Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-24

banks without interest. Let the c. r.
Il. shut up or name the appropriation
it would repeal.
What is the use of an irrigated dis
trict when the natural rainfall comes
so conveniently close to seeding time?
The law suit is now on to get Thaw
out of the asylum. He has probably
been insane long enough to serve al!
practical purposes.
The Times Republican has learned
to know the anti Cummins campaign
and predicts that before June this
state will be flooded with circulars
containing a falsitied copy of the
Cummins' letters to Senator Gorrell on
the silver question in '93. AS falsiiied
ii makes Cummins out a free-silverite
when the letter as written stood for
bi-.met alism in the days when the re-
publican party stood for bi-metalism
and before the money question was
unueISloOu ny our pupiiS i1ieai' az ~
Louis in '96 Cummins was gold
standard delegate when Allison was
still trying to do something for sill
yer.
In 1905. 400 establishments In this
country We're engaged primarily In
manufacturing fertilizers of various
at $56,632,S53 a gain of 26.s per
cent over the value of products for
1900 The states leading in the NUM-
Der of plants producing fertilizers were
Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Vir-
ginia, New York, North Carolina and
New Jersey. For the first time these
products We're reported for Alaska, Col
orado, Nevada, Wisconsin and Wyom-
ing The total production of fertilizers,
including the output manufactured as
subsidiary. as we'll as that produced
as primary product, amounted to g.
591,771 tons, valued at $56,973,634.
The National Biscuit Company. gem
orally known as the cracker trust. now
rivals the United States Steel corpora
ton in it's itsharing accomplish
ments among its employees. The stock
holders now number 800 and 1888
shares of the preferred stock have been
purchased by employees on the INSTALL
ment plan. Some 1896 persons en-
ployed by the company are now
stockholders.
Standard Oil is going to water its
stock several hundred millions so those
dividends will not look so large.
A Chicago fruit dealer paid 50 apiece
for some early peaches. This represents
about the average rate of premium Ma
ture eXacts from those who violate her
DEGREES in almost any respect.
Isaac Stephenson. worth $10,000,00O,
United States senator from Wisconsin,
is self made. Years ago he used to run
around barefooted in F'redericktown,
N. b., his birthplace, because his ia
Their was too poor to cothe him prop
erly. He worked on farm and in
lumber camps before he was Is. Then
he tried a sailors life, without success.
He went back to lumber, made some
money. became banker in the west
and worked the lumber business on
the side Finally he gave 1t his entire
attention. From it came his millions.
Mistress-Jane I saw the milkman
kiss you this morning. In the future
1 will take the milk in.
Jane-Twouldn't be no use, mum.
He's promised never to kiss anybody
but me.-London Illustrated Bits.
And now the standpat press is be-
ginning to explain that Seldom has a
session of congress made more urgent
demands on the Iowa members than
the present. The work of Senator
Dolliver in particular has been insist
emit"