Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-25
Topics Of the Times

tons beats no voice at all by about
| SO per cent
Hall" the Sinclair colony has been
camping in the Jungle.
This primary spring weather is more
| than 35 per cent summer.
| A Chicago office man has been heav-
| lily /, fined for attempting TO kiss his
| stenographer. From cash point Of
view he Is probably well ahead. 1t us
| this kind than to pay the fine for fall
ure.
Steyne and Becky Sharpe; White
| and Evelyn Nesbit but Thaw is not
Rawdon crawley.
One healthful effect of the primary
and two cent fare bills to be noted is
| their tendency to cause deep breathing
| by railroad presidents. And deep
| breathing is accounted curative now
| adays
| Reports of talks between President
Roosevelt and prominent bankers and
capitalists" would seem to indicate re-
greet on the presidents part. However,
actions speak louder than words, and
Roosevelt keeps right on acting.
An ordinary thief Of the common sort
| is not especially dangerous. We throw
and thus protect society for the time.
| It is when a great thief with the talent
to organize and systematic theft on
| large scale gets busy that society
faces Its most serious condition. The
men who stole from San Francisco
while the city lay in ruins and others
Of that ilk are the most dangerous and
their punishment most difficult.
1t is not likely that Uncle Joe" will
gather more delegates in Panamea
than Secretary Shaw did in Virginia.
II sent you some suggestions telling
you how to make your paper more in
teresting. Have you carried out any
Of my ideas?"
Editor-"Did you meet the office boy
with the waste basket as you came
up the stairs? Yes? Well, he was
carrying out your ideas!"-Woman's
Home Companion.
The New York World says editor
| tally, possibly on the authority Of Its
wildcat correspondents in Iowa that
"By the terms of an ordinance passed
at Fort Dodge the unmarried must
marry within sixty days or be fined
from SO to 500. according to the
| criminal negligence of the person un-
| married.. Besides putting a penalty on
| the courage to say no. this new law
| embodies an Iowa idea which will eff
| fectually stop the rush of the country
! to at least one city" Isn't it about
time to cease exploiting Iowa as
country of uneaualed possibilities of
| idiocy?
"The Man Who Was Dead" Arthur
w. Marchmont's new novel, begins in
the Popular Magazine for April. 1t is
the story Of an assassination in Servia,
and how one man narrowly escaped
being murdered, and was compelled to
| assume the personality of his would-be
assassin. 1t is a wonderfully absorb
ing story and. one that, judging from
the opening chapters, is going to hold
the interest of Popular readers.
/ The parlor sofa holds the twain,
Miranda and her love-sick swain,
Heandshe.
But bark! step upon the stair,
And papa finds them sitting there.
He and she.-Puck.
| a*
The custom of riding man fashion
| is daily growing in favor with aristo-
cratic Englishwomen. Among them
may be mentioned the duchess of
Westminster, Lady Castlereagh, Lady
Constance Richardson and Mrs. Fair
BARN. Each of these social lights de-
clares that in no other way can a firm
seat in the saddle be obtained, or ply
steal benefit either.
: 4 - 80. .i
81 am trying to map out career for
my son, but I'm puzzled over one
thing"
whats tnat?"
II don't know. whether to train him
for a term in the United States senate,
after which, he can retire and become
a corporation lawyer, or to make
corporation lawyer of him and then
let him go to the senate. Chicago
Journal.
April i bricklayers' wages for an
eight-hour day will advance in Des
Moines from $3.50 to IS. 1t would seem
that the bricklayers should be able to
survive on that scale Of pay-if there
is anything to do.
1t is painful to find that such good
friends as the Marshalltown Times
Republican and the Des Moines Reg
lister and Leader do not agree in the
latter's contention that the 50 per
cent primary is practically as good
as the plurality primary reported by
the subcommittee Sioux City jour-
nal
Why, we're all good friends in Iowa,
aren't we?