Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-10
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

A news report from Washington in
dicates that f. f. Clark, of Cedar Rap
lids, is likely to be made commissioner
OF labor. His appointment would be
highly satisfactory to labor interests
and 1t is to be hoped that the report is
correct and Mr.. Clark willing to accept
the position.
The attention of the massachusetts
schoolma'am is called to the fact that
Iowa has $4,000 more men than Women
She might notice Incidentally that Iowa
has 100000 ares of improved land
IIowa's farms are worth on an average
$1,000 and 1owa's farm buildings are
worth s112,0O0,O00.
| The Philadelphia Record notices that
some people are so conscientious about
flowing their enemies that IL they
haven't any they are perfectly willing
I to make a few.
| A condemned murderer in Multno-
Emah county, Oregon. objects to being
hung on scaffold built by ''scabs." The
lcarpenters of the vicinity are on
strike and the murderer has addressed
an appeal for a reprieVs based on ms
iobjections to be hanged on gallows
lerected by any but union carpenters.
But il appears he is to be hanged on
thine whether the strike il called off or
| not.
l
! tnetics in surgery is said to have been
| tried for the first tire in England
within the last few days. A success
| full use of it was made in America years
! ago In rare instances, however, would
| it have advantages superior to those
Possessed by ether, choroform or CO.
| caine. while ii is open to objections Pc
ouliar to itself. 1t is hardly likely TO
| find favor with surgeons generally.
recent case OF amateur hypnotism at
Dubuque made job for the physicians.
who were able only by the most vigor-
| Gus efforts to restore animation to the
patient.
The New York Tribune tells of poor
earnings in order to be able to send
for his wife and children. who are in
kishineff. He denied himself the ne
cessties of life. and died of starvation,
with the necessary immigration fund
nearly complete. 1t was one of the
many Kishineff shadows which have
fallen in the metropolis.
A Chicago professor has taken the
short cut to notoriety by predicting the
end of the world by freezing. His the
CRY fails to coincide With the one usu-
ally accepted, that the last day will be
accompanied by considerable heat and
general confiagration, but no one would
nave noticed him If he had held to COM
mon beliefs or accepted theories.
The people who live along the New
foundland coast are expert wreckers.
;ot that they wreck ships to rob them,
but they know how to get everything
from wrecked vessel. The priest at
Trepassey, near Cape Race, was dining
one day with the late Bishop Power, of
ST. Johns. How will your people get
along this winter?' said the bishop.
Very well. my lord" was the priests
cheerful answer. with the help of God
and a few wrecks
The department of agriculture has
issued a bulletin exposing the methods
of certain seedsmen. 1t appears that
some seedsmen have been advertising
pearl millet at prices varying from II
to 80 cents per pound and "Pencilaria,"
..Mands Wonder Forage Plant" etc.
at prices varying from 40 cents to $3.50
per pound, the alleged novelties at the
higher prices being identical with the
pearl millet sold at the lower figure.
A two line want ad can run two days
in the T-R for twenty-five cents and
$4,000 people will read it.
eyes, explained the whole theory of
the new discovery to my wife,
And what did she say?"
'She said, George. can you remember
who the Scurfeld girl married? Tve1
been trying all day to think of his
name. -CleNel3nQ ram eDaler.
Canton, in Lewis county, Missouri |
has an odd posJoftice. The postoffice |
boxes open directly on the street, and |
the holder of a box key can get his mali |
any time he wants it, day or night |
This arrangement seems to offer eXcep-
tional opportunities for robberies but |
they are said never to take place.
Agricultural experiment stations are
now in operation IN every state and |
territory of the United States, including |
Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico, and |
steps are being taken under govern
,nent auspices to establish agencies for
agricultural investigation in the Philip
pine islands. There are sixty such sta
tions, employing nearly 1000 trained,
scientific and practical men in their I
work.
Cane for Larkin Martin.
Oskaloosa Herald: Before leaving
Des Moines for Washington, ID. c.. to
supervise the erection of the palatial
Potomac Hotel in which Col. l.. M
Martin is interested he gave to his lit |
tie grandson in this city, Larkin NJ