Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15
Topics Of the Times

The fact that superintendent Riggs
can count 10000 available teachers,
when only $4,000 are needed in Iowa,
will not make it any easier for schooi
directors 10 fill their schools. Riggs
should be able to locate the extra thou
sand to be of much service.
When the merchants of town join
hands to support an illustrated boom
edition of local newspaper, it is
sure sign that the town is growing.
The recent edition of the Sioux city
Tribune Is worth all it cost to the city S
commercial interests.
The standpat ST. Louis Globe DEM
ocrat complains that If Cummins Is to
become a prophet like Noah, everybody
will have to take shelter in Cummins
ark of reform. 1t is certainly not
compulsory. Everybody did not listen
even to Noah.
Here is a significant warning. The
Burlington Hawkeye publishes in scare
head prominence, on its editorial page,
an article from an eastern paper under
the caption: Leslie M. Shaw--a Can
didate Who Would Appeal to the Bust
ness Interests Of the Country"
Julian Richards, once candidate for
secretary of state on Ed. Hunters
ticket, and afterwards press agent for
a democratic campaign committee, is
preparing a pamphlet to show that 1t
was the Cummins counties who bolted
the ticket last year and cut down the
Cummins voteS therefore it was the
so-called Cummins republicans who
bolted Culnmins is the conclusion he
makes An interesting writer, this man
Richards. Don Quixote would envy
him.
That Shaw automobile story sounds
too much like a chautauqua press
agent to have much influence in Iowa
politics.
George Roberts would fix UP all the
trouble by making Funk governor and
sending Allison back to the senate
with the succession bequeathed to
Cummins upon the death Of Allison. 1t
any such compromise is made, our adj
vice to Cummins is to have the prop
erty trusted in his own name
If Iowa land agents would employ a
clipping bureau to supply them a col
lection of news notices of farm sales
now appearing in all the county pa
pers, the, list of transfers ranging in
price from $1OO to $3.50 per acre, would
astonish the most optimistic.
"a sonambulist does things that he
couldn't possibly do if he were awake"
Eyes, for instance, he walks in his
Sleep
Englishnen are living longer today
than they were sixty years ago. Ac-
cording to statistics just published in
London, the average life now is 81
years, while in 1910 it was only 46
years. The death rate from tubercu-
losis in England and Wales for the
decade 1S9O-1900 was one-third small
er than that for the ten years 1850
1850; but the death rate from cancer
one-fourth in that time.
Germany, according to consular re-
ports, has work for all of it's people
who desire employment. Reports of
labor conditions for 1905 show that
during most of that year the demand
for labor exceeded the supply, the
scarcity of labor in some industries
being pronounced. This has been es-
pecially the case in the coal mining in
dustry, which could have employed
from $4,000 to 10000 more workers
than were available.
How did you come to marry her?"
They asked a luckless wight.
He said Her beauty blinded me,
And twas love at first sight"
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