Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-21
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TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Hey, there, Keep off of Chinas cell
lar door. Secretary Hay.
School teachers and pupils sigh over
the fact that the Washington birthday
| holiday comes on Saturday
! Army medical officers at Washing
ton. are greatly distressed over the
fact that there are siXty-three va
capcies in their corps and that the eX-
animation now being held in Washing
ton has produced not more than forty
candidates, of whom 1t is likely that
not more than four or five will pass
The examination is a severe one, pro-
motion in the department is slow and
uncertain, and there are few attrac
! tons which would interest young med
lical students.
Last year Kansas produced 6 million
dollars worth of coal, and as luck
would have 1t Kansas this winter has
needed every bucketful of it.
1t is rule in political life in Wash
ington that a congressman must al
ways be I'm to constituent. The
greatest annoyance and hardship they
are forced 10 endure under this rule is
providing transportation home for
men and women who have failed to
find government employment or mere
| ~ came here on pleasure trip ard
spent all their money. The profession-
al Constituents always pick out a
new member when they want cash for
board or railroad tickets.
succeeds in getting an appropriation OF
100000 from the Iowa general assem-
bly,.
Associate Justice Horace Gray. of the
United States supreme court, who had
a slight palarytic stroke in the left side
Wednesday evening at his home in
Washington, is IA years old. He WAS APP
pointed to the supreme bench by Presi-
dent Arthur in 1881.
ut is probable says the Mexican
Herald, that additional archaeological
discoveries have been made in the
tiche, In this state (Jalisco). For some
I tine past travellers on the Central have
been besieged by vendors at way sta
tons, who offered them rare idols,
vases and curiously marked antiquit-
les, and on investigation it proved that,
while these articles We're undoubtedly
genuine, the National Museum at the
City of Mexico did not contain speci Z.
mems from that neighborhood or of the
same design. The matter is being in
vcstigated by the authorities, and If
established as fact what is now con-
be added to the many known ones III
this republic. 1t is now thought that
these relies are from one of the lost
tribes OF Toltecas.'
The foreign relations committee Of
the senate has decided that the recip-
rocity trade treaties are not dead, but
can sui be acIeu upon Dy the senate.
Well the senate should act upon them
whenever trade advantages are Of
fered.
General Lew Wallace has luxurious
and ideal authors den" 1t is erected
on his lawn, and at Il cost which most
people would consider quite fortune
In shape it resembles an Oriental
mosque, and the interior IS one large
room, handsomely furnished and dec
Grated. and on the walls hangs a por-
trait of the Sultan of Turkey, painted
by the general himself.
AT Plevna, Kas.," says the Kansas
City Journal, "a Joint keeper cornered
the Rev. w. III. Houston in the postof-
flee and informed the reverend gentle-
man that he must take a licking on ac-
count of a temperance sermon which he
had preached the day before. All
right responded the parson, cheerfully.
| and two minutes later the friends Of thu