Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-13
Topics Of the Times

There is food of antipass bill.
now pending before the Minnesota
legislature and the Minneapolis paper:
are wondering whether the Legislature
is in earnest or not. In Iowa all doubt:
have been set at rest.
Secretary Root, able man that he is
can not expect to be selected as a can
didate for the presidency. His former
clients were such as TO embarrass hin
now but it is within his power TO serve
an extraordinarily long career as secre-
tary Of state and make an indeilble
record in the history of his great de-
partment
Taft several days ago hurled what
then semed severe blow to Foraker
when he accepted the latter's challenge
to permit the people of Ohio this fall
at a primary election, to express tlieir
what he was doing. anyhow. The pri-
mary will not be held. Attorney Cen
eral Wade Ellis, in an opinion rendered
held that the plan of the Foraker Taft
choice between these two distinguished
rivals at primary election is not feast
BILE nor legal and the primary cannot
be held. This will naturally make the
fight one for the control of the repub-
lican organization of Ohio.
A radical change for the better in
the New York money market Is evil
denced by the payment OF s24,oO0.0oo
on a stock subscription of s6o,Ooo.ooo
to the Great Northern without causing
a furry or rise in exchange.
The biography of Robert Lucas
Iowa's first governor. by John c. Par
ish. first of the biographical series,
edited by Prof. Benjamin F. Sham
baugh and issued by tn Iowa Historl-
cal society. is an addition to the COM
mon historical resources of the stu
dents of Iowa history, well written and
handsomely printed and bound. The
account Of Lucas incumbency as ter
ritorical governor of Iowa is especial
ly interesting to Iowans.
Some of the Washington writers are
claiming a speed record for Roosevelt
who walks three quarters OF mile to
church in twelve minutes. Still any
husband who has seen a capable wife
dress the youngest, tie the boys neck
bow. take last look at the oven and
start on a ten block walk to church
all within fifteen minutes Of church
time, is not likely to be deeply inn
pressed.
In the year 19O5-O6 there were in
Great Britain 80 estates of $1,250,0o0
to pay duties at the death of the own
ers In the previous year there were
6S such estates. When probate and
legacy duties are combined they
amount to IS per cent of the amount
left to remote kin. In the year ended
March 81 the governments receipts
from death duties We're about $9o,-
100000, making new record. In the
10 years 1866 TO 1867 the exchequer
has received from death duties $1,005,-
100000. The amount received exceeds
wealthy men reside in the United
Kingdom.
What exclaimed the plain citizen,
"of course it was wrong, He accepted
a bride"
O.! / don't know" replied the poll
tician, there's nothing wrong about
What? Why, they caught him with
the goods and he admits"
20! If he was caught at it, of course
it's wrong Chicago Tribune.
A correspondent of Hide and Leather,
who is a. large manufacturer of leath-
ers complains of the practice now all
most universal in this country, of
weighing leather with barytes, glucose
anu EpSoLIi sails, ttloISo WILL S-ASS5t9isS
quantities of tannin and grease. Thus,
light and trifiing feathers are made to
do duty for good leather, to the loss of
the consumer and the injury of the
American export trade.
Improved service, according to the
Engineering World, is to be had by
electrifying our steam railways, par
ticularly near the large cities, but it
will be expensive and will require
much fresh capital "Powderfouse
construction and third-rail and feeder
construction must be credited to new
capital, while the substitution of cleo
trio for steam locomotives may be
credited to repairs The change viii
ultimately pay profits on the new in
vestment, owing to reduced operating
expense and increase of traffic. Parts
of the country where there are water
falls to supply energy for electric gen
orators have an advantage for the in
stallation of electric traction. Italy,
Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and 9th
err mountainous countries are giving
much attention to their waterfalls as