Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-18

be supported by that of a legally quail
fled voter as to the fact of residence. II
is unfortunate that some such check or
INSCRIPTIONS primary voters is not in
vogue.
About the best the newspaper press
can find to say of John p Altgeld is
that he was honest-and fanatical.
In the town of Manzanares, in Spain.
the birth of the first year of this CEN
| fury was curiously honored by the mu-
nicipalty. Having recognized the
claims of the expiring year by paying
the funeral expenses of the last inhabi-
tant of the town to die, the local au-
thority undertook to bear the cost of
The education of the first child born in
the new year.
The widow of General John B..
Torchin, brave Polander who won his
title in the civil war. is said to be in
delayed thru her inability to produce a
certificate of marriage to the general
tho her purity and the fact that she
was his lawful wife is unquestioned
The marriage took place in Russia and
the records seem TO have been lost.
General Turchin during his last days
supported himself and his wife by his
violin. Comrades are making strenu-
Gus efforts to secure the passage of q
bill to insure the last years of his de-
crepit widow against actual want and
the general public will be glad to see
them succeed.
The personal popularity of Uncle
Toms Cabin is brought out in the cir
culation department of the Times-Re-
publican. where. among other books, 1t
is offered as premium. OF equal pop
ularity is Arthur's Ten Nights in a
Barroom." OF the last 5000 books
given it's seIni-weekly subscribers by
this paper little over one third of the
requests have been for these two. AL
tho four other standard titles have
been offered In the same selection The
demand is slackening somewhat, but
these books. like Ben Adhern's name,
still lead all the rest
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has earned the
might insinuate that he has bought it,
but this inSinuati0n would be unfair
and untrue. He is now seeking a prac
teal method for the circulation of Ii
braries in rural communities and stated
recently that he had been much graft
fled by applications for libraries from
western rural districts. While any book
that does not exert bad influence is
better than no book. Mr.. Carnegie
thinks it might be we'll to bar fiction
under three years old from his libraries
on the ground that ii book has not
force sufficient to earn it's place under
these conditions it has no excuse for [
existence much less place on the |
shelves of a public library And in all
this Mr.. Carnegie Is right, as is usual |
with him.
The headache powder habit Is grow
ing, and the danger of a too free use of /
this class of remedies is illustrated by |
several deaths occurring last week /
from this cause. The base of the rem |
edy, q drug called acetanalid. Is dan
serous to weak hearts. The customary
of these powders and other
patent medicines by throwing samples
On door steps should be prohibited ev-
,ryWhere There is danger to children
Who may discover them and danger to
older people whose physical condition
nay be such as to render them unable
20 withstand the action of the poison
ous drugs these samples may contain
Wholesale evictions are planned for
Tory Island, nine miles off the shore of
Ireland. The population of 800 lives
by fishing and making help and has
oaid neither rent nor taxes for years.
The landlords writs of ejectment will
De taken up by British warship.
King Menelik of Abyssinia is build
ng telephone lines between his capital
md the Italian settlements in Erythrea.
italy furnishes the wire and Menelik
he poles Any one caught cutting
wires will have his right hand cut off
md his property confiscated to pay for
he damage. If there is any uprising
against his new Improvement Menelik
proposes to take hand in the trouble.