Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-13
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
Minneapolis boasts of growing great
ness because of an increase of fifteen
mail carriers.

Minneapolis boasts of growing great
ness because of an increase of fifteel
mail carriers.
A young woman named Emma Kel
logg is seeking to be appointed a gam
warden in Colorado, notes the Duluth
Herald, and if she succeeds in her ques
will probably be the only woman gam,
warden in the country. She has quit,
d hunting record. having ridden on TIL,
back of a wild elk which freed her anG
or which she dropped With easy grace
After putting the somewhat excitabl,
anfmal thru his PAGES she leaned owe
knife. She is apparently o lacking in
nerve.
A st. Louis commission house is very
anxious to induce peopu- to buy May
corn in a speculative way. One Mar
shalltown resident has received two let
ters from it recently attempting to show
what a fine opportunity Is presented. He
isn't rushing into the arena yet.
Private advices which nave reached
Vienna state hat the Porte purposes in
forming the Austrian and Russian am
bassadors that this activity OF the
insurgent bands in Macedonia makes it
impossible to carry out the promised
| reforms.
The Upton Advertiser summarizes
the situation fairly we'll rs to a recent
discussion in Grand Army circles.
Commander Lindt, of The Iowa c.. A.
a., advocates the admission of sons of
veterans and soldiers Of the Spanish
war into the ranks of the G. A. r.. with
the idea of perpetuatirg the Grand
Army. His proposition is meeting with
the strongest kind of opposition. The
Grand Army was for soldiers n sail
ors of the civil wal exclusively and it
would lose its significance entirely if its
ranks were opened to others, no matter
who. 1t would be an invasion of sa-
cred rights to attempt 20 perpetuate it
by any such methods. In the nature of
things it must perish, but It's memory
and that of the men who composed it
will last as long as the nation they
preserved"
With the object OF discovering Il
cure for typhoid fever a remarkable
experiment is being conducted at Ann
Arbor University, Michigan. Six big
tanks have been constructed, with a
layer of gelatine. and on these la
square feet of the fever germs are
grown at q time. These living germs
are scraped off, killed ard bottled up.
Two ounces of them wculd kill 10000
guinea pigs. The object is. IL possible,
to extract the poison from the germ
bodies, feed animals with 1t and try to
discover an antidote.
According to a Washington writer,
Miss Wilson, daughter OF he secretary
Of agriculture, is fond of horseback rid
ing, and goes out for a canter across
he country every fine morning with a
party OF friends She years a black
,abit and a low beaver hat.
s
Mount Airy. a Maryland town twenty
niles east of Frederick. on the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad, was saved from
.nnihilation by fire recently by the rail-
;oad. A special train took the Freder-
ok fire department to Mount Airy, and
he progress of the flames was checked.
freight locomotives. each holding
900 gallons, hauled water from nearby
to supply the steamer.
In the Future.-"I had to discharge
ny wife today"
What was the natter"
She was horrid to thu cook" I.
brooklyn Life.
One Of the models most In demand
in New York is to ne hired by ar
lists at The reasonable rate of $1.5O an
our, but this price may he raised in the
ear future, so great is he desire to
his particular model. Every min
tie Of daylight is engaged for the mex.
lonth n It will be an unusual expert
nee IL the demand for his services
eases before the end of June. Then
e will go to one of the artist colonies
stay there until everybody has
ainted him, moving on, later, to an
field of activity. lie is certain to
Q wanted wherever he goes The Sun
avs this popular model receives less
ian most of his profession because he
to be a dog. He is a King
harles spaniel, especially Appreciated
v portrait painters. lie can pose for
ours on a velvet cushion looking as
ristocratic and bored as If he had real
been painted by one of the artists Of
ne ~Carlovingian times. He is able to
ssume and hold other attitudes equal-
I valuable to the artiat. His owner
elivers him at the studio and calls for
i'm or is willing to wait If that is de-
red. But such an admirable model is
lie beast. that he usually remains just
: he has been posed until the sitting
as ended. Then he climbs into his
asket and is carried on to the next
Don't complain because you must
about T.-R. want ads in every is
lie. Realize for a moment that every
ody would hear just as much about
you had to sell if your ad was in
his newspaper.