Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-09
TOPICS OF THE TIMES


gar trust will see to it that the bottom
does not fall out of prices.
Multimillonaire Rockefeller, who
recently took to saving wood to cure
indigestion, frankly confesses that he
would give the bulk of his fortune to
possess the appetite of his landscape
gardener.
Montague LESSER, who defeated
Perry Belmont for congress in New
York Tuesday, has developed power as
a political orator. He is S3 years old,
a native of New York. and a graduate
of Columbia college. He will fill
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Nicholas Muller. democrat. Boss"
Croker, who disliked Belmont, and who
intimated that the latter had posed
under an assumed name somewhere,
probably aided in his defeat.
George AIDES fables are to be drama
TIED We shall soon expect to see the
Chinese alphabet arranged for stage
purposes.
Professor Loeb announces he has
found the secret of death and that 1t can
be prevented. In spite of his discovery
the average man will not stop the pay
ment of the premium on his life insur-
ance policy.
That parson in st. Louis who advised
the women in his congregation to pro-
pose marriage when they were ready
and not wait for the men is certainly
original. He must be a married man,
as he could scarcely have had the te-
merity to invite such a wholesale on
slaught from the female membership of
nis church: or, If single, he is too bash
full to ask for his hearts desire, and
hopes thus to encourage the favored fair
one. In either case he looks for a whole
host of womanly blessings showered up
on him.
In Mississippi. three prominent men
under the influence of liquor. boarded
a train and began q quarrel with man
because he slept with his feet in the
aisle. They ordered him out of the car
and then shot him dead. Then they took
possession of the train and made the
engineer obey orders Thus far none of
them have been lynched-they were all
white.
Dick Croker is at the French Lick
Springs taking mud baths. He has been
in politics so long, that he seems to
have preference for mud. What he
needs most is a clean water bath with
fumigation.
1t may be prudent to wait a day or
two before getting out the garden rake
and hoe, tho the temperature just now
is favorable.
A review of operations in South Afri-
ca for the year. just published in Lon
don. says the Beers have lost in killed,
wounded and captured 1920 while the
British have lost 9113 men killed or
captured, 4O90 died Of disease and $4,000
were invalided home. The amount of
loss, sorrow. anger, revenge, and all the
other malevolent passions of war In
volved, can never be computed.
Miss Margaret e. Heron, sister of
Professor George d. Heron. emphati-
caly denied in New York Tuesday that
her engagement to DR.. Henri Werner
Berghall has been broken. 1T is all
mistake she said. / certainly shall
marry DR.. Bergman when the time
comes. ] have read all the false state
ments In certain newspapers as to how
my betrothed had been boycotted in the
practice of medicine in Manistee, Mich,
because he is socialist and because
President Mckinley was killed by an
anarchist. I've heard it all, but the
only remarkable thing about 1t is that
1t isn't true. ! am being prosecuted by
unjust publicity. DR.. Berghall has not
been boycotted. 1t is all false"
The Illinois state board of agriculture
has decided to offer permiums to the
amount of $4,000 at its next fair, which
President Roosevelt will be asked to be
present on governors day.
The demand for horses in South Afri-
ca has advanced the price of live stock
In the northwestern states, large num-
bers OF horses are stolen and sold to
English agents who take them and ask
no questions When they geteto South
Africa, the horses will be stolen again
by the Beers, who will take them ard
ask no questions.
The new library to be built In Grand
Rapids, Mich, as gift to his native
city from Martin A. Ryverson, of Chi
cago, besides having a shelf capacity of
100000 volumes, will contain two large
assembly halls and several study rooms
1t will cost about $4,000. and it is ex-
pected that the contract will be award
ed in time to begin Work early IN the
spring, so as to have the building ready
for occupancy by the beginning of next
winter
A number of Iowa cities are engaged
in securing new industrial enterprises
or in charging others already estab-
lished. The year promises to be one of
considerable development along these
lines.