Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-06
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

/ hdNe over our noftncfn produces" -
/ that they get in their work carly, all't
in this case While the price Was htsh.
lone farmer near Linwood, in The haw
VALLEY. cleared $1,000 this wear on q
/ little forty -acre patch OF potatoes.
1t was Maysville (Mo) negro
! preacher Who needing the money said
Brethren we viii now staIll de box,
an fo de glory oh heaven, which ebher
OLD YOU stole MIR. Jones turkey Will
please not PUT anything in hit" and
every man in the congregation contrib
/ uted
4 Predictions are made that 1903 will
be the biggest cattle Year in the history
OF Kansas, abundant feed having been
provided by this Years crops.
/ Nevada Will be found in the repub-
lcan ranks this fall said Senator
Stewart in Washington Monday. our
state has always been republican eN-
tcept on the silver question. Since the
/ death of tha, question the gold output
lof Nevada has increased ana restored
! the state to the republican ranks. There
has also been a great revival in mining.
railroad building and other industries.
! Our state has never beet so prosperous
as it is now. The Young men Who vote
for the first time this fall will have the
balance of power. Generally they are
republicans
|
The seaside scares you most to death
And leaves your hopes wreck.
For every time YOU draw your breath
| You have to draw a check.
Washington Star.
Prof f. w. Mally. state entomolo-
gist of Texas, says that recent reports
to him show that the boil weeNil has
| spread over Il much greater district
than had been anticipated. and that the
| damage to the cotton crop of Texas
| Viii be very great before thirty days
/! have passed. The floods in the south
ern portion OF the state, he says have
driven the wecvl to the upiands from
1.-The bottoms, and this will add material
| ly to the damage He is of the opinion
| that there is nothing To do now, as the
damage can not he averted
| President Eliot of Harvard is an en-
thusiastic rose grower. He is very fond
of the flowers, OF which he has AN eN-
act scientific knowledge, and three
bushes at his Cambridge home are his
| especial cave.
j. II. Mickey the republican candi-
/ date for governor in Nebraska, is hear
| ing a few things about himself in the
course of the lively campaign there.
He is said 10 be railroad man, a
fake" farmer and a prohibitionist. The
| REPUBLICAN organs are Fastening to de-
fend him against all these things. 1t is
/ shown. for instance that he went to
/ Nebraska in 1868 as homesteader,
and that he is not farming for political
purposes only. He has 4 farm of $40
acres and. according to one paper.
farns by the sweat OF his brow and
to his temperance principles we are
told that Mr. Mickey has never posed
las a temperance reformer nor led any
Carrie Nation crusades. but has done
more good to the cause of real temper
ance by his life and example, His in
terest in railroads is said to extend no
/ further than the buying of tickets. 1T
is true he does not cuss the railroads
every time he speaks" remarks one in
dignant republican editor, nor should
he, as it is Well known that a barking
dog never bites
In Mexico City there is trust among
the bakers that has raised the price of
bread-and it is to be paid for in silver
of depleted value!
The automobile is invading Daven-
port with good effect, according TO the
Democrat: "'rhe automobile is far toe
Numerous in this city to scare the most
fractions horse any more. and it is ar
irving here by the carload II is going
TO exert the same influence on the
country roads about Davenport that ii
has exerted on the highways in the
east. 1t is one of the good new things
that are welcomed because of their use
fulness. and the more the people see OF
it the better they like it,"
/ In an article published elsewhere the
| Davenport Democrat tells what viii
happen if the democrats of Iowa insist
upon reiterating the free silver issue
1t will not bring harmony.
The results of the Baldwin expedition
10 the arctic are considered meagre an{
disappointing by those who talked Will
him i'm London on the eve of his depar-
ture for Franz Josef Land and expected
great things from his apparently wei
laid plans
June traffic in the east shows con-
traction of anthracite shipments ant
am expansion of bituminous shipments
Pennsylvania road shipments east o.
Pittsburg and Erie amounted To o,46.
tons of anthracite this June compared
with 3652S3 tons in June, 1901, ant
|34o415 tons in June. 1900. Bituminous
shipments i'm June of this year Were
2272127 tons, compared with l,509,94
tons i'm June, 1901, and 1,42S,05O tons il
June, 1900.
The problem of Philippine govern
ment is disappearing from public view