Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

{ TOPICS OF THE TIMES
Total amount of subscription received
by the Illinois auxiliary of the Mckin-
lev Memorial Association to date is
S30,616.99.
Five feet of snow in Alger county
Michigan, is hampering the operations
of lumbermen.
OF the attempt to introduce contract
system for rural carrier service the
Toledo Chronicle says: THE attempt
to put the rural delivery of mail under
the bane of the contract system VIII
result in the Gripping of this depart
ment of the postal service. The rural
carrier service as now organized is
ALI right and all that is needed to make
ii more effective is the increase OF pay
for the carrier.
Tho more than eighty years old,
FLORENCE Nightingale is still keenly in
terested in benevolent works, and has
lust issued an appeal for the Nurses
Home for Poor Gentlewomen in Lon
don.
An ancient burial ground has been
discovered on the ranch of Luiciana
Quintana, near Mesa Rico. in New Mex
leo. about 200 miles southeast of Las
Vegas. Two stones were first found
that bore curious inscriptions, and be-
meath these were found in shallow ex-
cavations the bones of a frame that
could not have been less than twelve
feet in length. The men who opened the
grave say the forearm was four feet
long and that in we'll preserved jaw
the lower teeth ranged from the size OF
a hickory nut to that of the largest wal
nut in size The chest of the being is
reported as having circumference OF
seven feet. Quintana, who has uncov-
cred many other burial places. express
es the opinion that perhaps thousands
tinct will be found. This supposition is
based on the traditions handed down
| from the early Suanish invasion that
! have detailed knowledge of the exist
( ence of race of giants that inhabited
the plains of what now is eastern New
Mexico. Indian legends and carvings
also in the same section indicate the ex
istence of such race.
| Gov. Van SAINT is delighted over
! the suit of the attorney general of the
/ United States against the big railroad
/ consolidation. The turn in events has
sent railroad stocks involved down
slightly.
Chicago proposes a s15,00o.000 union
depot that Will surpass anything in the
/ United States.
Not only Justice Gray, of the U. S
supreme court, is likely to retire as 4
result of stroke OF paralysis, but
Justice Shiras. of Pennsylvania, may
Ialso step down. Justice Shiras has
4 lust celebrated his 10th birthday. He
has recently told his friends that he
had longing for rest, and he is like
ly, it is said. to apply for retirement
before long. He was appointed to the
supreme bench on Oct. 10. 1892, Sc
that he will be eligible for retirement
after having served ten years, and be-
ling 20 years old, on Oct. 10 of this
year. If he does leave the bench i
H. rf>,,f 81 4,
command in the Philippines, will b.
given the place.
John L. Tracey, of Crossville, Tenn.
, has presented to the Wisconsin Stat
Historical Society old colonial chat
, which was once the property of Roge
Sherman, one of the signers of tn
Declaration of Independence.
Occasionally the lawyers take
chance in the effort to get even witt
newspapers. Here is the dig that Elk
Speaker Tom Reed gave at a banque
) in toasting Cor roasting) Journalism
? from the Outside: 1T must be con
$ fessed that l know very little abou
:, newspapers. Probably a good ma
could not know much, unless. indeed
he was publisher or an editor. Tina
the editors and publishers are goo
linen, actuated by the highest motives
. | notice incidentally in the newspaper
{ themselves. / do not quarrel with ther
O because they admit it-but wish the
e would not admit it every day Whic
: reminds me to say to you that absolut
: goodness and disinterestednesS can b
n lpredicated of no profession outside {
: the law"
The statement is given out that tn
troubles in Spain are due to socia.
ism and anarchfsm, but back of it a
lis discomfort with the unjust govern
ment of the castilians.
! i" Everybody who comes to Rome
? SAYS William e. Curtis, in the Chicae
y Record Herald. must expect to
: swindled and disappointed There a.
=, many illusions, and you will be great
IF disappointed when you approach the
a and they fade away You will
n, swindled by shopkeepers. hackme
/ pedlers and everybody that you ha'
~ anything to do with, and the begga
will annoy you with their persisten
:, like the fakirs and flower girls folio
,,,o,, tho ctraat Int all this