Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-01
Topics Of the Times.

Topics OF the Tunes.
For school to start one day and q
circus to visit town the next is com
hination which naturally tries a boys
soul.
That r. p. Shonts comes out for
Taft so unqualifedly shows that ne is
still ruled by the old Iowa spirit for
right government which was instiiled
into him when he lived in the Hawk
eve state. incidentally his advice to
railroad employees to vote for the re-.
publican candidate will probably be
used by some democratic papers as tho
it were an attempt at coercion and IN
timidation.
Peanuts, pop corn and pink lemon
ade will run the clown and the ele-I
Fphant a close race for popularity to-
day.
Any railroad system that could be
tied UP by dissatisfied cigaret sraok-
ling employees would be in bad way
indeed. It sounds more like q threat
from those addicted to g bad habit
than possibility.
Here's q Taftism that's worth re-
membering: IF am elected president,
/ shall urge upon congress, with every
hope of success. that a law be passed
requiring filing in a federal office of
a statement of the contributions re-
ceiyed by committees and candidates
| IN elections for members Of congress,
and in such other elections as are con-
|stitutionally within the control OF con-
gress.
That "spooning'' parlor In q st. Lou
lis church may be all right but if there
| are no partitions or screens it Is doubt
ful whether the scheme will last, AS
rule those who wish to spark prefer
seclusion, strange as it may: appear.
4 SO
Murder, seems to be mighty cheap in
| Oklahoma A physician has just been
1 fined 800 and costs for almost sever
ling the head of his victim with a mall
i let and knife Is this is a fair sample
Of Oklahoma justice or is it merely In
experience with major operations!
4 $50
/ AT Dinsdale a man 80 years old has
been shaved by a barber for the first
time. It's pretty nearly safe to say
he'll be glad to go back to home indus
4 try.
Some Of those who felt good because
i u. IS. Consul John E. Rowan's job IN
4 the falkland islands was done away
4 with and they thought he would have
to come home, are on the wrong side
Of the political fence. He has been
given better diplomatic sit at Punta
Arenas. He laughs best who laughs
last.
II pay as 60" declared the pomp-
Gus citizen.
Not while I'm running these apart
ments,' declared the janitor; you'll
Ipay as you move INV ashington
Journal.
Today is the time set by fashion fol
4 the abandonment Of the straw hat, but
there will he quite q few who will be
4 independent enough to exercise their
own good taste and wear that style OF
headgear as long as they feel the
weather is not too severe for it. There
will be a few more straw hat days yet
4 days in which neighbor will not turn
to stare sarcastically at the head COW
Tered by the summer lid.
i Senator Beveridge Is proselyting fol
i better ROADS in the Philippines. If char
$Iity begins at home, why not so with
4 road building? On this theory it nigh
be we'll to spread the good roads ter
| ritory in the United States before go
/ ing to the ill-chosen possessions IN the
4 far east to make such Improvements.
Il sss
Some of the style notes say thai
4 springs in the heels are to become
4 fad for women Such an equipment
might be appropriate for those who
4 nave water on the brain.
4 When Japan cuts her army bulge
30 per cent and her navy budget II
4 per cent it's hard on Hobson. But
\ was nice of the oriental country to wal
until the chautauqua season was abou
over to let the news go abroad.
/. Those enormous base ball crowd
4 which have been assembling hours De
fore the opening of the gates IN oafi
cago hardly make a good democrati'
hard times argument.
Il In one of the Philadelphia pupii
schools is a little girl pupil whose an
cestors and coreligionists have eve
4 held that the principal end and ann
the life of a woman is marriage. TN
little girl is we'll up In most OF he
studies. but she has an inyeterate uis
J like of geography and it seems Simpos
4 sible to teach fhe study to her. IN
other day her tsaaAer,- pa1e IN patien