Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-31
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

/ it is lost when the fleece is washed be.
fore sheering. A government expert
says: 1T is safe to say that from 81, :
| 100000 to s3.000,0O0 worth of wool fat
and potash is run down the streams
land wasted annually in the United
States
An electric railway in the east is con-
templating a schedule IF seventy five
miles per hour. including stops. That
rate would cross the continent in forty
eight hours.
The glowing accounts sent home by
Swiss emigrants in ganda of the
prospects in America are causing an
emigration fever in Switzerland, espe-
Ic;ally in the canton OF Schwytz, for
/ Canada and the United States. Many
wealthy families have sold their prop
erty in order to emigrate. with the
result that a slump in the value OF
houses and land has taken place.
/ The Rev. Charles M. Winchester, of
Middletown, n. Y. declares that MINI
| lister can live on $12 month"; If he lives
alone and still have some money left
| for the church. He says he can do it.
/ Nevertheless if any but minister were
to max this assertion his neighbors
might do we'll TO lock their hen roosts.
| Scribner's Magazine for April is a
! wholly pleasing number. Mr.. Benjamin
! Brooks, who has been CT is a marine
engineer describes in Fellow the Wa
/ ter Line" the work of the men who
handle the engines of the great steam
ships; he is assisted by Mr.. Edwin B.
Child's illustrations. Mr.. Frank A.
Nanderlip describes the operations of
the United States treasury department.;
Mr.. Nelson Lloyd, Miss Daskam, Mr..
f.. Hopkinson Smith and Mr.. Sydney
| Preston have short stories, Mr.. E. III.
Sothern and Mrs. Edith Wharton offer
poems, Mrs. H. NJ. Plunkett tells of
Years Ago." and Mr.. Clarence Cary
writes of Dalny, which he. correctly de-
scribes as "A Flat City," There are
other entertaining articles, which can
not even be named.
Tillman told his Detroit audience:
Had it been known by the soldiers who
surrendered with Lee that 1T was your
devilish intent to set up The negro over
the white man we would have fought
you till now" Lees soldiers fought
less with their mouths than with mus
kets. Perhaps If Senator Tillman were
disarmed of his mouth he might be-
come reconciled to surrender.
The farmers about Odebolt have been
christening their farms with names
more or less appropriate according to
the tastes of the owners. Their exam
pie is one to be commended and fol-
lowed by every farming community
The names of the farm and its owner
painted tastefuly upon big red barn
lends locality and distinction. Neat
stationery with letter-heads and re-
turn cards are used by the Odebolt
farmers.
A woman named Shook passed her
102d birthday at Atchison. kas.. last
week. and is still hale I'd hearty Her
house stands on a bit OF ground which
she rented when a young woman and
paid $50 for the use OF it as long as
she lived. Two generations of the
family have passed on since the lease
was made, and the $40 seems good for
several years more work.
Miss Youngsthyng-Ard what would
you say, George, if were to tell you
didn't believe one word you say re-
garding the lasting qualities Of your at
lection?
George would say that you are far
too wise for any ordinary man to mar
ry. Goodbye.
Baltimore American.
The kaiser is disappointed that no
American warships will be seen at Kiel.
When he makes that promised Ameri-
can visit we shall be proud to show him
the entire navy, schooners and ALL
II thought your wife's name was
Elizabeth"
so it is"
Then why do you call her Peggy?.
Short for Pegasa."
What has that to do with it?'
why, Pegasa is feminine for Pega-
sus''
Well"
well, Pegasus was an immorta!
steed."
What of that?'
"'Sh Not so loud. She's In the
is an everlasting nag, and there you
are" Indianapolis Journal.
The New York man who lost a $1,000
bill on ferryboat is in n peck of trou-
BILE The bill was found ard turned over
to the transportation company and
afterward claimed by the loser Now
ii has been attached and is held by an
advertising company OH Judgment of
$500.
On account of the thieving propensi-
ties of the "paleface" the Indians have
abandoned their old burial custom of
depositing valuables belonging to the
deceased with the corpse. The Breeze.
OF Bliss, l. T., is AUTHORITY for the state
ment that the Indians now place money
in the bank and put the certificate of
deposit in the coffin for the dead In