Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-03
TOPICS OF THE TIMES


1 100000 more than New York can boast
Iof, which makes Mssourians proud
i The new comet. which will be visible
to the unaided eye in a few days, is
4 approaching us al the rate of 100000
miles day. 1t was discovered thru the
4 big Lick observatory telescope in Cali
fornia
1.-THE city of Quebec is almost a
French town. said w. II. Wigs, a res
Iident French is used by 50 per cent
of the population, and those of us who
are English born could not do any bus
Einess unless we knew the French lan-
guage. have to converse With all my
4 customers in that tongue and tho | do
not use it with elegance, 1 have no lack
of huency. My little 3-year-old daugh-
! ter can talk both in English and French
and / suppose she will never be able to
tell which is her mother tongue
The largest catch made by Kansas
fisherman this Year is credited to a
I4eavenworth man. He landed, after
quite a struggle, q cottonwood log
{, eighty three feet in length.
II
I II. ellison Gardner says in the Chica-
go Journal that Speaker Henderson's
ANNOUNCED determination to continue in
/ the office of speaker during the coming
/ session is likely to be modified by the
4 sentiments of returning members of
/ congress. A speaker who has invoked
! his own political end is not the same
speaker who had a prospect of an in
| definite sway. Gen. Henderson has IN
| vited new deal, and those to whom the
cards are to be dealt may not care to
wait so long. The schemes and con-
spiracies are already on foot. and be-
fore December the old ring which has
controlled legislation in the house for
the past eight years will find that there
| is a new Richmond in the field. 1t is
a little early yet for details; but there
will be doings. And Henderson is the
boy who threw the match in among the
powder barrels" 1t will require great
deal of goodfellowship to avert the nat
ural results in this case.
The Jefferson Bee has completed
eighteen years of history under the
management of the Stillman family
and altho ii was good paper before it
is better than ever now. AS a county
weekly 1t is model in it's various fea-
lures. The genial philosophy of the
elder Stillman is manifest in much that
appears in its columns.
The Vermont republicans who failed
to elect their governor at the polls,
where he received a plurality but not
a Majority of votes, won in the legisla-
ture, which has just chosen Gen. John
G. Mccullough for the office.
A student at Berkeley contributes the
following: Many ludicrous mistakes are
made by foreigners in grasping the
meaning of some of our common Eng
tending the state university translated
THE spirit is willing, but the flesh is
weak into THE ghost is willing. but
the meat is not able" And Filipino
youth fairly set the class in an uproar
by the statement that "Out of sight,
out Of mind" meant THE invisible is
insane"
Submitting to the inevitable in defeat
is best accomplished by those who are
philosophers enough to present a smil-
ing face.
x-United States Senator Stephen
w. Dorsey of Arkansas has bought
handsome residence in Los Angeles,
Cal, and will make that city his home
His art collection is expected to be the
most noteworthy in Southern Califor-
MIA.
Congressman Smith pointed out very
clearly and pointedly in his Fairfield
speech that the republican party is the
only one that has enacted legislation in
congress against hurtful combines; and
that the democratic party, when it was
in power during the Cleveland period
failed to take advantage of the OPP
portunity, even tho the subject was
pressed with vigor upon its attention.
The record is what counts.
A Philadelphia merchant has become
fond of an office boy he engaged last
June. The boy entered early in the
when the merchant was read
ing the paper. The latter glanced up
and went on reading without speaking.
After three minutes the boy said: "Ex-
cuse me-but l am in a hurry" what
do you want?" he was asked. "a job"
You do? Well.'' snorted the man OF |
business, "why are you in such hur- |
ry?" Got to hurry" replied the boy |
Left school yesterday to go to work.
and haven't struck anything yet. / can't I
waste time. If you've got nothing for
me to do say SO, and I'll look elsewhere.
The only place can stop long is where
they pay me for It," when can you
Gomez" asked the surprised merchant
Don't have to come he was told. I'm
here now, and would have been to work
before this il you had said So" He was
given place at once.
Armstrong Cornsilk, who has been
granted a pension by the North Caro-
lima pension board, Is the only Indian
thus provided for by that state. Corn
silk is a Cherokee. He served In the
Sixty-ninth North Carolina regiment