Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-18
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

A fat pocketbook will help to make
lean Christmas counters.
Mrs. Lucy A. Clough, of Boston, cele-
brated her 91st birthday by baking
fourteen pies, the eating of which is not
believed to be conducive of longevity.
Senator Mason has a bill he prom
Uses to introduce in the senate within a
a day or two giving the president of the
United States the authority to seize and
operate coal mines. The bill provides
that whenever coal mine is not being
operated the attorney general may APP
ply in circuit court at the district in
which the mine is located for receiver
to operate the mine, and this receiver
may proceed to keep the public supplied
with coal. This bill will find snug
resting place in one Of the committees
portfolios.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is cred
tied with favoring the plan of sending
all the negroes in this country to the
decline to go!
Large quantities of hard coal are be-
ing moved from the mines, but the sup
ply seems to miss great many points.
The sale of the household goods of NJ.
Cambon, the retiring French ambassa-
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week and, many articles exposed for
sale brought fancy prices. Chairs that
NJ. Cambon paid SIC or $40 for sold for
SIS and s100, and SO on. Fashionable
society was represented and men and
women bid against each other with ac-
rimony. The Persian minister paid a
high price for lace curtains.
Cuba is now more inclined to encour-
age friendly relations with the United
States. Those foreign gunboats have a
forbidding appearance to her.
Eyes, and the sofa pillow" remarks
the Christmas gift philosopher of the
Chicago Tribune. 1.-THE world is full of
sofa pillow people. You may decorate
them to suit your fancy. You may fill
them with feathers or hair, or line them
air. 1t is all the same to them. Rest
your head on them, sit on them, stop
the broken window with thenl-they
never complain. And still, this inoffen-
sive stuffed pillowishness loses it's at
traction
From the amount of new claims being
filed by sister nations. it might be pru-
dent for Venezuela to take advantage of
a bankruptcy act.
The most successful barber in New
starts out in the morning on a regular
route, which he follows as sedulously
il not as early as the millSman follows
his. He has fourteen customers, each
of whom pays him not less than so
cents for shave. Three give him 81
each. Two bachelor brothers living in
the same apartments give him 81 for
half an hours work.
A number of Californians have or
ganized a big fruit trust. Such COM
bine ought to stimulate fruit growing
elsewhere to thwart possible monopo-
~.
Miss Florence Hayward, who has
been appointed special commissioner of
the st. Louis exhibition to Europe, is
said to be the first woman who has been
appointed to such an important post
She was born in New Mexico, and haa
lived in st. Louis since her childhood,
tho she was for several years resident
in this country as correspondent of one
or more American newspapers.
Policemen are, as other men, rather
sensitive of an allusion to their fail
ures. Richmond, Va, has lately suf-
fered at the hands of burglars, and the
burglars are still at large. A we'll
,snown minister met policeman in the
street the other day at Richmond and
ould not avoid an allusion to the local
ionic ssWhat a number of burglars