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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-09
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SAYS Italians Left Pckin.

London, Aug. 9.-The Rome corre-
i.spondent of the Daily Mail announces
| the reception there of official dispatches
|lfrom the Italian minister in Pekin as
s,erting that he left Pekin on july 81.
presumably for Tien Tsln. This, how
ever. is so utterly al variance with the
faction and intentions of the other min
listers heard from that it seems almost
incredible. II true. it opens up an in
teresting field of speculation concerning
\ the fate Of the Italian representative.
The Chinese legation believes that the
members of the foreign legatio have
mot yet left Pekin, but that they will
lido so. and declares that the edict would
mot have been Issued had not the for
Heign ministers signitied Willingness to-
Iaccept the escort.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
4 Daily news, wiring yesterday, says:
8I"United States Consul Goodnow strong
I.ly opposes Admiral Seymour's intention
to land 3,000gtroops. on the ground that
4 such an act would not be warranted
Iby the circumstances and would be
sIlikely to create trouble. NJ. Bezaure. the
1 French consul. agrees to the arrange
q ment, but says that If the British land
II forces the French will do likewise. The
q IAustrians also will land men. My per-
+ sonal opinion Is that the landing of
TROOPS here at the present moment
g lswould be a grave mistake.
II The Daily Chronicles commenting up
81 on American criticism of the character
!. of the Chinese news printed in Lon
= don dailies. admits that the charges are
q only too true, and that the practices
s of certain papers in this respect aresop-
S ipossd to the best traditions of British
II journalism. 1t joins in the American
lflprotest against sansationalism.
4 Almost all the news in this morning. IS
j, i5papers upon which credence is placed
j Icomes either from Washington or direct
; from British officials
"a Berlin. Aug. 9.--Sir Frank Lascelles
: the British Ambassador, Who has jus,
returned to Berlin from q vaca tion In
England, takes a pessiniistic view OF
s 1.-the Chinese situation. When interviewed
!, today he said 1t seemed 10 him that the
: complications Mere growing more ger
!. ious.
1t is generally believed that Germany
Will send another expedition. bringine
: the total German contingent up to 10000
. by the middle of October. but neither
the foreign office nor the minister o
war Will confirm the reports to this eft
9 feet.
The foreign office, however, denie.
$ that Emperor William has arranged
with the car for the transportation o
7 German troops by way of the Siberian
I railway.
Z The first application for naturaliza
"A tion by a Chinaman was made here to
i day. The applicant Is merchant o
~ Itwenty-four years residence.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-09
BIG CONCERN BURNED.
ieIby steel Tube and Boston Eiec-
reduction I'Innts DESTROYED.

Beaver Fails, Pa. Aug. 59.-Fire last
night totally destroyed the works Of the
Shelby Steel Tube Company and the
Boston EleetroGuction Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-09
Discount q, Rate Rails,

Calcutta, Aug. 9.-The rate of dis,
count of the Bank of Bengal was raised
from three to four per cent today.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-09
Panic NJ Kins,s Funeral.

I-endon. aug. ga special dispatch
from Rome says a sudden movement of
the crowd in Via Nazionale, as the
king carriage III the funeral processio on
pissed resulted in panic, during
which thirty persons We're ir jured.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-09

Talk of the appointment of John A..
Kasson for United States senator is re-
garded among the politicians here as
ridiculous; not that he is not great
enough fox the place-for he is enc of
sthe greatest men Iowa has produced
',but his position as reciprocity treaty
agent Of the United States government
gives him work which is to his liking,
being In the line OF diplomacy. OF which
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-09
T.-R. BULLETIN.
NOTICEABLE NEWS OF Today.
The Weather

