Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-29
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

lVFlCS VI hE HINES
In order to get the truth of his war
record out of Senator Elkins why no,
try the water cure?
| General Smith seems to have forgot
ten all about politics when he was Orr
dered into Samar and to have honestly
supposed that he was there to carry on
war At any rate the bolo men ana
bushwhackers will admit that he made
war after a vigorous fashion.
Loo Stevens, one of the aeronauts
who will compete with NJ. Santos
Dumont at the ST. Louis worlds fair.
has staked out ground for his airship
shed on the old Gutenberg race track
near New York City. He will begin his
trial flights about the middle of June.
| A series which should have been
named 'The Entertainments of Our
Modern Aladdins,' if considered solely
from the point of view of romance, is
begun in the May Cosmopolitan. But
these sketches possess as we'll bust
ness interest equally for clerk and cap
Iitalist, for manufacturer, farmer and
merchant. The man who would under
stand the drift of our news in finance
and business must read these lives, so
full of incident, of chance, of hard la
Dor and marvellous success. AS 1t Is,
the series receives only the common
place name of Captains of Industry
Each character is treated by noted
writer familiar with his subject.
/ Rube Nocks is suing the town of
Whiting for $500 damages. 1t he wins
his suit it will be case of hard knocks
for Whiting.
A number of democratic papers are
RULED because General Miles received
Il sharper reprimand than did General
Funston. The people at large are more
i or less displeased that General Funston
was reprimanded at ALL They remem-
Der that he did not find it necessary to
carry bath tub in order to get wet all
over.
The Globe Democrat says: "The first
to object to the gift of a library from
Mr.. Carnegie are the demagogues and
mossbacks who are running the state of
Missouri. They say Carnegie is plu-
tocrat, and then sneak around to the
big corporations to sell out the next
| Legislature.
| State sanitariums for the treatment
of consumption are well advanced In
several states. Massachusetts has one
| in operation, New York has appropri-
ated $4,000 for one in the Adirondacks
and Pennsylvania has appropriated
\ 500. 900 and New Jersey $4,000 for
similar purpose. Vermont is consider
| ing a project of the same kind. The
Massachusetts institution claims that
| its percentage of cures has Increased
one third in three years. Iowa has no
sanitarium for consumptives, but has
arranged for jug cure establishment
| Membership in Yale's new club, the
"Criminal Club" is confined to those
who have been at one time or another
| in official relations to the police force
| Iowa has club of q similar nature,
with headquarters at Anamosa and Eft.
| Madison.
| The present number, $50. of rural
routes In Iowa are an average of about
eight to the county. Hardin county,
which is under a complete rural serv-
| ice. has forty routes. When a similar
number of routes has been established
| in all the counties of the state the serv-
ice will include $3.50 routes and an
equal number of carriers, who will
draw In salaries $2,376oo0 annually
The farmers are being fairly we'll ta-
ken care of.
During services in a Chicago church
recently member of the congregation
rushed wildly down the aisle calling for
a revolver with which to blow out his
brains He had become convinced that
he was beyond salvation and had de-
| termined on suicide. Other people have
long been convinced of the impossible
lily of the salvation of most Chica-
goans but this is the first instance
noted where the conviction took root in
Chicago.
According to the Washington Times,
it was Wisconsin congressman who
was caught holding pitcher under a
button on the wall in his room, under
which was written: Push twice for
water"
While nearly every municipality in
America owns it's sewerage system, on
| IL a little more than one-half own their
water supply. only an eighth own even
partial electric lighting plants, few own
gas works, only one owns a steam rail-
way and only one street railway. Mu-
nicipal ownership of public utilities
makes slow Roadway in spite of it's ex-
tensive discussion.
The Chicago window cleaners trust
is composed of twenty-one companies.
| 1t recently reduced prices to 20 cents
per hour in order to kill competition.
A Missouri democratic paper states
that Mr. Bryan's terms for a lecture are
/ L,,f rroco racaiptc aiA1 that in three