Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-24
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Is TOPICS OF THE TIMES )
Cuba and her lately instituted gov
eminent are the best proofs that couid
possibly be brought forward against
the malicious charges that the United
states government in the Philippines
has not been wise and considerable and
correct are the baseless creation of
spiteful imagination or shameless par
itisanship. The more the American gov
eminent of the Philippines is analysed
and revealed, the more carefully and
better conceived in it's purposes and the
more admirable and gratifying in its
results will it appear
Cuba begins to incur at once the
troubles of being a nation. A bomb
thrower cast his instrument of destruc-
ton in the streets of Havana, injuring
eleven people.
France ought to proceed quickly with
the order for the removal of the popu-
lation of Martinique to some other
point This risk of occupying the island
hereafter will be greater than all the
possible advantages. The impression of
the French people that there Is no
France outside of Paris Is responsible
for its neglectful colonial policy.
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President Loubet is being entertained
just as imperially in Russia as tho he
were a king or an emperor, instead of
the elected head of the French republic.
There is, OF course, no good reason why
he should not be thus treated, and
neither is there any good reason why
republics should not be civil to mon
arches.
Did you lose anything in the Bustail
bank?
Depositor-Not q cent.
We'll. we'll! If you knew the thing
was going up why didn't you say sou
Il didn't know. l had to go off on
checks. She went shopping"
New York Weekly.
"Mr. Thomas Mast the acidulous car
tconist, has been flttingly FURNISHED as
far as this world goes, for his rancor-
Gus attitude in past years toward ev-
erything Catholic" says the Phiiadel-
phia Catholic Standard and Times, He
has been given a consulship by the pres
ident, and the place shows that Mr..
Roosevelt knows how to make the pun
ishment fit the crime. 1t is Guyaquil,
in Ecuador. OF course, the F'reemason
and atheist element Is strong In Ecua-
dor, and so Mr.. Mast will not be entirely
lonely in his exile but the bulk of the
population is still Catholic, and this fact
must make Mr.. Nast's life as embit-
tered as it seems to have been While he
was venting his ire in cartoons in New
York But he will have to put up with
it, all the same
Friends played a grim joke on the
Rev. II. G. Roscamp, of kokomo, Ind,
three years ago, the seriousness of
He was on trip to Denver,
when an acquaintance, in a spirit of
banter, gave him block OF supposedly
worthless mining stock. He has now
sold the stock for 100000.
A man who was called on to address
a Sunday school in q Pennsylvania
town took the familiar theme of the
children who Knocked Elijah on his
Journey to Bethel-how the youngsters
tainted the poor old prophet, and how
they were punished when two she bears
came out of the wood and ate forty-two
of them. "And now, children said the
speaker wishing to learn if his talk had
produced any moral effect, what does
this story show" Please, sir" came
from a little girl we'll down in 'front.' I'll
shows how many children two she
bears can hold"
distinct token of advancing civil>
Zation is the construction of patent
palace car, for cattle, provided with
springs to prevent Earring There have
been great Improvements made within
recent years in the methods of trans
PORTING live stock, and all of them have
been profitable to shippers. They have
not only served the ends of humanity,
but they have been financially benefi-
cial All experienced shippers realize
the great advantage of getting stock to
market with as little worry to the ami
mails as possible. The hard. tiresome