Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-27
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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do you harpen to know anything OF
your masters whereabouts?
I'm not sure, ma'am,' replied the
careful domestic, but think they're liz
the wash.''-Tit Bits.
| When Iowa money is seeking invest
ment in Minnesota and Dakota land,
4 Colorado coal and wildcat mines, why
! does it not stay at home and assist in
making Iowa a manufacturing state'
Every manufacturer in Marshalltown is
doing well. There is more real returns
to be had from money invested in a
good manufacturing plant in Iowa than
i'll half the crazy investments made
outside.
The Rev. DR.. C. ]. Ryder secretary
of the American Missionary Associa-
| ton, who has just returned to this
country after an extended trip around
the island of Porto Rico, says there VS.
plenty of work to be done there. He
did not take the regular tourists route
over the country, as he desired to study
the people and the conditions as they
exist apart from the most travelled dis
tricts. He passed over some mountain
trails that no Americans except a party
of detectives have before crossed, and
forded river in which sixteen Span
iards were drowned in the war Said
he: Il went thru dozens of schools,
meeting the Supervisors and the teach
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has done excellent work already among
the children. But here again the field
is so large There are 100000 children
of school age in Porto Rico while al!
the public schools, if filled to the doors,
would accommodate only $4,000, and
there is little prospect of their getting
hold of more than $4,000 It present. The
superintendent of education said to
me: The public schools are reaching
only one fifth of the population, SO you
see that there is ample room and need
for your work and that of every Chris
tian organization
China has a disturbing silver ques-
ton, as we had a few years ago. Ours
was happily settled with the flattening
out of Bryan; hers is a temporary one,
to compose itself as soon as her war
indemnities are paid. The point at is
sue is whether these shall be on a silver
basis, without regard to the rate of ex-
change prevailing at the time of pay
inent. The old tale of the shield which
was gold or silver, according to the
point of view, illustrates the respective
situations of the "Chinks," who are to
pay, and the foreigners, who are to re-
ceive the tribute.
The sultan of Turkey recently re-
ceived petitions from the officers in
garrisons at Uskub and three adioin-
ing towns, setting forth that their pay
had failed to materialize for a long
time, and that promotion was at a
standstill. Abdul Hamid responded by
promoting sixty five officers of the gar
rison at Przina who had not petitioned.
'Lo, the poor Indian has certainly
developed from the ''untutored mind If
reports of his progress in a commercial
way are to be believed. 1t is now re-
ported that a relic trust has been or
ganized by the Omaha and Winnebago
Indians. The president of this grasp
ing monopoly is Great Thunder, Win
nebago, whose specially is making bows
and arrows. Green Rainbow and
Prairie Chicken, makers of snakeskln
belts, and John A. Logan, manufacturer
of eagle feather head dresses, are direc-
tors. These leaders will hereafter fix
The prices of Indian goods made for
white purchasers.
Charles Major, author of that fascin-
ating romance of the days of Henry
VIII, when Knighthood Was in Flow
er" has chosen for the time of his sec
ond distinctive novel the period when
Mary Queen of Scots secretly entered
England ostensibly to seek the protec
ton of Queen Elizabeth, but, as her en-
enlies contrived to prove, in reality, to
plot for the English throne. In Dor
othy Vernon Of Haddon hall the stage
is small. The characters few in num-
Der. But the action is SO varied, the in
cidents so punctuated with bright chat
ter that one is brought close to most
fascinating period in Anglo-Scotch
history without having the imagina-'
ton dulied by an alleged imitation of
the speech and customs of the times,
or the sensibilites panied by an over
indulgence in hair breath escapes, and
the Staying of men. In short, Mr. Major
turns the stock in trade of the average
historical romance into sheer derision
10y ignoring them. AS sort of rebuke
he subordnates great historical per-
sonages to his own creations which are
essentially of flesh and blood. To make
his divorce from conventions still more
absolute he declines to have his readers
burdened with villain.
The Chicago Record Herald observes
that no captain of industry ever wa
tered stock without intending to soak
somebody.
Congressman Hull. of Iowa. was in
Philadelphia the other day, when the
Five O'Clock Club gave a dinner. He
Was seized upon as a guest by the good
fellows in the club. but pleaded he had
no dress suit. I'VE can fix that all
right" said his hosts. and, taking him
into an adjoining room. they attired