Iowa-Fair tonight and Friday; thu /
derstorms in the north; warm. s
Illinois-Fair tonight and Frid
ory,, \ ~ 4
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18

| The people who are contending that
society is suffering from "over educa.
ton" do not themselves appear to be
afflicted with the complaint.
| By Doing.
He who argues that history does not
| find an appropriate place in the gram
mar school must, as it seems to me, con-
clude to deprive the child of exquisite
delight and genuine mind discipline in
the story and picture phase of history.
American Journal of Education.
Politics and politicians have no right
full place in the schools or the school
boards. The way to keep politics out
Of the schools is to keep the politicians
off the school boards. Good, vigorous
men with broad views on all education
al policies should be chosen to serve on
the school board. When this is done,
wide-awake, up-to-date and first-class
schools will follow as a result.-Mis-
souri, School Journal.
Our schools can never be what thew
ought to be until the very best men can
be kept in them as teachers. 1t is not
enough that each State can boast a few
educators on an equal in ability with
the best lawyers, editors and business
men. Every community with a hun
dred or more children to educate should
have at the head of it's schools a man
the equal in ability, in education. in ex-
perience, in culture and in business tact
To fhn
community to expect this unless it is
willing to pay what the best men can
obtain in other callings? Make teaching
the most honorable, the most lucrative
Of callings, and, above all, free it from
the petty annoyances of politics and
meddlesome busybodies, and education
viii take a great leap forward for the
better.-The Educator.
So few parents remember that.
though they have only two or three
children, and have studied their DISPOSE
tons from the time of birth, know all
of their inherited tendencies, all their
little oddities and contradictions. they
make mistake after mistake in their
management; while the teacher has all
the way from thirty to ninety, no two
ankle, from different homes, having
different influences, different surround
ings, different standards Of right and
wrong. and she has known them at
best only few short weeks, having to
study them all at once instead az
singly. Knowing this, the parent should
make allowances, and try to help rather
tnan hinder the teacher. Mothers in
particular should be interested in what
the children are doing: above all they
should visit the school Arkansas
School Journal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18

were so numerous that the French sail
ors made Enclosures Of stones, into
which they drove large numbers of the
birds, killed them, and then sailed them
down for food.
All that remains of the great aux now
are eighty or ninety skins, which are
preserved mostly in public museums,
and valued, according to their state of
preservation, at sums varying from
$500 each to that realized by the last
one offered for sale at Stevens, which
was sold for $780, There are also a
few skeletons, mostly in public muse
ums, good many separate bones, and
about eighty eggshells. The skins and
the eggshells are in great demand and
realize at the present time most ex-
traordinary prices.
The length of the egg is IA inches,
it's greatest width little over inches
It is blotched, streaked, speckled and
scrolled with black and varied shades
of brown and gray. The boldest
streaks adorn the large end Of the egg.
The paler blotches in the figure show
the pale ochreous-br brown markings, and
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18
HOW HE FELT ABOUT 1T.

Could Not Help but Sympathize in
This Case.
"Of course" remarked the proud
father of six children, there is nothing
in all the world that makes a man 50
sincerely happy as to have around him
q whole houseful of registering children
every one of them tickled plumb to
death when he comes home at night
and every one Of them wanting to climb
all over him at once and the same time.
Still, it is possible that there NAV be
an embarrassment of riches, as the
French say, of even this sort, and when
a baby is of the squalling kind he
sometimes thinks he would almost COM
NIT a crime for the sake of FIVE or stx
minutes of peace and quiet A friend
of mine, Who lives In fat, is the faith
er Of q regular, four time squalier. and
there was an incident at his home the
otbaE evening that has caused his wife
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18

