. Francis, William ].
| Stone, Lon v. Stephens and A. NJ.
Dockery.
| The Dubuque Telegraph argues that
Dubuque is the most temperate and
Clearly city in Iowa. Compared to
Sioux City, Davenport and Des Moines
tit is a paradise of morality" No
gambling, licensed prostitution or in
FAINT abbatoirs" exist in Dubuque, de-
clares the Telegraph. For, good,
clean, quiet, moral time-go to Du-
buque.
When the pie was opened Col. Tenn
pie began to sing.
In all but sex Mr.. Faville is the
| original pie girl Of Iowa.
Shaw's prediction of a panic would
| indicate his belief that good times
are to cease with his REIMBURSEMENT
| of the treasury portfolio.
The Cedar Rapids Republican fears
the proposed primary law will give
Iowa a democratic governor, which
seems to be rather late admission
that the present governor is re-
publican.
The threat of the railroads to cur
| tail the service now that the two-cent
fare bill has passed is not likely to
| materialize. The roads themselves
| would be the greatest sufferers.
The cigaret output in 1906 was H.
36s,729,015, an increase of S42,240,452.
The figures will come as great sur,
prise to most people as it was gen.
orally believed the consumption of
cigarets was on the decline, because
of the general agitation against them.
A half dozen states have laws against
their manufacture and sale.
The Iowa State Base Ball League
is to have benefit of clergy" the COM
ing season, if Manager Egan of
Burlington, has his way. Ministers