Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-30
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .~~~~~~~~o
Eastern dispatches fail to inform us
where Grover Cleveland is fishing to
/ day.
Kentucky has established a quaran-
| tine against Indiana on account Of
smallpox Now If Indiana wants to get
even let her establish quarantine regu-
laticns against Kentucky pocket TASKS
and reyolvers.
The head OF the Methodist missions
at Manila is reported to have said that
Aguinaldo once told him that IF he had
known the American people would do
for the Eilipinos what they have uane.
nothing could have induced him to fire
a gun or lift a finger against them.
This is called by some of those opposed
to the national policy in the Philip
pines "a curios statement" with an I'M
concealed accent of skepticism. There
seems no reason for doubling the mis-
sionary's word, no matter what may be
thought of the sincerity of Aguinaldo.
Some friend of the family sent q no.
tice to the Abilene. Kas. Reflector
saying that an ssh boy" had been
born to Mrs. Blank. All the editor could
make out OF it was that the 18Th boy"
had been born to Mrs. Blank. and .hus
he printed it. And the Blanks, who had
been married but one year, have been
raising Cain about it ever since.
Without yellow public there would
be no yellow Journal
Bishop StoneWigg. of New Guinea,
now visiting in England. says: "Epis-
copal duties in New Guinea are varied.
Recently had to act as chief pigstick-
er at a great feast 1t was the biggest
function of the kind that had been held
for sixteen years, and fully 1000 ma
tives We're gathered together from the
surrounding hills to participate in it.
The whole of the staff and pupils of our
head station, including five women, had
been invited. A great platform had
been erected for the grotesquely ar
rayed dancers. and in front was space
round which all the natives in their
hideous attire We're placed The great
the killing of a great number of pigs, OF
which 100 were to be slaughtered. The
festival was to last two days, the night
being passed. in continuous dancing
which was in progress from s p. nj. to
Ga. m. AS the great desire of the as
talk, as they express it, as much as pos
sible, the manner of their dispatch was
purposely lingering. We held a service
before this vast crowd of savages, and
urged upon them the necessity of spar
ing the poor beasts as much pain as
possible. They thought it was impos-
sible TO kill them more quickly, where
upon suggested that we should do the
killing while they carried out the eat
ing. So, after the service, ! set to and
shot fifty of the animals, while other
members of my party disposed of TWEEN
ty-two."
The Ohio republicans say 'It is the
nations army, drawn from every sec
ton of the country, knowing no polit-
ical creed, but fighting the nations
battles under the nations flag, and we
resent with Indignation recent efforts
to drag its honor in the dust and to
cast reproach on its fair name This
seems entirely different from the view
taken by Senator Hoar and his coterie
of self-seeking politicians and senti-
mentalists. Real Americans will con-
t.nue to favor the Ohio idea, however.
The evacuation of Cuba gives pecu-
liar timelness to an important article
on Public Education in Cuba by
Matthew E. Hanna, United States COM
missioner of Cuban schools, which APP
pears in the Atlantic Monthly for June.
Mr. Hanna gives an interesting and ef-
fective account of the reform which his
has effected in the educa-
tional system of the island and points
out some of the problems by which the
CubanS themselves VIII be confronted
in the future, and what the coming adj
will find necessary to do
in order to cotinue the present system
and maintain the schools on the plane
of efficiency that the United States has
established.
Among the passengers on the steam
er Caracas of the Red Line which
arrived on Monday from Porto Rico
says a New York newspaper, was Har
ny Callan of Newark, n. j., who has
beer away from home for fifteen years
and has spert most of the time at So
gotta in Colombia as an attache of the