Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-04
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BY FLOATING over the reverses to the
English, the French people may be able
to forget some of the unpleasant fea-
lures of their own army.
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The Social Democratic Herald of
Chicago referring to the recent trans
action in Georgia where one contractor
employing convict labor sold out his
business and transferred his convicts
to his successor. says that They seem
to be profitable as chattels. The con-
Wet market is quoted firm"
Col. r. Ross Appleton, wealthy New
York manufacturers, is one of the lead
ers OF the Brooklyn Public Library As
ISOLATION. He says of 1t: "Our idea is
rather novel; almost the opposite of
that which underlies other great libra
ries. They want magnificent building
and a large number of valuable books.
We divide city into districts, based
upon population. In each district we
have a small building in public park
and stock it with from ten to twenty
thousand books. Instead of making the
man go for the books, we bring the
books to the mans door. The chief OBJ
lection raised to our system is that the
dishonest will steal the books. To that
our answer is: The dishonest are
small percentages in this world, and If
they do steal tooks they Will certainly
read them, whereas otherwise they
might remain in ignorance
Many pious people are wondering
why their favorite newspaper devotes
so much space to the prize fight, but IL
they knew what it was that kept theft
husbands out SO late last night and
knew that more money was waged on
1.-the outcome than will be put up OH the
looming election they would understand
that the papers We're only giving the
news of those events in which the pub
| lie is most interested.
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| The decision of the civil service com
mission that the sending of circulars
asking for political contributions to
federal employees at their official places
give satisfaction to every man regard
| less OF party who believes in good and
| efficient government. The attempt to
evade this law has been persistent and
| vicious. Recently there have been
many signs that politicians were pre-
pairing for a general assault on the
merit system. and there is need of just
such firm resistance 10 every backward
jstep.
A pieceof work which ought to have
lbeen done by some person or persons
4 has been done Well by the American
| Protective Tariff League. That body
has compiled table showing the
.Ichanges which have been brought
Garner; of the country in the past few
i Years. BY a canvass which Ii has made
sIamong 1857 business establishments Of
various sorts it has found that the
number of workers employed by them
lin March. 1895, vas 1912. which has
'lbeen increased TO 2s7.4s6 by March 1899.
This was a gain of 33.56 per cent in the
four years. The wages paid by these
establishments in March 1895, was Sc,
Sss. 53. Which had grown to s9s5s,-
2s03S in March of this year. The in
crease in this case was 54.09 per cent
There was a gain III wages in March
1893, as compared with that month in
1895, of 1919 per cent per person.
kipling has produced another won
derful poem. The King, which is di-
ERECTED at Dom Paul and the Transvaa
question. Like all of his poems it Is
vague and mysterious and might b,
taken TO refer to the problem in gov
liernment that England will have t,
solve upon Queen Nictoria's death. bu
in the hands Of the critics it will doubt
less grow into a masterpiece.
The pious Minnesota woman on he
way to church should take heed o
what recently befell Miss Trask, o
Benson, in that state, and avoid tn
endeavor to climb across stock train
no matter how apparently secure 1t
Z condition of Sabbath repose. n
: sooner had Miss Track mounted tn
long stretching barrier of wheels, plat
: forms and horned cattle than 1t starte
. off like the proverbial quarter hors
: and carried her thirty miles in tift
minutes, When it deposited her. Bib
? in hand, at another station. She wa
sent home safely by the "afternoo
freight, none the worse for the Incl
: dent having learned. as well as tn
parson could have taught it to her tn
: lesson that appearances are frequent
Z dcceitful. and that what seems stable
/, sometimes wildly and unexpected
:. mutable.
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