Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-02
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The undoubtedly has right to do. II
| is matter of taste about which there
can be no disputing. One reason given
| in his application, however, is rather
| curious. He objects to the name
| Thompson because it is very common
| and leads to his being mixed up with
other Thompsons. We should imagine
that for most of the purposes of ordi-
nary life Il name out of the common
was Il disadvantage rather than an adj
vantage. 1t marks a man out so that
his simplest actions become noticeable.
On the other hand, IL a man rises above
mediocrity. the commonest of names is
no bar to fame. Even John Smith and
John Brown have managed to become
known, and many people fancy that
Mr.. Seton has succeeded i'm lifting his
Thompson out of the rucll We can
only hope that Mr.. Thompson Seton
will prosper as well as Mr. Seton
Thompson has
Henry Watterson will be one of the
guests at the annual dinner of the Bos-
ton Merchants Association, which will
occur in November. What if some coll
ored man should be d member of the as
ISOLATION and be included? But Danish
the thought.
w r. Hearst, with his Chicago
American. may have contempt for
public opinion. a contempt for discreet
lCllrnaliSm a contempf for officfoIc opd
contempt for those who frown upon
yellow literature, but when he runs
up against contempt of court. as he
has in Chicago, he will find thare are
limitations to unwarranted license This
court Will ascertain who is the RESPONSE
bic author OF articles published in the
American to intimidate the court in a
certain case in which the people are
plaintiffs.
There are many democrats so ac-
customed to voting the republican state
ticket that 1t will come easy for them
to do so this year.
Here is a precedent that may be
properly urged in the case of the mis-
sionary, Miss Stone: The Moorish
government has paid Spain $4,000 for
the parents and $1,000 indemnity as
a result of the capture by kabyle
tribesmen of Il Spanish boy and girl
last May at Arizilla, on the Atlantic
coast of Morocco
What is said to be the strictest pure
food law In the United States went into
effect in New Jersey November 1. Its
enforcement has been intrusted to the
New Jersey state board of health
Everything that can come into use for
human consumption as food or drink
is included under the law. The in
spection will even take in canned
goods.
The anarchist who said the presi-
dents assassin did good job, and
found himself in prison within an hour
after being arrested, found that it is
dangerous to trifle with public senti-
ment.
Democrats have only two more days
to get rid OF that lonesome feeling and
join the long republican column.
The ruling of Secretary Hitchcock re-
garding the schooling of Indian children |
has caused quite a sensation. AS re-
suit OF it the secretary takes the posi-
ton that IL the revocation does not
prove satisfactory that there is nOthingl
to prevent the restoration of the Brown
ing ruling.
With the plague at Liverpool and
Glasgow and plague of a time in South /
Africa, John Bulls face does not shorten
a bit
The theory of free silver was Illus
trated in the home state of the "isshu'
by the theft of ton of the white metal
at Omaha.