Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-26
for Sixty Days With Schaffter."

LIZ AoiNlS Lay w 4SAi hSAA"AAeNN'
The Iowa caravan which moves and
moves and moves from one farm to an
CHER is due to start about day after
tomorrow.
Reports are of a splendid ice crop;
and also of pretty good sized corn
crop under it.
March is lion in wait just around
the corner.
SO is the $40 hog.
One Of the biggest reclamation pro-
jects in the world was started when
Iowa began to lay tile.
Years ago when hogs were selling
about $40, a pound of tea cost 81 and
yard of calico so cents. And we long
spoke of those days as 1.-The flush days
Of the war;
A Kansas man has secured a divorce
on the ground that his wife would not
pray nor bow her head when he
prayed. Perhaps the court thought a
Kansas man especially in need of the
prayers of his wife.
Editorial association aren't what
they used to be when it didn't cost to
travel.
A moving picture campaign has been
l,,la u The
moving picture show is destined to
serve many useful purposes, but for
the present it is worse pest than the
fly possibly could be.
A gymnastic crank is said to put
Taft thru two hours of hard exercise
every morning. If the president wants
to die soon he will keep this up The
morning is no time for exercise. AT
be conserved for the work of the fol-
lowing hours. Exercise should precede
rest and come not far from bedtime.
Two boys in Kansas City sold two
runty pigs for $3.50. buying with the
proceeds each a suit of blue serge and
a pair of shoes, and fifteen cents worth
Of candy for the partnership. Despise
not the runty pig.
Dr.. Wiley, the chemist. says the
The doctor may be wrong about
benzoate of soda, but he sometimes is
right.
Those who want to think that
typhoid fever is caused by Halley's
comet. the canals on Mars or some
equally remote and superhuman cause
are welcome to their opinion. but as
for use we are for thinking that if
there is any disease palpably of the
earth earthly il is typhoid. Faulty
sanitation is the whole story, whether
the channel be water, meat, milk or
what not. Typhoid is not in the air we
breathe We swallow it with our food
and drink.
Perhaps Taft feels that the news
papers have edged in between him and
the people. Well, that may be, if there
was a considerable gap there.
A Persian cat sold for 500 in Kan
sas City the other day. Cat food must
also be high.
On his walk across the continent
Weston has reached Gallup. Whether
this will be considered a violation OF
the conditions of the trip is not stated
They are talking of abolishing the
face veil in Paris. Objection is made
may be revealed.
! A Missouri woman has put the post
office department to the bad by ad-
dressing a letter to Edgar Allan Poe
| The trouble is there is no manner OF
unanimity as to the route by which the
| missive should be forwarded.
! The supreme court may give the
American Tobacco Company something
| to test its inhaling capacity.
| One of the best things about the
CO1IlullSSIoil iOtill VI SIly 6oSSI II
Mat it takes municipal affairs out OF
party politics. The same thing Should
in some way be done for our school,
affairs.
| 1t is said that the friends Of Charles
W. Morse, the New York banker, are
ready to spend million to secure his
release from prison. They must think
| that if at liberty he could duplicate
without end his performance of las1
summer, when he made several mil.
lions in a few months.
| Mr. Roosevelt's sixth article. Trek
kink Thru the Thirst to the Sotik," i:
an entire change Of scene and interes
from the preceding narratives. The edu'
catlonal value of these articles in re-
producing life of Africa Is attracting
wide attention. The life of the pioneer
| is pictured in his African narrative
! last as IN "The Winning of the West
and other of his books Mr.. Roosevelt So
| faithfully interpreted our own early
/ days In that article he shows the worl
that is being accomplished by thu
French Catholic and American indus
trial missions. MANY parts of Eas