Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-04
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

TOPICS OF THE TIMES !
The only regret about the close OF
. congress is that the senate is to resume
1 again, with Filbuster Morgan as the
star performer.
I Without accomplis hing anything tina,
will serve them hereafter the democrats
of the house have succeeded, by dilatory
4 tactics. in firing themselves, the repub-
llicans and the country by their showing
of futile opposition.
The English journals discuss the
Alaska boundary question with excess
I sive caution. There is an earnest desire
to have the question settled. since 1t
may be rendered highly dangerous is
sue any day by fresh gold discoveries,
but there is clear recognition of the
obligation of the mother country to SO
loyal a confederation as Canada.
Eleven governors of states have
promised to attend the dedication of the
| Worlds Fair at the end of April ac-
tcompanied by their military staffs, and
the list continues TO grow.
The pilgrimage to the Washington
home at Mount Vernon, made by thou
sands of Americans every year. is
marked by spirit of reverential awe
and rapt patriotism, which not infre-
quently ELECTS sympathetic smiles from
| the cynical observers. The other day
a Daughter of the American Revolution,
a resident of state far beyond the
Mississippi made the trip. Standing
on the piazza of the house at Mount
Vernon, facing the broad sweep Of the
Potomac, she suddenly began to draw
in deep. long breaths. Drink it in!
Drink 1t int she exclaimed, in ecstatic
excitement. Drink it in!'' Then she
waved her arms about her as if en-
bracng the whole surrounding place
and its sacred traditions. All" she
concluded, fervently. when the mystical
inhalation was accomplished. Now I
feel that shall be a broader and bet
ter woman all my life
Texas has encountered the novelty of
Il snowfall heavy enough to stop rail-
since as heavy snow has fallen as covers
the upper portion of the Texas Panhan-
die. All trains caught in the terrific
snowfall have been either held or de-
layed. Passenger service las been prac-
tically abandoned for awhile.
Despite all the efforts to prevent 1t,
new cases of typhoid fever have devel-
oped among the college students at
Ithaca, N. Y.
Discussing Iowa democratic plans,
the Omaha Bee says: Iowa democrats
are going to get into the political game
early this year by holding their nomi-
mating convention in June. There is
really no occasion for them to hold
back with a view to learning first who
is 10 head the republican ticket, be-
cause they can safely proceed on the
assumption that Governor Cummins
stantial opposition. The call for an
early convention on the part Of the
democrats is more plausibly explained
on the ground that the gold men who
are in control of the party machinery
think they can thus head off the Bryan
ties by cutting short the time in which
they might organize to regain their for
mer ascendancy within the party. So
far as candidates on the democratic
ticket in Iowa go, they will have to be
drafted, as usual"
White lines are painted across all
windows in third class cars in Japan
as check upon the impulse of occu-
pants to thrust their heads thru them.
Window glass is an article with which
the people are not familiar in daily life
and since passengers commonly sup
pose that sashes are merely spaces for
air, the bin for glazing was one of the
largest petty items in the monthly ac-
counts for all the companies until the
white line was invented.
A two line want ad can run two days
in the T.-R. for twenty-five cents and
$4,000 people will read it.
Mrs. L. II. Grenewald. wife of Cap
tain Grenewald. who was at the head
of the famous Jessie Civil War scouts,
named in honor Of Mrs. Fremont, is
the only woman weather forecaster in
the country. She is the observer of the
United States weather bureau at York,
Pa. and has just completed her six
teenth year of service in that capacity
She has been commended on many ac-
casions for efficiency.
O. d. Wheeler of the Northern Paci-
fic railroad, has in preparation for G.. p.
Putnams Sons a book describing the
territory in the northwest which was
explored by Lewis and Clark. 1t will
be called the "Traii of Lewis and Clark
as Seen in 1902" Many of the spots as
ISOLATED with these two pioneers have
been familiar to the author, while some
he has visited for the first time lately
In the Bitter Root range he met some
sorms. II visidF'coujvlvFou hm SC SCI
storms He visited the Jefferson river