Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-21
TOPICS OF THE TINES

TOPICS OF the TlMES}
In Michigan early peaches were con-
tracted for at so cents bushel. The
largest crop in years in that state is
now going rapidly into the market.
$50
Washington is the principal lumber
state in the union. 1t has an estimated
200, 900, 00O.0 900 feet of merchantable tim
Der. an amount that would allow of cut
ting at the present rate for 100 years be-
fore It's exhaustion. But the same
.wasteful methods prevail there which
have denuded some of the older states
of their timber and there is the same
lack of provision for the future.
Now that so much interest is being
shown in Polar exploration" says the
Boston Herald .it may be interesting to
remember that Andree, the unfortunate
explorer who attempted to reach the
pole by means of a balloon, set limit,
which has just elapsed. He said: If
you have no news from me by the end
of July, you may give ME up for dead"
The statistics of the native population
Of Hawaii for the last half century pre-
sent an interesting study, showing a
decrease so large and steady that If it
be kept up another half century there
will be practically no natives or de-
scendants of natives left on the island.
In 1858, when the first authentic census
was taken, there We're 7l,019 natives on
the island. Each succeeding census has
shown a smaller number, the last show
ing only 29.S34 natives and 1885 part
Hawaiians,
Now the Jacksonian club, of Omaha,
has snubbed Bryan-his pet club. too.
Contrary to his wish, it has invited Da-
svid b. Hill to be it's star speaker at
banquet.
The abundance of oil in Texas means
cheaper fuel. The Houston CTexas)
Post says the coal and Ignite operators
of Texas, Arkansas and Indian Terri
tory have already been obliged to shade
their prices owing to the production of
crude petroleum and the reduction in
the rates for its transportation.
The Star Spangled Banner" has been
translated into Spanish with view OF
arousing the patriotic ardor OF Porto
Ricans and Filipinos. 1t will certainly
pncnlira the national shirt.
Minister WI Ting Fang is negotiating
for site in Washington on which to
build palatial Chinese legation build
ing. 1t is lntimated that Minister WI
may be raised to the grade of ambassa-
dor. The movement indicates the friend
~ relations that exist between our ma
ton and the Chinese authorities.
Hon. Thomas H. Carter, ex-senator
from Montana and ex-chairman of the
republican national committee, who is
now at the head OF the United States
commission for the st. Louis exposition,
has been in Washington several days, in
company with Ex-Governor Francis, of
Missouri, who is at the head of the ex-
position organization, looking after the
foreign interests of the exposition. and
the forwarding thru the department of
state of the presidents proclamation in
viting the participation of all nations in
the exposition. Speaking Of the matter,
Mr.. Carter said: The president will is
sue the proclamation in a few days and
~ inaugurated. Everything promises
that the st. Louis exposition will eclipse
anything of the kind ever held in the
world. Close study of the best points
of every international exposition has
been made and the best features of each
adopted. There will be wealth OF
original conceptions and a magnificence
of detail, together with general world
representation, which will make the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition worthy
of the new century and of the great ter
ritory, the acquisition of which has
added so much to the wealth and pres
/ tige of the country"
The Iowa democrats are in Des Moines
today trying to save party wreckage and
bind up their old gold and silver sores.
| The Mark Lane Express, the best
British authority on the grain trade
estimates that Great Britain. France
Holland and Belgium can easily absort
every bushel of the surplus American
! wheat and that the remainder of Europe
will as easily dispose of the balance OF
the worlds exportable surplus. The
prospect of continued high prices t.
farmers and consumers seems assured
i Col. George w. Breckenridge, OF sar
Antonio, Tex, has given $4,000 for TIL,
building of a school for the colored chill
dren of that city. He evidently believe.
that the dangers that may come from
the dark population is lninimized by ed
ucation.
Small traits will crop out in large
people occasionally. A Connecticut
woman who had a fine home, and every.
thing else she needed and whose hus
| band was worth 100000, was found t.
have a cellar full of chickens she hae
stolen. Inundated, her husband CRIED
like child over her offense, she disap