Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-13
TOPICS OF THE TINES.

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! TOPICS or THE TINES !;
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Winter is already in sight at Nome.
Alaska.
Gold in paying quantities has been
found near Cary station, a hamlet near
Elgin, Ill. Excitement runs high and
claims are being made and leases sold
with lightning rapidity. What was a
week ago a quiet country village is
now populated with fever-stricken
prospectors.
There is rumor that the Great West
ern is about to absorb Wisconsin rail-
road, the Green Bay & Western, and by
so doing secure another outlet to the
lakes.
In New Jersey diploma factory"
has been unearthed which has been do
ing rushing business. 1t has had
canvassers out urging men to pay their
money and get their diploma. Rev.
j. c. Chapman of the Presbyterian
church of Hackettstown. N. j., has
recounted his experience in Investigate
ing the National University of Chs
cago," and affirms that there are three
doctors of Divinity in his own pres
bytery who bought their degrees"
1t is evident that Iowa will do her full
share in sustaining the government corn
crop report in holding it at the SO per
cent notch, or more accurately, at the o1.7
point.
Mrs. Teresa Dean, a brilliant MEM
Der of the staff of the New York Town
Topics, reached San Francisco a few
days ago on her return from the Phil
ippnes. Previous to her leaving Manila
she had talk with members of the
United States commission relative to
the women teachers recently sent to
the islands from this country, and was
informed that no more would be al
lowed to come. The women" said
Mrs. Dean, have absolutely no idea
of the awful hardships they will have
to face in that new land. They are
sent off into the interior far from all
military protection and in places where
it is absolutely dangerous for a woman
to be alone. They never see any of the
Injuries of life and positively suffer
for many of the necessities. Milk and
butter are unheard of. and letters from
home are many months between"
Last week Minneapolis eclipsed all her
former records. in the sale of fruits.
Forty-six cars We're received and sold
by auction In five days consisting of
pears, peaches, plums, prunes, ETC., ant.
they We're loaded mostly in mixed cars.
Those who have contended that the
United States is losing it's Anglo Saxon
of foreign immigrants will be sur
prised to learn that for the five months
ended May 81. 1901, there arrived on
American soil 1888 persons from
Great Britain, as against q grand total
of all other nationalities of only 34,2S5.
of English birth, 2,97S, Scotch, and H.
$50 Irish. One American journal APP
praises each able bodied immigrant as
worth about $4,000 to the United
States. This represents the surplus
wealth he creates in an average life
wages.
The anarchists, if shrewd. would join
the emigration column and leave the
country. They might try their no
government theory on some island in the
Pacific.
| 1t is estimated that fully $4,000 per-
Gems attended the services of prayer foi
| the recovery of President Mckinley II
the various churches in Baltimore, II
accordance with the proclamation of the
| governor and mayor of Baltimore. Lik,
responses occurred at many points.
| The negroes of Kentucky have jus
| lynched three of their own race for muir
dering an old and respected colored man
They thus use the lash that scourge!
them, but it should not be considered
strange. They share the same indigna
| ton felt by the whites when similar of
/ fenses are committed and they hay,
been educated to consider the lynchint
method the most effective means of pun
| ish1nent The white people will proba
bly, condone their own guilt in extermi
rating offenders by pointing to this ex
ample. 1t will require considerable edu
cation on both sides to eradicate thu
| lynching habit
4 President Mckinley is quoted as say
ing: DO you know, doctor, am get
ting hungry? 1t seems to me it is
pretty long time between meals" Uncl
Sam is standing anxiously around witt
bowl and spoon waiting the beck OF TIL
| doctors.
WAS your son Josiar leader of an.
of his classes"
Il reckon" answered Farmer Corn
tossel. Il have been told that goo,
many of the young men who TENDED
Josiar's school belonged to the leisur
class. An from what have seen o
Josiar durin' harvest time I shoul,
guess that he'd be right up clus to tn
I. top. "-Washington Star.