Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-25
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ii is asserted that better stone can be
made artifcially than by the old
fashioned and tedious methods inaugu-
rated at the time of creation.
The August Century will have the
second installment of some hitherto
unpublished letters of Sir Walter Scott
There are ninteen of these. all of good
length. They are addressed to Mrs
Mary Anne Watts Hughes, and give in
innate accounts of the great novelists
literary labors. business adversities and
family life during his closing years. The
last letter. April 4, 1881, refers TO the
writer's mental and physical depres-
sion, and ends, always sincerely and
Iaffectionately yours" 1t was in the
summer following that Sir Walter went
abroad on his last trip, returning to die
at Abbotsford. Sept. u, 1882.
| The Kansas City Star has begun sue
Icessfully the operation of its paper mill,
built at Kansas City, kas., within the
last nine months. The capacity of the
| mill is forty tons of white paper daily,
| all of which will be Consumed by the
Star and its morning parer. the Times.
The paper is made from pulp shipped
| from Canada.
In a short article called "a Side Light
on the Sioux" contributed to the Au-
gust McC!ure's by Doane Robinson, is
given a belated foot-note to the history
| of the great Sioux uprising of 1862. In
that year a band of young Sioux war
riors. eleven in number. dubbed by
their own people "the crazy band or
ganized themselves, in defiance of their
tribe, into a society for the protection
| of the whites. Their heroic exploit was
their rescue of eight white women and
children from a band of hostile Sioux
and their safe deliverance of them,
after a journey of frightful hardships,
at trading post on the Missouri. Their
motives seem to have been simply those
of humanity. Six of the crazy band
still survive. They have never received
any recognition or reward from the
government for their deed.
Iowa schoolma'ams are making repu-
tations for common sense and sagacity.
First Poweshiek county teacher
turned down an offer of a democratic
nomination for county school superin-
tendent and now a Jefferson girl has
refused similar attention. The Iowa
schoolma am wants higher wages and
may be willing to, get married, but she
isn't foolish by a long shot.
sas
AS the result of disarpointments in
the last state convention an incipient
rebellion against Congressman Lacey
has appeared in Poweshiek county. The
Grinnell Gazette this week contains a
strongly written double-leaded edi-
torial setting forth the evidence to
prove that it is now time to retire Mr..
Lacey from congress. The principal
complaint is that the congressman does
not appreciate what Povfeshiek county
has done for him and goes out of his
way to thwart the ambitions of its poll
ticians There will undoubtedly be a
division even among Poweshiek repub-
licans on this subject. but it is indica-
tive of unexplained disappointments
that disaffection with Lacey should be
so pronounced as to excite newspaper
support.
Its powerful easy to abuse good
thing" said Uncle Eben. "a razzer is
all right in a barber shop, but it's trou-
blesome at pahlor social
Washington Star.
| little Polly Corntossel. formerly of
Bowersville. in England.
why. Polly!" we say, how is 1t we
find you here?"
"Polly?" she repeats with dignity
we never knew she possessed. Lady
Oledebts, if you please
An apology on our part establishes
friendly relations once more, and she
tells us that she really has won and
welded Lord Oedebts. and that her
fathers dollars are being expended In
Ethe refurnishing of the Oledebts castle.
Bowersville that you Were hesitating in
your choice between three honest farm
err lads in the vicinity. How was it,
then, that you married his lordship?'
oh" she filters, "he came to Bow
ersville one day. Wher I saw him
dropped my eyes and ne began drop
ping his his, and it wasn't long until he
induced me to drop my is, and now we
are both making papa drop his VS. and
KS. Judge
Jack London. that versatile and adj
lventurous writer. was never seen to
better advantage than in a vigorous pa
per upon The Gold Hunters of the
North" in the July Atlantic. Mr.. Lon
don writes from a full tirst-hand
knowledge of the country; yet, while
his paper is full of information, it is so
filed with the spirit OF the incurable
gold hunter as to be powerful piece of
| imaginative writing. Mir. London pro-
poses the interesting notion that it is
the gold hunters rather than the ex-
! rlorers who will ultimately win to the
pole. "Who knows he says. ut is in
their blood and they are capable OF it,"
| Polly's godmother gave her a Bible
when she was years Old, and one day
Poly's mother found her reading some
passages in the Old Testament which
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