Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-02
I TOPICS OF THE TIMES


! TOPICS OF THE TIMES +
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President Tucker of Dartmouth is a
believer in newspapers. II do not" he
says, " accept the idealiZed statement
of Lord Rosebery, who would eliminate
the editorial page from the newspaper.
When the journalist has the truth of
the fact in his possession and has given
| it to us his professional work has just
begun. He is to Interpret and apply the
current fact
| There is not much danger that the
| Illondike gold field will be exhausted
soon, as it covers from 1000 to Loo
| square miles.
/ Secretary Root HIS arrived in Wash
| ington and has formally succeeded
Gen. Alger as secretary of war. There
are many rumors in circulation as TO
what his policy is to be, but they are
merely guesses mostly wild.
All the democratic talk about politi-
| cal favors to be bestowed by the grant
/ ing of public franchises in Porto Rico,
was rendered useless by the opinion of
Attorney General Griggs, to whom the
I.queston was referred some weeks ago
by Secretary Alger, that the right to
grant these concessions is vested in
Homo
TT never rains but 1T pours." Along
| with its other stirring events and
threatened revolution San Domingo has
had a hurricane.
The man who is voted as the richest
farmer in America is David Rankin. of
Tarlsio, Atchison county, Missouri, near
the southwestern border of Iowa. He
{ has $1,000 acres Of land on which he
raises 100000 bushels of corn yearly and
feeds IT, with thousands of other bush
els which he buys, to his stock. He de-
clares that his eleventh commandment
is. Thou shalt not sell a bushel of corn
from thy farms, but feed it to thine
: own stock. He sells from 1000 TO 5000
t beef cattle, and from $50 900 to 500. 00C
= worth of hogs every year. He employs
hundreds of hands and horses on his
$ farm, which extends from forty to fifty
\ miles. we'll watered He is a million.
!, ARE farmer and started in life withou1
a dollar lie has a head for large thing:
as well as the minor details. Waste /:
. hateful to him and bad management i.
: abhorent. He is a man of good habits
g and principles, and herein lies the Sc
h cret of his success.
Governor Gambler, of Georgia, ha
:, issued an address denouncing lynching
though it will take something NOR
= than paper wads to cure the evil in tina
II state.
N On the question of affixing revenu
"a stamps on bonds and mortgages tn
y revenue department. decides that tn
! necessary stamps at the rate of cent
. per each 800 or fraction thereof ma
:, be either placed on the mortgage o
= the bonds Issued theron, as the par
sr ties may elect.
q, The Council Bluffs Nonpareil sent ou
Has a supplement- to its Sunday mornin
o. edition a prosperity" number, con-
prising 80 attractive pages in pamphls
form. Handsome views of public an
private buildings appear and scenes
7 industries that now make Counc
ne Bluffs one of Iowa's best cities I'll
or number is a success from literary an
rs mechanical standpoint and gives til
It. reader a fair idea of some of the al
ca tractive features of one of Iowa's mo.
re prosperous cities.
Representative Hull, en- route fro
us Alaska, said the United states mu
Is keep all the land bought from Russi
a The only question appears to be abol
er the slice Canada claims and arbitratit
is. must settle that.
Lieut.. Edward l.. Kelly, of the volu
teer signal corps. who has just return,
au from Manila, is in Minneapolis visitin
mt He declares there is no organized r
'e- bellion in the Philippine islands at tn
&C. time. A few bands of insurgents a
he conducting a bushwhacking warfal
l.. and that is all.
i've n saars ou;ta nroh,h,a +,,,+ pu,,
Gen. Frederick d. Grant will have
he chance to show himself the worthy s
by of great sire while in the Philippin,
DIS, He Is now in command Of Gen. Owe
in shines brigade during the sickness
no. that officer. and as those troops a
:. holding the southern line Of defense I
Manila, there may be plenty of flghti
~ before Gen. Grant returns to this cou
me try. Gen. Grant went to Manila in I
,n- transport Sherman, having 1900 n,
ate and Is officers in his command. I