Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-24
TIMEsREPUBIICAN, ALARsHALLTowN IOWA. AUGUST

mometers everywhere in the country
having been put to a sufficient test
during the summer.
sss
II all the women Of Iowa were to
move across the line outside OF the
state during session Of the legisla-
ture, equal suffrage probably would
come without delay.
Did you ever notice that the Cana
dian land boomer is much more active
in August than in January?
The navy department has just re-
jected the scheme of a New York man
for an aerial battleship. Very good
for the present, but in time, If the
present rate of construction is kept up,
wen have to float 'e,n in the air for
want Of room ON the water.
Horace Fletcher wants us to eat
what we want instead of what we
think we need. A line of still less res
sistance ts to eat what we can get.
The "Aldrich collection in Iowa re-
fers to autographs collected by the late
Charles Aldrich, curator of the state
historical department, not to the MEM
bers of the Iowa congressional delega-
ton who voted with the Rhode Island
boss. Don't get them mixed. The one
will be preserved religiously; the other
well, what's likely to happen to the
other?
1t may come to pass that the man
who stands to watch an automobile
race will have first claim on a Car
negie medal.
In a few days the man who spent
five dollars for straw hat will wonder
why he did it. September comes on
apace The ice man sees with a lugu-
brous face the end of his autocracy
while the coal man bides his time.
First thing you know you will wonder
if 1t was as hot in August as you were
led to believe.
The Mexicans are getting up big
bull fight for Taft but it is not likely
to have great effect on a man who has
just finished umpiring an American
tariff fight in congress.
Many man who is kicking on an
income tax is in no earthly danger of
having to pay cent. But he wishes
people to think go.
Bferiot and Latham want to watch
out; suppose their wings should be
come fashionable for hat trimming?
Wellman's trip TO the pole has been
busted by the failure of his balloon.
However, it doesn't matter much
Both Wellman and the newspaper
have had about all the advertising
they are likely to get out OF the bluff
at polar exploration.
Yes. son, there are always good Jobs
and high wages farther on. The fellow
who comes back to board with the old
folks thru the winter always knows
some favored spot where wages are
high. labor easy and hours short. But
don't you believe it. Make the best OF
| the job you have and keep an eye on
the job market A good job at home
beats a snap in Mcfarland.
1t doesn't matter so much wha'
President Eliot's religion is if he has
| it ana tries to live #. Most any decent
religion in practice is better than any
other in theory. The best proof OF q
mans religion is that he makes it par
of his daily life. A sincere Gambia
beats an orthodox hypocrite.
Senator Aldrich is in Europe bu-
his movements are easily traced by
means of the seismograph.
| Perhaps when aeroplanes come into
general use the man who owns ONE
will not send it out in charge of a IL
Iyear-old boy. The difference is tina
when one makes a mistake with an au-
tomooile some one besides the drive
gets hurt The aeroplane is differen
lit gets the driver.
1t begins to look like shortage o
school teachers. In prosperous time
almost all the schoolma' ans can &c
married.
When the new dreadnought, the Ar
kansas. is mounted with her sixteen
Inch guns, that state can point t
something able to make a greater nois
with it's mouth than even Senator JET
Davis.
If. as the National Fraternal Con
igress says, six out of ten persons 1nav
Tuberculosis. perhaps the health
sho;rld be quarantined and consump
tives run at large. Majorities shout
rule.
This is most prosperous time an
the outlook is for greater things; bu
don't get the idea that the prosperou
man doesn't have to work for i
Prosperity is simply opportunity t
work to the best advantage.