Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-11
TOPICS OF THE TINES
Even the north wind is unable to up
set our fine January weather.

Four hundred cane sugar men OF
Louisiana met in New Orleans the other
day to protest against giving Cuba con
cessions that would injure them. That
state has more protectionists in it than
many others of the south.
The official statistics of the foreign
trade of Great Britain for last year
show a decrease In both exports and i'm
ports. j. Bull is SO fully absorbed with
the Boer war that he is neglecting some
of his business interests.
Lord Avebury declares that ants that
maintain their sobriety make great
distinction in their treatment OF the in
toxicated stranger and the fellow citi-
zen who has succumbed to his blandish-
ments. He inebriated fifty ants, twenty
five from one nest and twenty-five from
another. and put them all into the nest
from which one lot had been taken. The
inhabitants at once took the helpless
strangers and threw them into the
water; while those who We're citizens of
the nest We're carried tenderly away into
remote corners to recover from their fes-
tivity at leisure.
In Kentucky carriers on the rural free
delivery routes out of Lexington have
agreed upon the use of specially con-
structed and designed wagon. which. in
reality, is q travelling postof1ice.
Secretary of War Root says that idle
ness is the cause of the Philippine rebel
lion, just as it is the mother of mischief
elsewhere. Uncle Sam may find 1t need
fui to give his new boys employment.
The ST. Louis Globe Democrat says:
'Mr Bryan says that Mr.. Shaw, soon
to be secretary of the treasury, repre-
Since the people of the United States. in
1896 and 1900 decided that Mr.. Bryan
himself was the chief representative of
that kind, he will not find it easy to
transfer the distinction to somebody
else"
Over hundred high school students
which it may be inferred that they are
taking lessons from active life as well
as books.
A city daily heads its Des Moines
banquet news with Shaw Quotes Josh
Billings" which may lead Bro. Bryan to
score him again for Jesting on serious
subject. However that saying of j. b.
would be a good thing for Bryan to put
in HE pipe and smoke-"A man who
says what he would have done had he
been there, was never there"
There are great many good things in
Oskaloosa, but the Ell Reno district.
where claims are to be relinauished, is
not one OF them, as stated in the T.-R.
last evening. 1t is not Oskaloosa' 9 habit
to reiinquish anything.
Senator Nelson of Minnesota is likely
to realize his ambition to have de-
partment of commerce created. The
proper committee of the senate ap-
proves 1t.
THE late Ii Hung Chang" says the
Shanghai Mercury. was very apt to re-
vile in the lowest bilingsgate if any one
offended him Once district magistrate
incurred his displeasure, whereupon Ii
cursed him in loud voice, even going
$40 far as to damn his ancestors But the
district magistrate, nothing daunted,
spoke up sharply: I am an officer of the
emperor, even tho my rank is low. You
may kill me, but you must not curse me.
Besides, the emperor orders you to pro-
mote your good officials and degrade
your bad ones. He did not order you to
curse them. If you curse me, can not
play at that game. too?" The rejoinder
so astonished Ii that he ceased reviling
and escorted the man to the gate say
ing, Great district magistratc! The
next day he ordered the provincial
treasurer to give the man a first-class
appointment, saying that a man of such
courage would surely make good off,
cial.
The city of st. Paul claims to lead the
country in its building record for 1901.
making the surprising showing Of 259
per cent gain over the previous year.
Minneapolis will need to look to it's
laurels.
"Tight-lacing and betting. which in
duced ill-health." is the charge made by
John Banks in his suit for divorce filed
in the circuit court at Knoxville, Tenn.
Banks goes on to say: Despite the pro-
test of plaintiff, defendant continued to
lace her corsets very tightly about her
body and sacrificed her health at the
expense of pretty form" Sisters, be-
ware!
1t would be master stroke II those
twenty seven Iowa democrats In the
state legislature could swallow that po-
litical lump in their threats and vote
unanimously for Allison.
An Austrian electrician has invented
system for preventing railway acct
dents The invention, it is said, claims
to make 1T possible to prevent accidents
arising from trains meeting one another
or from one train running into the rear
of another.