Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-17
Topics Of the Times


ing ties and railroad iron also believes
Hartman ought to be in the next
| cell.
| The public still awaits the decision
OF those arbiters of necessity and con-
venience the telegraph operators ard
magnates.
| According to news reports medical
colleges are permitted by Texas law
to deal in dead bodies. but this is a
pretty stiff story.
The Georgia legislature is struggling
with the prohibition question. The
| presence of a large and to a consider
able degree uncomfortable black pop
ulation makes the liquor question even
more importunate in the south than
in the north.
rs Mr. Bliggins a good golf play
err"
| No" answered Miss Cheyenne. II
happened to be sufficiently near to
hear his language when he made
bad stroke He may be an expert
| PLAYER. but he Is not a good one" -
Washington Star.
Just now the people OF Iowa are
more interested in the corn field
than in the political feld.-Council
Bluffs Nonpareii
But from recent indications Mr.. r. p.
Hart Is about ready to lay his corn
by and give the other fields some at
| tention.
| Pat-The next wan O. them chauf-
| feurs as runs over me II be sorry for
| ut
| Thomas-And why's that?
Pat-Pve got a tin o nitroglycerine
| in me pocket-Punch
| While Mr.. Fairbanks Is rescuing
maidens from a watery grave the
marked copies Of Indiana papers ar
irving at newspaper offices in Iowa
give proof of activity in his native
| state.
| Considerable criticism is made Of
the granting Of divorce to Mar
! shall Fields niece eleven minutes after
| the case was called. But If the di-
vorce is to be granted why waste
time. The renarriage ceremony will
probably not take over seven minutes.
| etraf toll ho
man. I'm surprised to hear you
swearing at the heat. What will you
| do in the next world, where there's
not drop of water to moisten your
parched-"
"Huh!" grunted the fat man. Are
| YOU sure there's no water there?''
positive
"Ah. Then there's no humidity;
that's what knocks me. l can stand
the Philadelphia Press.
$50
Perhaps all the talk of southern
| democrat for the presidency is due to
| the fact that Mr. Bryan feels himself
going south whenever he thinks of the
possibility that Roosevelt may accept
| another nomination.
| The fact is recalled that once Ben
| iamin Harrison after his term as pres
| ident, introduced Theodore Roosevelt,
sionary convention as "a young man
| who wants to reform the world be-
| tween sunrise and sunset" Well, it
isn't yet shutdown.
The Bachelor-Then you are not
engaged to the count after all?
The widow-Not exactly. l merely
have an option on him.-Pick Me Up.
With their own all steel passenger
and postal cars now on the, rails, the
| Omaha shops of the Union Pacific
| have turned out two sample all steel
| box cars from designs of the motive
power department. This is another
step toward the approaching era of
steel rolling stock of all kinds. 1t
leaves to be produced only the all
steel dining car. which calls for no
new structural features such as are
embodied in other types. With great
| cubic capacity the all steel box car
weighs only $500 pounds or two
| tons less than the standard wooden
car Besides the element of greater
safety and protection to goods in
| transit, the steel car has the advan-
| tage that it will be out of service less
| frequently and will therefore give more
| as we'll as better service to the car
rier and to shippers. A single 15-inch
| 'I' beam forms the center sill of the
car, below the double steel flooring.
! The sides and ends are of thin sheet
steel, riveted every two feet to angle
| carlins. Each door is a single sheet
of steel. reinforced, like the Sides and
ends of the car, oy diagonal bracing.
Reason Enough.
What reason have you for calling
her an unnatural mother?"
| "She seems to think the girl Is good
enough for her boy