Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-24
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

The contented man is generally the
| industrious man. He does not make
! large claims on street corners or park
! seats.
/ Pork pie fanciers in England are dis
! turbed. A firm of glue manufacturers
/ has published the fact that customer
who bought large amount OF glue
asked il there was any deleterious ma
terial in it. On inquiry it was found
| that he meant to use the gluein making
PORK pies and the sale was cancelled.
Cato Sells is down in Missouri this
week making democratic speeches IN
congenial atmosphere.
She met him at the kitchen door with
rolling-pin in her hand, and she
trandished 1t menacingly.
"Madam-.' he began.
well. what do you want?" she de
nanded aggressively. What are yol
snoopin' round here for?'
Madam" he explained, backing
away, II called to see IL could nlact
an ACCIDENT insurance policy on you
husband. but, after seeing you, l an
satisfied he is too great a risk"
Chicago Post.
Those who had an abiding faith in
pleasant fall weather are not being dis
appointed.
Important If true is the intination
iirnation) that the bankers of that bis
metropolis took advantage of the
money stringency and sent out upor
change an authorized representative OF
wealth who loaned s13,000.000 at 12i1
rer cent during the furry awhile ago.
Colonel Mosby, special agent OF the
interior department. reports that cattle
raisers are illegally occupying millions
OF acres of public lands In the Yves;
which ought to be open to homestead
settlers Colonel Moseby has been on the
ground and ought to know what he is
talking about.
Is the democratic party to find IN
state socialism its long-sought-fof
paramount" issue for 1904? According
to II. ellison Gardner. a Washington
correspondent, this question is being
asked with great interest by politicians
generally thru the eastern states; not
in a partisan spirit, but with view TO
&c Hp
siderable to support 1t, and declares
that Socialism in all parts of the coun-
try has received a tremendous boom a.
the result of the strike and has made
many converts among the laborins
classes.
Ex-Governor Boies will find his tar
I if plank heavy before he gets thru
carrying 1t.
In the Punjab, province of British
India, the biggest medical undertaklns
the world has yet seen has begun Ihe
whole population Of 100000 is beina
iroculated with plague serum. Orders
for $4,000 doses day have been gfvei'
out.
A st. Louis Judge fined man S1.aO
for each of the twelve drinks he adj
n,itted he had taken before he was
arrested for disturbing the peace.
When he had finished pronouncing SEN
tence the culprit said: II thought l
wus soaked pretty bad wit bug juice
Yesterday. yer honor. but you've soaked
me wit justice twict as worser."
The hard coal barons are paving the
WOW for further trouble if it is true
that they have decided to sell only thru
che agent in a town
The Kansas City Star bought on
Tuesday a. block of ground, 300 by 255
foot in size, in Kansas City, and will
ru;ld mon it mill which will manu-
factnre all of the white paper used in
the publication of that newspaper.
when this mill is completed the Star
will he the first daily newspaper in
America making Its own paper. SO FAR
go can be learned no daily newspaper
in the world manufactures the paper it
nses. The Stars mill will have q ca
pacity of 1000 tons of white paper a
month. At first 1t will make 500 tons a
month, that being the amount Of paper