Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-03
Topics of the Times

Des Moines architects are accused Of
offering brides TO Des Moines council
men in order TO land the city hall job
Both Eamery and Mcyicar say they
have been offered money. Hamery
named men and admitted that he had
laid traps in order 10 get evidence
against would-be loribers. What Is this
country coming to- It will soon be i'm
possible for an honest wad carrier and
lobbyist TO make decent living if this
ke4ps IL
r collier who died at New
York a ne other day has had his
-anse on lie title page of more good
books fEea any other man who ever
,Fed Ills publishing firm has printed
and sold more than 100000, 900 worth
% books. in itself a greater achieve
ment and inestimable value to the
country Mr Collier established and de-
veloped the great weekly that hears his
name He started life as a carpenter
and drifted into the business of book
agent. He was born in Ireland and was
a member Of the Catholic church.
II the present month acts like April
perhaps we had better spell it Mae"
Senator Dolliver is receiving some
pretty hard ruos from the Aldrich ma
chine. General sympathy for the sena-
tor would be more active II the public
did not feel that the Aldrichites have
some good cause 70 feel like Caesar
did when Brutus took poke at him,
England IS 70 hold a great paseant
at Bath, reproducing me time when il.
was the center OF the fashion Of the
sixteenth century, ard including "Ep-
.sodes,' back 10 the sack Of the city
by the Romano. Three thousand per-
formers will take part and the profits
I are to be devoted 70 charity.
! Can the Standard plead the s2e. 600. :
! 900 fine as an outstanding Obligation
when it appears before the equalization
board?
THE high school fails because. ha7-
ing been created % give Intellectual,
moral AMI industrial sustenance TO the
people, it has been commanded TO feed
the colleges; II fails because, having
( been established as the crown of the
/ common school, it has become the tail
of the university kite; it fails because,
iiaT:ng been subsidized 20 solve the
complex educational problems of adol-
/ escence, It has, in large part, wasted
its energies upon examining a few pu-
pills for the artificial, and, to my mind,
/ outrageous. demands of colleg-entrance
papers."-Janes P. Munroe, in the May
Worlds Work.
Jimmie-How did you know I was
going to call?
Her Little Sister, saw Nell taking
the pins out of her belt.-Puck.
A business man in Atlanta having
! been caught in theft is pleading in
court that blow on the head received
years ago changed his moral nature A
more acceptable plea would be the lack
of blows applied in youth to a very
different part Of his anatomy.
Think Of leaving a thousand widows
as Abdul is likely to do! Imagine how
the insurance would cut up.
He-You'l think of me some times:
she-You will always be green in my
memory-Boston Transcript
Get this thru your head young man;
there is no place to start but at the
bottom. Don't get the idea that you are
different. Every man who succeeds II
an honest business begins at tn.
foundation and works upward. HI
learns how and keeps his eyes on op.
portunity. The late Peter F. Collier. 6
book agent and a good one. got hi
start In business by purchasing TO,