Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-03
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

The Old Man-Young man, when No'
take my daughter | trus you with tn
dearest treasure of my life. No.
couldn't lend you py auto for q littl
spin. value it too highly to risk ii II
strange hands. Hsrper's Bazaar
The dentists of Minnesota have de
ciaed to ask that instruction OH tn,
care of teeth be given to the schoo
Ichildren of the state.
a Wall street broker was asket
whether he would call John w. Gates
la SPECTATOR or Il financier. Wait 5
! year or So" was the reply. IF he makes
! d big pile he will be IL tinaneier: If he
goes broke he will be a sepcuIator." Il
is possible his period OF probation is not
lover yet.
'Some men said Uncle Eben. is Sc
fond Of notoriety dat de'd rather attract
attention by havin' de smallpox dan not
be noticed. Washington Star.
| A floating tinancier With an album
dance of nerve for capital canped in q
small town in Indiana, opened up 4
savings bank With an eloquent sign and
{, copious safe. The townspeople We're
greatly pleased by the enterprise of the
stranger. took him to their bosoms, sc
tc speak, and opened their safety de-
poSit socks rrhav fall f,var aacil nj bp,
tic get their money in the private bank
| AS soon as the new barker recovered
from the rush of business he emptied
the contents of the safe into u gripsack
and started on a vacation. He is Naoa :
tioning yet. Meanwhi,e the plucked
Hoosiers are rending the air over their
folly.
Nell--1 stopped in at a bargain sale
today.
Belle-Did you see anything that
looked real cheap?
Nell-Yes; several men waiting fol-
their wives. Philadelphia Ledger.
The report which Labor Commission
err Carroll y. Wright will make to the
president regarding the situation in the
anthracite coal region will probably be
the most exhaustive and intelligent
statement of that question which has
yet been made. 1t will be intended p5ri-
marily for the presidents own ewes. so
that he may know just what the real
facts are, and whether the strike pre-
sents any phases justifying interfer-
executive or thru a session of congress-
1t is entirely possible that the report
for the present at least. and until the
strike shall have been settled, will not
be given to the general public, altho
this is yet undetermined.
The Kansas City Star says: "secre-
tary Shaw is determined to stop the
two hat practice whereby clerks in the
treasury department go out for drinks
during working hours. 1t is a COM
mendable reform, and one that would
be easier if congress offered a better
example,
Brigadier General Frank S. Nicker-
son. the only man in New England who
Went into the civil war private and
came out a brigadier general, has just
celebrated his seventy-sixth birthday
at Cambridge, Mass.
President Jordan of Stanford Univer-
sity, California, has returned from a
two months stay in Samoa gathering
specimens of fishes. He found more
than 10000 specimens belonging to Gil
species. Over 100 of these species were
unknown to science. The collection,
after being classified and arranged, will
be divided between the national muse-
UNI at Washington and the geological
museum at Stanford.
The Somerville Journal declares that
who isn't willing to tell a good joke on
DR.. George c. Pardee who was NOM
mated for governor of California, de-
feating 1.-The efforts of Governor Gage
for denomination, is an able man and
has a clean record. He is graduate
of the University of California. and
like his father has made speciality of
eye. and ear troubles. He early began
to take an interest in politics, and after
holding several minor positions in the
Oakland CITY government ha wa g a1act
ed mayor on a reform ticket. In that
position he showed the courage of his
and did much to reduce
taxes and to expose corruption. 1t is
believed he will make a strong COVER
nor.
The death of James Mcmillan leaves
in the United States senate three men
Of Canadian nativity-Messrs CALM
ger Of New Hampshire, Willard of Ne
braska and Kearns of Utah.
What is described as zone of the sad
dest events" ocucrred in Wichita kas.,
last week An old soldier was making
application for a life insurance policy
and a pension increase at the same
time. He got the two papers mixed and
sent the one making himself out
healthy to Washington, and the one in
which he was absolutely a physical
wreck to the insurance company.
Some of the German village folk may
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