Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-20
TOPICS OF THE TINES;

3 lUflNS VI lie llFIEoi
49, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
1T is confidently believed that King
Edward will make both ends meet on a
salary Of s2,s5o.ooo a year.
1t required several tragedies at Albany
TO convince conflicting interests IN the
street car strike that the arbitration
which settled it was the preferable way
to terminate the difficulty.
1t is intimated that Rockefeller was
the real power behind the throne that
supported the Hartman Kuhn Loeb in
terest in the clash With Morgan and
Hill over the Northern Pacific.
AT last. at last Pes,igrsw fails TO re-
sponi with the refrain object" He
has been offered the presidency of the
Northern Pacific at $4,000 per year.
A Sunday school superintendent, who
happened to be dry goods mere hant,
and who was teaching class of very
little tots. asked when he had finished
ieNplanng the Lesson NON. has any
one a question to ask a very small
girl raised her hand. What IS 1t,
Martha?,' asked the superintendent.
Why. Mr.. Brooks, how much are those
little red parasols IN Your Window"
said Martha.
IT, seems to me that fishing is cruel
from beginning to end. Look at the
anglewcrms YOU cut in 90 with your
spade when you are digging bait. Yes,
na,anl bur that doesn't kill them. and
is rot he henefactor who causes two
angleworms to grow where only one
grew before"
Rams Horn says. When YOU keep
Your preacher worrying over his gro-
Gerry bills you can hardy expect him to
feed You With the bread of life
When the Chicago & Great Western
makes its entry into omaha this city
Viii have all the railroad facilities TO
Chicago that may be required for the
next ten generations" declares the Bee.
With six direct trunk lines To Chicago,
and most Of them doub!e-uack. oma-
ha cannot complain OF her facilities for
reaching the metropolis Of the west"
German newspapers are stirred UP
over the commercial strength Of the
United states. but uncie Sam is not
Disturbed over IT,
In referring to the Wall street furry
Henry elsws' Weekly Review says
lave seen the worst, and it's felt TO be
"a great relief tina; the cons equsnces have
hot heen more serious. Not one stoeks
exchange house has SUSPENDED, winch
implies that operators have, from their
large profits. been well ableto take care.
during the past wee K there has been a.
pretty thorough wedding out OF enfse
ihied operators. the bargain hunters have
taken off considerable floating stock into
their strong boxes; and the market IS
thus working into sounder position
Whilst there has no doubt been a cousid-
cradle clearing out of the weaker ele-.
ments. Yet there remains an important
class of operators oc large means and
who have eonndencc in the staying quail
i,ies of tine market and look for lie
maintenance Of activity thru the sum
raer months.
Booker T. Washington says that dur
ling the earlier days of freedom almost
every ,segro who EARNED q read would
receive "a call u preach. within few
days after he began reading
THE dictator Of the %. and the viz
ard of the Northwestern, is the way
Hon. a. b. Funk refers 10 two pow cru!
influences IN Iowa politics.
The aggregate strength of the United
States army in enlisted men vii be
i745oi This will be approximately enc
Isoldier for every 1000 Of the country's
/ population. as General Miles recon-
4 mended in severa Of his reports in re-
cent years. which Is small enough con-
| siderins the demands that may be made
upon our military force at any time.
The division between the various arms
of the service is, in enlisted men, 1880
for the cavalry. 1852 for the artillery,
4 IS, $40 for the infantry and 1852 for the
engineers.
IT may he safely put down as an AK
Hon that for a congressional district ,e
Ilenter a state convention with two can
didates for state nominations the sue.
cess Of one must be at the expense q
the other.
!. The "ohio idea was pretty well Illus
trated when the battleship Ohio was
successfully launched at San Francisco
in the presence Of President Mckinney
Those organs Of the railways which
sneeringly say that all the democratic
papers and few republican journal.
are supporting cumnlins should read IN.
a BILE review of the political developments
among the sterling republicans of tn,
state from the pen of ex- Senator a. Il
Funk. whose party standing can not b
: questioned. IL is reproduced elsewhere