Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-07
Topics of the Times.

The Cedar Rapids Republican Is
willing to wage the same bitter fight
against Cummins. The Sioux City
Journal and Des Moines Capital insist
on waiting until after the funeral be-
fore they speak their mind.
If Trustbuster Frank Kellogg doesn't
| watchSout he's liable to be pinched for
practising dentistry without a license.
We are told he's engaged in pulling
teeth of the Standard Oil company.
The fate of Count Zeppelin's airship
which was destroyed by fire after be-
ing struck by lightning, is a potent il
lustration of one of the terrors which
will confront all who engage in such
lofty flights. All such radical improve
ments in methods of transportation
bring dangers proportionate to their
advance in mechanism We may expect
to see revival of the lightning rod
agent with the development of the air.
ship.
Hello Bill in fraternal language
means that this is the day before the
headache.
Several anchors have recently been
made at the navy yard at Charlestown,
Mass, which are the largest ever
made for any purpose. -Four anchors
are used on battleships generally, and
the new anchors are being shipped in
sets to the Pacific coast. One pair Of
this set of four weigh 1860 pounds
each. The largest anchors ever forged
prior to those now being used weighed
1880 pounds each and cost $4,000
ChaHestown yard. These mammoth
anchors are sufficient, barring unus-
ual conditions of weather and sea, to
hold the largest battleship afioat. The
size is fifteen feet long from crown
to shackle, and about nine and one
nalf feet from one arm point to the
other.
Mr. Bryan might resort to an in
junction to prevent other presidential
candidates from using the political de-
vices resulting from his ingenuity.
The socialists, too, have decided up
on d porch campaign their candidate
being unable as yet to gain his free
dom from murderer's cell.
Comparative tables of wealth, agri-
cultural and mineral. even in the min
ing states reveal the infinitely greater
Importance of the former in this coun-
try. Fer instance: Last year Colorado
produced nearly s27,O0O.OO0 worth of
gold and little more than $S,O00,O00
in silver, while the value of her agri-
cultural output was estimated at over
$40 100000 In addition, the value of
beet sugar, made from Colorado grown
beets, was estimated at $25.000,000
and the value of the fruit crop at ST.
100000.
"John,' said the candidates wife,
you promised me to quit chewing to-
bacco."
so did"
Then what are those stains around
Your mouth?"
That's molasses, dear I've been
kissing babies"
LATE Young has braced his shoulders
against the door determined not to let
the senatorial controversy in until after
the members of the legislature can be
elected in November.
1t having been again announced that
Thomas A. Edison will cease to exer-
else his inventive propensities any fur
Their in the direction of commercialism,
something new may be expected soon
that MIR Edison hopes to see placed
in every home"
Homesteaders in some Of those
semi arid regions west of the Tooth
meridian of longitude who have
planted and plowed only to see their
crops dry up and wither this year,
are doubtless ready now to testify to
the scientific fact that climate doesn't
change.
One Of the obstacles placed in the
way Of George Curtis being appointed
to the senatorial vacancy is the fact
that the Nevada Representative has
suggested it. The darby who sees the
new moon over his LETT shoulder can
sympathize with Mr.. Curtis.