Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-06
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

/ The coal operators will be able t.
keep warm If they use their eyes ane
ears attentively just now.
| An instructive table mas been pre-.
| cared from want ads" to show the diff.
! ference between the demand for labor
| in this prosperous era over that of the
| hard times period of 1896. The writer
shows that there We're more workers
than work in 1896; and more work thar
| workers in 1902. In fact it is conserva-
lively estimated that the papers of the
country are today advertising 100000
situations that want help. 1t furnishes
IL forcible argument in favor Of contin-
uing present political and economic pol
icies.
An extra session of congress Is no,
needed. 1t will meet soon enough for all
practical purposes.
The Oldest man elected to the YER
mont general assembly is Arnold Ball OF
East Haven, Jacksonian democrat, aged
rs. The youngest is Harmon e. Eddy,
of Stratton, republican, aged 81. The
Iowa this year is Horace Boies, aged
Is.
Word has been received at the white
house that the new dinner set, consist
ing OF eight or nine hundred pieces,
which was ordered by Mrs. Roosevelt
from England, will be shipped in time
design Of the china is the simplest ever
ordered by a mistress of the white
house, having gold border and the
great seal of the United States done
in colors as the only decoration. The
price Of the china was much less than
It is a much needed acquisition, how
ever, and its order foretells much larger
dinners at the white house than have
been given there before. In ordering
this china, Mrs. Roosevelt had in mind
not so much the distinctive beauty OF
the design as its adaptability to use
in connection with the other rare china
already in the White house. 1t is much
like the china left there by Dolly Mad
ison, except the gold of that early day
fired red, while that on the new china
is. yellow.
The present month will witness a
great deal of political work in several
Iowa congressional districts, yet there
is little probability that results can be
changed by any plea the democrats viii!
be able to make.
The study of one offensive trust fills
all the people with disgust.
George r. Sheldon, the banker who
was originally slated for lieutenant
governor on the New York republican
state ticket and subsequently turned
down, thought he had such a sure thing
that he had manufactured 100000 "Odell
and Sheldon" buttons, for which he
paid cash in advance. Most of the but
tons were shoveled into furnace, a few
being saved as mementos.
Plans for the new city home of
Charles M. Schwab, president of the
steel corporation, have been filed with
the building bureau of New York city.
The house will be a six-story structure
of ornamental granite, with two three
story extensions occupying the center
of a plot covering the entire block
bounded by Riverside drive, Seventy
third and Seventy-fourth streets and
West End avenue, the surrounding
grounds being laid out as terraces and
gardens. The main building will be 80
feet front ands1O7 feet deep and the ex-
tensions 1916 by As feet. The building
is to cost 100000. If anything were
needed to show his plutocratic tendency
proof may be found in this extrayagant
mansion.
On one occasion missionary gave an
instructive talk on the solar system at
a small church on the Indian reserva-
ton at Onondaga. The building was
we'll filed with braves and their squaws,
who listened attentively to his descrip-
ton. incidentally he mentioned the