Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-11
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
Be sure you are insured and then sc

BE sure you are insured and then sc
ahead.
/ The steamship Philadelphia in re-
cent ocean passage broke the record fol
/ long distance telegraphy without wires
on vessels by sending a message l5l
miles.
Congress may experience difficulty in
arriving at correct conclusion as to
the policy of buying the Danish West
/ Indian islands. One view says they are
worthless and have long been burden
TO Denmark; another claims they are of
great strategic value for naval base
You pays your money and you lakes
| your choice"
The Minnesota board of pardons de-
| clined to grant an unconditional par
| don to the Younger brothers. Under
the conditional parole granted last year.
the notorious high~aymen are prac-
! tically foot loose and in the enjoyment
of more liberty than they have earned.
The public will keep an eye on them.
The latest golfers yarn is the state
ment that Joseph of old was the orig
inal golf player In the first place we
are told that he wore a coat of many
colors, which certainly must have been
a golf suit; and the statement that he
was put into hole by his brethren is
declared at st. Andrews to be merely a
| figurative expression, and signifies that
they beat him at his own game.
| She was an ignorant but ambitious
woman, relates the Chicago Tribune,
and the great ambition of her life was
gratified when her husband was elected
u member Of congress. Immediately
aftei the result of the election was
known the new congressman's wife
drove in from her country home to the
county seat to call in triumph on her
dearest enemies In social way. She
called first on the wife of the local
banker, who had sent her three daugh-
| ters thru Vassar. and, after receiving
the congratulations of the family, she
turned the conversation to her plans for
the future of her own daughter. Jennie.
Il am going to give Jennie every edu-
cational advantage she said. "As soon
as the congressman and get to Wash
| ington we are going to put Jennie in the
Smithsonian Institute"
| Axel 4. Lindholm, of Saltwater. Wis,
| Is the poSsessor of an extraordinarily
dered by a jury of twelve in June, 1853,
at Oslo Courthouse, where Christiana
now stands. AT the bottom of this nov
ell verdict hang twelve strips of sheep
skin, with twelve pieces of beeswax the
size of small watch, which contains
upon each the seal of one of the jurors.
| Writing from Washington h ellison
| Gardner says: The senate does not
agree with the house as to the desira-
bility of repeating all the war taxes.
About so per cent Is what Aldrich, AL
| lison, and the rest are taking. The sem
ators do not give reasons in detail, they
JoSl Shiiih tAlS lAOilSy VIII NC HGcISQ. II
may be for the isthmian canal or the
| shipping subsidies or some of the other
| expenses. but the secretary of the
| treasury does not think there will be
any deficit even with the extraordinary
expenditures of this character Mem
bers of the house are prone to believe
the attitude of the senate is inspired by
a desire to force the Cuban reduction in
sugar and tobacco duties"
Mrs. Florence Huntley has retired
from the editorship of the Iowa City
the shining pen work Of David Brant
may now appear.
| Would the Capital have us believe
that Uncle Sam stands ready to use his
surplus to buy the return of Capt. Hull
to congress? This is the campaign ar
gument used: There is no personal
Des Moines will have a chance at the
republican primary, March 18th, to vote
to secure a million dollar federal court
house and postoffice, making wages and
work for hundreds of men. They will
have chance at the primary on March
7th to vote to secure the expenditure of
three millions of dollars on military
post near the city, making work and
wages for hundreds of men, and finally
a market for thousands of bushels of
corn and oats to sustain the cavalry
horses. Congressman Hull can secure
these great appropriations. No new
man can do So"
Andrew Carnegie has expressed the
| wish that he might have such an cpl
taph as the following: Here lies a man
who knew how to get around him a
great many men who We're much clev-
erer than he was himself"
THAT man has been married fourteen
years and has never once found fault
with his wife's cooking"
SIS he such a paragon of patience?"
mo; she's never cooked"
Philadelphia Record.
/ Editor Trigg makes this double hit in
his agricultural column. I'VE hardly
know whether 1t is any worse to sell
your neighbor COW which does not
pay her way in your dairy herd or sell