Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-13
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

An Atchison man received a we'd
ding Invitation by mail. He looked at
it, tossed it over to his wife and said:
Here's bill for YOU
Ed Hall. farmer living near Garth
age, Mo-. has harvested four crops of
alfalfa from a seventeen acre field this
year. He figures that he can sell the
extraordinary yield for $l,0SS.
The republicans of Alabama have
nominated as their candidate for gov
ernor a Mr.. Smith OF Birmingham,
whose father, a republican. was COVER
nor of Alabama more than thirty years
ago. He had an experience which is
certainly rare among Alabama republi-
cans nominated for elective office. He
was unanimously chosen. there being
no candidate nominated by the demo-
kcrats against him. The democrats made
no nominations in Alabama that year.
Efforts to settle the street car strike
/ in New Orleans are not yet successful,
tho the situation is not as serious as the
coal contention. One can walk down
there and keep warm.
The successful holding up of a Bur-
| lington train for $4,000 in Nebraska is
suggestive of a careful study of time,
places and methods employed by rob-
bers. 1t can not be thwarted by the
ordinary defense now in vogue.
| A new railroad story is about an in
experienced engineer who was sent on
a passenger run. He was shy" OF a
working knowledge of air, and ran clear
past the station at the first scheduled
| stop. When he tried to back up TO the
| platform he backed the train almost in
to the next county. He kept saving
back and forth until everybodys pa
thence was exhausted, but never stop
ped anywhere near the station plat
form. Finally the brakeman lost his
temper He tagged the engineer as he
went past the 'steenth time and yelled:
Say, you big dub; when you get her
stopped again, just hold her.We'll bring
the depot to YOU.
When Secretary of War Root starts
out to hold conferences with coal oper-
ators 1t may indicate that he is looking
for place to land troops.
The November Century contains the
closing installment of Confessions Of
Wife" The book was announced for
publication, on the 18th of October, but
the large demand has made 1t necessary
to put off the date OF issue for one week
so that sufficient number of copies
may be printed to fill the first orders. 1t
will be issued ON Oct %.
The bank clearings OF last week for
the entire nation show an increase of
23.5 per cent over the corresponding
week of last year. The volume of BUSH
ness is immense.
Probably no man who has been in the
white house since Jefferson's time has
been so much Of student as Roosevelt.
He works at being president with all
the earnestness of college student
on the verge of a critical examination.
He is great deliver into books and re-
ports. He has the congressional library
ransacked for works which bear on
problems foreign and domestic, legal
and economic, legislative, executive, jul
dicial, political. He reads far into the
night. He talks great deal. much of
the talk being merely the thrashing out
verbally of problems in his mind. He
keeps his secretary, Mr.. Cortelyou, long
after other people are in their beds, dis
coursing to him of tariff revision, recip-
rocity. Cuban relations, isthmian canal,
navy, army, trusts, railroads, civil SER
vice. politics and thousand and one
other matters which come in the days
work.
Oil-soaked bricks for fuel are coming
into wide use in some OF the eastern
cities. 1t is a cheap and easy method
of solving the cook stove heating prob
lem.
Carroll d. Wright, the commissioner
of labor, will retire at the expiration Of
two years from the labor bureau to de-
vote his time to the duties devolving
upon him as president of Clarke Col
lege, Worcester, Mass. Before retiring
from his present position Commissioner
Wright will complete some of the i'm
5portant Investigations which are now
before his bureau.
cam l to understand that friend
sold you that horse?"
.Well, thought he was friend until
he sold me the horse."-Chicago Post.
The Rockford Register thinks that
enough cider will be made in the east
ern states this year, owing to the large
crop of apples, to keep a good many
Temperance evangelists busy for year
to come at least. With the juice in their
cellars moral suasion only will be able
to reach the users.
The weeping woods and wailing
winds are here on time, anyhow.
Don't you think the fall is an aw-
fully sad season." asked the sentiment
tai young woman of the long haired
collegian who was walking at her side.
ooh, don't know replied the lat
ter, doubtfully. "Of course, it depends