Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-16
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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Peace has her victories no less re-
nowned than those of warm the coal
regions.
The Missouri hen has been doing a
great deal of business at the old stand
this year. The annual report of the
commissioner Of labor shows that the
value of the horses and mules shipped
from the railway stations of the state
for the year was $7.9S9,24O while the
egg and poultry shipments yielded s13,-
COS, SO4.
"A story is told out west to explain
what is meant by apathy, A Kansas
farmer trudged upstairs with fire in his
eye, and after viewing his sleeping son
ID the middle Of a feather bed. gave him
an awful shaking and said: For heav-
ems sake. get up! I've called you six
times this morning, and here it is z
O'Clock and you are still asleep. What's
the matter with your Il don't KNOW"
said the boy, rubbing his eyes and
stretching his legs, unless it is apa-
thy"
British public meetings are tearing
the air. over the educational bill.
"Superficially 1t may seem absurd,
but it is nevertheless a fact that the
pretty typewriter girl is handicapped
in securing position" says the prin-
cipal of Philadelphia commercial
school, For this state of affairs l
blame the comic papers entirely. The
average woman is VIGOROUSLY lacking
in the sense of humor, especially If she
is a married woman, and it is quite inn
possible to convince her that the stock
joke about the pretty typewriter has no
more foundation than the one about the
mother in-law. Every married woman
is suspicious Of her husbands type
writer, and for that reason the pretty
ones are really laboring under a disad-
vantage in securing employment. When
girl takes course in stenography
and typewriting her face is surely not
her fortune"
There are several other strikes that
might be arbitrated.
The coal strike will have been dearly
paid for If it encourages further vexa-
tious contentious.
In letter to Washington Congress
man Hepburn denies emphatically that
he is a candidate for the speakership.
IT realize the impossibility of an Iowa
long ago learned the futility of butting
my head against stone walls. There is
no office would rather have than the
speakership. 1t would be supreme
honor, but realize the uselessness of
making the race"
The new commander-in- chief Of the
Grand Army of the Republic, General
Stewart, is but 81 years old.& He en-
listed while a boy and served over four
years during the war of the rebellion.
The Chicago Record-Heral believes
If the United Mine Workers union de-
cides to accept the latest preferred
terms of settlement ut will have won
by a eliminating concession every
point for popular sympathy in the
great industrial struggle which such
action will close" It notices that the
mine operators, after stubbornly insist
ing that there was nothing to arbitrate,
have agreed to such method of settle-
ment. Further that while the miners
side will not be represented in the per-
sonnet Of the commission enough lati-
tude is permitted President Roosevelt
in the selection of four at least Of its
members to assure the public that the
mine workers as we'll as the mine own
ers will have their claims and rights
thoroughly sifted and recognized in its
hearings and conclusions"
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The September exports from the
United States took a sharp jump over
those of the previous months. reaching
the aggregate of nearly $s,0OO.oOO. The
increase, as compared with the CORE
spending month of last year, was al
most entirely in cotton.
O. p, Austin, chief of the bureau of
statistics, has just received notice from
Japan that his lecture on the COM
merce of the Pacific has been translat-
ed into the Japanese language for pub
LEGATION in Japan and that the SUCCESS
lions advanced by him In that lecture
are attracting much attention there
Mr.. Austin's official and personal work
has been the subject of much favorable
comment In Japan, Count Matsukati
having honored him with special atten-
lions during his recent visit to Wash
ington and inviting Mr.. Austin to spend
an evening with him in the discussion