Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-14
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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Northwestern Iowa hunters have
been shooting many ducks lately.
/ Parsons College will remain in Fair.
| field. and accept the local aid offered the
| 1T is less than the alluring offer of Mt
Pleasant. In time the college may make
up for this.
The Dubuque Telegraph thinks 1T
is not improbable that the influence OF
Speaker Henderson will be on the side
of Congressman Cannon for the speak
ership." However. this may be another
| instance in which Henderson is misrep-
resented. Wait and see.
ut would be glorious thing If con-
gress did not meet again for five years, "
the Des Moines Capital repeats. The
Capital appears to be afraid of repub-
| lican congress.
| As rain is now the chief Iowa pro-
duction, there is no need of asking
| What shall the harvest be-"
Postoffice officials In Washington are
wrestling with a new claim just filed
with them which calls for the reim-
bursement of Tennessee postmaster.
This unfortunate servant of the gov
eminent is minus two fine shotguns,
which ne had kept In handy place
crammed to the muzzfe with the dan
gerous slugs Tennesseans use against
the coming of mail robbers. These
guns stood ready at his hand for use,
but the robbers Were also wary, and
they chose a time when the postmas ter
slept, and removed not only the mail,
but the incipient armory into the bar
gain. Now the postmaster sends in a
claim for two new guns, asserting that
the guns We're solely for the purpose of
defending the mail and that he would
not have been robbed had he not been
postmaster. This letter will in all prob
ability find its way to the department
archives. where every sort of document
of interest or significance is ultimately
stored. But 1t is limited that the un-
tined to remain unarmed unless he
joins the local militia.
A man in Kansas City killed the doc
tor who promised to restore his sight
but destroyed it instead. Some acts Of
this kind seem to be in the nature of
retribution.
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In seeking the speakership Uncle
Joe" Cannon is quoted as saying: 81
have been in congress for nearly twen-
ty- eight years, and in this little candi-
dacy of mine I must stand or fall by
the record of those years, good or bad
as 1T may be-"
st. Louis, Kansas City, and st. JOS
eph are to have free textbooks and
stationery in their public schools.
During the civil war several northern
soldiers were talking together before
the advance upon Corinth. A raw re-
cruit stepped up to them with a bundle
of soiled clothes in his hand, and asked:
do you know where I can get this
washing done?" ooh, yes" said one of
the two practical jokers, Eve know
Just go up there with your bundle"
pointing to the headquarters of General
Grant, you will see a short, stout man
who does washing. Take your bundle
to him. The recruit soon gained en-
trance to headquarters, and stood in the
generals presence. what can do for
you?" said General Grant II was di-
rected here by a couple of soldiers.
They told me that you did washing, and
I have bundle here" General Grants
simply asked the question: Gould you
identify those men again?" Yes. sir"
Very well; you shall have the chance"
Turning to an orderly, he directed him
to call a guard, go with the recruit to
where the jokers were standing ready
to enjoy his discontinue and let him
identify them. "Take the men to the
guard house. give them this mans bum
die of clothing, and make them wash 1t
thoroughly. See that the work is well
done" 1t is said that the general was
obeyed to the letter.
All fear of coke famine in Chicago
has passed, as it has been coming into
that city plentifully of late.
A western democrat who was reading
the election returns observed: We'll
we seem to have carried New York city
and then lost everything else clear to
San Francisco"
While travelling recently Mark Twain
was asked by a friend and fellow pas
senger If he remembered the first mon
ey he ever made. Yes" answered Mr..
Clemens, putting meditatively on his
cigar. II have distinct recollection of
1t. When 1 was a youngster attended
school at place where the use of the
birch rod was not an unusual event. It
was against the rules to mark the desks
in any manner, the penalty being fine
of SIS or public chastisement. Happen