Heredity and the microbe theory
have been getting some hard knocks
during the past decade. The microbe
is still holding his own as the primary
disturbance in certain classes Of hui
man ailments, although the physicians
have now reached a point in bacteriol-
ogy sufficiently advanced to enable
them to confidently assert that the ba:
cilli are not responsible for every dis
ease that flesh is heir to. At the recent
international medican congress held In
Paris one of the most renowned OF
medical authorities warned the younger
members Of the profession against the
danger of ascribing every human all
ment to bacterial influence. But cher
edity" as an excuse for all sorts of alb
normal mental manifestations and
moral delinquencies has been almost
completely dislodged by scientists. The
time is gone by when the drunkard can
hide behind his inebriated great-great
grandfather. Heredity can no longer
be urged as a sufficient cause for the
moral degeneracy that leads man to
appropriate that which belongs to 9th
ers. Low-browed men may come from
loW-browed ancestors, but statistics
tend to prove that under proper envi-
ronment and influences the proved
youngster may be developed into a
strong and most creditable member Of
society in spite Of his progenitors. In
an address before the national prison
congress at Cleveland George Torrance,
superintendent of the Illinois State
Reformatory, placed the portion of
crime that is due to heredity at less
than 10 per cent. He maintained what
is now the commonly accepted view of
the sociologigists and criminologists
that crime is due to environment. 1t
follows, therefore, that great major
ity Of criminals can be saved if prop
erly handled and placed under a proper
environment Said Mr.. Torrance: II
have no hesitation in asserting that at
least IS per cent Of all young men and
boys who have committed crimes, if
taken charge Of in time and subjected
to proper treatment, will become good
citizens. Ninety per cent of the young
convicted Of crimes would not become
criminals with proper surroundings,
proper companions and proper atten-
ton" The sooner the ancient notions
about "heredity" are exploded the bet
ter for society and the state. The idea
that alcoholism or consumption among
a mans ancestors predestines him to
the same fate Is most pernicious doc
trine, and is sometimes appalling in its
consequences. 1t not only excuses
crime but superinduces a condition Of
hopelessness that is all the more pit
liable because unfounded Heredity has
had many centuries Of moral derelic-
ton and mental despair to answer for.
1t is time that the light Of science was
relieving it of it's burdens. The new
science teaches that man is largely re-
sponsible for what he is; that his moral
and mental shortcomings cannot be
charged up against his progenitors.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18
Better than Nothing.

An old lady in a Western Massachu
sets town, talking over with anothe
old lady an alleged heretical opinion
of their minister, is reported to have
said:
well. if he don't believe in everast
ing punishment, what does he believe
in?"
"Oh, he believes in some punish
ment."
"Well, how muehY'
"Oh, perhaps thousand years or So
well, that's better than nothing,
said the other lady.
We read good deal about the bad
influence Of this cAurch, that church
and the other, but we are strongly ID
clined to believe that the poorest churco
in the world is ga good deal better than
nothing"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18

to look upon him with suspicion. Al
bert is one of the mildest-mannered men
that ever lived. Across the hall from
his fat live two bachelor friends Of his,
and you know bachelors are not overly
partial to babies with unrestrained
lungs. The other afternoon his wife
came in where he was reading, or try
ing to, and she was considerably
wrought up"
I've got no use for those two
friends of yours across the hail. she
said.
"'Why not, my dear?' he responded,
in his usual mild manner.
Because when Willie was crying
while ago, one of them said, oh, shoot
the baby
'"Oh, did hep said the father, raising
his eyebrows, after the manner of some
people expressing surprise or resent
ment or some other emotion.
eyes. he did,, repeated the fond
mother.
"'And what did you say to that?' he
inquired, with a half smile.
"'What could I say? she asked, the
anger showing in her face.
REALLY, don't know, my DEAR
hesitated her husband, but thought
possibly you might have said you didn't
have any gum
"She couldn't say word; she didn't
try to; she just looked at him in speech
less establishment and went out Of the
room" Washington Star.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18
humanity no less than gallantry de

humanity no less than gallantry de-
mands that men defer to her. To the
allegation that womea forget the court
esq Of acknowledgment, she says that
Is their affair" BY comparison with
men, says Harland, every woman is 4
child. IF the child is iu-mannered
the man can afford to be magnani-
NOUS" While there are those who will
claim that the magnanimity of men
should receive graceful acknowledg-
ment from woman, the whole matter
may be resolved into sensible discrim-
ination. 1t is asking too much Of a
tired miner to give up his seat to a So
ciety belle. An elderly man is under
no obligation to surrender his seat to a
healthy young schoolgirl. Circum-
stances must decide. Chivalry is bot
dead in the hearts of American men.
In no country in the world is woman
treated with such consideration and
courtesy as in this country. And this
courtesy is not simply matter of Gus
| tom. 1t springs from genuine respect
| for the weaker sex.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18

