Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-28
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

President Roosevelt will soon have
| two vacancies to fill on the supreme
bench.
Renorts from North Carolina say that
| the largest cotton mill in the world is to
he built in the Tar Heel state. The de-
Iyelopment of cotton manufacturing III
the south has been marvellous, ana
many big mills have been constructed
in the cotton belt since the civil war,
hut "the biggest cotton mill in the
world" is to be raised ~ North Caro-
lima! What will Fall River and Man
chester have to say about that? Ana
in other cities in New England outside
of Fan River and in other cities in old
England outside of Manchester there
are big mills.
The English physicians, of course,
take the most hopeful view of King
Edwards case.
George Watson Coles annual sum-
mary of gifts to American ilprafles
shows in eleven months, from July l.
| 1901, to June j, 1902, a tota! OF S2,4oo,-
1871 for books, maintenance, etc, ana
| $1.521. O50.63 for buildings. The num-
Ter of books reported given is 326,SSo,
while 7S,52S pamphlets We're also pre-
| scented. These totals do not lnclude
Cuba or British America, but do in
clude 100000 given to Porto Rico. In
| Mr.. Coles list mention is made of the
| gift of zone cow to a Nebraska library.
This was bequeathed to the York city
library, and is probably unique in the
annals OF library benefactions. 1t is
rot stated whether the will of the bene-
| factress provides for the safe OF the
COW and the application of the pro-
ceeds to the library, or for the mainte-
| nance Of the animal in behalf of the
| library and the sale of the butter ana
milk to help pay running expenses.
The hoboes, too, were sadly disap-
! pointed over the postponement OF the
coronation. They were fighting mad
over the loss of their loot.
Altho cholera is not yet sufficiently
prevalent in the Philippines to be re-
Garded as epidemic. the disease has de-
/ veloped far enough to be serious. Fully
| three months ago there were so many
| cases in Manila that the native popuia-
ton grew little uneasy and a SINAI!
proportion began to emigrate to other
parts of the archipelago. White resi-
dents were undisturbed then as now,
and have shown no signs of panic
Nevertheless, the number of victims
has steadily grown from week to week
| This, of course, was to be expected as
consequence of the onset of warm
| weather Up to the present time no less
| than fifty private soldiers have been
! carried off by the scourge. Since these
men have been under scrutiny and re-
| straint, the mortality in the army has
been small The natives, tho, are much
more careless and defiant, and hence
have persisted by the hundred. Every
thing considered, the havoc is astonish,
! ingly small. Its dimensions speak well
for the military and civil administers
ton of the islands. But the evil has
rot been suppressed, and there are Still
/ two long summer months ahead whose
outcome can not be safely predicted.
The premature firecracker furnishes
the only evidence of the approach of
the Fourth of July.
Senator Deboe, of Texas, tells a story
Of an episode in Bourbon county, in his
| state. A worthless, drunken fellow,
who was common nuisance, was ar
rested and brought into court. He de-
manded trial by jury, and the court
the next day, when the court met, there
We're gathered in the jury box twelve
CT the hardest, most disreputable char
acters in the county.
What does this mean?" asked the
judge.
WELL. said the sheriff II knew that
the prisoner was entitled to be tried by
a jury of his peers 1t was pretty hard
work to get them, but in case any of
these won't do, l have a few more how
ering around whisky barrel outside"
The court looked at the prisoner and
at the jury.
The case is dismissed" was all he
said.
1t is a pity the small boys who are
asking every day how soon the Fourth
of July Will be here and announcing
their purpose of sitting up all the night
before that all-banging holiday, could
not have been in West Hanover, Mass,
Sunday. West Hanover has never
made much noise in the world before.
Sunday 1t made up for its long silence.
There was fire in the firecracker fac
tory. For three hours there was a pro-
longed burst of thunder sound. The
fire obigingly occurred in the daytime.
The small boys of the vicinage were
enabled to see as we'll as hear the spec
tacle. For three hours there was noise
enough In West Hanover to satisfy
even the most halcyon and vociferous
young West Hanoverian. The boys of
that little village are happy boys. They
have had an extra Fourth. They have
had also a fair specimen of the kind of
hullabaloo for which their souls and
ears long. If those three explosive
hours could be heightened into 365 days
West Hanover would be the paradise
of boys.