Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-21
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

The arrest and punishment by i'm
prisonment of the gllouls who prey on
the devastated city of st. Thomas
should be changed to the death penal
ty. The world would be well rid OF
such creatures.
The Iowa City Republican recently
received the following reply to state
ment of account. 1t reads as coming
from an anti-Cummins man: Editor
Republican: have notice from you
SAYING that I am indebted to you for
several years subscription. | never
subscribed for the paper. but some OF
my relatives must be sending it. have
not earned a dollar in twelve years and
never expect to earn one. like the
Republican and think it is sound on all
public questions. 1 am an inmate OF
the insane department of the county
poor house. Yours truly,
If it had been possible to have In
Guided the walking delegate in that
pledge the striking miners took at st.
Gabriels!
The Kansas City Star says: "There
is Il dispute in China whether the In
denlnity of 45O,00O,O0O taels due the
powers shall be paid in gold or silver.
China might toss coin to determine
heads, the powers win; taels, China
loses"
If the trimming process that has been
in progress for the past few years Is
continued Spain will soon be down to
boys size and fit Alfonso all right.
A paper in Manila publishes extracts
from the log of the transport snip
Thomas which conveyed the last lot OF
school teachers to the Philippines. We
quote: '"There are 600 teachers on
board, 100 of them women. Some are
mer girlse; others are merely girlish.
All are hound for the Philippines.
Thirty couples petitioned the captain
one day TO permit them to be married
on board. He said he'd be damned II
he would. He wasn't running any toot-
e-wootsie shop, and he wanted them
to know it. The thirty couples reluct-
antly agreed to wait until until they got
to Honolulu to be married.
To continue the dear Alphonse" bust
ness it is now in order for the United
States to send statues of George Wash
, nc
CAS- they look at he capital of Iowa
and reflect upon the growth of the state
and consider its relations to the nation
the old soldiers may be pardoned
little extra pride for having done what
they did forty years ago. says the Des
Moines Leader. Possibly as they gaze
on the river front and some few other
localities in the state capital they may
be sorry these We're not In the path of
their march to the sea under Sherman
Mr. Carnegie probably understands
by this time that he can not butt INTO
Philippine history simply because he
has the price.
The London Lancet warns against
bringing mail, newspapers or letters to
the table as is the habit in many fam
lies The plan is convenient, but from
a sanitary point of view it is appalling
1t is undeniably a dirty practice. The
sorter at the poStotfice or the postman
may not be as Internationally clean as
is desirable. The dust of the road may
adhere to any exposed gum or the let
tiers may be dropped, and the bacteriol-
ogy of road dust exhibits some we'll
known pathogenic organisms.
The Filipinos invented the wat
er cure but the democrats are asking
for a patent on the discovery.
Move, we goode knyghte Percivalle
stoode at we postern gate, murmurynge
sweete nothynges into we wyllynge
cares of We Ladye Ysabelle, & she
smyled full sweetlie upoune hymn &c
sayde shylie: "Mehynketh, Percivalle,
that there be We beanie of trewe love in