Italy has set an example of swift pun
ishment tempered with merry worthy
of imitation by the most stable and in
telhgent governments of Europe.
Bresci, the anarchist, assassinated
King Humbert. One month later to a
day Bresci was found guilty, after a
deliberate and fair trial, and was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment. Although
Humbert was a popular sovereign, there
were no outbreaks at the trial, no mobs
interviewed to take the assassin out of
the hands of justice. and there was an
entire absence Of any hysterical dis
turbance of the peace. No Anglo-Saxon
court could have proceeded with more
dignity to an impartial verdict The
fact that the people are apparently sat
isfied with the verdict of life imprison-
ment occasions surprise. Somehow
Western thought has identified modern
Italy with bloodthirstiness. We are
accustomed to think OF the Italians as
of their cousins, the French, as a mer.
curial people. demanding life for life,
given to demonstration and uprisings
on the slightest provocation. The dig
nifty of Bresci's trial and the Judicial
temper of the people gives one a new
and surprising conception of the Italian
character.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18

mount, and insists that the only Chris
tan life is that which exemplifies the
plain precepts Of Jesus. He holds that
q true Christian will do as Christ bids
all to do. This theory has attracted
much attention to the eminent Russian.
His religious convictions are set forth
in his books, "Christ's Christianity
and my Religion" and have long been
condemned by prominent orthodox
teachers, who do not agree with him in
first principles. Tolstoi is now rs years
old. His first book, "War and Peace"
was published in 1860.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18
GREAT AUK'S EGGS.
RELIC OF THE EXTINCT BIRD
SELLS FOR Si,678.
Fabulous Price Paid for 1t at Stevens
Auction in Administrations of the
Bird Are to Be Found in Some Pub
lie Museums.


: More than half century ago the last
living specimen Of the great aux was
destroyed. Now an egg of that extinct
bird has been sold at what seems, per-
haps, except to scientists, to be fab
ulous price. For it at Stevens auctions,
London, 81 1878 was paid. 1t took spirited
bidding to get it at that figure.
The great aux was a water blrd'
closely resembling those sea BIRDS
known as guillemots, little auks and
puffins, which are familiar to visitors
at the seaside All these species, how
ever, possess the power of fight and
hence they have succeeded in presery-
ing their lives in spite of the persecu-
ton of man. But the great aux was
pre- minently water bird. It's power
of swimming was great, but, in spite OF
the celebrity of it's movements, its inabll-
ity to fly insured it's destruction. 1t
formerly inhabited Iceland, the Farce
Islands, and the Hebrides, and in Trim
ity College, Dublin, is specimen that
was taken alive in Waterford Harbor
as late as 1884. In Funk Island, Off
two centuries ago they
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18
The Child Mind.

A little girl wishing to get her cap
from a dark room asked the nurse for
it. The nurse fold told her that she
should not be afraid of the dark, as God
was in the dark as wen as in the light.
The little girl looked doubtfully into
dark room, then walking bravely to
the door, said: God, please. sir, hand
me my cap"
A little child in Sunday school
class, being questioned how Eve came
to be made, hesitated some time, and
then Frightening up, said: God looked
at Adam and said, guess can do bet.
ter than that, and he then made Eve"
-Harper's Monthly.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18

Statistics on insanity recently pub
lished go to show that mental health is
not improving. Between 1850 and 1890
the population of the United States in
creased two and a half times, while the
mentally afflicted, including the feeble
minded, multiplied six times. In Illinois
alone in twenty years the population
increased 81 per cent, while the insane
increased rs per cent. Civilization
and progress are costly blessings. The
demands of modern life are growing
more exacting and more complex. That
many break down under the strain is
not surprising. 1t is the merciless proc
ess of natural selection. The fittest
survive, and in the end the race is i'm
proved bodily and mentally. But this
does not comfort those who, failing,
low, in other times and other condi-
tons might be approved and selected
as the fittteSt.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18
the lightest streaks are of leaden gray

