Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-10

neither knew nor cdIeu 10 inflow w iltet
"nowalaymy" meant.
Monsieur Beaucaire" dramatized
and presented by Richard Mansfield
has made big success, but the first
and last acts of the play are wholly
original, having nothing to do with the
book. 1t strikes us that many of the
popular novels might make a hit,
dramatized after the same fashion
that is. have all the acts original,
leaving out entirely the incidents of
the book.
Illinois will ask recognition IN the
cabinet should the proposed department.
of commerce be created. and senators
Cullom and Mason are hopeful OF faNor-
able presidential answer. OF course
Iowa is not asking for more than two
memberships.
Lloyd George has estimated the cost
TO Great Britain of the completion OF
the conquest of the Beers at s2,o0O,Ooo,-
600.
Senator Orville H. Plat, of Con-
necticut, chairman of the committee on
relations with Cuba, and ledear OF the
movement for tariff concessions to
Cuba under reciprocity arrangement
said recently: II am protecuohist'
and have been so much so that nave
been called partisan. l am as strohs
a protectionist now as ever. but be-
lieye that proper and reasonable tarlii
concessions can be made on CUBAN
products in return for Cuban tariff con-
cessions on American products whlch
would greatly benefit the trade OF po'h
countries and not appreciably inJure
any American industry. think the
cause of protection is being wounded
now in the house of its protested
friends. and that the free trader can not
injure the cause of protection as much
as protectionists who insist upon I'M
reasonable and unnecessary customs
dues"
Farmers in many sections of Iowa
are now experiencing the first de-
lights of rural mail delivery. the carri-
ers beginning their work with the
opening of the month.
Emperor William is opposed to
Christian Science, and the Berlin pa
pers caricature 1t.
The Georgia commission has infor-
mally agreed upon Alexander n. ste
phens. the congressman, and DR.. Craw-
ford w. Long. the discoyerer OF an
asthesia, for the subjects of the states
two statues to be placed In Statuary
Hall. in the capitol at Washington. The
selection can not be definitely ratified
until meeting of the commission, to
be held in July. The commission wished
the state to make an appropriation for
The statues, but Attorney General Ter
Ii ell said this could not be constitutions
/ ally done.
government, by common consent of
both parties there, has rendered the
British ministry an unprecedented
but substantial service by its attempt
to intervene in South African affairs.
1t has put sort of quietus on it and
that is what John Bull desired.
deeply impressed with the following
| advertisement in local paper;
Young man. some woman dearly loves
you. Would you know who she is?
She would like to be your only sweet
heart. Send 10 cents in stamps to
Ilearn her name" He sent the stamps
and got his answer. What was it"
| Mother"
| With morning and evening sun dogs
and daily snow storms, spring APP
pears to be long way off.
| A republican newspaper controlled
| by Americans will be established at
single American daily newspaper in
islands, the Daily American having
been sold recently to an English syndi-
cate.
| Virginia's new constitution contains
requirement that all municipal fran
chises, save only those for trunk line
! railroads, shall be sold to the highest
bidder. Franchises are limited to
thirty years, and thereafter the plant
and property of the grantee is to be-
come the property of the city. If so
provided in the lease or grant
Mrs. Whyte-Do you know anything
about the people who have moved in
next door?
Mrs Browne-No. 1t was dark when
the furniture wagons brought their
goods and they haven't hung out a
washing yet"
-Somerville Journal.
|
The prohibitionists of Georgia say
| that outside OF four cities in that state,
of which Atlanta is the chief, there is
no wet" territory in Georgia. Actually
there are now twenty eight counties
in Georgia in which the sale of liquor
is lawful, exclusive of twenty two
counties In which the South Carolina
dispensary system has been adopted.
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