Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-03

Topics Of the Times

nounce."
1t is Indicative of development that
the exact number of first voters i'm
South Dakota this year is placed by
the census bureau at 1888. Plenty
OF people remember when the esti-
mate would have been high for the
number of hills of corn in both Da-
liotas
One thing may be said in Mr. Henry
G.. Davis favor. His venerable age
has saved us from the garrulous
neighbor who tells of the childhood OF
candidates.
Dave Hill has been assigned to
stump West Virginia with Grandpa
Davis. This means that if Mr.. DAVIS
succeeds in not contributing largely to
campaign expenses he will have to
stay awake nights.
Col. Henri Watterson is the Dowle
Of the democratic party.
The days of The crisp bank note are
numbered Instead OF being crisp, the
money which the government bureau
of engraving and printing will hereat-
ter turn out will be soft and Velvety, IL
important experiments which are now
being conducted in the presence OF
treasury officers for the purpose OF de-
monstrating the advantages of mover
chemical treatment for paper prove
satisfactory. The result of the adop.
ton Of the new secret process will be
to revolutlonize a portion of the work
connected with the printing of the
paper money of the United States.
Under the new process 1T VIII take
lust sixty days less time to manufac>
ture a bank note than under the press
ent method The chemical solution not
only renders.
There is something in the announce
ment that the Japs will make cans
paign against Tsin-Sin that is remind
full Of protracted meeting.
must be modified from time to time to
fit new exigincies. But the genuine
underlying principle of protection, as
it has been embodied in all but one or
the American tariff laws for the last
forty years. has worked out results
so beneficial, so evenly and widely
spread, so advantageous alike to far
mers and capitalists and workingmen,
to commerce and trade of every KIND,
that the American people, IL they show
their usual practical business sense,
will insist that when these laws are
modified they shall be modified with
the utmost care and conservatism, ana
by the friends and not the enemies or
the protective system. They cannot
afford to trust the modification to
those who treat protection and rob-
berry as synonymous terms.-President
Roosevelt.
That the empress Of Japan not only
smokes. but uses a silver pipe with
a stem ten inches long, may account
for the prevalence Of the pipe habit a
mong war correspondents.
A Russian immigrant of tender age
was being registered in downtown
philadelphia school, The teacher
questioned, What is your name?'
"Katinka," replied the child.
"And your fathers name?'
"I never hat one" came the quick
response.
'@Then tell me your mothers name,
again said the teacher kindly.
II never hat no mudder neither
answered the little child seriously, Il
was born off my grandmother"
Every one is probably aware of the
fact that members of Lloyds are Will
ing to insure against almost any even-
tuality, and Sir III. HoZier, the secre-
tary Of Lloyds, now gives the infor-
nation that among the extraordinary
requests made in recent years has been
to insure the profits of a professional
cricketer, to insure. ladies against the
affection of twins and to insure the
life of boxing kangaroo.
Iowa City is to investigate the wa
ter supply on account of the preva-
lence of typhoid in the CITY,
According to the Iron Age the maps
and records Of the French engineers
who had charge Of the Panama canal
are full of errors and Chief Engineer
Wallace has set number of Ameri-
can engineers to work overhauling the
French documents and checking up
their errors. "a number of test Dor
ings," says the Age, have shown the
French records to be worthless, and
considerable anxiety has been caused
by the discovery that while the French
records of borings showed solid rock
in certain sections of the canal at
depth Of 100 to 125 feet the borings
made by American engineers have de-
yeloped nothing but sand and clay. All
Typographical work covering territory
more than a few rods from the axis
of the canal has been found to be SO
defective as to be wholly misleading,
while the calculations of the French
engineers, of the length of the tunnel
ing to be done are found to be more
than two miles in excess of the actual
work"
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.