Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-19
Topics Of the Times

some means of keeping school ma'ams
and matrimony apart. Forty of the
fairest teachers OF that county have
married during the present year. Why
not give women chance to have their
own homes and remain teachers? That
is the sensible way.
Even at $4,000 Senator Clark pur-
chase Of Harvesting the Poppies'
didn't cost him as much as one vote In
the Montana legislature.
: Wilbur Nesbit, the author, received
recently a list Of questions from a
woman who was arranging q sympos-
ium for publication. Among the ques-
tions was, WHO, in your estimation,
was or is the greatest woman in the
world?'' Mr.. NesbA replied: "The UNI
known woman who invented apple pie.
She was and is and ever will be the
woman who has done more than any
other to gladden. the heart Of man"
/ Some idae Of the strength of the
Texas legislature may be afforded by
the information that Hon. John F. On
ion is 2 member Of that body
Governor William Larrabee cele-
brates his seventy fifth birthday next
Sunday. He will celebrate the annt-
versary Of the greater part Of Iowa's
history. He has been contemperaneous
with the great things done in Iowa.
There is not so much call for pocket
knives as there used to be-" said a
man who has been in the cutlery bus
mess for forty years. 'Fhere was a
timel when every man carried pocket
knife, but now you might stop fifty
men in the downtown section and ask
for knife and not more than a dozen
could accommodate you. We do not
carry anything like the stock in this
line we did in ether lines. Now one
person in our Office of business house
house keeps the pencils sharpened for
the boss and the help The old horn
handles have nearly disappeared. They
are still found in the country stores, but
the city man who carries pocket
blade wants something that will not
wear out his pockets, and which will
not, be any extra weight. Some of the
old brands of knives which used to be
good sellers the year round have en-
tirely disappeared from our cases, and
nearly so from the factories A long
time ago the pocket knife most in de-
mand was the 4-inch spring back. One
reason why it had such a run was that
it was mighty handy weapon in a
fight. When the blade was open the
blade stayed put until you pressed a
spring which closed It."
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"The Country Editor Of Today" gets
his dues in spirited and entertaining
article of that title in the January At
lantic; and in view Of the fact that
the author, Charles NJ. Harger, is the
man who runs The Daily Reflector, out
in Abilene, Kansas, the reader can be
pretty sure that he's getting some of
the straight facts Of ths case. Harger
doesn't apologize for his profession.
When You consider" he remarks,
that the country paper is owned by its
editor, and that the city man who
writes the funny things about it is
owned by the corporation for which he
writes,-the country editors lot doesn' t
seem so bad. Don't waste your pity on
him. He will get along" Most anus
ing is the account he gives of some of
the country editors trials-the odd and
impossible requests that are made of
him, the abuse he gets from disgruntled
subscribers; but there are compensa-
tons, and great ones. No individual
in the community comes closer to its
very life, or has bigger part to play
in It's progress. And then there is the