Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-15
Topics Of the Times

down on ship subsidies because ne
has learned that foreign ship builders
are buying steel from the trust at AZ
per cent less than American ship
builders can buy it and he is afraid 8
ship subsidy bin would involve d
change of tariff schedules. The man
who can't see the point must be
a standpatter like Cannon.
Isn't it just about time to cut out
Professor Wiley's poison experiment.
or show some results for the money
expended?
William Beaver Post. G. A. r. of
Tnpton is anxious to see prosecutions
under the statute which makes the
wearing OF G.. A. r. butto.s by per-
sons not entitled to do SO misde-
meanor punishable by Imprisonment
in the county Jail nor to exceed thirty
days or the imposition of a fine not to
exceed $50 and costs, and has passed
resolutions urging members of the or
der to protect the button. Good idea.
The frost long ago killed the pumpkin,
The fodder's been shocked all the
fall,
Thanksgiving and foot ball are over.
And Christmas the best thing of all,
Will soon be gone past and forgotten
And New Years will be quite the
thing,
Then soon we'll be chatting and sigh
ing.
And waiting and wishing for spring.
Manson Journal.
An engineer named Boles wants to
take the contract fol. digging the Pan
anna canal, sets his price and is ready
to close up the deael. His price is
$135,000.0OO for twenty-six and half
foot levee and the time required nine
years; $125, 100000 and eight years for
a sixty-two and half foot levee and
Sill, 100000 and seven years for a
ninety six and a half foot levee. How
ever congress proposes to engineer the
canal itself If 1t costs twice as much.
sss
Mrs Taggart is asking rehearing OF
her divorce case. If Mrs. Taggart had
listened carefully to the first trial she
would have heard much that a decent
woman wouldn't care to hear over
again.
1t is often a marvel what excellent
newspapers enterprising men can pub
lish in a small town and i'm state
that publishes more newspapers than
does the state OF New York, very few
can excel the Journal at Manson,
Iowa. I'm a special edition this week
celebrating the twsentyfifth anniver-
sary of the continued proprietorship of
the Long Brothers, G. l. and I. D., the
Journal shows pictures of the sod
house on the prairie which was the
first Calhoun county home of the Long
boys, the palatial residences they now
own besides homes and faces Of the
sturdy citizens who make the town OF
Manson. The picture of transformation
from frontier to civilization is strik-
ing one but nothing about Manson
will. ever attract so much attention as
the very excellent editorial ability dis
played by its three editors.
Tennessee's new law to prohibit all
forms of betting on horse races was
better intended than it is likely to be
observed. Not every state has Folk
for governor.
Don't tear your hair to get the jan
itorships for the old soldiers, while
there is a chance to make am old SOL
der governor of the great state Of
Iowa, which has not had a soldier for
governor for twenty years.
Iowa City Republican.
The Republican was recently cor
rected in similar assertion by the
Franklin County Recorder, Colonel
L. B. Raymond's paper. That paper
recalled that Governor Drake was
elected in 1896 and names Stone, Mer-
riM, Carpenter, Newhold and Sher-
man as civil war veterans whose terms
as governor aggregate sixteen years of
the forty years since the close of the
war. Of the lieutenant governors
Colonel Raymond mentions that eight
have been veterans, four soldiers have
been secretary Of state, four auditor, six
treasurer, two state superintendent,
four registrars of the land office, nine
railroad commissioner, seven supreme
court Judges, four attorney general and
at least thirty-one have been
congressman. This is a point
upon which the colonel is EN-
inently fitted to give information
and Editor Brant should read state
history before he accuses Iowa of neg
lecting her soldiers. He might, how
ever, point out safely that previous to
1898 no veteran Of the Spanish Amer
lean war had been elected president OF
the United States.
Because of the growing scarcity of
timber, matches are now being made
of paper, rolled spirally and dipped in
wax of stearine, which prevents un-
rolling and gives rigidity. The roll is
cut into lengths, which are then dipped
in the PHOSPHORUS composition. The
matches are said to burn we'll.
A London coroner remarked recently
that a law should be passed against
the use of old medical prescriptions.
useful at one time, he
said, may be deadly when used again