Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-02
Topics Of the Times

Chicago voters are guessing TO-DAY
whether they prefer to own a street car
and pay for riding on it or pay for the
ride and let the ether fellow do the
worrying.
3oO-lb. hog looks like a gold Ger
tificate nowadays.
Senator Foraker's presidential boom
! is like china egg. 1t doesn't 1901
anyone but the hen.
A railroad is projected TO be built In
Spitzenbergen. Little effort VIII be
needed to freeze out small stoekhold-
ers there.
Two men We're arrested in Califor-
MIA as suspects, because they had ST.
1000 bills on their persons. And still
the Iowa farmer will strike for the
coast in November, regardless of pos
sible insults and the finer winter CHI
mate at home.
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"Hottest March ever saw" growled
the pedestrian.
Huh" snorted a veteran who had
overheard, "'tisn't a marker to Sher-
mans march to the sea. Philadel-
phia Ledger.
Senator Foraker seems to have seen
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as much of the battle of Brownsville
as Colonel Young did of the battle OF
lei Caney.
The earthquake In Frisco wasn't a
circumstance to the brainstorm that
succeeded it.
Another sign of spring-the cucum-
bers in the grocer's window.
Mr. Carnegie, wise and shrewd, and
cannily far seeing, is advising the rail
roads to make the best of Roosevelt
as a friend, lest he be succeeded by
somebody else .smho will go to the ex-
treme limits" He further warns the
roads that Roosevelt is advocating
only ''just and reasonable measures"
His idea is to have the railroads take
the people into their confidence and
show the cost IF building and operat-
ing. Mr. Carnegie's long and success
full business career has taught him
that the people generally want only
square deal ami are ready to meet all
business interests half way and more.
Let the roads get out of politics and
do business OIL the square and they
have nothing to fear from the public.
The fight between Taft and Fora
ker is fairly joined in Ohio on the
Roosevelt issue. Taft boldly, thru his
brothers paper. puts it up to Ohio vot-
ers to choose between Foraker as the
opponent of the presidents policies
and him self as the representative OF
Rooseveltisn. Who wins is to be
Ohio's candidate for the republican
presidential nomination. and failing
success, senator from that state. In
dications are then that Ohio republic
ans will be pretty busy from now on
to convention time.
Some people in Spokane. who be-
lieve everyone should live a hundred
years. have formed club under the
direction of a congregational minister
and a professor of athletics. The
rules require every member to live out
his century, and those falling will be
denied the privileges of the club
house.
Building operatians during Febru-
airy in about fifty = aiding cities thru
out the country show considerable de-
cline in value as compared with like
operations during February, 1906, the
spective figures being s30,501,411 for
the 1907 period, as compared with
s3s, 419,511 for the corresponding 1906
period.
A garden spot well titled meand a
family vel filled, thru the good old
summer time.
The women of Russia, in a letter
just received byl the committee, APP
peal to the women of America. A part
of their letter reads thus: AT pres
ent the temperature in this village is
in the neighborhood of twenty degrees
Fahrenheit. Many of the peasants are
Living in holes dug underground. They
are almost naked and thkey are with
out fuel Their food is a sort of bread
made of ground acorns or other un-
eatables, to which have been added a
little rye meal. Typhus, scurvy and
blindness, resulting from starvation,
are on all sides, striking down grown
up people and children. This is not a
single village; there are thousands like
lit, and these thousands of villages
have no hope unless help can come to
them from the outside. Seventy We
cents will keep an adult alive for a
month. II is bitter to ask for aims;
but it is still more bitter to look upon
these agonies with empty hands"
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.