Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-22
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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The rarest octopus that has reared
it's head is tombstone combine at a
national meeting In Omaha.
With nearly billion dollars gath
cred in by the aid of tax ferrets the
law is likely to entrench itself against
present assaults in the legislature.
The anti-pas bill having been killed
the house is now inclined to consider
the other side of the question, that of
recurring all railroad companies to
furnish passes to members of the gem
eral assembly, state officers and judges
of the supreme and district courts.
This would probably harmonize with
inclinations of legislators, but will
they have the courage to adopt such q
measure?
1t is stated that $4,000 white children
of school age in the Indian territory
have absolutely no provision for their
education. 1t would seem that the heath
en- is not the only one that needs atten-
ton.
The senate's blind chaplain, the Rev.
DIR. W. III. Milburn, is a survival of
Washington before the war. 1t was In
1916 that he was elected chaplain of con-
gress. Representative Abraham Lin
coin, OF Illinois, nominated him. That
was ten years before John Sherman and
Justin S. Morrill, took their seats in the
house. I'm those days" says DR.. Mil
burn, zone chaplain offered the prayer
at the opening of each branch of con-
gress, and the only way this could be
done by one man was to have the sem
ate clock kept ten minutes slower than
the house clock. After offered the in
me to the senate chamber, where per-
former similar duty"
According to distinguished Ameri-
can humorist, G. Washington was a
great man because he never stopped
over.
an amusing incident related by Cardinal
Gibbons. The pope in one of his inter
views with Gibbons had called him by
name. but pronounced 1t Jibboons. II
suppose that you corrected him." said
Johnson. The cardinal replied, with an
hesitate to correct the infallible gentle
man, you know
Rev. DIR. Thomas e. Green, of Cedar
Rapids; Ia has been chosen as the ora
tor at the grave of Washington In April
by the Sons of the American Revolution
at the societys triennial meeting.
President Roosevelt is credited with
the possession of a memory alleged to
be exceedingly and sometimes dis
agreeably retentive Two senators were
discussing this characteristic of the
chief executive. Said one:
The president knows the clerical and
personal side of the government as few
other men know it,
II should say he did," returned the
other. Il asked him little while ago
to reappoint Il marshal in my state and
/ no sooner mentioned the mans name
than the president broke out with: so
that scoundrel is still in Office, is ne? l
remember him when 1 was in the civil
service commission
The matter of reappointment was not
pressed
Prince Henry will visit both house of
congress when he visits Washington.
and witness the work of our statesmen
Wheeler will probably be prudent
enough to observe proper decorum.
In Philadelphia kindergarten school
a teacher was telling the little children
all she knew about clock. Now, this"
she said, ''is the pendulum-this thing
that swings back and forth. Did any
of you ever hear the word pendulum
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