Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-29
Topics of the Times


Hearst thinks that Taft is stronger
than Hughes. but MIR. Hearst will have
to admit that in New York Hughes was
once strong enough
With these country roads as they
are, somebody else can have the pleas
IRE of hitting the bumps at forty miles
an hour.
Federal Justice Brewer has decided
that women are entitled to more pro-
lection under the law than men, owing
to their weakness of sex. Some wom-
en- will be effeminate enough to believe
that this is more desirable to their
kind than equality of suffrage.
Can it be possible that we have held
half dozen caucus conventions and
have no contesting delegation to show
for them?
Among the more remarkable eNhi-
billions of newspaper enterprise in
booming their want ads is the work of
the Grinnell Herald. This energetic
sheet tells of man who had a local
ad in it's want ads, and who got
eight inquiries within twenty-four
hours: LAS we We're afraid that this
would be doubted by some merely on
the strength of our unsupported word,
says the Herald, I'VE have succeeded,
after considerable trouble, in securing
personally signed statement from
him to this effect:
'Gentlemen: l am the man who
had the want adv in the Heralds
columns last Tuesday | have read the
above and find the same true to the
best of my knowledge and belief.
.AUSTIN P. HAINES.'
Moral: Use the Herald Want
advs' They help some
Mr. Haines is the acting editor and
one of the owners of the Herald The
presentation should prove overwhelm-
ing in effect, and is undoubtedly
worth all the extraordinary trouble it
took to obtain the statement.
Uncle Joe" Cannon, speaker of the
house of representatives, has won
deserved reputation for independence,
but it is lost always in the presence OF
his daughter, Miss Helen Cannon. She
presides over his Washington home,
rules him W it'll hand of velvet, and
is queen of the household. Uncle
JoeY is meekness itself in her presence.
Like her father, Miss Cannon is fond
Of society She has spent number of
years in Washington, and is favor
lite, There is scarcely a night in the
season that she is not giving or being
given dinner, and she is the pet OF
all the older members Of the house.
Some of us would like to see Lafe's
explanation of Jim Berryhill's Hughes
ticket when he gets a note from the
White House.
The man indicted in Plymouth
county for stealing COW was not a
collector for a threshing machine fac
tory.
State Treasurer Morrow seems to
be paying his bills without difficulty.
If all bankrupt concerns could do as
we'll as the state of Iowa is doing,
there would be no further use in
working for living.
Assistance Needed.-"John." she
whispered, there's a burglar in the
parlor. He has just knocked against
the piano and hit several keys at
once"
"Tl go down." said he.
ooh, John, don't do anything RASH
Rash! Why, I'm going to help him.
You don't suppose he can remove that
piano from the house without assist
Throne.
Our exports of beef to Germany In
the seven months from last July to
January showed decrease from s.
100000 pounds to 100000 as COM
pared to a similar period Of the year
before. Bacon fell from 100000
pounds to less than 100000. Hams
were hardly Z per cent of their for
mer volume and even salt pork lost
100000 pounds. A standpatter would
still insist that there is no room for
reciprocal treaties at the expense of
tariff revision.
Rather Tedious. Caller-"Do you
think the doctor is going to help you,
MIR. Jones?"
Jones-"Ha may. if I can only fol-
hot water thirty minutes before every
meal, but it is hard work to drink hot
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