Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-07-03
Though close upon 10 years of age

i,a ks han dslv livRiy ,siishln IA, is
AS upright today AS le was thirty
vars ago. He attributes this erect
ness tn his inv srl .b!a cu,som OF writ
ting ut high desk in /. Standing posi-
lion. Mr. Gm'd aw .ys writes With
lnili pen ANA his IN .nlScrlpt ia not be-
loved by printers. AS II relay stinn
from lite:aty work Mr Gunld, like the
late MIR. Gladstone, often spends a
cnap.e Of hours ciinp2ing down trees.
Andrew Csrregi" wants No backyard
ne,ghnrrs overlooking the groual nf
his new mAnsioa in Ninety second
street. Nav York Therefor he has
purchased a flat building in the reer
and tha tenants will hav. to M w
when fha mnltimil,iosiaire begirs the
erection of HIS home
Mrs. l.umphry Ward. the writer Of
at least half dZ'A books, each of
wii'cl would have rendered her fla.
NOUS, was born at Hobart, Tasmania,
u. ~. :
ter "t pr. Arnold lhe great heaGm.s-
ter Of R.lgby. and !, MEGA nf the late
NJ .th+W Arnoii She began work by
writing many .g"z; ne articles and u
series ri ESSAYS on spanish Biography.
her first book, which was published in
1851.
:" many female teachers have mar
rlad and left the schools of New Castle
Pa, during the last year THAI ednca-
tional work there has bssn seriously
To guard against SINH
lar Inconvenience IN the future the
school board has c4llei upon teachers
to present, in writing, their acceptance
of their places. TAsy must also agree
to complete the term, aud should any
contemplate retirement for the pur-
pose of marrying they will face in
Junction proceedings.
My bretherp," said the old co,ored
preacher, sit was this way: When the
Israelltes passed over it was early in
the morning, while it was cold and the
ice was strong enough so that they
went over all right; hut when the f.
egyptians came along it was in the mid
die of the day, and the sun had thaw-
ed the ice so that it gave way under
them and they were drowned" At
this young man in the congregation
who had been away to school and had
coma home rose and said: "ldon't SEQ
how that explanation cante right, par
son. The geography that I've been
studying Tells MS that ice never forms
,nder thu equator, and the Red Sea is
nearly under the equator" "There,
now said the old preacher, that's all
right. I'se been 'specsin' some of you
smart A'ec'Ss would be esktn' jsst.
some such fool question. The time
was talkin' about was before they had
any 'gafries or 'quators, either"
Ed p. Heizer of Sioux City may be
the man whom George f. Roberts has
selected to be managing editor OF the
Register. Friends of MIR. Heller in
Des. Moines know that he is about to
give up his position as postmaster of
Sioux City, and that as an intimate ac-
qnaintanca of Mr. Roberts he has been
in connection with the new
place on the Register. Mr.. Heller
was editor of the Sioux City Journal
for about twenty years. He went to
Sioux City from Burlington, where he
was q young man writing editorials
for the Hawkeye at 81 week He
is not to be reappointed rs postmaster
at Sioux City. Lot Thomas, congress-
man from the Eleventh district, has
the appointment of an.
other man on account of the present
of politics in that district.
Mr. Roberts is expected to return to
Dies Moines this week and to take
charge of the paper Sunday morning.
He will probably announce at once
the names Of the associates whom he
has already employed for work on the
Reglster.-Omaha Bee.
1t is known that some of Mendel-
sohn's Songs Without Words" were
by his sister, Fanny Mendel.
ssohn She published them under her
brothers. name because it was consld-
ered discreditable for woman to
compose music This historical fact
one possible explanation of
the scarcity of women composers.
Tho coal fields of the country con-
tain over 1000 billion tons of coal-e-
quail to a 5000 years supply at the
present. rate of consumption. In view
Of the assured discovery of new meth
DDS of heating 10y oil, gas, electricity,
etc. this is practically an inexhaustl-
BILE store of coal. Yet with the labor
cost of mining coal only go cents per
ton and its total value at the mines
mouth S1.50 per ton the American
people are paying on average about SO
a ton for their coal, taking hard and
soft together, and cannot tell from day
to day when 81 or 80 per ton will be
added to that price, nor whether they
will be able to get 1t at any price.
In spite of the opposition of his ia
nous mother, Maurice Bernhardt has
applied to the state council of Paris
for parmission to change his nama To