Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-17
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Inc jingle OF Slelgh bells mas been
heard in eastern Minnesota and west
ern Wisconsin.
/ The Denver Republican notices that
| just now there is a general disposition
to regard the st. Louis boodlers as ex-
/ hibt A and the Louisiana purchase ex-
position as exhibit B.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Taylor has awarded to w. o. and c. G.
Barton, of st. Louis. the contract for
the erection of the government building
at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
| TO be completed Jan. 1, 1904. The con-
tract price is $26s,9So.
| The days are getting nearly as short
as the coal supply.
Representative DeArmond. of Mis-
siuro, is spoken of as the probable sue
cessor of Mr.. Richardson of Tennessee,
as the democratic leader in congress.
In connection with the recommended
ton for the instruction of private SOL
diers in vocal music in his annual re-
port for this year, Major General Henry
c. Corbin tells the following story:
"The idea of the practical benefit of
music to the soldiers was first called to
my notice when / was on a steamer
in the Pacific. On board we had a
number of British soldiers. Every night,
rough or smooth, stormy or pleasant,
the men would gather on the deck and
sing. The sergeant would call on one
soldier after another to sing his song,
and each man would respond. There
was the regmental song that all sang,
there were the soldier chanteys that
the men sang the choruses of. The eff
feet in bad weather was inspiring. In
stead of sitting around in mournful ST.
lence the men sang themselves into
good spirits. This habit of song is
practised in the German army where
every regiment has its own song. and in
other continental armies. AS a means
to keep the men in the barracks and out
of the saloons at night believe vocal
music to be exceedingly valuable"
Agent-This reaper and binder will
DO the work of five hired men!
Farmer Jones--Huh! kin do moren
that myself, bgosh!
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
a Boston letter says that the we'll
known love of the Wellesley College
girl for tempering higher education
with the rustic idea has found a new
expression in her adoption of a course
Of up-to -date farming. Farming is
taught scientifically at the college.
While this branch of study is some
what of a novelty in American colleges
for women, at one woman's college in
England successful graduates have
been turned out for fifteen years. The
effort is to raise the humble occupation
of the gardener to the dignity of a pro-
fession.
A very plain man in Glasgow has
very pretty daughter. One day she was
sitting on his knee right before a look
ing glass She contemplated the refiec-
ton of their two faces, and then asked:
Papa, did God make me?"
Yes, DEAR" he replied.
"And did He make you?"
"Yes.''
Looking again in the mirror, she
drew long breath and rejoined:
"He must be turning out better work
lately, isn't He?"
The day of the lightning rod is pass
ing. The governments latest census
returns show that Franklin's invention
for protecting the house is little used
today. No electrical manufacturing es-
tablishment reports 1t among the prod
ucts, and so far as the census expert
has been able to learn only one Ameri-
can electrical engineering firm makes a
business of setting UP the rods or de-
signing them. So far as large cities
are concerned, disastrous lightning
strokes are reported to be more rare,
and the decrease is accounted for by
the network of electrically charged
wires and other apparatus with which
the city is now interviewer and sur
rounded.
We mark the weather when it's hot
We talk of cold and rain.
Perhaps all this attentions what
Has made the weathervane.
Philadelphia Press.
A little sunshine now and then is rel
ished by the best of men.
India, according to the British secre-
tary of state for that portion of the
empire, is increasingly prosperous, de-
spite the ravages of famine. The only
decrease in revenue in the last year has
been in the opium tax, fact which will
cause little regret and there is sur
plus of about s16,000,oO0, of which it is
proposed to grant $7,500,oo0 for the re-
lief of sufferers from drouth and fam
inc. which is certainly humane move
ment.
Brace yourself, gentle reader, for the
story of a great catastrophe! You may
ave visions of wholesale human
slaughter, but 1t is worse than that