Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-04
yn,s. euahlirar. Observation-Disclosures an,ua, Frhruarp 1907

nances; but why must parents notify
him that their children are playing
without permission? Why not require
signed consent and chase the boys out
until they get it? Too many boys are
permitted by proprietors to hang about
their places in violation of law. 1t
should not be necessary to file an in
| formation with the keeper of hall to
prevent the patronage Of minors.
800
| Mr. Foraker probably felt like a dew
| lied lobster after that session of the
Gridiron Club.
President Roosevelt has about con-
lcluded to appoint colored man TO high
office in Ohio. 1t will be interesting to
watch the struggle of Senator Fora
ker's intense affection for the negro
survive the appearance Of a black man
at the pie counter.
| Delaware is sometimes lax in it's ap-
probation of the real duties of Unit
ed States senator, but individual NOR
ais receive close attention. Bills are
before the legislature to keep on whip
ping wife heaters and to tax bachelors
without prospects.
The case of the state VS.. the lynching
party at Charles City is dragging much
after the fashion of other criminal
prosecutions where the defendants
have money and friends.
In the year 1905, according to Fed
eral Commissioner Brown, this country
spent 1876. 996.472 for education in pub
lie and private schools This sum eX-
ceeds by more than $76,000,000 the to-
tai of last years customs collections on
imports In the magnitude of the eX-
penditure is represented, among other
features of progress, growth from
the 225 colleges and universities of 1860
to the 512 in 1906, and from 1882 col
llege and university students in the ear
lier year to 1926, 404 in the latter. THE
last half century" says the commits
sioner. has been the renlaking of our
higher education 1t is good money
we'll spent.
The Worlds Work prints an In
teresting interview with Speaker Cam
non in which the Sage Of Danville tells
of his first meeting with Abraham Lin
coin and describes the state convention
of 1860, when Dennis Hanks brought
in the fence rails which he and Lincoln
had split In 1880. "They were walnut
rails such as would be hard to find
now" says the speaker. The New
York World objects and says: Unless
our memory is at fault, Lincoln said
they were honey locust" Neverthe-
less, the Worlds Work is probably cor
rect. Black walnut was plentiful, split
on straight grain, the logs We're large
and furnished rails freely. and the pro-
duct withstood the weather and decay.
There was no reason why any man
should make rails Of honey locust when
black walnut was convenient.
The Gravity Independent has been
purchased by J. S. Francis, of Kent,
and is now being conducted by him.
1t is related that at the smoker given
by the Iowan society at the Waldorf
in New York recently, Edward Owings
Towne, in introducing the entertainers
announced himself as from Pella, Iowa,
a city made famous, he said by an Tx
orious Dutchman, who married his
fourth wife two days after the death
Of his third. When his neighbors gave
q charivari the bridegroom expostu-
lated: "Poys !Poys! Aren't you
ashamed making so much noises when
there's a funeral been so quick?"
Farmer Meddergrass-I set my boy
Hiram to sawin' some wood this morn
in.
Farmer Naybor-Did We? 1" send my
boy Silas over to help him If ye-
Farmer Meddergrass-No, don't We
do it. 1 want the job did in hurry.
Philadelphia Press.