Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-26
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

the negroes in Louisiana are said to be
so great as to excite the alarm of the
medical profession. This is attributed
to the manner in which the negroes
live. their utter lack of hygienic sur
roundings, their carelessness in eating,
drinking and clothing themselves, as
well as to q racial predisposition to
lung troubles.
President Eliot of Harvard has made
an explanatory statement of his views
on labor unions that is less severe and
more creditable to his judgment.
Are the coal operators and mine
workers really getting ready to carve
that compromise turkey?
The highest priced land in the world,
according to q writer in Success, is
that bounded by Wall and Broad streets
and Broadway, in lower New York city.
| A square foot of ground on corner of
Broadway and Wall street can not be
had for less than $3.50. The most ex-
pensive land in London sells for $500 a
square foot. The average price of land
in New York citys financial district is
about SITS.
THE Bryan dollar is now worth but
! 80 cents, and the Bryan cause looks 1t,
| remarks the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
/ as it notes the descending price Of sill
yer.
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Reasons for thankfulness may be
found in many directions by as many
different people.
/ Better get in your potatoes soon, for
| it is said agents of Armour 81 Co. have
] been busily at work and have almost
! completed arrangements by which the
entire control of the potato crop of the
northwest will be in the hands of that
!, firm Whole train loads of potatoes are
already standing on the sdings turnout
Minnesota and Michigan, awaiting an
| introduction to the cold storage ware
| houses of the firm. A jump to SO cents
a bushel is expected by Dec. 10.
at must be a great comfort to you to
own such splendid furniture"
Comfort! Say, there isn't but one
comfortable chair in the whole lot, and
my wife Invariably wants to sit in
| that."--Cleveland Plain Dealer.
At Mexico City the heavy advance in
the gold premium has caused great ex-
element in financial and business cir
Giles. The premium has been rising all
week, and has reached I'll 1t is gen.
orally conceded that gold standard
can not be long delayed
There have been large crops Of apples
turnout New York state but they have
not been bought up so rapidly as eX-
pected Many are even going to waste,
according to j. e. Waters, of Albany,
who said recently: "Altho there has
been an immense crop of apples, thous
ands of barrels In Greene and Albany
counties alone will not be gathered.
In the first place, the market has not
absorbed them. Then, too, buyers are
seriously handicapped for want of bar
rels, the coopers not supplying the de-
mand. Farmers In many cases sold
their entire crop to commission men
who failed to take them up on account
of scarcity Of barrels and slow NOV
ing market
People are saving on the price of po-
tatoes this year, as compared with
last nearly as much as the extra cost
of fuel.
The theory that turkeys are scarce
| is not borne out by the advertisements
OF dealers.
Chow Yu-Kwan, acting Chinese con-
sui general at San Francisco, has just
returned from Honolulu, where he COM
promised for 100000 the claims of his
countrymen for losses thru the burning
of their houses to stamp out the bubon-
lie plague. These claims ran far above
million dollars but the amount al
lowed was liberal, as most of the build
ings destroyed were wooden novels.
Congressman Dixon of Montana rep
resents district as large in area as
England, Scotland Ireland and Wales.
Some of the mountains, too, look as
imposing as London
Fred Smith, st. Louis coal dealer
who delivered short weight load of
coal to patron, has been fined $500 in
the police court of that city, the maxi
mum penalty prescribed by law.
Emerson Etheridge, who died al
Dresden, Tenn, recently, was one of
the last, if not the last. of the Wings
who sat in congress. He was one Of
Tennessee's most powerful orators
fifty years ago. He fought "Old
Hickory and stumped his state for
Clay in 1914. He fought for General
TAYLOR in 1S4S and for General Scott
in 1852. He was in the xXxIIId con-
gress as Wing leader When he
died he was republican.
"Got anything ter be thankful fer dis
year,"
ooh. yes! De sheriffs mule ran away
wild him en- broke his leg de very day
he wuz comm ter level on me!"--At-
lanta Constitution.
A very creditable special edition of