Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-30
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

1t is insinuated that the country
members of congress are holding on FOL
the base ball season.
The suggestion that the running oil
| elevators offers good field for the en-
ployment of women has been met with
4 the objection that no true woman car
run an elevator without lowering her
self
II am going to marry your daughter
sir" said the positive young man tc
the father.
well, you don't need to come to me
have troubles of my own."-Ohio State
Journal.
How readily the world forgets it's old
sensations in it's search for new ones
is Illustrated by the equanimity with
which the French INCONSISTENCIES as
sertion of positive proof of Dreyfus
made before an audience of students In
/ Chicago, and at the time of the Drey
fus investigation would have been a
subject of common conversation and
query. AS it is few people noticed
and q less number spoke of it,
Alleged cures for diseases generally
reputed incurable are offered daily. Re-
Gently cancer has been credited with
an unusual number. The latest is a
German discovery, reported in the
daily press, that malaria and cancer
can not exist together and that one dis
ease may therefore act as an antidote
to the other. The method of propa-
eating one disease in order to cure an
other is remindful of the old physician
whose specially was fits" His prac-
| tice was to produce fits in patients suf-
| fering from other diseases and proceed
with the cure along the lines OF his
specially.
Sol Smith Russell, who died Monday
in Washington of locomotor ataxia,
was a great favorite with theater goers.
| He held the creditable theory that an
actors responsibility to his patrons
/ calls for wholesome plays and had nc
place for the erotic and suggestive in
his repertory. He will be missed great
| ~.
Miss Dillwyn, of Swansea, Wales.
has in turn written novels, acted as re-
viewer for the London Spectator,
served as farm bailiff. and is now the
partner in fiourishing spelter bust
ness She walks three miles to bust
ness every morning, and remains at her
office daily from shortly after in the
morning till in the evening. She Is
a member of the school board and
chatrwoman OF the hospital commit
tee. She has one remarkable weak
ness. She is a lover of the weed" in
the form of cigars, and makes No Sc
cret Of her pleasure in smoking. She
carries a cigar case, and has even been
seen in public with a cigar in her
mouth. II like to smoke" she says,
land see 80 objection to 1t. 1t suits
me, altho it may not suit others. I
used to be very fond Of green cigars.
but you can't get them in England.
always smoke openly. I do not be-
|lieve in women smoking in secret"
Even in prohibition Maine there were
BY the last printed annual report 1,191
retail liquor dealers, fifteen wholesale
dealers, two rectifiers, five breweries,
26O retail dealers and % wholesale
dealers in malt liquor. No report is
made on blind pigs and the bootleggers.
There are two Fosters In the United
States senate, from Washington and
Louisiana. One is native of the south
and the other of the north; one is
democrat and the other a republican.
There are two Clarks In the United
States senate and they represent
neighboring states, Wyoming and Mon
Jana. The Wyoming Clark Is repub-
flican, born in Mex. York; the Montana
Clark is democrat, born In Pennsyl-
sania. Thefe\ are two McLaurins, dis,
tant relatives, representing South Car
DINA and Mississippi.
If Governor Hogg, who resisted King
Edward and refused knee breeches, had
been earlier at the Edenia Club in New
York, where he was to launch his pres
idential boom, he might have been re.
iieved of his raiment to an extent more
embarrassing than knickerbockers are
likely to be. The members were in
dulging in free for all fight when he
arrived, and the exercises were de-
layed until the ruction was quelled.
It is to be hoped that General Nc
Arthur may be warned in time and
quit talking when he is thru.
Beerbohm Tree, the noted English
actor, has secured the English rights
of a dramatization of Charles Foleys
powerful short story, AT the Tele-
phone" in which NJ. Antoine has Gre
ated a sensation in Paris. 1t pictures
the terrible experience of wealthy
Frenchman, who leaves his family
peaceful and happy at his country
place near Marseilles, and on his ar
rival in Paris, the next day, hears over
a telephone their narrowing cries for
aid and futile appeals to the robbers
who are numbering them. Plays Of
this kind are Indicative of the Par