the lightest streaks are of a leaden gray.
The ground color is nearly white, and
the surface is finely granulated. No
two of the known eggs of the great
aux are alike in markings, some of
them being very distinct. Sometimes
the markings are much smaller and
closer than those in the figure repre-
sented, and other specimens are to be
seen marked in varied patterns.
When it was first learned that the
great aux was an extinct bird the price
of its remains began to rise. In 1859 a
specimen was sold as high as 500: in
1854 four specimens were sold for 500
$125, $3.50, and 1926 respectively. In
1882 single egg sold for $3.50. The
price still went up, and IN 1895 Messrs.
Stevens sold one, after brisk CONNIE
tition, for 1926. In 1899 q specimen
realized at Stevens auction ST 500.
Then it was known that several speci-
mems would probably come into the
market, but reaction shortly took
place, prices again rose, and the speci-
men figured was the one that has real.
lied higher price than any previously
offered
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18

Grocer J. II. Chambers, of Science
tady, n Y, in a letter competing for
prize for the best life story illustrating
how to save money throws in with his
experience few precepts. He says:
To save money on a small income begin
by marrying the girl you love and that
loves you.
Be so honest and Industrious that your
employers cannot do without you.
Spend all your spare moments in the
society of your wife and family.
Do not go anywhere that you would be
ashamed to take your wife to.
Make your home so attractive that your
children will hate to be away.
Study the wants of your wife and fam
lily.
These are all the law and the prophets
on the question Of how to be healthy,
wealthy and happy, though married.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18

Marion Harland insists that chiyalry
is dead. Her proof is found IN the con-
duct of men in the street cars. She finds
that fewer men give up their seats to
women than formerly. Taking up the
mems side of the matter, she says it
makes no difference that women are
more and more engaging in the work
OF men. The latter should remember
that woman Is the weaker vessel and
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18
IMPROVED HAND STAMP.

Device by Which the Style of Type May
BE Varied.
Here we illustrate convenient hand
stamp which is an Improvement over
those now in use. With the old style
of stamp it has been possible to use
but one set Of type, and when the stamp
was purchased the desired lettering
had to be set in place permanently. By
the addition of the little hook shown at
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18
Hospital Cars.

The Prussian department Of RAILWAYS
has added to it's rolling stock a number
Of hospital cars, which can be hired
advance for any journey by rail- Th
cars are fitted with spring bedstretcr
ers, invalids' chairs, and all Necessary
sanitary equipment.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18

Oysters are usually recommended TO
convalescents as affording a digestible
addition to the necessarily limited diet
airy, but they possess another and spe-
cial advantage as tonic and tissue
builder, by reason of the large proper
ton of phosphorus which they contain.
A chemist who recently analysed the
oysters especially sought after by the
Parisians found that in dozen Portu-
guese oysters there was about two
fifths Of gram of phosphoric acid, and
in a dozen French oysters little less.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18

A Pekin correspondent of the Assoc1-
ated Press says that a medal Will De
struck to commemorate the heroic de-
Tense made by the besieged foreigners.
The motto suggested for the medal IS
that noble one, attributed by Plutarch
to the Greek lawgiver Lycurgus, equal
ly applicable in war. and in peace,
Men, not walls, make a city"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18

And now American made locomotives
are going to New Zealand. The Yam
kee machinist is almost justified in
saying with Edmund Dantes, 1.-The
world is Miner
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18

A love affair in a Seminole Indian
camp resulted in the death of four
braves and the suicide of the maiden
Twas ever thus. Contact with civil
cation robs the noble red man of his
stoicism and makes him sensitive as
n woman,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18

Even if the Patent Office is overbur-
dened with notions" inventive genius
Ianguishes; else somebody would win
the rich reward awaiting the man who
can build an automobile that does not
look as if it needed horse in front.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18

1t seems to have become custom OF
late to talk about doing a stunt"
Wherein ''stunt" is any improvement
on the authorized and regularly or
dained stint does not appear.