Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-11
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

counting on a grand reunion in Wash
\ ington next month.
An English curate who has Just en-
tered the workhouse at Tiverton, after
being without employment for three
wears, had made 40 unsuccessful APP
llications for place. He had previ-
Fously served twenty-three years as a
: ourate, but found that Wears wanted
only young men.
!. a larger number of Iowans have TAX
en- trips outside the state this year than
lever before, and they are coming back
pretty well satisfied with home.
4 NO reliable system CT wireless tele-
Il graphy has yet been developed This
!. statement was made in Washington by
Rear Admiral Royal r. Bradford. chief
i of the bureau of equipment, who has
4 especial charge of all matters connected
With communications in the navy. Up
on the recommendation of Rear ADJ
miral Bradford, tests of various sys-
TENS, which We're declared to have
4 worked satisfactorily, have been in
progress between the Washington navy
4 yard and the naval academy. The adj
mral declined to make public any of
the results of the tests, but there is
reason for believing that they have not
/ shown the desirahility OF the immediate
equipment of the service With the wire
less biography system. The recent
maneuvers demonstrated the need OF
wireless telegraphy provided a reliable
system could be obtained. but ii has
rot been produced. according to Rear
! Admiral Bradford. and the navy will
probably have to wait until something
more satisfactory is found. The tests
will not, however, cease The depart
,nent wants to find out Just what each
system is worth.
Horace Boies will realize that he IL.
a back number indeed when the votes
are counted II he attempts to run for
congress this year
The late Senator Mcmillan, of Mich
igan, used to tell about a green Irish
man employed on his country place
near Detroit. He had a severe attack
of malarial fever and the senator sent
sim box of fve-grain capsules of quiz /
nine. Upon the occasion of his next
visit to the farm the senator called to
Pat and asked him If he received the /
medicine all right. Yes, sor.' said Pat.
land it cured me, too, but it was lot
OF trouble to dig the medicine out of
those little Shells
Maxim Godki, the celebrated Russian
novelist, was for years little better than
a tramp. says American Tit-Bits At
10 he ran away from home, and up to
the age OF % he scarcely had sufficient
food to keep him alive. He worked all
ternately as a day laborer, a sawyer, a
cook and lighterman. Then he heard
that free instruction could be obtained
at kazan, and, having no money to
ray for his journey, he walked there-a
distance of over 600 miles. He there
worked for salary of shillings a
month studying hard during the even
ings. Then he became clerk in q law
yer's office, where his literary talent
was discovered, and he eventually made
his mark.
From his standing ground as a CAM
paigner in Missouri Bryan has thrown
one brickbat over into Iowa. He de-
clares there We're more righteous men
in Sodom and Gormorrah than there
IN ha ran11hlipo N
party"
The official executioner of TOXIC died
His death was extraordinary
He was crossing a railway track near
Toxic when he was run down by fast
express. The body was found by the
track with the head as neatly decapi
tated as any which had been cut off
by the official executioner himself
there was not a mark on the
body.
Towns that have contentious over
the location of such great things as
an $4,000 federal building may take
credit that their disputes are more
discreet by way of contrast than those
Of other places. Traders Point, a viii
lage ten miles from Indianapolis, is +,
greatly excited over the proposed bring
ing Of an organ into the church at that
place, and the trouble has resulted in
the destruction of property, personal !,
and various appeals to law !,
which are destined to keep the bitter
ness alive and permanently estrange
many who have been lifelong friends
notices have been freely dis
Lributed, and many farmers are housing I
their stock at night and sleeping with
loaded guns within reach, or are en-
ploying men to stand guard over their !,
property. :
The nomination of Judge NJ. ]. Wade i
FOR congress in the Second district has i
given the democrats hopes that they t
nay elect him, for the reason that thu I
district is close one, the last repub-
lean plurality being 1,465. Outside of
his there is no good reason why they
should succeed in this prosperous era :
The campaign in the district promises
10 be a lively one. a
do they set a good table at your i
boarding house, I
Well the average is good" t
what do you mean by that?' t