Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-18
Topics of the Times

The Chicago tribune ltllS ioSii's ~
an Operating performance" given at
Rockford for the benefit Of starving
women and children Of Belgium.
Wonder if b. L. T will find anything
funny in this It is always a joke N
an error creeps into the country paper,
but the "W. CT "" may be like the
king-can do no wrong.
A professor in India has invented
"phonoscope" an instrument enabling
the deaf TO see sounds such as are
made by music and speech. Won't
Billy sundays sermons look fine
when seen on the 'phonoscope?'
A resident of Champaign, Ill., has
just heard that there is war going
on in Europe Must be one of those
college boys whose time is all taken
up BY student activities.
colored man in Chicago held up
five men with "a Decent popgun and
then apologized and gave them back
half Of what he took. He told the
Judge ne couldn't bear to accept such
lead pipe cinch." And then Chi
cagoans boast of their sophistication!
Men Of today are spiritually dead
and the women need better lovers, de-
clared Hutchins Hapgood, author be
fore a group OF Chicago society women.
The poodle dog is evidently due for
more popularity than ever.
Students Of Chicago Kent College Of
Law were urged 10 become criminal
lawyers by a prominent Chicago at
torney on the ground that criminal
law offers great opportunity for ser
vice to humanity. Not seeming TO be
mercenary, but don't criminal lawyers
generally have a pretty good supply Of
this worlds goods as we'll?
Chicago has a stringent Washers
ordinance, but II seems that it's en-
forcement makes no particular i'm
preston on the young, especially If off
State street. A 17-year- old Chicago
youth attending military academy at
Upper Alton, Ill, has been expelled
from the institution for MASKING"
Motion for a new trial for Becker,
the New York police lieutenant under
sentence of death for the murder OF
Gambler Rosenthal. is to be asked
soon, and doubtless win be granted.
The present generation Will have
/ L 3 80
Rosenthal shooting by the time Becker
pays the penalty for the crime o.
which he stands convicted.
!
Wonder of wonders, President VIII
liam Sprouie Of the Southern Pacific
railroad says that government rate
regulation Of railroads has done beneh-
Gent service in bringing about better
business ethics, which the railroads
themselves could not have accom-
plished Mr. Sproule has evidently
never been cross examined by Clifford
Thorne.
The Nebraska senate turned dowr
a bin which would have prohibited
clubs from serving beer and whisky
without license secured in the same
manner as a saloon. Senator Lahners
said it was the right Of every Ameri-
can citizen 10 have few friends AND
beer and things at the club" withou
getting license for the privilege.
Rev Z. ]. King, of Toledo. o., wai
driven from the platform at Patterson
y J., by g fusilade Of eggs when h
attempted to make an anti-Catholi
address. Iowa people would be willini
to make any kind of an anti address
these days If they were sure Of beinl
rewarded with a fusilade of eggs.
Oakville could we'll lay claim to Eng
lands title Of right little, tight littl
place" They keep things we'll locke
up there. Burglars entered tire
stores and one bank recently an
, secured Is cents.
A woman newspaper reporter wa
arrested in Berlin for "indiscreet cur
iosity" How could any one be eithe
] / a woman or a reDOrter and not posses