Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-19
lueu u! satrdap Apri1 t. 1902

the process of converting the British
empire into a Niger state. Somewhere
about nfne-tenths of the empires pop
ulation is already black, brown o.. yell
low 1t has already threatened in Dis
raeli's time, to bring an avalanche OF
Ii now makes alliance with q colored
nation against white Europe. It's inter
ests are becoming every day less white
and more black, brown or yellow. And
this is where further trouble for white
Australia looms ahead. To Britain Ii
doesn't matter a straw if Australia il
overrun by Asiatics, ana slblack OF
brown 1t will not be long until Aus
tralia will find her interests demand in
dependence.
What effect will Col. Watterson's
man on horse back have on the gooo
roads movement?
Francis w. Cushman the representa-
tive from Washington whose speech at
lacking the house rules attracted at
tention yesterday is an Iowa man, born
at Brighton. Washington county. His
education was secured in the Brighton
schools and at jefferson county acad-
envy. He is self-made, having secure
his education by working as waite
hoy" on a railroad during the summel
time and attending school in winter. HI
has been common laborer or sectioi
hand, worked in lumber camp ha
been cowboy and taught school an
practiced law in Nebraska. Was elec,
ted to the Fifty seventh congress on
gold standard republican platforn
from Washington where he had II
moved in 1891.
A Davenport school ma'am has PAL
alyzed the clerk of the federal court
there Wednesday by fling petition in
with assets listed at $35
and liabilities aggregating Sits. Her
entire assets consist of the clothes on
her back and her books. 1t is an unus-
ual matter for a female teacher to take
of the bankruptcy law, but
considering their salaries it is sc.ne-
what astonishing that more do not.
The Canadians make such eXcellent
soldiers that the British war depart
ment is anxious for more of them tc
enlist in the South African campaign.
Mrs. Abbie L. Frankel, secretary o.
the board of lady managers OF tbs
Worlds Fair Fraternal Building AS
ISOLATION, is the wife of George j.
Frankel, superintendent of the Western
Telegraph Company. She was born in
Iowa and attended the Upper Iowa I'm
iversity, afterward taking thorough
course in the business college. Mrs
Frankel has been interested in tenn
rerance work from childhood and since
going to st. Louis has held Offices II
the young women's branch of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union.
She is also interested in literary work,
being a member of the Tuesday Liter
airy Club and of the state reciprocity
committee.
The ACCESSIBILITY of compulsory school
law and the advantage of the public
school system over the parochial
schools is we'll illustrated in Russia
where 100000 Russian children every
year receive their education in ele-
schools maintained by the Or
thodox Greek church. This gives an
average of less than forty pupils to
each school, but even with this limited
the sum of 200 rubles, or about
s1O5, year, which is the average
devoted to the maintenance of
a school, appears to be absurdly inade
Quate. Ninety-four per cent of the
teachers are themselves uneducated,
and one-third receive less than $25 a
year. The school houses are almost in
miserable huts, and many of
the schools have neither books for the
pupils to read nor pens and ink with
sian government favors the schools
by the Orthodox Greek
church far more than the more eff
cient schools maintained by the local
A comparison of the Rus
sian peasant with the German or Scan
dinayian should be convincing.
Yields q Sharp. Ak.