Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-16
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In an interview at New York Presi-
dent Hill, of the Great Northern, re-
in railroad securities ana said that no
mans income had been iessened, while
capitalists could we'll afford to stand ii
In view of recent prosperity.
The decision of an English firm,
headed by John Holt, to send agents
Into northern Nigeria IN search of a
plant discovered by a French botanist,
the roots of which produce rubber of
good quality, has given some color to
1.-THE reports of new source of rubber in
various parts of Africa. This plant
was first found IN the French Congo
and quite recently French firm is said
ito have produced from its roots rubber
which sells at shillings a pound.
| The American Protective Tariff
League of New York is early in the field
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that the percentage of row voters may
prove to be sufficient to turn the scale
in several states, the league has mailed
to its members and connections inquiry
cards asking names and addresses of
young men who will next year cast
their first votes at a presidential cleo
ton. Replies to these cards are coming
in by the hundreds in every mail and
the league is rapidly accommodating an
immense list of names to which it will
send literature of the sort calculated to
inform young electors as to the merits
CT the questions dividing the two po
l:tical parties.
If it is true that ]. p. Morgan has
given out the statement That Mr.. Roose-
velt's nomination for president would
make the raising of a $4,000 campaign
contribution impossible in Wall street
it is time for the real citizens to plan
a greater fund than Wall street has
ever contributed. The plain people will
see to Mr.. Rooseyet's campaign fund.
Superintendent Seaver, of the Boston
public schools, In his report for the
current year, recommends that provis-
ion be made in the high schools for ele-
mentary college studies SO that students
may take their a. b. in three years and
that the primary and grammar schools
be revised so as to form system uni
form from kindergarten 10 high school.
He wants an elective in music as a
high school course and would replace
drawing books with blank drawing pa
pers He favors the continuance of
military drill and the extension of the
elective plan of studies.
The suggestion that the portrait of
Napoleon Bonaparte shall disfigure
United States stamp in commemoration
of the Louisiana purchase is wholly out
OF place dnd should receive no attention
from the department. There are thou
sands of native Americans whose biog
raphy is part of the history of the de-
velopment of the purchase whose por-
traits would seem more suitable than
that OF a foreign despot. whose only
connection with Louisiana was his part
in it's sale.
Near Rolfe drainage Well sunk
eighty seven feet TO the sand and gray
ell beds and probably tapping a subter-
ranean stream takes care of the drain
age from three farms. II is a siX-inch
hole and around it IS built sink into
which drain three .ies six, eight and
twelve-inch, and the Role Reveille says
it takes care OF all the water that
comes, sucking 1t down and yelling for
more Where conditions are right this
Is the quickest, cheapest and best meth-
cd of getting rid of surplus water.
Governor A. b. Cumniins was among
the number invited to the millionaire
wedding at Cleveland last Wednesday
but he chose rather to attend picnic
of old settlers at Spirit Lake. An arls-
tocratic eastern wedding has no attfac-
tions for one who gets an opportunity
to mix with Iowa's iirst families
Stanhope Mail.
AT Waterloo during the stay of Wal
lace's circus there young man los'
$3.50 "bucking the Wheel As he was
making his way outside. he was APP
preached by a man who was evidently
connected with the game, and asked II
he did not want to play the part OF
"capper" and turn winning hand for
the house He readily aSSented, ana