Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-05
topics OF THE TIMES

Senator Pritchard. of North Carolina
telling how healthy his section of tbs
state is, remarked: "A mountaineer
aged 90, and his wife, aged 80, We're re-
turning from the funeral of their Oldest
child, who had died at the age of II
They were both deeply grfeyed. As
they were discussing their loss the Wife
said: I always told you, John, that we
would never raise that child
A veteran of the Spanish war recent
ly appealed to the secretary of the in
terror a case in which he claimed a
pension on account of corns that he had
contracted by wearing army shoes. The
department after an exhaustive course
of reasoning comes to the conclusion
that corns are not a pensionable dis
ability. The decision says: "Corns are
inconvenient. but are seldom incapaci-
tating, and when they are the remedy
is simple and within the reach of any
one. The soldiers patriotism ought not
to terminate with his military service.
1t should prompt him to go to a CHI
ropodist rather than to the pension bu-
reau.''
Secretary Wilson. of the Agricultural
department. says the tobacco situation
in Texas and Ohio has been thoroughly
studied with a view to the production
of a desirable type of filler tobacco
equal to the imported Cuban leaf, and
it is believed that by careful methods
Of cultivation, fermentation and assort-
ing this can be done. In fact, leaf has
actually been grown that can not be
distinguished from the imported Cuban
when properly fermented.
Land is mighty cheap here. You can
Euy good farm for song
Just my darn luckl can't sing
New York Sun.
A complication in Cuban affairs is
the race problem, according to r. F..
Keenan,. of Washington, an engineer,
who has just returned from business
trip to the island. He says: There is
q large white element in Cuba who fear
negro domination, and these are trying
to force President Palma to deny the
of the population is black, trouble is
ahead. The negro insists that he did his
share of the fighting for freedom, and
he isn't going to be shorn of his reward.
The annexationists see disappearance
of this problem if Cuba becomes part
of the United States, since American
laws would settle the discord. The
island is being developed with Ameri-
can and European capital, and is re-
from the effects of the war. 1t
is the political squabbles that make in
yes tors timid."
General Sir Charles Parsons, who
commands the regimenta1 forces in
does not propose that the
kings uniform shall be profaned to adj
uses in any way if he can help
it. Some amateurs in Halifax were
about to produce play. by an officer,
called Gentlemen! The King!" in
which several of the actors We're to
wear mess uniforms. Whereupon the
general put his foot down. and forbade
the performance If the uniforms We're
not dropped.
The Marion Register announces that
he shelter nonsense is quietly resting
N the political morgue." It's readers
ought to be glad to learn this, tho they
awe a suspicion that the "morgue" is
II the vicinity of the Register office and
hat the cadaver has not been resting
quietly. The persistence with which
he Register has held 1t up seems to in
licate that it has considerable life re-
The shelter" nonsense is the
which that paper has
leld up as sense and which the major
ty repudiated at the polls.
The story is told in Washington of
wo army officers, known to fame and
ilso renowned for their fondness for an
sonest wager, who put UP modest
sum few days ago on the novel prop
,sition that the president would men,
ion the Mississippi bear hunt in his
annual message. The man who believed
he president would mention the hunt
n some way naturally asked and got
good odds. Tuesday he stood around
anxiously for the coming of the
hateful message. In the first copy he
could lay his hands on he buried him.
elf deeply, and when he put down the
1aper his face wore smile of tri-
lmph. 1.-The dinners mine!" said he,
,leefully. Inquiry reveals the follow
ng sentence as the basis of the officers
,laim: ''The senseless slaughter of
yame, which can by judicious protec-
ion be permanently preserved on our
reserves for the people as