Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-11
Topics Of the Times

Capital punishment has not been
abolished at Charles City.
Lord Northcliff, formerly Sir Alfred
Harmsworth, owns or controls forty
daily newspapers and periodicals In
England. Is Alfred in the railroad
! business?
An old gentleman of so, who has
been elected a judge for Frutigen,
Switzerland is to go thru university
course In order to pass the eXamina-
ton required by the laws of the coun-
try. This should make George Long,
Of the Manson Journal, feel like
schoolboy.
A Chicago man and his wife are
having legal trouble arising from her
devotion to the ashes of hire first nus
band, which she kept in an urn on the
| center table. Funny how woman Will
fuss over ashes. Smoke in the parlor
| If you don't believe it.
| One lawless capitalist makes ten So
cialists.
Since the recent colder weather a
number of people have taken in their
hammocks for the season.
1t appears that If the right Of the
10 schools infar-
feres with treaty so much the worse
for the treaty.
With eighty-six chautauqua engage
ments next summer at $500 each,
campaign would be more expensive to
Mr.. Bryan than his first and second
battles.
The latest thing in catalog houses
are two mail order tnstalment houses
that have opened for business in Chi
cago. Is the farmer to fall under the
sway of ATTY cents down, fifty cents
month?
Dan Hamilton, the only democratic
congressman from Iowa, is not entirely
at variance with the republican adj
ministration, as he had his tenth child
born to him last week at Sigourney-
and now has five girls and five boys in
his family.
The town Of East Clarion, O., boasts
a unique record. The Shaw hotel is
\ ~, oHo no - rtrfo
temperance basis. The postoffice Is In
charge Of Miss Nellie Cleator. The
church choir is composed OF female
voices led by Mrs. Eva Armstrong. The
superintendent of the Sunday school
is Mrs. Nellie Hale. The teaching force.
Of the public school is composed Of
women The superintendent is Mrs.
Anne Mawson. There has not been q
man doctor in the town for several
years, and nearly all the husbands in
town wipe the dishes.
Senator Albert j. Beveridge, the
youthful statesman from Indiana, is
the most industrious magazine writer
in congress. He contributes regularly
to certain publications, and says that
but for the money he earns in this way
it would be Improbable for him to re-
main in the senate. Last week Senator
Beveridge wrote three articles for
magazines, for which he received ST.
500.
When THE fool-am dead,
There will be one to stand above my
head,
Her wan lips yearning toward my quiet
lips
That stung her soul so Oft with bitter
cries,
And shall feel forgiving finger tips,
And /, shall hear her saying with her
signs:
"This fool mothered sucked a bitter
breast;
His life was fever, and his soul was
fire! = Hssi
10 burning Fool! o restless Fool at
rest!
None knew but how high you could
aspire,
None knew but how deep your soul
could sink!"
John G. Nichardt, in McClure's Mag.
azine.
Just now, while the question Of our
relations with Japan Is arousing dis
cussion in all quarters, an article in the
January Atlantic on Japan and the
~,
philippine Islands, will be read with
especial interest. James A. LIE Roy,
the author, whose earlier article in the
same magazine on Race Prejudice in
the Philippines attracted such wide
attention, has had every opportunity,
both official and personal, to study the
facts at first hand; and he speaks with
authority. The San Francisco school
'fracas, he asserts, is important, chiefly
because it brings us face to face with
the world-old antagonism of the Occi-
dent and the Orient. Is this antag-
onism reasonable one, or is it merely
prejudice? Is there really yellow
peril. Spain, it seems, was always in
dread of it; she feared Japan's designs
upon her Philippine possessions. Mr..
LIE Roy gives a striking resume of
these scares in the past, and points
out how futile they have been proved
in fact. Japan does not want the is
lands: and the Filipinos do not want
Japan What Japan does want most
earnestly is the friendship of America;
and there is every reason why friend