Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-10
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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4 The south is equally cordial in wei
coming President Roosevelt.
The health officers of Chicago hav
! disclosed traffic in corpses that is cal
oulated to make even the dead feel un
safe in that city.
England has decided to employ CHR
opodists in the army. They are to ranl
not above sergeant. and to performtth
duties of enlisted men, but will receiv
extra pay of sixpence day for six day
in the week for cutting corns.
| Senator w. N. Roach, of North Da
i kota, whose death has just been an
lnounced. never reached q stage of ma.
tional fame that made him conspicuous
Another new book by Bishop Potter
is announced for autumn publication
1t is upon phase of the problem OF
capital and labor upon which he has
been engaged lately as an arbitrator
dustrial Situation 1t is in effect an
appeal to the citizen not to limit his
responsibilities OF citizenship to his
Own class, and an examination into the
relations between capital and labor.
6.,s. ct, n
tour and 1.-The money of the constitu-
ton" has an active advocate in the field
again.
Ten miles southwest Of Findlay o.,
lies the peaceful hamlet of Mount Cory.
1t is a model utopia OF righteousness,
according to the Kansas City Star.
Seventy-f1ve houses compose the VIII
lage, and seven of them are occupied by
preachers of the gospel No saloons are
there. In the winter the residents
swap yarns by the side of the friendly
stove In the corner grocery, and in
summer they white hickory sticks and
cut their initials into the soft pine of
the store boxes. There is mayor but
no brawlers are ever brought before
him, and his chief labors are those of a
notary or uniting two souls whose lives
have flowed into the course of the other,
Years ago there was a calaboose, but
low the hut is used as village pound.
The trouble about our lapses into
wet and cold weather is that it makes
our corn crop guessers put the safety
line farther off,
President Merrill of Fisk University,
holds that the well-educated and com
petent negro doctor has an amazing
opportunity among the eight millions of
his race. He knows of twelve negro
doctors in Nashville alone, all of whom
are doing we'll, and six of them are ac-
ouiring property. He reports also that
it is easier for a colored physician to
build up self-supporting practice
than for the white doctor.
Chicken stealing has become so COM
mon in southeastern Kansas that the
Thief Association has de-
cided to enlarge its scope and go after
this class of criminals.
Iowa or some other western state may
be able to exchange its potatoes for
New York apples. The potato crop of
he latter state is being ruined by
light Assistant John r. Stone, of the !
Cornell experimental station, reported
IN the 9th that the farmers of New
York will lose one-half the potato crop
Is the result of this blight. The blight
s described as fungus disease, and is |
to the constant wet weather.
{ the plant had been sprayed with a
olution of copper sulphate, the crop
night have been saved.
Missouri papers now say that there
8 so much corn that enough cars to !
move it will not be available. That kind
f calamity, however, will not make
can purses.
The Japan Times relates the follow
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id funeral procession was proceeding
rom Hongo to Shitaya in order to bury
he remains of Taroji Fukazawa, the
cad of the gambling den of Hongo and
sallusa, when the policemen of the
[ongo police station stopped the pro-
assion and ordered that the funeral
1ould not take place in such splendid
tanner, as the deceased was convict
hose term of punishment was not vet
xpired. The accusation was true and
he bereaved family was therefore COM
elled to carry out the burial service
. a stealthy way"
According to New York statement
lie death of John d. Rockefeller's
randson Jack two years ago has en-
bled two students, one at John Hop
ms and the other at the University of ,
medical schools, to discov- I