Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-23
TOPICS OF THE TINES

TOPICS OF THE TIMES ;
Hereafter ambitious towns in Ohio
must have 5000 population to enter the
ranks of cities.
The coal arbitration board will meet
ir Washington tomorrow to organize
the labor knot.
ES-Congressnan James Hamilton
Lewis. of Washington, has removed to
Chicago. He has been chosen first vice
president and general counsel of the
Great Western Beet Sugar Company.
The Great Western is the trust that
lately paid Lewis the 100000 fee for
devising a method of organization and
sustaining the same in the federal
courts at Chicago by which the trust
was exempted from liability to the
stockholders of the constituent COM
lanies.
The principle of arbitration may find
use every day in private life. 1t is all
ways better to concede something than
to insist CT demand that is both just
and mereilesS.
The white house improvements. are
completed and the furniture is now be-
ii,,y 1r.HI in Ylil in n G NJ
time ali the living rooms will be ready
for occupancy. The president, how
ever, has not yet fixed a time for occu-
pying the mansion.
Mrs. Dearhorn-IIave you a speak,
ing acquaintance with that woman
next door?
lance? 1 know her so Well that we
don't speak at all.
-Yonkers Statesman.
Under the auspices of the Twentieth
Century Club of Boston an important
course of lectures is to be delivered in
Faneuil Hall on THE Industrial Prob
lem of the United States" The first
OF the course, The Historical Back
ground of the Labor Problem WAS de-
livered "Wednesday evening by Profess
sor Henry Carter Adams, OF the Uni
versity of Michigan. The others in the
course are Nov. 5, Carroll d. Wright,
United states commissioner of labor.
on IMAGES" Nov. 90, Herman JUST.
commissioner Of the Illinois Coal OPP
orators Association. on THE Organi-
cation of Capitals" Dec. 5. Samuel
Gompers, president OF the American
Federation of Labor, ION THE Organi-
cation of Labor: Trades Unions"
Dec. IS, Edgar e. Clark. grand chief
conductor, Order of Railway Conduc-
tors, on Strikes" Jan. Z, William III.
Baldwin, Jr., president of the Long
Island railroad, on "Arbitration;" Jan.
u, the Right Rev. John ]. keane, arch
bishop of Dubuque, Iowa, on THE
Rights and Duties of the Public in La
Dor Struggles" and Feb. 4. The Rela-
ton of the Industrial Problem to
Democracy" lecturer to be announced.
The Illinois Federation of Women's
Clubs is threatened with a split be-
cause the large clubs pay greater tax
but have only the same representation
as the smaller ones.
The erratic course of Senator Will
lam e. Mason, of Illinois, makes it diff
ticult for him to convince the people
that he is a reliable republican.
The Russian cars bodyguard con-
sists of fifteen Circassians noted for
their keenness and courage. They ac-
company the emperor everywhere,
sometimes in disguise, sometimes i'll
uniform, and on occasion as private
gentlemen of the court. They keep a
special watch ON the Kitchen, and eX-
anime everything that is cooked be-
fore it is placed on the imperial table.
The wine is tasted three or four times a
day for fear it should be drugged, and
every article of diet passes the inspec-
ton OF at least six members of the
cyer-wakeful guard before his majesty
rartakes of 1T. O, it is so satisfying to
be real cZar!
The latest Iowa idea among repub-
licans is TO get out and vote the
straight ticket.
The Great Question.-'We are to be
made one" she suggested.
Yes" he replied
"But which one?" she asked.
And in the attempt to settle that
question another promising matrimo-
NAL future was spoiled, for woman is
not so unassuming in these days as She
was once upon time.
Chicago Post.
The state of Minnesota will sell, this
year, approximately 100000 acres of
land at an average price of 81 per acre.
The Minneapolis Tribune says: This
land lies In the northern part of the
state, and Is land that some years ago
was widely regarded as worthless for
, CULTURAL n,lrpOses Now 1t Is bOUph