Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-21


the boys foraged better dinner, or got
lit from the commissary, than they
would have had at home. Maybe the
particular 'weeper' in mind had won all
the cash In his mess before midnight OF
| Christmas day The boys in the field
probably succeeded in forgetting that 1t
was Christmas. The soldier is all right
in any climate. He is resourceful and
will get there, without being embalmed
in so-called poetry
If when the belligerent members OF
the British house of commons used Ian
guage commonly supposed to be the
exclusive vernacular of Billingsgate
lfishwives and South Carolina senators
they had engaged in fist fight as Well
the Americanization of Great Britain
would have been completed.
|
DR.. J. F. Kennedy, of the state board
of health in a paper delivered to the
conference of superintendent of state
institutions has offered the suggestion
| that use of intoxicants should be made
sufficient cause for the dismissal of any
| state employee or official. Morally
speaking the good doctor is sound In his
| philosophy, but action on the line of his
| suggestion would practically prorogue
the legislature, stop all business at the
capital, render biennial elections i'm
POSSIBLE and destroy leading Des
| Moines industry.
| The hundred and odd proselytizins
Mormon elders at large in Western Wiz.
pin;a. mart of the detachment which has
/ spread over the mountain region of
| other western states, appear to possess
the cheek of the Congo hippopotamus,
| inasmuch as they want to hold their
meetings in the school houses. Inc
| state Superintendent of schools says no.
md puts his foot down with the firm.
ness of the same riparian animal. BY
llaw and custom the school houses are
| open to the services of any religious
| sect but the superintendent, as there
| Is no local anti Interpretation law, spits
on the pretension that Mormonism is
| religion Public opinion will sustain
the exclusion of the elders, and prom
Uses in no long time to call for their
| expulsion, as it did year or two ago
| farther south.
| AT Shenandoah. down in the fertile
valley of the Nishnabotna, lives an as
SCISSOR upon whom the mantle of Solo
| mon seems to have descended. Last
year the ownership of a dog was in
dispute between three parties and the
| assessor in his wisdom assessed the dog
| to each. They paid without question
| three separate taxes on one dog. The
suggestion that money which evades
taxation by juggling from one hand to
another about Jan. be assessed after
| the manner pursued by the Shenan-
doah assessor in his roundup of dogs
Is a good one. 1t would at any rate de-
eide the ownership of the dog.
| one of the attractions of the Montana
state exhibit al the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition already agreed upon by the
| Montana commissioners is Edward
Beaupre, the Louisiana purchase giant.
| Reaupre was born in Montana, is 81
| years old, is seven feet ten and half
| inches in height and weighs 367 pounds.
| Beaupre is ranchman, and he often
takes 1.0OO-pound horse under his
arm and carries it about the pasture
He can walk off with 1000 pounds on a
straight lift.
| The patent medicine man is a wide
awake advertiser on this side of the
water and is apparently waking up to
the American idea on the other side of
the pond. An English patent medicine
| firm is offering a seat to view the cor
onation procession to every one who
will find hundred purchasers for it's
remedy for rheumatism.
| Without any formal understanding a
number of papers are beginning to use
| the word "marconigram' to describe a
message sent thru the air without
wires The word is euphonious and
compared with such a barbarism as
deterioration" deserves commenda-
ton. "Marconigram" and the verb ITO
marconigraph," which will naturally be
formed from it, will probably establish
themselves in the absence of anything
| better.
| In connection with the democratic
plan of campaign for 1904, which will
be fought out by the democrats on the
alleged issue of imperialism Col. Henri
Watterson has a scheme. He would
send a democratic committee of five to
| investigate affairs in the Philippines
thereby furnishing the ammunition
wherewith Henri and other oratorical
big guns may be charged and primed
for the onslaught. He remarks the
probability that General Chaffee would
imprison and perhaps hang for treason
the members of the investigating COM