Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-07
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

A London justice has just made an
makers disputes. He will not have
dresses tried on in court, because he
had long since come to the conclusion
that with ordinary dresses any lady
could wear a dress to make it look as
if it did not fit" and he was also per-
dresmaker could pull it about and make
it fit when it did not do So"
The Philippine commission will inn
port rice to relieve the famine caused
by locusts.
Edward Boon of Ray county, Missou-
ri, while cleaning out an old we'll one
day last week, found a bucket of butter
that had been in it for fifteen years.
Mrs. Boon accidentally dropped the
bucket one day and it was never recov-
cred When taken out of the water, Mr.,
Boon says, the butter WAS as we'll pre-
the WE'LL The Ray County Review
youches for this story.
AS anthracite coal drops into the bin
in the east it drops also in price. The
other day it went from $12 to $7.25 per
ton in Connecticut.
The ST. Louis Globe Democrat dis
poses of Boies in this way: "Ex- Cover
nor Boies did pretty well for man well
along toward the 100-year age mark.
but this was republican year, and he
was hit by that condition. This is the
end for him. The places in politics
which have known Boies heretofore, will
know him no more forever" He and
the other man into whose shoes he ex-
pected to step may console each other
over the back fence.
Altho Andrew Carnegie Is proud OF
his new title. Ill, d." he is prouder OF
what he describes as his best title OF
handful which he has just
had framed. says the London Chronicle.
He received this patent the other day
from an old woman in Dunfermline. II
is an appeal for g300 made in the
chartist days to defend his uncle from
u charge of conspiracy in holding
meeting that had been dispersed by the
sheriff. Mr.. Carnegie had another
uncle who was strong political agita-
grandfather the millionaire has been
telling stories. He remembers the cav
airy parading the streets of Dunferm-
line to aueli riots. When the mob sur
the town house where the i'm
prisoned uncle was held he was asked
by the provost to appear at an upper
window. This he did at o'clock in the
morning, and delivered soothing
speech. "All my friends he said, will
fold their arms. Now. walk peaceably
to your homes, maintain the peace and
obey the laws" Many noble family.
Mr. Carnegie thinks. might be pushed
to produce so good title to their peer
age. 1t is not bad foundation that one.
of our family was in jail for defending
the right of public meeting"
Tariff reform was considered at the
meeting of the New York
board of trade Tuesday and resolution
was introduced that a committee be
appointed to support the suggestion of
President Roosevelt that a permanent
non partisan expert tariff commission
be created. There was opposition to re-
viving the question at present, and the
was referred to the executive
The managers of the democratic cam
paign are still unwilling to give out fig
ures, while republican leaders are con-
graduating themselves over their good
guesses.
This from the Chicago Tribune indi-
Gates the hopeful outlook that follows
congress convenes next year there will
be a republican president in the white
house. There will be republican sem
ate in one wing of the capitol and re-
publican house in the other. The exeeu-
tive department and the two branches
Of the legislative department will work
together The policies of the president |
and the party will be carried out. Leg
Station for the public welfare will not
,e impeded or frustrated by democratic !
much of the eighth congress"
The republican party will have the
to assume the responsibility, /
whether the democratic minority tries
% impede its work or not.
The interstate commerce commits !
.ioners are In Chicago to make an in
,estigation of the charge made by the
Chicago Live Stock Exchange against |
he Chicago Missouri river roads. Dis
against this city is charged |
md violation of the interstate COM
nerce law by making lower rates on
i've stock from trans Missouri terri |
DRY than from points east of the Mis-
souri, river to Chicago, also for main
aiming higher rates on live stock than
IN packing house products.
The Chicago Tribune thinks Uncle
Horace Boies made a good run, but |
ound he had responded to false
alarm.
The young man in the dress suit was
lngry.
Il say" he exclaimed, cts deuced