Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-27
Topics Of the Times

/ IL Il STATE law WSlC W w
enacted, who would write the plat
forms of the party ?-Des Moines Cap
ital
The query carries memory back to
the time when Mr.. Young made draft
of what George D. Perkins speech as
| temporary chairman of state conven-
| ton ought to be and we recall without
effort that Mr.. Payne of the Nevada
Representative invariably proffers
| thru that excellent medium, much as
sistance in the making of party plat
| FORMS Between these two how shall!
we fall to the ground?
Opportunity does knock twice. Rus
| STA lust now offers an exceptional!
chance for Mr. Cornelius P. Shea.
About the only committee Senator
Burton has good chance to land on
seems to be the committee of the
whole on stone quarries and peniten-
tiary labor.
A letter written by Prince Bismarck
sold at a recent auction for ten times
as much as letter written by Kaiser
William But our Mr.. Rockefeller can
write a little message on a telegraph
blank that would bring more money
than Prince Bismarck ever saw.
sss
Mr.. Carnegie's statement that every
immigrant is worth $1,000 to this coun-
try is to be taken with grain of salt.
Mr.. Carnegie is no longer in the mar
ket for immigrants.
The Des Moines Capital says "Ths
Webster City FreemanTribune makes
a speciality of publishing What Hap
pened Twenty Years Ago Today
Twenty years behind the times seems
to be the natural gait Of that paper"
1t is easy to understand why the Cap
ital finds four year-old reprint in the
Freeman Tribune Objectionable. Why
it should object to the twenty year-old
brand is not SO clear. Perhaps the
Webster City paper will rejoin that it
is better to reprint some of the actual
happenings of twenty years ago than to
print so much up-to date stuff that
isn't so.
Leaving out the questions of profit
and loss embodied in the scriptural
query What shall it profit man #
he gain the whole world and lose his
own soul?" it appears that the profit of
a big revival is not limited to Mr.. Sun
day and the sinners. Mr.. Sunday pick
ed up $4,000 at Burlington, but accord
ing to the Hawkeye Commercially
speaking, so far from Burlington being
at any expense in connection with the
| Sunday meetings, the business inter-
Tests were actually the gamers in a sum
estimated to be much larger than the
amount required to conduct the meet
| ings. 1t is. stated by merchants in Bur
lington that their business was unus-
ally heavy during the Sunday revivals,
and they attributed that condition to
the extra trading done by the people
from out of town who came to attend
the meetings"
Along with the statistics of prosper
Gus trade it is well to note that muir.
ders and homicides decreased more
than 1000 in the United States in the
last ten years. Lynchings decreased
one-half What bearings the statistics
of commerce and labor have on the
criminal statistics is a matter of con-
lecture, but 1t is safe to assume that
peace and prosperity march together.
Work has begun on the railroad
which will carry passengers to the top
Of Mont Blanc. The fare is to be 1890
for a trip to the summit. The cars will!
be run by electricity and equipped with
three sets of brakes. all independent in
their operation.
A new weapon which is about to be
added to the equipment Of the French
army consists of thirty horse power
automobile completely encased in arm.
or and mounting machine-gun in
revolving turret. A despatch from
Paris says it goes ''galloping across
broken country, leaping bitches like Il
hunting horse, firing its hidden battery
at the rate of 500 rounds in sixty sec
onds, moving down a battalion of in
fantry in two minutes, and wiping out
squadron of dragons at hundred
yard range The American speed
maniac won't be happy till he gets it
Think of swath 100 yeards wide.
The cable traglcally announces that
the island of Lanai, the smallest in
habi,ed island of the Hawaiian group,
is being laid bare by the ravages OF
wild goats and the blowing away Of
its vegetation and soil by high winds.