Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-06
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

4 ulSrGpuluDle cIldIdCleIS.
| The federal injunction against the
threatened strike on the Wabash road
| is very sweeping and will lead to legal
fight for its dissolution rather than a
strike.
February was month of small
| things, but the best of them was that
fewer business failures occurred that
month than in the two preceding years.
Bryan warns Judge Parker, the latest
democratic presidential possibility, that
the abandonment of the Kansas City
platform by him in 1904 will call down
the wrath of the Kansas City element OF
the democracy, and that is pretty big
ingredient of the party still. Parker
will not find this problem any easier OF
solution than others have.
The growth of the socialist party in
Germany forces all the other parties to
combine against it in self defense.
There is story about Alaska and its
people in which is mentioned a man
who chose bride from among some Of
the Indian tribes up toward the Chill
coot pass. He took her to a large city,
Montreal, perhaps, and left her in a
splendid hotel while he went out to see
some one about dog. She missed him
sadly. She sat at the window looking
out on the street four stories below.
Solitude became intolerable. She de-
cided to find her husband. There was an
elevator, but she didn't care for it.
Softly as moccasns could carry her She
issued forth. When she had gone out
a bell-hoy saw queer marks on the BAN
listers and door castings, The Indian bride
had blazed her way with a tomahawk,
so that she could find her way back.
The Indian bride was merely living up
to her education, for it is very neces-
sary to know how to blaze trail in
Alaska.
Some Comfort.-Biggs-Y sir. Sad
case! Man who built this house of
mine just got it finished when he died.
Wiggs-Well, it might have been
worse. He might have had to live in it.
Town and Country.
The failure of the bill to protect the
president and members of his cabinet
from murderers is another piece of folly
for which the democrats are RESPONSE
BILE, tho a little more enterprise and Wig
ilance on the part of the republican ma
jority would have insured its adoption.
A bill appropriating $4,000 for life
sized statue Of Frances +. Willard was
passed in both houses OF the Illinois
legislature. 1t is to be placed in statu-
airy hall in Washington.
N. O. Werner of Minneapolis, treas
urer OF the state central famine fund,
reported to the governor Monday that
he had received for the famine suffer-
ers $4,000. He has already sent $4,000
to Sweden, $4,000 to Finland and $4,000
to Norway.
Frederick NJ. Passow, the captain of
the American liner st, Louis, used to
live In Philadelphia, and when on shore
leave liked to do the family marketing.
In the Philadelphia terminal market
the other day butcher told story of
Captain Passow:
HE came here one morning" said the
butcher "after ducks. He wasn't known
here then, and to poultry dealer he
said:
".How many ducks have you got al
together"
"'only twelve, SIR the dealer an
swered.
We'll, I'll tell you, I'm a boarding
house keeper, and want you to pick
out for me the nine toughest ducks of
the lot
srhe dealer, with an amiable and
pleased smile, did this, laying the nine
tough ducks in one pile on his right and
the three remaining tender ones in an
other pile on his left.
On the latter Captain Passow laid his
hand.
Ion second thought he said, I'll
just take these"
One hundred and ten years ago,
March 1, 1898, the first issue was made
from the United States mint. 1t con-
sisted of His cents. Nothing but
cents and half cents were coined until
1895.
L
II see in the morning paper that a
New York woman has successfully gone
thru the bankruptcy court"
"Confound EN-! There goes another
of mans exclusive privileges. "-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
The young housekeeper who told the
fisherman that she wanted some cells,
and when he asked her how much, re-
Piled, about two yards and half"
has a rival in woman mentioned in /
the Chicago News:
II wish to get some butter, please"
she said to the dealer.
Roll butter, ma'am?" he asked, po-
litely.
No; we wish to eat it on toast. Wei
seldom have rolls"-Youth's Compan-
ion.
At Rome next summer an interna-
tional historical congress will be held,
at which seventy institutions will be
and over 1000 persons from