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

Il TOPICS Of The Times (
Just as the country was drawing q
long breath of relief Mayor Harten-
bower of Des Moines arms his body
guard with riot guns.
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1 The subject of John Hays dialect
poem "Little Brooches" Is said to be
Ewing on farm near New Virginia
His name is Marcus Van Scoy and ne
is extremely fortunate that the runa-
way did not take place among the hills
and ravines of his present home.
| 1t is tribute to American designers
and workmen that the emperor of Ger
many with the world to choose from
should elect to have his yacht built in
America. The only good reason for his
ordar being placed here is thu ascen-
dency of American workmanship over
the world. The fact that American
yacht makers have held the seas
against all corners without defeat for
more than fifty years had it's logical
effect.
a Chicagon reports the raid
ing of children's club in that city re-
Gently at a late hour when seven girls
and eight boys of tender ages were ar
rested. The parents very properly
spanked their children at the police
station. If they had done more spank
might not have been called upon to
give a public exhibition of their dex-
terity in handling the penal slipper.
j. Pierpont Morgan says he will at
tend the coronation of King Edward
THE Chicago Tribune says that If he
likes it real well he may hire the king
to do it over two or three times.
The Missouri is a curious river. 1t
plays all sort sof pranks, rising and
falling without cause and wandering
around the country without any regard
to it's natural channel or the cities it
leaves high and dry by its vagrant hab-
its. Not long ago the river went nearly
dry for many days at Chamberlain.
The people thought there was an ice
gorge above and began to prepare for
an awful flood. Instead OF flo I'd the
water gradually and naturally rose to
the former level and stopped there.
Now the theory is that the bottom fell
cut Of the river somewhere and it's wa
tiers poured into the bowels of the earth
until the hole was full, when they re-
sumed the interrupted surface flow.
No frontiersman will venture to de-
ny this. You can believe anything
about the Missouri river.
The estimate, by the North Dakota
agricultural commissioner, of wheat
yield of Go,GOO,0OO bushels of wheat for
1902, before hardly an acre has been
seeded, may be cited as genuine case
of Counting chickens before they are
Matched"
Whatever may be said of golf, the
great and good game of ping pong is
indlsputably a moral agent New York
and London society have deserted
bridge and all other games of cards,
and even gambling on the stock ex-
change is affected by the craze. Now
comes the report that gentlemen who
were inclined to linger over the wine
after dinner and drink more than they
ought can do so no longer. They must
give place to the ping-pong apparatus
and the ping-pongers. The dinner table
cannot be spared in these days for mere
gulttony.
And now the New York police de-
partment is about to mount dozen
policemen on motor bicycles to enable
them to head off the automobilist whose
pace exceeds the legal limit. Which
goes to show that the world moves
faster than it used to.
Editor b. r. Tillinghast of the Daven-
port Democrat has been appointed one
O fthe American delegates to the in
ternational conference of the Red
Cross Society to be held in st. Peters
burg next month. An Iowa woman,
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster, who, it will be re-
membered, entered public life to enable
Mr.. Foster to stay at home, is also a
delegate. DIR. Nicholas Sem of Chica-
GO Miss Clara Barton and Rear Adj
miral Van Reypen are the other APP
so that 1t will be seen that
Iowa is, as customary, in good COM
pany and furnishes her quota.
The New England women are con-
faithful to the teachings and
theories of Wendell Phillips and other
of negro equality. The dele
gates from that section to the biennial
of the Federation of Women's
Clubs at Los Angeles are expected to!