Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-19
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Is TOPICS OF THE TIMES ;
1t is suggested that the British horse
camp is only a mares nest.
From the date line of the Cedar Rap
ids Republican which reads Sunday
Republican, Tuesday Morning, April
as" the chronology Of the foreman
must have been mixed, or perhaps pay
day comes on Monday at the Repub-
lican office.
At recent performance of Faust
in an Oklahoma town the trap door of
the stage failed to work when Mephisto
should have made his descent. Three
times he tried to disappear. and the
manager in despair ordered the curtain
dropped. Before it hid the mortified
devil voice from the gallery cried,
"Hurrah, boys, hell's full!''
1t cost the state $685. for the minis
tering devotions of the chaplains who
prayed for the general assembly. The
senate heard sixty eight prayers and
the house sixty-nine. 1t has been sug-
gested this accounts for the fact that
the house transacted it's business with
greater dispatch than the senate. The
computations on salary were made out
Thursday by Deputy Auditor Brandt,
who is drawing the warrants for the
ministers who officiated. To some peo-
pie it may seem, considering the ac-
lions of the legislature, that the clergy
men failed to furnish quid pro quo,
but 1t is hard to tell where the assem-
bly, might have landed without pious
admonition from the preachers and the
veto power of the governor.
The water cure doesn't seem to be-
particular improvement over the
methods of torture used in hazing at
West Point.
Eugene w. Ware the new pension
commissioner has addressed this note
to q Topeka editor will you kindly
omit in your paper all further allu-
sions to me? am being over praised.
In little while, by the law of COM.
pensation, will be over blamed. Glor-
ification notices will nauseate my
friends and provoke my enemies. If l
should be confirmed and then accept
and should enter upon my duties as
OF, y, y,
dicapped by these contending emo-
tons. And when, at the last, my ex-s
terror shall decorate the fence, as it
certainly must in time, my friends will
have no incentive to weep and my enc
mics will have no restraint upon their
levity. Therefore, please don't give
them any more" Mr.. Ware is evidently
afraid the editor might dig up some
more of his old poetry.
The Globe Democrat thinks the
worst feature of the Raines law gov
erning Sunday liquor sales in New
York is that the customer is obliged to
eat saloon sandwich with each drink
1.-The original map made by George
Washington In 1875 of the lands on the
Great Kanawha river, West Virginia,
ment in 1853 for his services in the
Braddock expedition, is now in the pos
session of the library of Congress-
says The National Geographic Maya
zine. The map is about two by five
feet, and is entirely in the handwriting
of Washington. The margin is fitted
with notes, also in Washington's hand
writing, describing the boundary marks
set by Washington and different feat
ures Of the tract
Why not send General Miles to com.
plete the pacification of the Moros?
Two rival lecture bureaus are quar-
relin viciously over Miss Stone. She
should take precaution against sec
ond kidnap piping.
When William e. Chandler was sec
rotary of the navy he issued an order
LnaL OiIlcefS S[OulQ not permit Unelf
wives to reside at the foreign stations
to which their husbands were attached.
The order was promptly rescinded upon
the receipt of the secretary of the fol-
loving from Commodore Fyffe, in COM
mand of the Asiatic squadron: 1T be-
comes by painful duty to report that
my wife, Eliza F'yffe, has, in disobed-
fence to my orders, and in the face of
regulations of the department, taken up
her residence on the station and per-
refuses to leave"
Apropos of Mr.. Bryan's prospective
visit to the British mule camp at Lath-
rop the Nonpareil says: THE Missouri
mule is something of kicker himself.
but when the peerless democratic lead
er heaves in sight every dewy eyed
flicker heeled song bird in the corral
will wave his ears and bray out the
welcome, hail to the chief"
In the British-Japanese alliance the
Australians see trouble ahead. They
fear an Asiatic invasion and and the
against the mother country
are illustrated by the following from
the Sydney Bulletin: ''The alliance
with Japan marks further move in