Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-07
TOPICS OF THE TINES
1t was a fateful Friday for President

Mckinley.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,
spends his vacation in resting. He rises
early, but is in bed every night by 81
o'clock, and during the day takes. lons
walks and does good deal of light
reading.
Uncle Sam Will not only build an 18TH
nian canal but he may be compelled to
establish temporary guard line on the
isthmus.
A great deal has been said politically
about the constitution following the
flag, ETC., but the Chicago Tribune nau-
tically observes that sit has been Off
cially determined, at any rate, that the
Constitution doesn't Lead
One of the oldest building expert
ments ever attempted is now under way
in New York city in the reconstruction
of the old Morse building in Nassau
street Eight stories of the present
structure are being sandwiched be-
tween a new story at the bottom and
six new stories at the top. 1t is prac-
tically the first time in the history of
the skyscraper that any such engineer
ing feet has been attempted, and thus
far the experiment has proven sue
cess. And what adds to the striking
character of the undertaking is that not
once since the work was begun have the
buildings elevators ceased to run, while
tenants of the old structures have con-
tinued to do business exactly as IL 10th
ing were happening.
Prairie chickens are plentiful and
plump out in South Dakota, and hunters
are enjoying the best shooting for years
The county of Bayfield,, Wisconsin,
has been sadly afflicted with smallpox.
There have been in the neighborhood of
500 cases of the disease in the county
within the past year. However. there
have been only two deaths out of the
total number of cases. While the dis
still every now and then new case ap-
pears.
William C. Whitney will not allow his
great park in the Adirondacks to be
numbered" in the ordinary way. In
stead he cuts trees of over ten inches in
! diameter, leaving the smaller ones to
grow, and thus always has a handsome
forest.
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A motto for future presidents. BE
sure you're safe and then go ahead"
| 1t would seem that the Carroll Herald
actually likes crow, for it says: "There
lis a good deal said about eating crow
that is not warranted by facts. 1t is by
no means an impractical operation and
when pursued sufficiently long is said to
be easily tolerable. Grow isn't consid-
cred choice bird at BEST. but the dish
is not necessarily poisonous" Some
others who do not relish it might send
their share to Hungerford.
The man who planted a counterfeitinf
outfit in the woods near Hedrick nigh
lave known that it would not flourish
on Iowa soil.
The use of rice as substitute for pc
/, tatoes is being widely discussed TIL,
suggestion for the more general use o.
: rice leads the New Orleans Times
Democrat to enter into an EXHAUSTIVE,
disquisition upon the value Of this cerea
as food. Much appears to depend upol
the cooking and there are comparative
n ly few who know how to cook rice prop
erly. To the majority OF tables it Il
: brought in a too wet or soggy condition
/: The Chinese and Japanese know how t
y cook it so as to make every grain stan
out separately and to serve it in con
/, dition light, flaky, not too wet, and deli
: cious. There is rice kitchen at tn
Pan-American exhibition at Buffal
u which is devoting much attention to tn
u art of cooking rice. 1t is held that rio
g at present prices is cheaper than pota
J. toes at a dollar bushel.
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Lord Salisbury said recently that i
his opinion the art Of public speakin
: was merely a question OF training. IAN
one" he added, who knows his lar
q guage, is a good observer, has ia
c memory and has something to say ca
= say it in public and win applause
Vice President Roosevelt was que
of honor at a demonstration at Burlin,
. ton, VT, when the president was facir
: the. tragedy at Buffalo.
! The st. Paul Pioneer Press say
Minnesota will this year be the bann
: potato state of the west and northwe
and will in consequence reap materi
20 awards of magnitude never befo
N reached in the history OF the state. II
IN Iowa and Kansas crops, usually vel
e. large, are, because of the drouth, cor
m parative failures and Minnesota pota
a growers are now filing Iowa contrac
\ in car load lots at 80 cents per bush
.. Last year the same contractors sold la
winter potatoes for IS cents per bush
In the nature Of things the law of su
ply and demand will send the pri
pc higher, possibly to maximum OF 81
~ 31.26 per bushel, and the Minnesota
or will be on the ground floor to reap Z
10I rewards. The total Minnesota acrea
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