Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-23

homes and give you the best they have
no matter how much they may dislik,
you. The native drink tastes much Xix,
soapsuds."
There are still 10000 people II
Martinique whose situation is extreme
~ critical. Another burst of flame like
the one that swept down the sides o
Pelee in the great disaster might dupi
cate the calamity the first occasioned
1t is practically impossible to transpor
80 many people with the means at hant
and they must still remain in theil
dangerous situation.
Congressman Metcalf, of California
has introduced bill to establish ma
tional conservatory of music and art
for the education OF advanced pupils ii
vocal and instrumental music, painting
and etching, including. we suppose, the
gentle art Of woodworking. The gov
There are to be four schools, one al
Washington. one at New York, one a,
Chicago and one at San Francisco. The
states appertaining to each school are
designated in the bill. The Washington
school is to take care of Porto Ricar
for the Alaskans, the Kanakas and the
Filipinos.
Booker T. Washington says that ear
ly in his days as school teacher he
found the log cabin In which he taught
school too small, and determined tc
employ hen house as an annex. One
morning he instructed a negro assistant
TO clean out the hen house.
WHAT" exclaimed the negro In as
constituent. clean out hen house in
the daytime
Lobster and crab canperies and fish
curing establishments are useful and
necessary institutions in their way, bu
there is no sentiment in them nor any
poetry; and they not such local features
as the managers of summer resorts eX-
tol in their circulars. AS little do they
fit in with the romance which invests 8
spot famous in fiction. 1t is with some
thing of protest then that we read the
press dispatches announcing that the
government of Chile is about to colo
nlze Robinson Crusoe's Island of Juar
Fernandez, to develop the rich fisher!
resources. This will! speedily make at
end of the poetry which has chung tc
the spot SINCE the day De Foe write his
immortal work; but the new order vii
bring the Pacific island into conditions
quite in keeping with the spirit of the
age, and perhaps the Robinson Crusoe
brand of canned Holsters may prove sc
excellent as to reconcile us to the
change. ,a
A belatcd wayfarer was passing ar
English public house late at night
when foreigner was elected there
from who bore all signs of extremely
rough usage, but nevertheless was
laughing immoderately.
What is the joke?" the gentleman
asked.
why" said the other "a man came
up to me in the bar Just now, gave me
q fearful punch on the nose, and said
Take that, you blooming Norwegian
and he fell to laughing again.
But" the gentleman said, there's
nothing funny in that.
No" the man answered, "but then
he hit me q crack in the eyes, and
afterward knocked out my teeth, say
ing, Take that. too. you blooming Nor
wegian.'
But still I can't see anything funny
"Ho! no! ho!" the other yelled. THE
joke is that I'm a Swede!"
King Edward VII, from childhood
has always shown the keenest interest
in fires and firemen. OF all the enter
tainments provided for him by the city
of New York he has most often remem-
bered and says he most enjoyed a pa :
rade of the volunteer fire department in
his honor. There were 5000 firemen in
uniform, and all, save those In charge
of ropes and tillers, bore torches. II
was q great spectacle; and the prince
as he looked at the brilliant display in
Madison Square, cried repeatedly
"1his is for me; this is all for mel
with unaffected glee. During many
years of his life he used To be Informed
whenever a really big blaze was sig
nailed, and he has attended. incognito
most of the big fires in London during
the last thirty years.
At a recent dinner one of the speak
ers related the story of a visitor to a
Sunday school who, in addressing the
children, said
Il come from Massachusetts,; I am
on nv way to Maryland; and / have
stopped over here to talk to you chill
dren and to save you from going to
hell" After repeating this introduce
ton to his remarks, the visitor said:
Now, my children, where did come
from?"'
Massachusetts" was the reply, In
chorus.
where am / going?" he then asked.