Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-03
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!: TOPICS OF THE TIMES

With SO many examples of grand re-
ceptions before them it is question: Bile
whether Vermont people will have room
enough in their own state to spread
themselves when Dewey comes home"
r. B. Freeman, who died recently at
Asheville. n. c.. had been kept in office
by Senator Ransom as a reward for
having saved the latters life in battle
Seventy family names predominant
among the Beers. They are almost all
kindred. The Beers now in Africa are
descended from ninety people. mainly
Dutch, With a few Germans and Danes,
| who We're granted discharges from the
| Dutch East India service in 1870 and
| then took to farm life. They have had
large families, twelve or fourteen chill
dren rot being uncommon, and from
these ninety persons and 200 French
Huguanots who arrived some years
later the Beers of today are descended.
one of the worst things about expan-
sion. from the New York point of view,
is the contraction necessary to get back
to nominal conditions after the big
hurrah.
Indications Of a hard winter are found
stores
| Those who know Admiral Dewey well
have frequently said that if he had lost
the battle of Manila bay he would not
4 be alive today. He is as proud as he is
4 punctilious. He has changed great
deal since the victory: he is more af-
fable and less disciplinarian. His sue
lcess in destroying the Spanish fleet
gave him the spirit which was largely
Irresponsible for making him well
ienough to undergo the strain of the
thirteen months strain in the bay at
Manila. He weighs fifteen pounds
more than he did when he left Wash
ington. He is probab bly, equal TO more
Iactual work on board ship than he was
TWO years ago, but he is no more equal
TO the strain of receptions and banquets
than he was when a humble club mem
Der His friends fear that after the re-
lceptions In New York, Washington anG
Montpelier are over there viii come q
Fraction which will make him i'll. TEN
porarily his enthusiasm Will bear hin
up.
A coal trust might be a grinding DC.
topus-if it could secure the coal.
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The democratic party has a month q
show why IL should not be thrown into
the hands OF a receiver-some new ag.
gregation that is willing to risk its flu
ture on the memorable past. When ;
business concerns chief stock in trad.
is complaints, it shows that it is neal
the verge Of bankruptcy. The sam,
). rule applies to political parties
A Kansas philosopher AYERS tina
after a girl passes II she begins to los
her angelic look and becomes human
The labor union at Des MONIES ha
Q endorsed A. B. Cummins candidacy TO
J, the senate on the ground that he ha
!, proved his friendship for the labor in
terests.
Aguinaldo's representatives wer
evidently sent to Gen. Otis to make an
e other plea, and. incidentally, to encour
! age anti-expansionists. Otis manifesto
h the spirit If he did not adopt the word
of Grant at Fort Donelson when h
= said, mo terms other than those of un
conditional and immediate surrende
> can be accepted
There were some palpable evidence
1t Of the approach of Indian summe
% Monday.
. Miss Henrietta Johnson, a gradual
- of st. Luke's hospital, Chicago, ha
started a new feature in trained nurs
L ing in this country. She attends he