Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-19
TOPICS OF THE TINES

TOPICS or The TINES
"Frozen to death" is the sad tale that
comes from many localities these Gays
While the Schley controversy is goihs
on his compatriot and rival is seriously
Ill and may not recovers
| This from the horrid independent Des
Noines Leader: I'm the gossip con-
corning changes in the cabinet there is
| no suggestion that Secretary wilson Is
| to retire. Secretary Wilson is satisfied
with his work, and so is the president
and so is the country.
The English are encouraged by new
successes in the South African neio
| and by the story of prisoners that the
| Beers will close their efforts Dec. %.
"a new story" says the Springfield
Republican. is being told OF the days
when Mark Twain was q hack writer
in San Francisco on weekly salary
with one figure, Bret Harte and Joaquin
Miller serving on the same staf with
like pay. A woman OF means who
patronized Bohemia and gave the I'M
pecunious strugglers many a good din
ner saw Mark Twain, thinly clad and
limperfectly shod, standing with cigar
l Inn iro r. hnn0ri1y
lin at confectioner's window. The
patroness OF letters asked what was In
the box. oh, drawled the humorist
I'm moving again Mr.. Clemens has
had his financial ups and downs since
then, but every one hopes that here
after there will be only the ups
i A new cure for typhoid fever-in fact
for almost every fever-has been dis
i covered and experimental with sue
lcessfully in New York. The patient IL
put in specially constructed refrig-
orator and the fever frozen out. Why
not try the open air cure In Iowa?
4 Representative William Alden Smith
desires to add another legal holiday
to the already long list. He has intro
duced a bill providing that Januar,
%, the birthday of William Mckinley
be made legal holiday. and that u
should be observed as are Christmas
independence and the other legal holi-
days. The lamented Mckinley admir-
ers believe he will be honored In the
highest degree without resorting te
this method.
A Rochester IN. W woman who an
nexed the name Damn at the altar
grew weary of the name and the own
err and committed suicide. And she lef
little Damns to bear the name In sor-
| row to the grave, or to relieve It o,
implied stigma by a god life.
President Mckinley was character.
istically good -natured with photograph
ers, never objecting to the ubiquitou.
!, "snapshotter," but Mr.. Roosevelt Is Civ.
!. ing them the reverse experience. HI
positively refuses to have picture
taken of himself and the cabinet.
Wonder If the example of the Arieri
can Express company in setting asid'
500, 900 from which to give each OF 1t.
employees $40 apiece as Christma'
present will prove contagious?
The Northwestern Banker says: "A
record of twelve banks robbed ant
three lives lost in Iowa during the las
two months ought to arouse the bank
ers of this state to some concerted &C.
J ton that will provide ways and mean!
for running down this most desperate
. and daring class OF criminals and Sc
curing their conviction and punish
ment. 1t is quite natural that lowe
should suffer most from these depre
dations. With bank at every villag'
crossroads; In the very midst of plent.
and prosperity and with a perfect ne
J, work of railroads and immense freigh
business making escape possible il
8 two or three hours to some centra
E city in the state. 1t is little wonder tina
our banks and bankers are made tn
, target of the most dangerous thugs II
the cauntry. The Iowa Association
of Bankers has done much to stamp on
) bank forgery and other bank swindlinl
in the state. 1t will probably adop
at the next executive meeting some plal
OF work to relentlessly pursue and pun
ish the bank burglars"
James LaBarre, Kentucky veteran
Y of the civil war, of Louisville, will star
his long walk to Washington in fev
days 1t is recalled that he walked thi
) distance of over 600 miles last winter.
Alexander Mcdowell, clerk of tn
house of representatives. is a banke
and capitalist, but he used to be poo
! compositor on an Oil City weekly. MI
Mcdowell is fond OF telling how h
laid the foundation of his fortune, ii
t was working at his case one day in tn
OIL City printing Office when he notices
q the Pittsburg steamboat tie up Mt thu
J wharf. The idea caught him to drol