Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-07
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Bret Harte, school teacher, miner,
newspaper q poet, hu1norist and au-
thor, has crossed the divide" to Gods
country" Let us hope he Struck 1t
rich" in the new diggings."
The next war OF any consequence ac-
cording to the scientists, will be be-
tween the San Jose scale and the Chi
nese lady bug.
when Tom was shot during one of
IL hikes" writes a sergeant In the
First infantry from the Philippines, 1--WE
buried him as best we could. We had
no preacher or anything of that sort, so
l receited the Lords Prayer over his
grave. and 1 guess it didn't hurt poor
Toms chances any If I didn't get it
right"
This years surplus for ten months is
sos, O00, 900 and is estimated at $75,000,-
600 for the twelve months ending June
80. The removal of war taxes will cut
off venue next year to abou the
amount Of this years surplus, but the
treasury holds $1S5, 000,0 0O in cash be-
You'd the sum reserved for the protec-
ton of the currency. Should the sur
plus continue to grow 1t is probable
that the democrats will urge their old
appeal to the country to be allowed to
count the money. There is no more eff
fective counter-irritant to a national
surplus than a democratic administra-
Congressman Amos J.. Cummings, tho
a thorough democrat was no bolo man.
He supported the appropriation for the
protection of American SOL
in the Philippines. Mr.. Cum
mings said he would rather be paral-
yzed than vote against such a measure.
H.m
Foreign immigration for the first four
months of 1902 footed up 17s.6O4. the
number ever recorded for a cor
responding period. The number arriv-
ing last week was 25,120, which has
never been equaled in seven days. April
AIDED to our population 1867 persons
Of foreign birth. The land of the free
and the home of the brave continues to
be the mecca for foreigners who desire
to better their condition.
The blind pig will enter into the po-
litical campaign of Minnesota this ear.
And the politicians will enter into the
blind pig.
Long and careful inquiry by German
indicate that cancer is not
probably hereditary, but that 1t is per-
niciously contagious. In certain dis
to population is much larger
every yea than in other areas. Dogs
and cats in many instances become
but few horses and cattle
are attacked. Men and women are
on the average earlier in life
in this generation than in those which
rrecided it. 1t is hoped that these Ger
man Investigations Of this frightful
curse, which are to be kept up persist
and upon a scale both liberal and
extensive, may result in the discovery
of some remedy for cancer. But, Of
course, that can be only a matter Of
Mr.. Hill, the railway magnate, says
the railroads can not live on each other.
Well, they don't have to, do they? Why
don't they go right along as usual and
live on the people?
"Too much bathing is harmful" says
the London Lancet, las 1t tends to mac
of the superficial part of the
epidermis, which is to frequently re-
and occasions probably too rap
ID a prol,teration of the cells of the
nalpighaian lawyer" But the time is
nearby when the school boys will be
up two fingers in little disre-
gard of this wise admonition of the
Walter Vroman intends to make his
model town a ".Children's Paradise"
greatly lessen juvenile
mischief which often run into crime.
4 noted lecturer says permanent play
grounds in cities are important moral
leils and that the police department in
o,l1> .onoctad NJ re, o-o 49,. |