Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-18
Topics Of the Times

| The primary thing is the statewide
primary law. The voters of both par
ties are waiting for it-and watching
Autobiographies are valuable addi.
tons to history when written in hon.
est fearlessness, but their publication
should be delayed unless we crave ex.
element.
Colonel Temple does not lack de-
tenders and supporters in the Iowa
newspaper field, but they find 1t neces-
sary to go back a long way for the
kalsomine
Hung down his head
And stumbled along
Never saw the blossoms,
Never heard the song!
Baltimore News.
II living at the state and national
capitals is so hard and expensive, why
are so many men who could get decent
positions elsewhere hanging breath
lessly about the capitol buildings in
the hope that a sob" of one, kind or
another may come their way?
Which do you prefer, that your
caller should tell you about the smart
things his children do or how the safe
ty razor works?
OF course we had the campaign of
1906, the Charles City lynching and
the opening of the legislature, but we
haven't had an earthquake. Always
something to call for thankfulness.
Governor Hughes seems to have the
winning way" of dealing with the
bosses. He simply tells them what
they can't have and they listen.
Having cut out newspaper trans
.portation the Chicago & Northwest
ern feels rich enough to issue $25,000,-
900 more capital stock.
What other country could feel the
universal pride in the defeated leader
Of civil warfare that cost a million
lives that the United States has felt
and expressed without regard to Sec
tional lines, in the memory of Robert
E. Lee while the men live who fought
the battles and the scars of fratricidal
strife, remain written on the face of the
fields it was fought upon? This and
these are the United States.
The American Agriculturalist gives
the apple crop Of 1906 as &c. 120, 900 bar
rels. as against 24,OO0O0O barrels in
1905, an increase of 12,10O,O0O barrels
but 3,SS0,000 barrels short of each OF
the crops of the three years prior to
1905. The figures arrived at are a
crystalizatfon of returns from cores
pondents in every apple producing
section east of the Rocky mountains.
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The Postmaster of st. Louis, 'front.'
ing on a charge that local mail has
been lost in his office, says women
desiring to dodge invitations, instead OF
declining them, habitually declare that
the notes were never received. Lii
bells on the postal service result and
the social white lies, if they can be
called white, lead to official black
marks.
There are now four women who
have licenses to navigate the waters
at Pittsburg. They are Captains Mrs.
Mary Green. Mrs. Mary Swan and the
Dippold sisters. The entire Dippold
family now have licenses to pilot
steamboats, and the women have all
served their apprenticeship of three
years in the pilot house and on the
roof OF Ohio steamers.
Booth Harrington, author of 'The
Gentleman From Indiana" Monsieur
Beaucaire" and other of the most sue
cessfu1 and popular novels of the last
decade, has written 1.-THE Contest of
Canaan" q story that is certain to
achieve equal popularity with the 9TH
ers. The Times-Republican has pur-
chased publication rights to this SPLEEN
Ibid picture of American life and it will
succeed the serial now running and
which is nearing an end. With the
possible exceptions of "Graustark" and
''The Wings of the Morning." the T.-R.
has never offered its readers a, story