Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-17
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

The newspapers are making every ef-
fort to find where Hetty Green intends
to carry her pistol.
Notwithstanding the aid and COM
fort given to the Philippine bandits and
savages by the Carmaks AMI Atkinsons
of the Democratic mugwump party, the
garrisons in the archipelago, as Gen.
Corbin's report to Secretary Root
shows have been reduced during the
last year from 1876 to 245, and the COM
panies of troops from 40S TO 271.
Mr.. Nixon, the whilom chief of Tam
many now finds himself in the position
of the girl who marries u criminal to
| reform him.
The American Boy notices in compli-
mentary terms the fact that the Ash
ton leader, published at Ashton, Ia, has
editors for this column are elected ev-
cry three weeks by the Ashton high
school.
| AT the Indiana convention of the
| Grand Army this week it was resolved
| that 1--WE hold in scorn and contempt all
| citizens of the United States who see
| fit to brand our soldiers and their con-
duct as cruel and inhuman." 1t was fur
Their resolved that such conduct brings
fresh to our memory like criticisms
made by the copperheads of 1860 to
1885, The old men who wore the blue
and made it the color of loyalty and
courage remember with contempt the
copperheads of the past that Kissed at
their backs in the Sos and despise the
new field of the present. Whatever
faults the old soldiers of the civil war
may be charged with he can always be
depended upon for an expression OF 10y
atty to the country he fought for.
BY the time Mr.. Carnegie has finished
supplying the United States with Ii
braries Porto Rico will be in the mar
llet for similar gifts il we are to judge
by the school houses building and the
wide interest in educational matters
evinced by the Porto Ricans.
1t is said that Nebraska volcano is
showing signs of activity and in conse-
quence Mr.. Bryan's absence during in
augnralion is not likely to so much inn
press itself on the people of that state
Referring to the recent enactment of
the New York board of health to pre-
vent contagion from the promiscuous
use of brushes, scissors, razors, etc. in
BARRIERS shops, the Lancet London,
April 50 says: The question arises
whether the BARRIERS will endeavor to
meet these new exigencies. Historical
ly speaking, the BARRIERS, whose precur-
sors used to be barber surgeons, should
readily appreciate the advantage of an
tiseptic surgery and be willing to apply
it's principles to the minor and painless
operations which they now perform.
Trivial as these operations may seem
they are not absolutely free from dam
ger; and to our knowledge some bar
bers, both in Paris and in London, have
already introduced antiseptic principles
into their hair-dressing saloons. They
sterilize their metallic combs, their
scissors and their razors by passing
them thru a flame each time that they
ere used. and it would be well if these
and other precautions were more gen.
orally applied
The Filipinos are today enjoying a
degree of government far beyond
anything they have ever known, and,
we verify believe, hoping for more of
the same kind When we consider the
terrible obstacles against which the re-
publican Philippines policy has been
carried forward, it's merits and it's sue
cess seem striking indeed.
Take this sentence. printed markedly:
1T was and I said not Of" As it stands
it is enough to give the reader vertigo
before he grasps its import. Properly
stopped and buoyed with commas, it is
Il perfectly simple and natural sentence,
as you will see when you have got the
grip of your senses
1t might be thought that a glacier
would be the last place to search for
microbes. According to a note pre-
scented to the Paris Academy of Sci
erces by Jansen, the celebrated
French astronomer, however, M. Binot, |
chief of the Pasteur Institute labora- |
tory, has lately been studying the Mont |
Blanc glaciers from the archaeological
standpoint by taking borings at differ |
emit points, so as to bring up specimens
Of ice from various depths. An exami-
nation shows that in all layers of the |
glacial ice colonies of microbes of diff |
ferent species are present.
The enterprising manager of Chau-
tauqua bureau recently offered Senator
Hanna $4,000 for series OF eighteen |
lectures in the south and middle west |
He was sorely disappointed when the
Ohio boss refused to consider his offer
Why said The manager, plaintively, |
its as much money as he gets for
serving two years In the senate, and he
could easily make the circuit in a
month"
The appointment Of Archbishop
Ryan of Philadelphia, to the place made