Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-26
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

TOPICS OF lHE HINES s
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The national house shows it's prac-
teal common sense by agreeing to
adopt the senate Panama canal bill.
Question for anti -imperialists: If, as
Gen. Wheaton says, American occupa-
ton of the Philippines has saved more
lives by sanitation than have been lost
by the war. has American occupation
been blessing or an injury?
Candidates for public office should re-
frain from letting their angry passions
rise to the extent of assaulting editors,
as matter of policy.
Precautions had been taken accord
ing to the London Chronicle, to protect
panic in Westminster Abbey during
the coronation ceremony. A secret eX
it door for the king and queen was de-
vised, which they alone will be able
to utilized, should need arise and the
other doors be blocked by fleeing
crowds.
A great deal of pompous dress par
ade was snuffed out by the illness of
King Edward of England.
About year ago gentleman resid-
ing in London, says the Outlook. find
ing that burglars had visited his house.
rushed to his telephone to commune
cate with the police. Imagine his con-
sternation on learning that there was
no telephone in the police station! AS
the idea of using the telephone would
never have ocucrred to Londoner at
home this gentleman must have been
a foreigner. The Spectator presumes
he then found on inquiry that the cor
rect thing to do under the circumstan-
ces was to dispatch his butler to the
station in hanson, good old custom
dating from the reign of Queen Anne.
AT the time of the search for the Liv-
erpool bank robber. Goudie, the police
were much hampered by the fact that
the Scotland Yard service is not equip
ped with the telephone. These aston
ishing conditions prevail in London to-
day. the local police stations having no
telephone connection whatever, either
with one another or the public
The land OF Cervantes is taking
new lease of life since the reign of the
young king was begun. A Spanish loan
to some $61,O0O,OOo in
American money has been subscribed
for almost ten times over 1t is plain,
then, that tinanciers and capitalists
have not lost faith in the future of
Spain.
With the mercury at SO degrees this
morning the Fourth of July seems a
ong distance off.
If southern states want chance at
nominations, let them
break up the solid south and become
fields in politics. Candidates
come from doubtful states,
md If Georgia or Texas should become
national conventions might
rive it more consideration.
The following anecdote, as told by
NJ. w. Rayens. is as good as new and
is new as good: When Mary Queen OF
Scots stepped loftily up to the block in
he castle of Fotheringay to be be-
,eaded, she appealed to the eXecutloner
or the privilege of saying last word, |
md, consent being given, said in that
-oice whose charm was irresistible:
Many crimes are laid at my door. 1t
s said that / murdered Darnley in or
Ter that I might marry Boutwell,, ana
hat I conspired against Elizabeth. The
world has pronounced me beautiful |
and my own people have
,alled me witch, ogre, dragon, virago,
hrew, Tartar, vixen and fury, but at
he end of all, as I lay my head beneath
he deadly AK it is a supreme conscla-
ion to know that nobody ever called
ne Mamie"
William Jennings Bryan missed
,reat opportunity for further notori-
ty) in refusing to be q democratic
,opulist candidate for governor of Me-
'raska. His refusal will be accepted
S a confession that Nebraska will go
epublican this fall.
Harry Sobernheimer, truant officer of
he Twenty first district, recently made
call at the home of a pupil whose alb
ence had extended over a week, and
inquired of the lads mother, genial
boxing Irish woman, the case.
why" she said, hes now past his
9Th year, an me and his father-r
hink he's after-r having schoolin
sor."
schooling enough?" repeated the
ficer. why. 1 did not finish my edu-
alton until was 2S.'
BE that so?" asked the mother, in
Then, reassuringly, after
moments thoughtful pause; well,
or, yez see, that boy of ours has
-r-rains, "-Philadelp Times.
The democratic candidate for govern
- of Kansas is w. II. CraddocS, the
ominee of the Wichita convention of
Iay 90. 1t was expected that the popu-
lists at their Topeka convention of June
4 would endorse this candidate, and the
Their six nominees of the democratic