Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-14
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

IVA W. Vi >AAAS
Ex-senator Vest, of Missouri, is the
last surviving member OF the confeder-
ate states senate, made so by the death
few days ago of Judge Maxwell Of
Florida.
The editor of the Coin Gazette Is
stirring up a sentiment against the
youthful libertines with which his VII
Ilage seems to be cursed II the Gazette
is to be credited Coin offers an excel
lent opportunity for a vigilance COM
mittee. Along with the vigilantes a
fool killers club should be organized to
deal with the young woman who struts
the street, stays out nights, chews gum.
uses slang and generally makes herself
cheap and invites insult.
The old Liberty Bell is to go to Boston
to take part in the celebration of Bunk
er Hill day. 1t has travelled to many
parts of the union on similar patriotic
missions. but mis- time there is to be a
novelty The bell is to be accompani I'D
l,v =" :nty-four of Pl;i!adelrhia's coun-
cilmen, and as nothing gets away from
the average city councilman 1T is no..
likely that any evil disposed person will
be permitted to carry of the bell
Editor Purcell. of the Hampton
Chronicle, makes strong argument in
favor of L. b. Raymond tor department
commander of the Grand Army. Pros
poets are for Mr.. Raymond's election
without serious opposition. He will
make an excellent officer.
After the close of the Boer war in
South Africa nearly two score thou
sands of army horses which had been
used by British troopers We're sold for
not much more than e12 apiece. New
Ell theless, Cape Town experts declare
that sound, strong animals in the enor-
NOUS region thru which the hostilities
ragged for years bring even better prices
row than at the time of the Kruger
outbreak. The breeding CT horses with
discretion and judgment Is still a profit
able enterprise in almos; every part Of
the globe.
Denying the statements made by the
T.-R. that Mississippi river traffic is
dead the Keokuk Gate City says: ut
lis true there is not as much hustle and
activity on the upper river as in the
days preceding the advent of the rail-
roads, but there are yet many boats in
commission and the volume Of freight
they carry is quite large. When
the Panama canal is built the cheapest
and best route for the transportation
of the surplus products OF this phenom-
enally fertile valley to the Pacific coast,
Hawaii, the Philippine islands, China
and Japan will be down the Mississippi
river. What this means to the pro-
ducers of Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Min
nesota and Wisconsin in particular and
to the entire central west in general
can not be overestimated. With the
completion of that great national IN
dertaking the Mississippi river will
spring into an importance far exceed
ing anything in its history. The hustle
and activity apparent upon it, the vol
ume of its freight traffic and it's prem
iership in all respects in earlier days
will seem paltry and mean in compare
son."
Lady Ito blind man)-My poor man,
what made you blind?
Tramp-Looking for work, ma'am.
Cook County Jail Journal.
Lord Iveagh, Of Dublin, and Alderman
Pirrie, of Belfast, both men of wealth,
have decided to put in effect, at enor-
nous expense to themselves, a wisely
constructed plan by which industrial
conditions and the general welfare
among the people of the green isle of
Erin will be aided beautifully. These
two benefactors will establish system
| by which Irish farmers and others will
be helped by opening central stations
from which produce AMI other freights
will bs-Gtstributed by the use of collect
| ing and forwarding wagons. Motor
cars will be employed later. This phil
anthropic undertaking will surely do
much good.
An Illinois school teacher took from a
pupil two packages of cigaret papers.
These he placed in pint bottle which
was filed with water. The next day as
the teacher naively describes the scene
| in the schoolroom: "The boys caught a
mouse, and we gave him about one
third of teaspoonful. He never lived