Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-12
TOPICS OF THE TIMES


| that name appears to be on top.
| Mosquitoes have become so active in
some parts of Texas that many cattle
and horses have been drowned in the
sloughs and watercoutses. where they
! had sought refuge from the pests.
Down in Missouri a Chillicothe mer-
/ chant, in a recent advertisement in the
| Tribune. urging people to trade at home,
says Don't go to Chicago To he cheat
ed Save the fare. | can cheat you
here at home His statement has at
least the merit of candor
Senator Pettus of Alabama says that
| the secret of living long is to work. and
that he has noticed that all his neigh
hors who got rich and retired are
| dead.
| Word comes to the effect that. de-
| spite the cold weather of June, the
Michigan peach crop will be unusually
heavy this year. Growers say that not
| only will the crop be abnormally large,
| but its quality promises to be far above
| the average If the present warm
| weather continues, the fruit will de-
velop and ripen quickly. The commits
/ sion men expect the first shipment OF
! the Michigan crop about Aug. i, but,
according to the present indications,
| the heaviest shipments will not come
| before Sept. 10.
| The inundated Des Moiners made the
best use of their flood by catching cat
| fish ten inches long in the easements of
the wholesale district.
/ John Z. Milholland is trying to get
| the federal government to purchase for
| 100000 the ruins of old Fort Ticonder-
bore when Ethan Allen demanded its
surrender. He formerly was editor and
proprietor of Ticonderoga newspa-
per.
| The quarterly issue of the Forum
contains an article in which Mr. Dem
! by-who certainly ought to know his
subiect-gives reasons for the excus-
| ion of the Chinese from America, and
suggests action. Laborers, he holds,
should not be admitted at all. He says:
We should declare that Il certain num-
Der of students may come to this coun-
try as we'll as a certain number of
merchants, and a certain number of
other classes if desirable, and the re-
1 IA H. l,J
lance should be exercised over the per-
sons so admitted in order that they
might not become laborers. Our trade
relations with China are promising, and
they ought not to be disturbed by the
enactment of unnecessary and unjust
i laws A respectable Chinese merchant
engage in business in China and de-
sirous of doing business With the Unit
ed States should be encouraged to come
to this country and to buy supplies
here. III we are to lose our trade with
China, one of the main objects of ac
curing the Philippines will be defeat
ed. do not believe that any dis
astrous result would follow from our
adherence to the doctrine Of exclusion
which has become our settled policy.
The Chinese government relegates all
questions of trade to the merchants. 1t
takes no interest in such questions. and
it can not understand why the foreign
powers are eternally talking about
trade"
The coal miners hard lot and the
perils he encounters are slightly dis
closed by the terrific explosion at
Johns town, Pa, the latest estimate of
the loss of lives being $50.
Not long ago New Yorker, we'll
known for his convivial habits. sent
box of candy to a girl up town and
wrote on his card the hackneyed SEN
tence. "Sweets to the sweet The next
day he received Il brief acknowledge
ment which read "NankS to the tank.
Seven hundred immigrants We're
spending on Ellis island their first sun
day in the new world and thru some
bodys Kindness ice cream had been
added TO the bill of fare. This was a
novelty to most of the immigrants-so
great a novelty indeed, as to amount to
a puzzle. The New York Times reports
some of the comments which it called
forth.
sure, an there's frost In TIL milk"
said an Irish girl, when the first cold
spoonful had surprised her throat.
Milk, did We say" said north of
ireland lad. "Ah, but it's more like
swatened snow, it is"
An how did they kape 1T from melt
mp" inquired another
Some Italian Immigrants did not take
as kindly to it, and tried to make the
attendant understand that they would
like to have it warmed.
Senator Proctor of Vermont says the
finest speech he ever made consisted of
ONLY four words. 1t was in retort to
senator Hoars sarcastic little thrust in
y speech directed at the Green Noun
tain senator He said: mo man in
Vermont is allowed to vote unless he
has made $1,000 trading with Massa-
chusetts people" Whereat Proctor
said: And we all vote"
Uncle Sam will probably back up
Governor Tafts declaration that the
friars must leave the Philippines, de-