Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-05
{ TOPICS OF THE TIMES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The calamity crowd will be found in
the hospitals today
The democrats did not carry their
sacrilcge Of Independence day far
enough to make Bryan and the .Ameri-
can eagle clash.
While our mail facilities are marvel.
ously accurate in the United States as
whole. there are still many mistakes,
made in Forwarding either from care
Tess or hasty handling or illcgible di-
.reetions. 1t is stated. as ar Illustration.
that nearly a half million pieces of mail
improperly forwarded are handled In!
the 81. Paul postotlice during the year.
fortunately for the country the
grand battleship Oregon was lloated off.
the racks near the Chinese coast and
towsd TO Japan. where she will undergo
repairs.
Theodore Roosevelt will open the Illi-
snois campaign at Quincy on July o.
An American has puec,isssa So 900
acres in Ntcara qua for colonization
purposes. Whether it is by sword or
BY the plow the American is bound to
expand and all the ANTS in the world
can not stay his onward movement
Heavy rains have injured crops more
or less in the south Atlantic, central
and east gulf states.
Roosevelt's reception in Oklahoma
MAS as enthusiastic and as cordial as
could have been wished by the gallant
New YORKER II was another evidence
of his popularity and power as an able
lnnd undesirable American. In passing
Thru Kansas City he was just as ~
daily greeted by democrats who do no,
conceal their esteem for the man. His
address al the rough riders gathering
WAS thoroughly in keeping With his
sentiments II abounds ii
Isepisnams and terse truths. Here is g
| Keynote that indicates his sterling
i charaeter: No nation, no matter how
\ glorious its record. can exist unless Il
4 practices-p practices. mind YOU, no
jmerely preaches-civic honesty. civil,
4 decency. civic Righteousness. No nation
lean permanently prosper unless TIL,
!, decaiog and the golden rule are 1t.
j. guides in public as in private life. y
Bryan ma y have had a warm Fourth
tn
lvember
4 Tine small boy and the innocent by
4 stanGer came in for a full share o
4 Fourth Of July grief and the usua
! number of accidents are reported, We
5l.ths country is 50 vast and opportunitie
for casualties 50 great that the recita
is expected and does not awaken un
4 usual establishment
4 England thus far has pa officers an,
Il 21.4V3 n-conmissioned officers am
4 men killed in action in the South Afri
4 can contest. The amount Of sorrow
i conveyed by these figures can not b
4 condensed into a few lines.
| y
Notable Fcurths of July have beel
81 brought to notice in the passing of tn
4 national holiday. Two years, ago on tn
! 4th the nation was intoxicated with tn
10y Of the victory of Santiago, the vie
i tory occurring on the 3d. The 4th o
4 July, 1853, was another memorable day
4 On July /, 2 and 3 the Titanic battle a
a Gettysburg had been fought. For tire
Hong days the determined hosts of TIL
.|5north and south had wrestled With eac
other in stupendous death grapple
The morning of July dawned on
bloody field covered with $4,000 dead an
4 wounded men in blue and gray; but tn
hosts OF secession had exhausted them
a selves in striking blows that had bee
d warded off. The rebellion had reache
(, Its high water mark Simultaneous
with the attainment of the farthes
northern point ever reached by south
II ern armies AS Lee sullenly fell bac
toward the Potomac and into Wright:
SO receded the power and strength {
the confederacy. Then the army Of til
west answered the army OF the cas-
with like good tidings. From Grant q
!. Vicksburg came the news that Pembei
ton. starved and battle-scarred, Ion
lheld in lines Of steel and fre. had sui