Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-24
Topics of the Times

OPLCS OF LHe 1 LHIeS
The difference between grain gam
blers and actual dealers in food pro-
ducts is, one makes bread to eat and
the other marks loaves with black
spots and uses them instead of poker
dice.
Abdul Hamid is sixty-seven or about
ten years younger than the turk the
butcher sold you as young hen" last
Thanksgiving.
A fight manager wired a fifty thous-
and dollar offer to Jeffries, win or
draw. And college president the same
day wrote to notable teacher that
the position referred to pays salary
of s2,100 annually and is considered
one OF the best and most lucrative in
the college" Moral: there isn't any.
It's positively immoral.
Please pass the johnny cake.
When you are willing to confess that
man is good fellow be a good fellow
yourself and quit talking right there.
q
Mrs. Dolliver is having the time of
her life'as leader of the insurgent D.
A R. forces. Is 1t possible that her
distinguished husband caught the fever
from her?
Senator Delivers reply to Aldrich in
which he said that he had taken pride
in belonging to neither the standpatters
nor the progressives in Iowa needs re-
vision. 1t should have stated that he
had attained considerable discomfort
by attempting to belong to both.
Waterloo will build 5000, 900 worth Of
churches this summer. This is what
might be termed needed Improve
ment"
Iowa was always first in war and
/ first in peace. She sent more regi-
ments to the Mexican war than there
We're railroads west of Chicago at the
time
| What Senator Aldrich tells to re-
porters about his stand on tariff and
what the senator means to do the
American people are vastly different
things. Language, for men like Aid
rich is intended to bait the trap.
Strawberry shortcake, green grass,
baseball, golf, house cleaning and
water in the cellar are all signs Of
beautiful spring.
One kind of farm work is not caus-
ing much worry vet, anyhow. That is
the sowing of turnip seed.
And now the up-to-date farmer al
though delayed with his spring work,
is finding little time to drag the
roads in his locality.
If man had to live on bread alone,
the the cost of living would be partic-
ularly high at this juncture
Patterns personal presence appears
essential to maintaining the wheat
corner at high water mark The bears
got busy while he was speeding to Col
orado and forced a slump of cents
under record price. So it seems tina.
James must be johnny on the spot or
take the consequences.
The man who earns his bread by the
5 sweat of his brow will simply have tc
, sweat a little harder.
The following instance Of slight-of
hand, or some other sort of occult pro-
cedure is thus related by the Clarlss
vile Star: "John Wood lost a pocket.
: book upon the street a few days ago
/ A man who was seen to pick it up say!
5 that it was claimed by a strang,
woman, and turned over to her. Th'
: man who picked it up said there wa
thirteen cents in the purse. Mr. WOOD
says his purse contained s11, and leg
erdemain, to him, has seemed wonder
s full. ever since" John ought to consul
j a clairvoyant.
While Evangelist Charles Reign SEQ
vile has been bringing 1921 people int
Il three Churches of Christ in De
: Moines, 1928 persons have been a.
Y rested in that city, he told his audi
f ence at the Highland Park church tn
other night. While the arrest of tn
;, more than 1900 people cost the cit
$4,000, revival meetings have ont
. cost little more than $4,000 TIL
It persons who were arrested paid tota
: of $1,000 in fines, and the evangelist ar
d gued from these figures that sin is ex
d pensive,
II The May Century has fiction rlent
'e the last chapters of Alice Hega
= Rice's novel, "Mr. OPP" and stories i
which humor is the dominant note b
m Mary Heaton Worse, Adeline KNAPP
;s and w. Albert Hickman-but leadin
place is given to Thomas Nelson Page
" story, "The Old Planters" tale Of
:. quaint old hestelry in Virginia, an
N of the uaint old aristocrats who p1aye
i host, and of the guests who came an
Of went. Not the least interesting al
RI important article of the number is tt
=, narrative Of how, in less than six year
3SS,00O American farmers have pulle