Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-20
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

The days are gaining in length at the
rate of two and three minute jumps.
At recent charitable function in
Washington Senator Patterson gave
$40 to the cause. The delighted ladies
were profuse in grotestations of graft
tude and never-failing remembrance.
Later some one asked the price Of
rose. Five dollars" said Miss Alice
Roosevelt, quickly. Isn't that rather
high?" gasped the astonished buyer.
NO" replied Miss Roosevelt, Sen
ator Patterson gave twice that for a
simple forget -me-not."
Two Missouri editors are in hot water
about typographical errors. One of
them published an elaborate theatrical
notice of performance of "Calomel,"
meaning Camille" and the other in an
account Of a wedding characterized the
bridegroom as man of stealing quali-
ties" instead Of sterling qualities.
People who are perplexed as to the
whereabouts Of all the coal mined last
summer can obtain eye-openers by
looking around. Ten thousand tons of
hard coal and small mountain of soft
coal were found In Milwaukee. Over
1000 cars Of coal are stored in one
railroad yard in Chicago. Half that
number are held for rise at Peoria,
Ill. AT Terre Haute. Ind, 240 cars of
coal are sidetracked, while people in
surrounding towns are shiverng for
fuel, and in Jersey City $50 loaded cars
await the highest bidder.
Pliny Sexton, president of the First
National Bank of Palmyra, N. Y, has
just completed his yearly distribution
of dimes. In the first week of every
year Mr.. Sexton invites all the boys and
girls of the village under the age of IL
to call on him at the bank. There he
gives each Of them 10 cents and each
signs a receipt for it. He knows how to
plant good seed.
For six weeks cold weather has pre-
vailed continuously In San Francisco.
The mercury has never fallen below 81
degrees, but 1t seldom rises above "A
or As at midday, and this low tempera-
tlre, with cold northeast winds, has
been very disagreeable to thin FLOODED
Pacific coast people.
"Does your husband suffer much from
his neuralgia
Yes; but not half as much as the
rest of US do."-Detroit Free Press.
John Whittier, Lowell weaver, Is a
consistent advocate of physical culture.
He walks twenty-four miles each day
between the factory and his home in
Littleton. Between the daily Journeys
on foot Whittier spends ten hours be-
fore a loom in Lowell suspender fac
tory. He is small man, about 40 years
old, and is all muscle and grit.
asa
II got cold supper when went
home tonight. and you bet kicked
about It,"
1lu ludl 10 airy SOCu
''Well, my wife made 1t warm for
me. Chicago Tribune.
Senator Heitfeld has unwittingly
confided to colleague in the senate
some of the trials of campaigning over
the mountainous roads of Idaho. The
little anecdote he told on himself is
now resounding around the capitol cor
ridors. It runs like this: The senator
in the last campaign, was hurrying
along in substantial "lumber wagon
for one night stand, where he was to
make speech. Suddenly he noticed
that q wheel was about to wabble off
because of the loss of nut. There was
not house in sight, but he saw man
in the distance rounding a bunch OF
cattle. After toiling on foot toward him
for some distance the senator finally
attracted the attention of the horseman.
When the latter rode up Mr.. Heitfield
asked for monkey wrench. "Moun&ey
raanch?" repeated the cowboy, in the
broken English of a Norwegian, and
shaking his head in sober earnestness.
-
81 don't know no mounkey ranch. Dis
ess cattle raanch and dat way is a
sheep raanch. Don't know no Fnounkey
raanch around here"
Mrs. Flanagan: Iwant pair of shoes
for my boy.
Salesman: French kid, ma'am?
en-, o,,. yyIah hid -SchoOlmaSter.
Vernon Kellogg, now of the Leland
Stanford University, is q small man OF
decidedly boyish appearance. when
was state entomologist OF Kansas. ne
says, IT used to ride on an annual pass.
Once when I was younger and smaller
than I am now was in the western
part Of the state looking for srasshop-