Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-17
TOPICS OF THE TIMES


or otherwise. All she wants is the
chance.
The Missouri democracy despite the
fact that Missouri has always been
thoroughly democratic is anxious to
saddle the settlement of the Lathrop
mule camp upon the United States
government. The democratic issue OF
Boer sympathy affects the average
Misourian inversely when it touches
his mule or his money.
One of his admirers has presented
President Roosevelt with bird dog
valued at $1,000. This may very prop
erly raise the question whether or not
the president of the United States shall
be exempt from the payment OF per-
sonal property taxes.
Canada now claims to be the pos
SCISSOR of the north pole. However, 1t
will soon belong to the United States
by right of discovery, which is better
claim than can be made by any other
nation The average citizen, however,
takes more interest, especially at this
season of the year, in fish pole.
The Cedar Falls Gazette tells of a
Northwood woman who lost her pet
dog by death She had him embalmed,
Put in costly white coffin and her
brother has taken the dog to a taxider-
mist in Minneapolis to have him fixed
up in nice shape Mr.. Willing will! buy
nice baby cart with pillows of down,
then she expects to wheel the dog
about the town. Her sorrow has at
tracted the attention If not the sym
pathy of the town.
The new thought fad in religion is
spreading like wild fire, it is said. It is
hampered considerably by the fact that
when its devotees run against the baby
cab or rocking chair in the dark the
incident is invariably accompanied by
a recrudescence of the old thought and
usually by the old expression.
Uncle George offers the boys some
good advice in his Sioux City Journal
as follows The Waterloo Reporter
boys should try little sarsaparilla."
Mark Twain has not only paid off an
$50, 900 debt, but he has just bought a
$4,000 house overlooking the Hudson
river AS he might have gone thru
bankruptcy and avoided paying the
$4,000 debt, good many financiers
fear that the humorist is losing his
mental grip.
The announcement that there is to be
new s200,00o.0O0 iron and steel COM
bination, independent of the steel cor
portation,will not attract very much
attention. A $20O.O00,OOo corporation
no longer seems very large. The new
corporation is said to include some
eleven blast furnaces making so per
sociation, some twenty-one mills of va
rious kinds, coke company and part
interests in four ore companies. 1t will
therefore be independent of the steel
corporation.
against the Japanese has been disposed
by an evidence of the highest civiliza-
ton. Eight of the largest silk factories
in Japan have formed trust.
So
1t is announced that Athens is ex-
cited over the migration of 500 young
Greeks to the United States. They will
study American methods by settling
here and growing up with the country.
If the young men are up, or rather
down to the average of the Greeks al
ready In this country there is room for
another exclusion act.
The James Exposition Company held
it's first meeting, for the purpose of or
ganization, at Norfolk yesterday. Its
object is the celebration of the Booth
anniversary of the Virginian colony in
1907. The promoters are making an
early start, and perhaps they may be
able to open their exposition on the
date it is intended to commemorate. II
they do, the innovation should be reck-
oned as one of their titles to the favor
able attention of the exposition going
public.
The report of United States Consul
General Bittinger of Montreal to the
state department gives very Interest,"
ing resume of trade facts and possibili-
States. Hon. John Charlton of the
Canadian house of commons, in q
speech he recently made before the Bos-
ton and New York chambers of COM
merce, made very exhaustive state
ment of the subject, and both bodies
have passed strong resolutions favor
ing reciprocity treaty which shall en-
nance the volume and value of the
trade between the two countries.
The efforts on the part of members
of the house to pin one another down
to direct answers reminded Represen-
tative Capron of Rhode Island-one of
the best story tellers In the house, by
the way--of an experience in the last
campaign. Mr.. Capron was very much
bothered while making a speech by a
man in the audience who insisted on
asking questions to which he demand