Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-21

1t is now reported that Hearst paid
$4,000 for those Standard Oil letters
but it was the cheapest advertising the
Hearst newspapers ever bought.
Men of property and business inter-
ests will line up this year for the re-
publican ticket With greater unanimity
than they did in 90. The man who
values employment will do the same
but there will be class of discontinued
people who will always vote for q
change.
The last statement of the Benton
county banks show over four millions
on deposit. This is the highest mark
ever reached, yet there are men in
Benton county who are willing to take
chances on soaring the life out of bus
mess by Bryans election.
This Is beautiful weather to most OF
us but do not mention it to the farmer
who wants rain or the hunter who
wants a freeze and storm.
One reason that preachers are so
scarce may be found in the church
budget Standing pat on salaries and
then neglecting to pay even at the
ancient scale would discourage any
class.
The Chicago Tribune explains that
much of the high death rate among
infants in that city is due to the habit
of feeding ,babies on beer which is said
to be quite common among the Slavic
mothers. oh! a great city must be a
delightful place in which to live
When Taft becomes president and
Roosevelt and Bryan become rival edi-
tors, there is every promise that the
public eye may be diverted now and
then from the White House.
Halloween is near and this is one of
the years in which we have the pump
kins
When the first shock of the horror is
over. the story of that terrible railroad
accident at Liscomb should he read in
every household in which there are
children We can't save Minnie and
her little cousin but we can teach a
lesson of warning to every other child
as to the danger in walking on a rail-
road track.
Shell Rock is mourning loss by a
disastrous fire and destruction of so
much good property is to be lamented.
but Shell Rock can take consolation in
the knowledge that one year from now
fine brick blocks will take the place
of unsightly frame structures. Fires,
while destructive, are not unmixed
evils.
If you have any doubts as to whether
the legislative nominee will abide by
the result of the senatorial primary,
ask him to make public statement
that we have so smucll harmony and
we have right to know
The American Economist is attacking
both Taft, and Cummins because they
favor tariff revision Major Lacey
ought to tell the Economist about this
harmony we are having in Iowa.
Dealer-Let me sell you some of our
new patent bait. sir.
Fisherman-Is it effective?
Dealer-Effective? Why, I sold a
man some of it last week, and he got
turned out of church for telling the
truth about the fish he caught.-Cleve-
land Leader.
James O. Pagan, a plain signal tow
erman on the F'itchburg division of the
Boston & Maine railroad. has been in
vited by President Eliot of Harvard
university to deliver course of lee
lures to the students on railroad mat
tiers and other subjects. He has writ
ten book entitled Confessions of a
Railroad Signalman."
Cornell university has. for the first
time in it's history. blind student.
William H. Moore of Brooklyn. He has
entered as freshman in the college
of arts and science, and hopes to be
able to take the degree of bachelor of
arts. Moore for sometime was a stu
dent at the New York Institute for the
Blind He has engaged a reader, who
will assist him in his studies.
1--WE have prepared a magnificent
ovation for you" said the chairman of
the reception committee.
'See if you can't countermand some
of it, answered the candidate. THE
cheers have been occupying so much
time that on several occasions l have
not been able to conclude my speech
before the train pulled out. Wash
ington Star.
Charles Eliot Norton. prominent as
an author and authority on art ana
literature and professor of history at
Harvard university UP to 1893. since
which time he has been professor
emeritus at that institution, is serious