Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-31

thrown about a deal in the marriage
market that to many right-thinking
people is disgusting. That this Lock-
wood should give UP his wife to Steele
after such trashy affection as she had
to bestow had been stolen or freely
given was sensible. That he should con-
tinue to reside with the couple speaks
we'll for neither his head nor his heart.
Mrs. Frances E. Warner wife of the
senior senator from Wyoming. died at
Huntington, Mass, recently. She had
been confirmed invalid for years.
While the American soldiers are
fighting the amigos" of the Filipino
leader, Aguinaldo is living in comfort
on the banks of the Pasig river, in the
suburb of Malacanan. The house COM
pares favorably with that of Governor
William Fl. Taft, half a mile farther up
the river. Besides guard of American
soldiers to protect Aguinaldo. there are
several servants to attend to the wants
OF himself and family, for the Filipino
leader has with him his wife and chill
oren and his mother-in-law.
People smiled at Wendell Phillips
when in 1865 he said in a speech to the
school children of Boston,: Il expect. IL
I live forty years, to see telegraph
and both ways at the same time" But
Phillips was q prophet in more than
one sense.
1t is said that Colonel Bryan rides
on horseback from his farm to the
postoffice when he gets his weekly
agricultural paper and what other mail
may have accumulated in his box.
The spectacle is Jeffersonian In it's
simplicity and reminiscent of that
other democratic horseman who hitch
ed his horse to the fence when he went
president of the United States. In this
case, however, the analogy ceases with
Renaissance and fails Of prophecy.
Following the example of certain
congressman the government will send
1000 bushels of corn of the very finest
seed variety thru the mails. Last year
the corn crop of Arkansas was fall
ure and now the department of agri-
culture is to help the farmers out by
sending 1000 of them bushel of the
lest seed corn obtainable. The idea is
Secretary Wilson'S and is an improve
ment over numbering the mails with
the CRATER" publications issued for
shady advertisers.
According to an exchange a Mime
sofa farmer got thirsty and came to
town He visited a friend in the i'm
plement business and began casual
inspection Of seeders. Being appar
emily unable to make up his mind to
buy, the implement man led his pros
pective customer to neighboring en-
porium and piled him with four bottles
of beer plus one straight whisky.
Then the farmer declared himself too
drunk to do business and drove home.
Moral: The guileless farmer is not al
ways found at the small end Of the
gold brick game.
A Creston, Iowa, author has written
{, novel that is receiving fiattering no.
tice from those in high literary places.
The story "Buell Hampton" by Willis
George Emerson, is described as thrill
ing and Astounding in dramatic situa-
tons. Emerson. the author, springs
from farm near Creston.
Editorial writer's are discussing the
f.dvisability of urging congress to the
adoption of resolutions submitting a
constitutional amendment prohibitive
of polygamy. The rapid growth of
Mormonism in the south and southwest
may, it is feared, become sufficiently
strong to possibly prevent the ratifica-
tion of such an amendment If no action
is taken soon. The Mormon propagan-
da is active, strongly organized and its
methods seductive and efficient Its
are interchangeable servants
of the hierarchy and themselves and
their religion are peculiarly adapted to
gain converts among the more ignorant
of the southern people.
c%r;kae Rich End