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

President Castro of Venezuela APP
pears to be willing to invite disaster.
A big fight is in prospect over the
statehood bill, with division among re-
publicanS.
Referring to the IRIS recent libel
suit, the Newton Record says: THAT
paper made no effort to jolly the
maligned individual. but instead pro-
ceeded to make a vigorous defense. 1t
won out in fine style. In the opinion
given by Judge Burnham appears some
sensible expressions touching the priv
ileges of newspapers"
The days will reach their shortest
period next week, but many people Will
think that succeeding days before
Christmas are far too short.
William Allen White of Emporia took
luncheon with Thomas B. Reed at the
Century Club, New York, the day
President Mckinley died. after a
simple meal had been put away" Mr..
White relates, Reed pushed back his
chair and began to talk. For three long
hours he discoursed most beautifully
upon life. its uncertainty. its checks and
balances; upon fame and its accidents
and its emptiness; upon death and inn
mortality, and God and all His ways
and works 1t was a kind of funeral
Grafton the like of which few men are
privileged to hear. At the end of it all
the big man threw back his head and
looked up at the great oak rafters of the
room for long while, and then let his
hands fall heavily on the short arms of
the chair as he sighed: Hi no! What
does 1t all mean? where is it going? who
are we? what is this unfathomed mys-
terry we call life-God knows! | don't !"
Jinks-Who was Walt Whitman?
Blnks-I think he was the fellow
that said, ''ril write it out in this line if
it takes all the paper New York Sun.
Car shortage is troubling Missouri
which has big corn crop to market.
New Mexico and Arizona are sending
large delegations of politicians and bus
mess men to Washington to work for
statehood, and doubtless they will all
promise to be good If congress will IA
vor them.
When Congressman Hill of Connec-
ticut first went to Washington he fell
into conversation one day with a portly
and somewhat pompous lawyer from
the southwest, into which section Nut
meg state capitalists at that time We're
putting good deal of capital by way of
investments. connecticut is not much
of state, I believe" said the lawyer
in rather patronizing fashion. We'll"
said Hill, quietly, "the people of my
state own about all of the country
down where you live"
A North Missouri preacher adopted
the following method of requesting the
ladies to remove their hats in church
"A lady," he said to his congregation
"'phoned me this morning and asked II
I would make her remove her hat il she
came to church. / said that I would not
and am now ready to fulfill the promise.
, If the lady is here, she can keep her hat
on. All others are requested to remove
their hats"
The cold spell in Kansas was fol-
lowed by RAIN but moisture is not need
ed now, even in that dry state.
The pest house is place to be avoid
ed, but poor woman in Kansas City
presented herself to the authorities
with a baby that had rash which she
hoped would be pronounced smallpox.
She had been there before and had been
well treated.
Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon, president
of the General Council of Jewish Wom-
en-, which met in Baltimore the other
day, spoke some very true words in her
address on Wednesday regarding the
"Tho women may be undesirable in
public life" she said, mo one contests
their right to labor for the betterment
of social conditions. Work of this sort
used to be considered the special func-
ton of the church. The change is an
indication not SO much of the weaken
ing of the power of the church as an in
dication of the modern view of religion,
which is now understood to be the life
we live rather than the thought we
preach
The coal famine is very acute in
spots in many quarters of the nation.
Senator Proctor of Vermont is presi-
dent of the first manufacturing corpor-
alton in New England to erect a fine
building near the works for the educa-
tional and moral benefit of the en-
| ployes.
"Well." said the plain citizen, there
are always two sides to a question"
"Of course" replied the diplomat.
otherwise how could we dodge tip
Philadelphia Press.
Fred P. Clark, twenty years ago a
prominent and wealthy mill owner in
MINNEAPOLIS, was arrested as a vagrant
| the other day and sent to the work.
house. A succession of business and
matrimonial misfortunes dissipated his