Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-21
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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/ According to the latest estimate Con-
gresham Cannon has eighty-eight
votes pledged to him for the speaker
! ship and thirty-two more practically
1 secured, or a total of 40. 1t requires
| 104 to elect.
Mr. Bryan thinks the weekly is going
/ to crowd out the daily paper. His
weekly is doubtless crowding out all the
time he might otherwise give to a Pc
rusal of the dailies.
Rather a determined looking man ap-
peared in Pierpont Morgans New York
| Office not long ago and said he wished to
see the great finaneier. mfr. Morgan is
| busy just now" said an attendant.
1 We'll I'll wait, for must see him if it
| takes a year" In a few minutes Mr..
Morgan appeared and said: Il can not
see you. It's out of the question. But
| have q letter from General Blank, of
ST. Louisa letter of introduction. said
the visitor. Yes, l know" answered
Mr. Morgan in matter-of-fact tones.
The general informs me by wire that
he gave you the letter to get rid of you.
Good morning And the fiRancier dis
appeared into his private office. Exit
the st. Louis Party in a slightly dazed
condition
Judge-Have you anything to say
before sentence Is pronounced?
Prisoner-No: nothing, except to call
your honor's attention to the fact that
that fool lawyer who defended me was
appointed by yourself.-Puck
Bug originally meant a goblin. The
Welsh word bug means a ghost. The
Hebrew word, which in Psalms xc., 5,
is represented by terror" was in the
early translations rendered bug, the
verse being, Thou shalt not need to be
afraid OF any bugs by night" Perhaps
the name indicating terror was given
by a timid maiden.
According to Professor w. J. MCGEE
the chief entomologist of the govern
ment, the white man can learn much
from the red man about food products
particularly of the cactus fruits found
in the southwestern part of the United
States and northern Mexico. These
fruits, which are neglected entirely by
the white man, the Indians live on for
two months of each year. In this time
the so-called Falmouth" Indians be-
come fat and store energy to last them
the remainder of the year. Indians dry
the cactus fruits and use them as their
chief foodstuffs. These cacti are re-
lated to the fig family, and contain pulp
with small seeds. The outer skin is usu-
ally rough and thorny. In the arid re-
gion from eastern Mexico to California
there are only about 10000 persons now,
it is said, while years ago, when it was
inhabited only by the Indians, it sup
ported from 100000 to 100000.
Oliver Wendell Holmes counted only
three generations between shirt sleeves
and shirt sleeves. A daughter of Toll
stoi. in an interview with Henry Nor
man, expressed the same idea in these
words: mo Russian ever POUNDS a
family as you say. man makes his
fortune, his son lavishes it, his son dis
perses it,
Just one township in Kansas gave a
plurality for the prohibition ticket. The
vote in Nevada township, Ness county.
was. Emerson, 81; Bailey, 40; Grad
dock, "a. Such victories deserve to be
recorded.
Like Iowa the state institutions of
Minnesota are governed by a board OF
control, and in imitation of the Iowa
hoard the Minnesota officials favor
home dealers. This latter fact leads the
Minneapolis Tribune to say: "The fact
that only eighteen out of the l4o con-
tracts let by the board of control for
furnishing the state institutions with
supplies for the quarter beginning on
Nov. go to outside concerns is another
evidence of the benefit of open compe-
tition. The Minnesota merchants got
most of the contracts because their bids
were lower than those of their compete
tors, and they seem to be taking an in
creasing proportion with every compe-
finn Thus it turns out that there was
never any occasion for alarm lest allow
ing outsiders to bid would take business
out of the state. 1t has kept nearly all
the business in the state and at the
same time given the state the benefit of
the lowest practicable prices
Minnesota produced 100000 pounds
of butter last year, and its quality made
a good demand for it. Dairy Commits
sioner Sherwood, of South Dakota,
that few new creameries are
being established In that state, but es-
Inmates the value of the butter sold In
the state during the year at $4,o0o,ooO.
He figures the quantity produced by