Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-12
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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4 President Roosevelt's remote grand
mother was a South Carolinian long be-
fore the war for independence. Either
1 the president is mighty shrewd pre-
1 yaricator or his ancestry was spread
! pretty well over the whole world.
Officers and soldiers stationed In
Cuba will be allowed to bring back with
them free of duty all their private ef-
/ fects. It will be safe to say that every
smoking man on the roster will find II
convenient to lay in goodly supply OF
his favorite brand of the fragrant weed
before he finishes packing his personal
/ effects.
The largest quarterly receipts In the
history of the American postal service
hvae been recorded for the period end
| ing Jan i, when the total reached the
stupendous figure of s32000621, ex-
4 ceeding the expenditures by over ST.
900, OOO This is nearly 81 apiece for
| those who are of an age to use the
mails, and shows the widespread use
of our mail facilities. The rural mail
routes are to be credited with large
percentage of the increase.
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The man who owns a good Iowa farm
nowadays needn't worry over his fu :
ture. The wolf that hangs about the
door of poverty doesn't bother the Iowa
farm house.
April Outing has full page half
tone of Congressman Lacey There is
probably no congressman whose defeat
would cause such general regret among
bird lovers and sportsmen as that of
Major Lacey, of whom Outing says che
has done more than any other for
practical bird projections"
Peace negotiations may be proceed
ing in South Africa, but there evidently
is no armistice. And it may be that
the surest way to bring about peace is
to push things" in the field.
promoter who says that he has
discovered Noah's ark embedded in
perpetual snow on Mount Ararat wants
Senator Hanna to furnish funds for
bringing it to the st. Louis exposition.
The ark and the automobile would look
we'll together in the transportation
building.
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An argument in favor of the higher
education of the negro is furnished by
the careers of fifty colored boys who
We're graduated from the Richmond
colored high school in the decade
1898. Twelve Of these have died.
AT the time of death one was con-
tractor one was professor of ancient
languages in a college, three were post
al clerks, and others, respectively, were
an internal revenue collector, a candy
eight still alive, thirteen are teachers,
three are lawyers, two are doctors, two
are Journalists, five are postal clerks,
one Is civil engineer. one is clerk.
two are bookkeepers, one is a bank
president, and so on. Not one of the
thirty-eight now living has ever fallen
into disgrace.
The superior person is bound to come
to grief A clergyman in mining
town held aloof from the Ministerial
union. Then the miners denounced
him. Said the spokesman, I'VE don't
go to hear no burned scab that won't
join the union"
AT Kokomo, Ind, for twelve years
the plate glass works has been dump
ing waste sand in the Wildcat river
bottoms, and now twenty-acre tract
has been filled eight feet deep. A dis
covery has been made by one of the
workmen, who claims that this mix
ture of ground silica and sand will
make the finest vitrified paving brick
that can be manufactured, as well as
fire brick Of immense endurance.
Captain Percival, of the navy, whose
portrait has just been presented to the
navy department, died in 1862. He was
known as Mad jack Percival, be-
cause of eccentricities which on many
occasions brought him into conflict
with the naval authorities. The porsl