Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-29


TOPICS OF THE TIMES }
;
AT any rate the rainy season is givins
, Iowans a good supply of late vegeta
bles.
; Londoner named John Wills has
J. patented novel engine for marine
propulsion, which he asserts will re.
duce the crossing Of the Atlantic to ;
three days journey. A little over fivt
days is the best time of the presen
record breakers.
II Virginia democrats can turn a trick
4 when the emergency demands it.
home for confederate soldiers neal
Richmond has 900 inmates, all demo.
4 Gratis. The national home at Hampton
4 has 5000 inmates. nearly all from ths
north and republicans. To meet the
4 emergency the attorney general has de-
Il
of that state mo inmate of soldiers
4 home or other charitable institution is
entitled to register and vote anywhere
4 except in the place of his residence
prior to becoming an inmate of the in-
stitution." They had to disfranchise 300
democrats in order to disfranchise S,O00
republicans.
The corn pack is short and canned
goods will be higher.
4
| A writer in the New York Tribune
states that men of a different type are
! turning to fruit culture for both pleas
ure and profit. For instance. New
| York banker who a year and half
ago was nearly wrecked by the unWise
investments Of his partner, has retired
to 2OO-acre farm which his wife hap
pened to have bought near Bedford.
| This fall he has 1000 barrels of apples
to sell, and is going to plant more or
chards and put up cold storage plant.
A retired leather manufacturer of Low
Ell, Mass has just completed the set
ting out of 10000 trees at Pittsfield,
Mass. He is going to run the orchard
for profit, employing all his best bust
he will make it an object lesson to the
farmers of New England. A good deal
of the inspiration of this interest has
come from Geq1ge Powell, superintend-
ent Of Briarcliff Manor Agricultural
School. Mr.. Powell's own farm, near
Client, is the object Of many pilgrim
ages on the part of those who have
gone mad over big peaches or thousand
barrel crops. They go out to see his
young trees, which, 1t is a common say
Ling, have been bred like horses" This
fall he has 1000 young peach trees, 500
pear trees and 1000 plum trees, all
bearing their first crop; and alongside
Of them Is an orchard, set out by his
father fifty years ago and bearing as
well as 1t ever did. With proper care
an orchard will last for 100 years, but
| most orchards are ruined by insects and
exhausted soil at the end of thirty.
"How Is your brother, Tommy"
"Ill in bed; he's hurt himself
How did he do that?"
1--WE were playing who could lean
furthest out Of the window and he
won."-Boston Globe.
While on an automobile trip State
Senator James X. Flood of Hart, Mich,
met mounted Indian whose horse APP
peared much frightened at the machine.
The senator called out: Joe, is your
horse afraid?" Nav! heap big fool;
he only mad; he t'ink you take his
jab."
A San Francisco rabbi gives q new
Interpretation of the design of the
American flag. To an audience Of inn
migrants, largely Russian, the other
stars and stripes are in the flag? will
| tell you why. They show that America
has stars for those who behave them
selves, and stripes for those who do
not
Peach prices hold up pretty we'll in
western towns, but the receipt of $780,
900 baskets in Chicago Saturday broke
the price 10 cents, the demand not be-
ing up to the supply.
According to Washington item, 500
tons of precious anthracite coal have
been shipped there for use of the dis
trict government Upon its arrival the
black diamonds will be closely guarded
By the local police until they are stored
in municipal buildings and school
houses, the custodians of which will
maintain vigilant watch for burg
lars.
Henry Clay Dean, who was famous
orator a generation ago, was referred
to many years after he had moved to
Missouri from Iowa as Henry Clay
Dean of Iowa." He used to explain his
move from the Hawkeye state in this
WAYS, says the Kansas City Journal:
you see, they passed nefarious pro-
hibition law in Iowa, and there's your
whisky gone. Then they abolished cap
| ital punishment, and there's your hang
Ling gone. And now the whole popula-
| ton seems to be drifting tward univer-
salism, and there's your hell gone.