Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-03
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

1t has the appearance OF genuine,
blown-in the bottle winter
Hicks has provided a general cold
wave for the period from the 9th to the
18th, but this remarkable season is in.
clined to ignore his prophecies.
Colonel, would you mind telling me
how you made your first $1,000?"
Not at all. / made it by attending
strictly to business-my own business
you know" Chicago Tribune.
Since the house of the Fifty-seventh
congress came into existence, in March,
1901. twelve members have died, three
seated as the result of contests, making
a total of seventeen changes in less
than two years. This is the greatest
number of changes occurring during
one term of congress in the history of
that body.
Emperor William recently ordered
the army chaplains to deliver periodical
lectures in the evening for the benefit
of private soldiers. Attendance is usu-
ally small, not being compulsory, but
one reverend gentleman found that his
lecture room was filed every evening.
He was much pleased, and to the COM
handing officer expressed his pleasure
at the religious awakening. Rubbish,
said the uncompromising colonel; L
have merely discovered that compul-
sorry attendance at your sermons is ex-
eellent punishment for TRIVIAL offenses."
A Sunday school teacher in Kansas
was having the children in the infant
class repeat their favorite prayers.
There was varied assortment of
''Now-I-lay mes" until little 3-year-
old boy was reached, and he told his:
sI had a little pig, I fed him in a
a trough, and when he got fat, his tail
popped off,
A Buffalo man contends that previous
Arctic explorers have started on
wrong basis. and he proposes to walk to
the north pole. His feet will be con-
sidered great before he gets thru.
sI suppose you feel that the mantle
of Booth has fallen on your shoulders, :"
said the adnliring friend.
81 wasn't thinking so much about
Booths MANTLE rejoined Mr.. Storm
ington Barnes, "as about my own VIM
ter overcoat."
washington Star.
The papers are telling Of a Missouri
editor who, in writing up church en-
tertainment in his town, said: Miss
Bates sang, oh That / had Wings to
Rise and Fly accompanied by the min
ister."
Secretary Shaw wants the little mite
OF s5S9.1s9,112 to run the government
for the fiscal year of 1904, and he makes
it appear smaller by showing that 1t Is
over s33,000,000 less than was appro-
priated for 1903
COMPILATIONS show that in the last
eleven months $500. new residences
have been completed in Kansas City,
and 262 business houses have been fin
ished. If to these are added the resi-
dences and business houses in course
Of construction, the total reaches the
surprising number of 1914.
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The December number of the North
American Review contains collection
of timely articles on topics of the day.
IA Progressive Republican" and "A
Jeffersonian Democrat" discuss "Presi-
dent Rocsevelt's First Year." Thomas
B. Reed considers the tariff question,
Mark Twain writes of Christian Sci
ence and w. D. Howells of the late
Frank Norris. Cornelius Vanderbilt
discusses electricity as a motive power
on trunk lines, Susan B. Anthony
writes Of "Woman's Half Century of
Evolution and Erving Winslow sets
forth "The Anti Imperialist Faith"
Other articles are by Marion Wilcox,
Charles HI. Cramp, Solicitor Penffeld of
the state department and Sidney
Brooks, while Joseph S. Auerbaeh and
Henry G. Adams discuss "The Problem
of the Trusts"
A little boy and girl were playing at
trains, says the Western Mail, and the
boy was calling out all the station
names he knew. The first stop was Car
diff, the second Newport, the third
Swansea, and then he paused for a
name. AT last with a rush he came out
triumphantly with Heaven" "Top!"
cried the sister; 81 tink I'll Diet out
here"
Booker It. Washington, talking what
he calls hard sense" to a gathering of
his race, says the Philadelphia Ledger,
vas trying to explain the shades of diff
ference between self-help and the mere
moral obliquity Of self-interest. He
told them that there is little or nothing
to be obtained without work, adding:
There was an old negro, professionally
pious, who wanted "a luxurious Christ
mas dinner and who night after night
prayed to the Lord to send him a tur-
key. The days passed, Christmas APP
preached and the old fellow undertook
to compromise by asking the Lord to
send him to turkey. He got one that
very night"