Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-02
STHE ROSARY OF A RAMBLER. !

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In some OF his famous speeches Ma
poleon proved himself as great gem
leral in marshaling words into epigram-
matte sentences as he was in marshall
ing soldiers on the field Of battle. No
account Is ever given Of his Egyptian
campaign which does not contain the
exhortation to his men to do their duty
when turning to the pyramids he said,
Forty centuries are looking down upon
lyou." 1t is always an incentive to re-
member we must not make the past
ASHAMED OF the present and IL the scions
LOT old and aristocratic families do excel
those of more plebian origin (Which we
are not willing to assert) the physical
reason for it was we'll expressed in the
Little Corporals words. In a home in
this city hang the pictures of a man
and his wife, dead these many years. So
long ago they lived that the mistress Of
the home never saw them-her great
grandfather and mother. Yet she Is
livery fond of those old-fashioned pic
lures and she asserts they help her in
the conduct Of everyday affairs. No
lfoppish vanity is this, for their names,
|simple and untitled, are unknown to
fame, although when one gazes on the
serious. noble face of the man one can
think of but the phrase. "a gentleman
|of the old school, But there is
slgreater charm to the companion picture,
for the little elderly lady Is very quaint
in cap and dainty kerchief and one can
well understand how homogeneous an ig-
room with that old-fashioned gentle
women.
4 But there is such thing as carrying
& this admiration for ones ancestors too
far. AS an example, there is our ex-
Icountryman, William Waldorf Aston
Not needing the homely advice to boast
not too much of ones forefathers, lest
it should seem the best part of the fam
lily was like potatoes-undergroup
Mr.. Aston with great expenditures of
time and money and even greater, of
Imagination, went out a-hunting ances-
!. tors and came back loaded down from
!. the chase. But, alack and alas! the
noble house of France, from which Mr..
Aston claims to have come, evinces no
desire to welcome Its 'long-lost
brother" oh! Mr.. Aston, if yours We're
! a pathetic tale we would ask YOU. did
you never hear the story of The Man
/, Without Country?" AS it is only hui
morous, we will ask you, did you never
t hear of that which Is neither fish nor
flesh nor good red lerring?"
!,
: Some one once said 1t was an impos-
: sibility to harbor an angry or spite
r full thought when ones face was buried
1 In bunch Of roses. We had no chance
E this summer to try the experiment. fol
e this was not rose year, but Just try II
D with great cluster of sweet peas. Put
i your face deep down into their pink and
: white loveliness and see IL your
e thoughts are not happy and bright If
e lyou remember your enemy at all you
s will wonder If he is after all, as bad as
i he seems. If you do have disagreed
: BILE and hateful impulses then-well
e you are worse than the rambler thought
: Iyou were.
e Some one once said that the happiest
j. nation was that which had no history
e His statement would have been just as
t true had he said person instead
v of nation, History Is not made up OF
n the common little everyday occur
t rences, yet they are what make hap
r py, contented life. Brilliant events anc
a romantic deeds make interesting read
h ing, but they are not interesting living
: OF all American women, perhaps, there
n was never one whose life reads so much
L like a story as does that OF Kate Chase
s Sprague, who died Monday She wa.
n born and reared and reigned in so
. ciety Of wealth and culture and by tina
4 --r-.o ov,1 lou
n and in the end forgotten. The daugh
4 ter Of one prominent man and the di
. vorced wife OF another she was power
2 in the political life of her day and hel
early womanhood and its achievement
read like those of the French womer
OF the first empire, in whose salons thu
|destinies of nations were worked out
But political preferment and power arr
o VIGOROUSLY ephemeral and the beauti
full woman, who had outlived her power
T died alone and except by few nea,
9 friends unmourned. Those who objec
e to women entering public life will cit
liner life as an example. But there ar,
: few in the suffrage camp, even of thos
|, who are known as "ranters," who d.
g not know that to the average woman
IS there Is nothing that can take the plac
= of a happy home and affection. Hat
Y Kate Chase Sprague had these with he
. brilliant endowments what might sh
: not have been?
% A little boy not more than years oil,
a, was carrying sparrow in his han,
n Tuesday morning. He was so delighted
n to think he had at last caught a Dir,
IS which he could take home and pla.
n with and have sing that who could hav
r. the heart to tell him 1t was dead an
d that was why he had been able to pic
e, Int up and it didn't care bit?" All to
ID soon the children of men must lear
j. that many things they long for mos
g can be had only when the pleasure
l. giving life Is gone.
g REMEDIES FOR FLIES.
Farmers Voice.l
lie Now is the time when the dairyma
Ill and feeder feels the effect of the losse
t. incurred from the attacks of flies TIL
" Iloss arising from this source never ha