Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-14
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

General Oliver o. Howard, in rem
iniscent mood, says that of the twenty
seven commanders of union armies
during civil war, only two survive
General Scofield and himself.
The bill before the legislature per-
hitting the state board of health to
step in and do precautionary work TO
avert epidenics in localities where To-
cal boards fail to act. should be
amneded to give the state board power
also to vaccinate these Indifferent
boards, and then it would take.
Mr.. Marconi has written for the
March Century a PREDATORY note au-
thenticating an article on his work to
appear in that number from the pen OF
p. T. McGraht, editor OF the Evening
Herald. st. Johns Newfoundland. pre-
pared from frequent interviews with
Mr.. Marconi during the inventors three
weeks stay in that city. The same
number will contain the first full ac-
count by DIR. Albert p. Matthews, of the
Chicago University, of his recently an
nounced discoveries in The Nature of
Nerve Force The Century announces
that 1t will publish during the present
year a number of other curious and
important articles in the field of popu-
lar science.
ar f,c 1,t r,, lN1 in,
this vicinity" says the Ingalton, Ql.)
News. for the ladies to do more than
their share of the courting." 1t is
hardly probable that this will create
much alarm among the other sex.
Some of the railroads are conunu
ally showing their friendly interest In
employees. 1t is announced that Presi-
dent Burt, of the Union Pacific, while
spending a few hours in Cheyenne.
Wyo.. the other day said the company
would build three-story club house
there for employees. The building will
be of stone and brick and will cost be-
tween 100000 and 100000. The struc-
ture will be modern in every respect
and will be fitted with reading, club
begun in the summer.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has gone to
Jackson. Miss, to greet the last legisla-
ture that will assemble in the historic
capitol. 1t is understood Beauvoir, her
old home on the gulf coast, will be pur-
chased by the state and converted into
home for INDECENT confederates.
parent up in Holton, Kansas, was
giving his son string of valuable adj
vice, and closed with the admonition:
Have an hour for rising, and RISE The
next morning the young man arose
considerably later than usual. Look
here my son." the parent exclaimed,
what was the last one of those rules
told you to observer" You said
said" replied the boy that 1 could
have an hour for rising" and it Amt
been an hour yet since you called me-"
The Iowa senate has passed a bill
permitting savings banks to receive
deposits twenty times as large as their
capital stocks, instead of ten times,
democratic times would not be both
cred by such legislation.
Representative Wilson, of Brooklyn
was strolling leisurely thru the lobby Of
the capitol on recent afternoon when
he met tall gaunt, heavy mustached
person, who stopped him to inquire
about a member of congress from Ken
lucky. Mr. Wilson looked the strang-
er over carefully and gave him the de-
sired information. and then, suddenly
remembering that the strangers face
Are you from Kentucky. sir?" Not
by darned sight" was the reply.
I'm from Tennessee, but I've been sick
week, that's why look SO bad
The backwoodsmen of Kentucky are
| mot so slow" when 1t comes to fight
with guns. That state continues to
show that she is one of the most
unique members of the federal union
1t might be prudent to send a few
missionaries into the mountain re-
gions.
During my absence" says ply
stefan quoted by the Rochester Post
Express my two boys got into my
consulting room, where they began to
play at being doctors Presently one
lof them unlocked the door and dis
closed skeleton. Pooh! What are
you 'fraid Off he asked. It's nothing
but an old skellington.' 'w-wh- where
did it come FROM asked the other
with chattering teeth. oh, I don't
know, Papa's had it a long time. j
expect it was his first patient
| Valentines love was chilled little
by zero weather, but as love laughs at
locks, 1t merely smiled over this win
terry incident.
| philadelphia has a rival for Cor
nelius Vanderbilt as a rich young man
who works hard" says Philadelphia
man, and that is George Widener,
son of P. A. b. Widener, George
! Widener works considerably harder
! than scores-yes, hundreds-of poor
men. He is director in forty cor
porations and president of fourteen
railway lines in Philadelphia. He is