Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-03
TOPICS OF THE TINES

ming to talk of their busy days.
Marsden j. Perry. the Providence, r.
l., banker, owns the finest Shakespeare
can library in America. 1t cost him
over $4,000. and its collection was
brought about thru the ransacking of
Europe.
Cuba has had a peaceful presidential
election and has elected a chief magis-
trate who takes the matter coolly. Tally
n for the excitable little Castilian is-
land.
Secretary Hay was born in Illinois.
Secretary Gage in Franklin county, N.
Y, Secretary Long in Maine. Secretary
Knox in Pennsylvania, Secretary Hitch
cock in Alabama and Secretary Wilson
in Scotland. The last is the only mem
Der Of the presidents cabinet who is
not a native born citizen of the United
States. Former Postmaster-General
Smith was born in Connecticut. Shaw,
the new member of the cabinet, was
born in Vermont.
Sixty-seven people of McKeesport,
Pa. swore off on New Years, and took
the 80 help me- before the mayor. It
was a good start that deserves q better
finish.
Tho Doc%1r noc<o<aoo oaaotoY. ,-d
employees are taking great credit to
themselves and finding much satisfac-
ton in the fact that there was not a
single piece of mail remaining in the
Office to be delivered after the car
riers had started out on their last bur-
densome trip on Christmas morning.
Hoffman Atkinson, who was vice pres
ident Of the Holland Torpedo Boat Com
pany, and whose will was filed for pro-
bate recently, left all his estate to his
widow, Sophie. and the following advice
to his descendants: II earnestly hope
that every descendant of mine, both
mar and woman. may be taught and ac-
quire some one profession, trade or
handicraft during adolescence, whereby
to avoid the risk Of begging or borrow
ing. The shame OF stealing, begging or
borrowing is best provided against by
the possession Of a profession or trade,
and no profession or trade can be de-
grading or low as compared with the
shame OF getting for nothing the fruits
of others labors."
Admiral Dewey has engaged a suite
of rooms at the Breakers, Palm Beach,
Fla. MI. and Mrs. Dewey will arrive
at Palm Beach January 5 or s for a
protracted stay. sa
Statistics make the great showing
but blast the statistics! Put EN- in a
book.
Just Saved Himself
He dust introduced)-What a very
homely person that gentleman near the
piano Is. Mrs. Black.
She-Isn't he? That is Mr.. Black.
He-How true 1t is, Mrs. Black, that
the homeliest men always get the pref
test wives!
The annual appropriation for the ex-
penses of the Presidents office, includ-
ing the presidents salary, compensa-
ton for his clerks and secretaries, the
furnishings of the white house and the
maintenance of the grounds. is less
than $500, 900 a year. The estimate for
4 nnc L.. eCNl nm . TIn ovoorcac nf thu
legislative branch of the federal gov
eminent are $751; 600, 900 a yea and of the
of justice $5,300,o00. The
expenses OF the district of Columbia,
paid for by the FEDERAL government,
are s7,oOo.ooo a year.
Governor Odell Of New York In his
message to the legislature is firm in his
declaration against Sunday saloons In
Greater New York unless the entire
state so votes, and his uncompromising
position is likely to revive h issue OF
home rule in all It's bitterness, especial
ly in view OF the utterances noted else
where.
Bicycling seems or the way to join
roller skating in France as an extinct
craze, and the big "velodromes," like
the Kinks, are empty. An attempt Is
being made to turn them into open-air
theatres for classical plays and operas.
AT Roubaix the experiment will be
made next summer.
Hospital Surgeon-Why wasn't that
man brought Immediately to the hos.
pital?
Ambulance Driver-It took an hour
to carry out the directions contained
in your book, What to do Before the
Doctor Comes and meantime he died.
Baltimore American.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, widowed less
than one year g by the untimely
death of her distinguished husband. is
living In modest retirement in Indiallap-
oils. n the life of domesticity which
she leads is said by friends to be the
source of more contentment than she
found in the social functions at which
she was sometimes the hostess, but
more often the guest of honor during
Mr.. Harrison's lifetime. Prior to her
marriage to Mr.. Harrison she lived very
modestly in New York city, and when
she went to Indianapolis as h wife of
the former president 1T was but natural
that many should seek to show her and