Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-06
TOPICS OF THE TIMES


The women of the national fedora
ton who are attending the fiesta at Los
Angeles have been struck with color
blindness.
The Keokuk Gate City pays a COM
pliment to the Fifth district represen-
tative when it says: Congressman
Cousins continues to say things full Of
meaning in a captivating and forceful
way, as witness his speech at Cedar
Rapids Thursday, accepting nomina-
ton for congress by reclamation for a
fifth time by Fifth district republi-
cans"
Today's Washington dispatch on
tains the news of material increases in
the salaries of many Iowa postmasters.
If, as has been declared since the out
break of the Moros, the only way to
cope with these ferocious people is to
crush them with hard blows. the Amer
lean troops have taken a big step in the
tight tuTeCliOH ny alldChtllS ll6 pflIlCl-
pal Moro fort.
Chroniclers Of the quaint remarks
made in public schools are probably
unaware of the fund of humor that ex-
lists in the exercises handed up to the
teacher of composition in private
schools, especially in those for girls.
The following is a characteristic SEN
tence taken from a composition by a
dear little girl of IL: You may not
think it, dears, but I was once a little
girl like you, tho 1 am now over 20 and
have a large family of my own" But
perhaps the gem of the collection is the
concluding remark Of q description OF
how two little girls were chased by a
bull: II left Madge to her fate and
saved myself by leaping over a gate.
Needless to say. / never saw Madge
again; and ever since 1 have disliked
picnics."
1t has reached the "disreputable
sheet and "polecat journalism stage
at Baskerville.
There are strong objections to abuse
of horses or. humanitarian grounds,
and Alison on the score of municipal
terprise and taste. The business OF
hauling ought to be in he hands of
persons who can maintain good, strong
horses and decent looking vehicles, and
it is not right that teamsters of this
class should be brought into competi-
ton with draymen who starve their
horses and place burdens upon poor
beasts unable to bear them.
The department of agriculture is i'm
porting l%ady-bugs from China with
which to combat the San Jose scale. II
the lady-bues do the work expected of
them they will furnish a class of Mon
golian immigrants against whom no
exclusion law is likely to be enacted
Events are proving the groundless-
General Knox because of his former
employment as a corporation attorney.
1t will be remembered that a deter
mined effort was made on this ground
to prevent his confirmation by the SEN
aate. Mr.. Roosevelt took the position
to detect violations of the antitrust
law. Thus far the presidents view
has been vindicated. The attorney
general has begun proceedings in two
cases with great skill. 1t was to be ex-
pected that an expert on corporation
law would prove a valuable mar in
discovering points In which combina-
lions had overstepped the statutes,
provided he cared to hunt for them,
and the present attorney seems desir-
Gus of searching for these points.
A week from next Thursday the
fighting Boer army is to vote yes or no
en- the acceptance of the terms of peace
offered by Great Britain. What the
terms are the public has not learned,
but 1t is to be hoped that they are such
tina the Beers nay accept with honor.
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A correspondent of the Boston
Transcript, commenting caustically on
the proposition to erect a statue of
Benjamin F. Butler in Boston, say
that "the least we can do is to have a
little ring of celebrities of this sort who
have been conspicuous as malefactors
standing up in the Common" He adds:
81 shall be pleased to head a subscrip-
ito Mist for this purpose. I will sub
scribe $25 for a statue of Satan, s. for
Benedict Arnold, $40 for John Wilkes
Booth, thirty cents for Aaron Burr, SIS
for Guiteau and SIS for Czolgoz." The
writer also suggests the addition OF
horns and a tail for the Butler statue,
which illustrates how a man of force
intellect may make himself hated
even after death.
Monticello is excited over a discov-
cry of dead animals in the reservoir
which the city water supply is
drawn. Carelessness of officials in
charge of city water is i~nexcusable and
be made criminal by law. Three
fourths of the epidemics Of typhoid and
kindred diseases may be traced directly
to carelessness or ignorance on the part
such officers or employees.
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Senator Platt, of Connecticut, was
a house. He had occasion to
hire a carpenter, who was a plain, I'M
son of New England. You
know all about carpenter work?" asked