Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-19
] TOPICS OF THE TIMES

The man with the pillow is getting
ready to whet his appetite.
$50
Gen. Lord Roberts would have done
better had he reserved his fire-in-the-
rear letter criticising Gen. Butler ct al.
untilhe had secured complete results at
the front.
Instructions for Mckinley and the
gold standard come with great deal.
of unanimity i'll republican state con-
Nentions.
II believe the Fifth district republic
cans Will renominate Congressman
Cousins by acclamation,' said Col. H.
| h, Rood, of Mt. Vernon, to a Capital re-
porter While spending the day in Des
Moines this week. There has been.
some opposition in Marshall county, but
1 believe 1T will all vanish before con-
lvention time. The fact that Congress
man Cousins has heen granted the hon
or of opening the republican state con-
lNention here in May shows the esteem
| in which he is held by the party He
will have the sounding of the keynote in
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the campaign Of the present year, and 1T
Is not possible for any sort of II combi-s
nation in the Fifth district to defeat
him
The summary of opinion is that SEN.
ator Allison would make a splendid vice.
president, but that he would not accept
the place.
1t is announced that Mayor Harlem
bower, of Des Nloines, does not want
but one term and that he proposes to
run the city government in the right
way. Wrong doors are beginning to
trenable. Disorderly houses are being
pulled ana the slot machines must dis:
appear or be confiscated. A little in
the way Of reform Will be wholesome
for the capital city. and it now looks as
+ il the moral elements held the right
|! bower.
ing more favorably upon Dewey as IA
candidate FOR vice president than they
Ibid when his name was first suggested,
and many of them believe that he
would more strength to the ticket than.
ADMIRAL Schiey. But this second-place
talk is tough for Dewey.
The keep off TIE grass signs are in
need Of new paint
The landowners of Indiana are talk
-,
ing advantage of the law for the en-
fcouragenent of forest growing passed
by the last legislature This act offers
Inducements for3tile starting and main
tenance Of private Woodlands as forest
reservations, such lands being ap-
praised for taxation a. only 81 per
acre. Insecure benefit for the exemp-
tian the forest mus; consist of not less
/ than lto trees in each acre. 4 aescrip-
ton Of the land must be filed With the
county auditor for record and an ex-
i5amination must be made by him before
/ appraisal No horses. cattle, sheep or.
\ goats NAL be pastured untilthe trees
4 are four inches in diameter. The For
/ ester says that as many as twenty
Eight landowners in Single county
have taken advantage of the law The
reservations are for from three TO
eighty acres. The benefit OF the law
can not be claimed until the trees are
three years old. but the ultimate adj
vantage TO landowners has caused the
/ law To be regarded with favor by them.
The tornado. naw journeying toward
the north. has reached Missouri and
created the usual havoc in dealing out
lSdisaster and death.
Miss April has latterlx been conduct
ing herself in a bright and lady.ilse
manner. The smiles that have followed
the tears have been altogether agreea-
t5ble.
Ii is estimated that the shutting
down Of twelve big plants of the Amer
lean Steel and Wire company, and the
throwing out of employment of 5000
4 men, is part Of a big stock manipula-
ition deal. Reports from dozen great
metal concerns deny that there is an
k"oyerproduction'' in this line of indus
try. With wonderful unanimity officials
fof these various companies scott at the
4 reason which is given for the closing Of
\ the wire plants. Late advlces show that
4 some of these mills are to be reopened
I at once.
Turkey must promptly pay that $780,
1 900 Indemnity for the eight buildings
iof American missionaries destroyed or
Incur the enmity Of Uncle Sam, and the
sultan knowsin a general way that he
1 is not TO be gifted with.
Expansion Will mean great deal to
the SOUTH said Mr.. II. ]. Johnson. of
South Carolina, while in Washington
recently. The mills Of the south are
now running night and day. This Is due
ito the demand from China for cheap
1cotton cloth. We export it, the China
Imam dyes IL any color he desires and
then disposes of it. We have some de-
.mand for cotton cloth from other for
i eign countries, but China is in the lead
| The south is on the boom. There is no
question about that. When the trou-
! BILE in the east is settled the south will
be the gamer by a large degree. Those
4 markets will then be open to u.s. The