Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-09
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

The question is, whether the Little
field antitrust measure will occupy
big field!
Some of the eastern apple growing
regions have many apples hand vet
unsold, and with but little demand for
them.
According to the Country Gentleman
more wine is being made in one New
York selection and fewer grapes are
shipped out. The annual report of
carload shipments of grapes from the
lChautauqua- Erie district shows a fall
ing off of over 33 1-3 per cent decreas-
ing from 6,669 carloads in 1901 to 4,0S7
the past season. The wine production
shows a marked increase, nearly 1000
carloads of grapes being used for wine
purposes, and of unfermented Juice
100000 the year before. The c. & E.
Grape Co. loaded 647 cars and paid a
quarter million dollars to growers.
! Judge Hepburn. tile new United
States senator from Idaho, weighs $50
pounds.
4 MIR. BiXler has become quite a So
lciety man. He goes out every even
ing
Indeed! And what has brought
about the change?"
He says it saves coal"-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
| When John ID. Rockefeller tele-
graphed to congressman and senators
over his own signature that trust "bust-
ing must be stopped" he did more 10
push along the reform than any efforts
of the most radical antitrust legislator.
President Roosevelt met the challenge
/ ainhvJrle hfo a.hfgf-it- Inn Inn lyascm
with the declaration that If something
was not done at this session he would
call an extra session for the express
purpose. He evidently is not afraid of
the issue. Standard Oil Company VS..
/ American people.
This was one Of the two or three rare
mornings that appear each winter in
which nature has festooned every
branch of tree and shrub with her
beautiful, sparkling frost.
Why are there not more women IN
| government offices?" demanded some
what aWe-lnspiring female of Senator
1 Pettus the other day. II can best an
lswer that inquiry with this" replied the
gallant Alabama senator. and he handed
! over a department Of the interior en-
velope with "Esteel Reef in large let
tiers stamped across one end. THAT,
madam" continued mr. Pettus, lis a
clear violation of the law. Miss Rec!
is superintendent of Indian schools, and
/ as such is entitled TO mail her annual
/ report under a department of interior
| frank. but when she places her name
on the envelope she thereby voids the
frank Her attention has been called to
the fact. but, being G woman, she pre-
fers her own way and persists in 1t,
and there is no use arguing with her.
think, madam, that explains why there
/ are not more women in the depart
| ments."
4 Congressman Tawney, of Minnesota.
/ solemnly declares chat he recently re-
ceived from constituent a letter in
which the writer begged him to forward
"a bushel of macaroni seed.
i Lord Rosebery, who for many years
has been cursed by recurrent insomnia,
i is now trying a unique method of OBJ
tanning sleep. He orders a carriage
1 with four horses to be ready for him at
10 o'clock at night. long after he has
! had dinner. In this equipage, pre-
4 ceded by an outrider. Lord Rosebery
Il rides for hours. An uncomfortable ana
4 delightful sleepiness is one Of the re-
j suits Of the long drive thru the fresh
air.
The plague is increasing in Toxic.
4 japan. The germs We're imported in
cotton from Bombay. DR.. Yokota, the
quarantine officer. was one of the VIC
tins.
Bryan's refusal to attend democrat
ic dinner to which ex-President Grover
I Cleveland had been invited will be
/ looked upon with amusement by re-
J. publfcans who read of the expected re-
> turn of democratic harmony.
!. The Des Moines Capital maintains
that there is no such thing now as the
reciprocity of James G. Blaine and Will
liam Mckinley. 1t says: THE Kasson
treaties would not be recognized by
either Blaine or Mckinley. and McKin-
ley never urged the adoption of the
Kasson treaties" This will be news to
the public, that has been led to believe
4 those treaties had to receive the APP
prevail of President Mckinley and his
state department before they were pre-
scented to the senate for ratification.
If you could tell $4,000 people that
your farm is for sale some one of them
would buy it. The T.-R. will tell them
the story for 10 cents invested in a For
Sale" ad.
do you know Senator Quay?" Sena-
tor Beverage was asked.