Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-11
Gathered in the By,Oays
rBy Ora Willfams.1

Des Moines, Oct. 11.-Some funny
mistakes are made by the people who
come to the state house to grind lheiT
axes. An illustration was disclosed the
other day. A Mr.. Jameson, OF Do"s.
who is said to be back of the Gaining OF
convention to discuss wall LaHe
drainage, was reported to nave sta'so
that he recently came to the STATE
house, that he went into the Office Oh
State Treasurer Brown. ana tnat ne
told Brown his goose was cooked, OK
words to that effect, and assured MN
he was already beaten for Office II ne
runs again. Now it transpires that no.
body at the state house seems to Know
anything about the visit of Jameson.
Certain it is that he never told State
Auditor Brown anything OF the sort. In
fact, he never saw state Auuitof
Brown at ALL Possibly he met one of
the employees and told him what he
thought, but he never unbosomed HIM
self to a state official, SO it is de-
clared.
Henry Saberson, chief of the bl,:e
sky bureau of the state, recently paid
a visit to the home of his boyhood in
Wisconsin. He found the old farm and
located the old swmmin hole and the
cottonwood tree he used to climb and u
lot of other things. but declares that
the face of nature looks SO different
that he would hardly know the place.
Most of the timber has been cut off
and farms are located where once there
We're forests. With the timber Gisap-
pearing many of the birds also disap
~. Col 1e NO ~,
when the passenger pigeons were al
most pest, when they appeared in
immense focks and literally broke
down the trees, and on che occasion
they appeared in clouds which ohscured
the sun for three whole days while
they were passing. But the passenger
pigeon has completely passed and a
bird society somewhere has a standing
offer of $1,000 for information as to
where there is a single pair of the
pigeons in existence on the face Of the
globe.
On his recent trip to Europe. Curator
Harlan was accompanied from Des
Motnes by ]. D. Edmundson. a local
capitalist and traveller of wide expeP-
fence. They sat in the great art gallery
there before. Mr.. Edmundson had
been there eight or nine times previ-
ously. They visited the art galleries
and public parks of leading French and
German cities. They found that the
great cities of the continent are spend
ing vast sums securing property to be
converted into breathing places for the
immense population and that the old
idea of city with nothing but streets
and houses is disappearing In some
cities they are widening streets ana
doing it under a plan that will take
perhaps a century TO be finished An
OLD stone quarry in the suburbs Of
Paris that was danger and plague
spot has been made over into a splen.
DIG playground. They also found that
most Of the, Art galleries OF Europe
were not built especially for tina, pur-
pose but are generally former castles
or great halls erected for some purpose
not now needed
Commissioner Garst Of the Iowa in
dustrial bureau did not appoint a sec
rotary, but figured that at least for the
present he can get along nicely with
only a stenographer. Whenever there
is need Of 1t he car add to his force.