Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-27
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

The system of Identification by finger
1 prints is rapidly gaining supporters
among police officials ~ various coun-
tries 1t is said by its advocates to ac-
complish more satisfactory results than
the celebrated Bertillon measurements.
Strange clubs have been founded in
| Paris from time to time. There have
been social considerations of opium
smokers, hasheesh eaters. absinthe
drinkers. abnormally stout men and
selves against blacl1lnailors, according
to the London Telegraph. A silent club
/ has now been discovered The mem
hers are all deaf and dumb, and COM
'nunicate with each other by signs.
4 They meet in rooms il, the Montpar-
nasse district. and thera drink. smoke,
play cards and read the u wspapers. the
magazines and the newest novels. The
1 servants attached to the club are also
deaf and dumb. and move about noise
llessly and mysteriously. They are or
dered to put down plates and glasses
| without a sound. so that q silence near
ly as complete as that prevailing in a
Cistercian or a Carthusian cloister is
maintained. The president of the Club
du Silence" is a man who fought of old
against red Indians in North America,
and whose tongue was cut While he was
Il prisoner among the sasoges.
The constitution of Florida provides
/ that elections by the legislature shall
be viva voce and electors by the peo-
I pie snail be by ballot. Up to few
years ago voting in Kentucky was done
by the viva voce method each man de-
claring lis choice, and the abuses Incl
dent to it brought about its repeal. The
constitution of the Des Moines Capital
seems to stand tbs viva voce strain "all
right, all right"
| The time limit for the ratification of
the Cuban treaty by the senate of that
republic has less than a week to run.
/ The prospect of a parcels post agree
ment between the United States and
Great Britain is now encouraging. All
| international service of this kind would
prove useful. A parcels post for the
United States would, however meet
strenuous opposition from retailers as
an adjunct TO catalog houses.
The typical Oklahoman has been de-
| fined by VIII Alexander the demo-
cratic medicine man of Kiowa county.
who was in Oklahoma City recently,
says an exchange, and while engaged
! in conversation with an eastern man
who had only about weeks acquain-
customs and idiosyncracies of Okla
bona, was asked what we're the attri-
hutes of a true Olslahoman. We'll,
stranger, I'll tell YOU responded Alex
ander, leaning back in lis chair, hoist
ing both feet to the summit of a sam
pie trunk, and patriotica'ly warming up
to his theme. The Oklahoman citizen
has all the sobriety of Kansas, the fear
lessness of Texas. the s,turdiness of
Iowa, the frankness of Tenn ssee, the
endurance of Minnesota, the thrift of
Nebraska, the industry of Ohio, the
conservativeness of Indiona, the energy
of Illinois, the incredulty of Missouri
the suavity of Mississippi, the versa
itility of Georgia, the caivalry of Ken
lucky. and II these attributes don't en-
title the Oklahoma citizen to all the
couleesles in the calendar of social
l.,,, .,>(vr
Watson, l would like to know where
am l att"
On the east point of the sacred Mount
Athos, on the Turkish peninsula Chal-
kidike Is settlement OF 5000 monks.
scattered among twenty monasteries,
the whole forming monastic republic
liz the dominions of the sultan, to whom
they are tributary. The yearly tribute
they pay to Abdul Hamid is by no
means a small one, but the sum is cas-
lily met by the republic. which is very
rich. and counts many millionaires
among its members.
In connection with fire efficiency of
the pOStaI eIIlpioyeS VI liiiS SouiiNiS a.
| gentleman writes to tho New York Sun
thus: Il want to commend the slsuth-
like qualities of the letter carriers of
| this town. Recently I wanted to see a
| man. who lives in the west side, but
has not been here long enough to be in
| the directory. and he has no telephone.
! He lived with friends, too, so he was
| that much more difficult to get at 1
knew he lived somewhere above Fifty
ninth street on the west side, and my
knowledge went no farther. l there
fore addressed a letter to him, giving
his address as follows: Somewhere on
| the West Side Between Fifty ninth
Street and the Harlem River. Not in
the Directory, but in New York City
Sure Then ] sent 1t forth, emitting my
| return address. so it would not come
back to me marked 'G. II. A. That was
! two weeks ago, and Yesterday l re-
ceived letter from my man in Horn
eIlsville, whittier he had moved uneX-
| pectedly, shortly after | had seen him
last. How the mischief they ever found
him / don't know. but they did, all
right"
| Don't complain because you must
| read about T-R. want ads In every Is
sue. Realize for a moment that every
body would hear. just as much about
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