Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-11
TOPICS OF THE TINES

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Put on your thinking cap and decide
how much Iowa should appropriate fol
a creditable showing at the big worlds
fair at st. Louis.
Episcopal clergymen must satisfy
themselves hereafter, as decided by the
convention at San Francisco, that In
marrying divorced persons cause fol-
separation existed before the prior
marriage.
4 Wild mustangs are so numerous on
the plains of Utah and Arizona that an
effort to exterminate them furnishes
sport for the shooters. Many man
with lame back or broken limb
III states to which they have been
brought would be glad to see those
wild horses thrown out of the arteries
Of practical life.
The refreshing rain of last night has
increased the verdure of bright fall
fields of living green.
Discussing the great government sur
plus piling up i'll the treasury, Senator
Allison believes the simplest and prob
ably the best method of meeting the
problem 1t presents would be found in
ct
dilional internal revenue tax levied on
account OF the war. This would meet
with general public approval.
DR.. II. p. Tuttle. the inventor of the
explosive thorite, dropped dead at his
home In Tacoma. Wash. on the 9Th. He
WAS born in Iowa on Dec. 10, 1914, came
to Tacoma in 1899 and practiced medi-
cirle. Thorite, the explosive which DR.
futile discovered, was the result of ex-
periments made shortly after the dis
covery of gold in the Klondike. when
miners were in need of some explosive
that could be used in the frozen ground
CT that region. Congress had passed a
bill appropriating $4,000 for the, pur-
chase of the thorite invention, but GER
tain provisions were embodied which
prevented the negotiations being carried
to a successful termination.
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President Roosevelt will deliver an
address In New York City on Thanks
giving day at the dedication of the
soldiers and sailors monument at Riv-
erside.
Ir, his speech at Manchester Thurs
day Senator Allison paid a high tribute
to Candidate Cunimins, declaring that
he will bring to the office high capa-
city and integrity and large experience
and knowledge OF the needs of the
state" He also alluded to the capa-
city, integrity and experience of the
other gentlemen on our state ticket
Senator Allison gets down little
closer to the meat of the reciprocity
question than many others who have
urged it in a casual way. While he
favors 1t, he notices that one of the
difficulties in the way OF making re-
ciprocal treaties is that more than two
fifth.s OF our importations are already
on the free list, thus leaving us q COM
pHratively narrow range of modifica-
tons upon which to base a treaty with
many countries by the reduction or re-
secured many advantages thru our free
list. He stated that our greatest trade
is now with Great Britain, she tax
Ing from us more than So per cent of all
our exports and sending to us less than
one-tifth of all our importations. He
believes the most fertile field for the
expansion of our commerce lies to the
south of us and III the far east with
nations bordering on the Pacific. It
is plain that our nation has large OPP
portunity thrown in it's pathway in the
directions named.
The palmetto trees of Jacksonville,
Fla, stood the confagration better than
any other kind. While nearly all other
trees in the wide sweep of the fire per-
ished from the heat, the palmettos are
putting out green shoots, showing that
thy have life and vigor left.
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Madden announced on Wednesday that
the rev postal cards which will be
printed next December will bear pro-
file Of. President Mckinley. There will
be slight change in the arrangement
of the, printed inscription so as to allow
sufficient space for the postmark.
Encircling the profile of President Nc
kinley will appear his name, the date OF
lis birth and death.
Senator Mason, of Illinois, has been
telling President Roosevelt he will fight
the new canal treaty because Great
Britain is a party to It, The president
replied that such course would make
the senator an enemy of the isthmiar
canal. Mason is candidate for re-elec-
ton and it isn't probable that his Illi-
nois constituents would approve a
hostile course on the canal question.
Immigration Commissioner Thomas
Fitchie, of New York City, has made
public the statistics of his bureau for
the last fiscal year, which show that
nearly 20 per cent more immigrants