Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-12
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

The presidents message is said to b,
nearly completed.
/ Western Missouri land has beer
bought by whole colony of farmer.
from South Dakota, who are preparing
i to move onto it.
Speaking of the trials of early set
tiers, correspondent of the Delphos
I (kas.) Republican tells this one: Il an
afraid of fire" said a settlers wife tc
me the other day. "Once when we were
burning off the corn stubble in autumn
| there came up Whirlwind and carried
the flames to our neighbours farm II
took his barn and most of his wheat
and hay. My husband and I scrimped
and saved for four years to pay that
loss, but we did it. During all that time
I only spent 81 for new clothes. Do
you wonder that / am afraid Of fire? ?"
The Thanksgiving turkey is not
strutting around yet with his accus-
toned familiarity.
1t is regarded as a curious coincf-
dence that Alexander n. Stephens and
DR.. Crawford w. Long. whose statues
are to be placed by Georgia in Statuary
Hall, at the national capital, were stu
dents together at the University of
Georgia, and occupied the same room
as bedfellows while pursuing their
studies. One became statesman and
the other surgeon of renown.
That cold wave will be here soon
enough at latest.
Geronimo, the famous old Apache
war chief, now prisoner at Fort Sill,
Ok, has a daughter who is a pupil at
the Mescalero Indian school in New
Mexico. Her name is Lenna Geronimo.
She is Is years old and she is quite a
handsome girl of the Indian type The
old chief thinks great deal of her.
Minister WI Ting Fang and his dam
ty little wife surprised their Washing
ton friends the other day by driving out
dressed in American costumes. The
Chinese minister has been an ardent
admirer of western civilization. The
clothes of the European, however, he
has on many occasions severely criti-
cised Both the women and the men.
he has declared, sacrifice their health
by the lack of ~clothing over their
chests, and the skirts of the women
and the way they hold them up have
been topic of comment by the minis
ter on many occasions.
Robert T. Baptist, ex-slave from vir-
ginia, who has given $1,000 to Booker
for the endowment of a |
Tuskegee scholarship, is employed as
,oachman by General Carpenter Of |
New York.
Pa--What did you learn at school to-
lay, Bobbie?
Bobbie--I learned to say Eyes, sir"
Pa-Are you always going to say |
Yes, STRIP
Bobbie-Yep!-New York Times.
While the agricultural department
shows that 1oWa's corn yield is Z per
cent above that of last year. and nearly
per cent above ten year average,
soft and damaged character OF much
If it. 1t is evident, however, that Iowa
will have all the corn she needs, such
Is it is.
On exhibition in Columbia, s. c., is
sword with an interest
ng history. 1t originally belonged to
vas captured by Wade Hampton, an
estor of the late General Wade Hamp-
on. The sword has been handed down
IS a relic in the family, and was used
" General Hampton in the civil war.
Fixing It.-"My price," said the mer-
liant who had been asked to fix one
or his business, and who was quite
Wiling to sell out, lis s15O,OOO; not a
ent less"
Make it just that much less" sug-
ested the promoter, land / think we
an close the deal"
How do you mean?"
make 1t S149,999.99. The head Of
his syndicate is a oman."-Philadel- :
hia Press. 6
According to a Washington item, :
lrs. Shaw, wife of the secretary of the
reasury, has arrived in Washington for {
ne winter Miss Enid Shaw. the elder t
aughter of the secretary, has resumed t
err studies at Cornell College, Iowa, from {
.hich she will be graduated next June.
he will spend the summer and fall in
,reign travel and be presented to soci-
~ next winter. Miss Elma Shaw and
arl Shaw will attend school in r
Washington. 9
A familiar figure seen around the
hicago & Alton depot at Joliet, Ill.,, is
he Oldest newsboy in the United G
tates. Orsamus Page has been selling
ewspapers In Joliet since the Worlds
air In 1898, never missing single day, '
|. failing to meet the early trains. Page n
as born in 1909. being 93 years of age, S