Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-06
Topics Of the Times

| Jack London is safe" asserts an
Iowa paper. Well, he has not always
borne that reputation
! Prof Benjamin f. Shambaush mas
Just completed his second report on ule
public archives which brings the work
to date 1t is one of the most usefui
compilations that have ever been pub
lished in Iowa.
What a happy family the republic
cans of Iowa might have been If the
Cummins senatorial ambition could
have bided it's time. The presence OF
1t Is THE one discordant note OF an
otherwise peaceful prospect.-Waterloo
Reporter.
Doubtful. There would continue the
discordant voice of a Parrot asking
eternally for a cracker
In Washington township. Grundy
county, a farmer circulated a Cummlns
petition He saw twenty seven men.
twenty-six of whom signed it, He
naturally concluded that the governor
has lost none of his popularity.
An Ottumwa negro giving his name
as Hogan, was recently given a life
term in the pententary. Is it in order
to inquire how many of the jury were
Irish?
In the department of WorldPolitics
in the February number of The North
American Review there are five COM
munications: one from London on the
topics. England and the Powers
Position and Prospects Of the Liber-
ais" one from ST Petersburg on the
topic "Russa's Commercial Agree
ment with Japan and Its Possible
consequences" one from Paris on the
topics. "Doings of the Chamber" "a
Real Blow Against Private Property
one from Rome on the topic, THE
Question of the Railways" and one
from Washington on the topics, Pres
idential Candidates. "Mr. Bryan and
the Democratic Nomination." Forth
coming, Appropriations for the Army
and the Navy
"The railroads have recently doubled
their orders for coal,' remarked John
Gibson of the Gibson Coal Mining
company. Business has been picking
up on the roads, am told, SO that
they are using more fuel day by day,
but part of the additional orders is
being stored for emergency purposes.
The railroads always take precautions
against possible strike at the time of
scale conferences, fearing that the
miners and operators will not be able
to agree The Iowa scale conference
will open in Des Moines March II.
AS yet we do not know what the min
ers will ask, but presume that it will
be practically the same as will be
agreed on at Indianapolis. | do not
anticipate serious difficulty at the con-
ference this year
Will some gentleman who is posted
please give the age of Governor A. p.
Cummins, who aspires to be United
States senator from Iowa?-Clarinda
Journal
For Heavens sake some one send
Lisle a Red Book.
Rev. H. II. Fairall of Iowa City.
editor of the Iowa Methodist, has a
record for length Of service which has
forry 1o1c to. in fhA
twenty-sixth year Of his work as ed-
tor of the Iowa Methodist, a monthly
magazine devoted to Iowa Method
ism.
NV Dear Senator Hopkins: I have
Of Mr.. Aldrich's bill to amend the ma
tional banking laws, of which you de-
sire by opinion. 1t seems to me the
national bank act itself might with
good reason have been entitled AN
Act to Provide an Artificial Market
for Government Bonds" and that this
proposed amendment might with
equally good reason be entitled IAN
act to Provide an Artificial Market
for Municipal and Railroad Bonds"
can imagine no other motive for its
enactment than an attempt to en-
nance the value of the bonds referred
to, but / am doubtful if ultimately it
would be effective in accomplishing
even that, because I do not believe the
banks will avail themselves of it ami