Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-12
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects
as Reflected in the Iowa
Newspapers.
Tie News Of Iowa From Hun
dreds Of Different Towns
and Communities.
IT WAS ROUGH.
TIT Dodge Messenger.


IFt, Dodge Messenger.]
1t is not often that car IN the llliu-
Gle of the train jumps the TRACK anu
goes humping along over the ties III
three miles without something more
serious happening, but such was .ne
case in freight train 55 OF the M q 81.
H.. the other night. About three miles
south of Humboldt, a car in about ,he
middle of the train jumped the trach
and went bounding over the Ties, Az
most into the city before the accloent
was noticed. The car passed over sew
eral cattle yards and across the steer
bridge near Humboldt in its mao rlue
over the ties, and it is hardly less than
n miracle that the couplings heia LOT
such !; distance. Had they broken, the
whole back end of the train would have
niled up and smashed into kndling
wood, and very likely the train crew in
the caboose would have been killed.
The accident as 1t turned out, however,
had its funny side.
In the car that jumped the track was
a German emigrant and his househoio
goods with a pig or two, COW ana
some crates of chickens.
When the car left the track, the man
from the "Fatherland" was sitting on
box, smoking contentedly. The flrst
lump of the car when 1t struck the ties
sent him sprawling on the floor, and
his furniture and other belongings be-
gan to scatter themselves over the car,
humping an accompaniment to the
sauealing of the pigs and the fright
ened cackle of the fowls The fright
ened German could do nothing but join
the general miX-up and roll around the
car with the rest of the furniture.
When the train crew had stopped the
train and came to see If the man had
survived, he was just picking himself
up and looking ruefully around.t He
exclaimed. excitedly:
..Mein Colt in Himrnel! Vat kind of a
road it vas Such roughness before
hat never seen already"
PRINCE MISSED SHENANDOAH.
IShenandoah Sentinel
Prince Henry did not come to Shen-
andoah.
He'll never know what he missed by
not coming. Wouldn't we have had a
dandy ball at the armory and called on
the mayor to make an eloquent ad-
dress of welcome? And the Sentinel
would have said afterward that the
MAYORS wife danced with the prince
and Mr.. So-and-So sat at the right OF
the prince at the banquet; and all the
bright eyed beauty of the town was
there
But we didn't want him anyway
thing except to ba born q prince. The
blood in his veins is no purer, OF no
whit finer quality than that of Shen-
andoah men, He is only an, ordinary
mad made of ordinary clay, on whom
the accident of birth conferred title
and gave right to live in luxury and
splendor at other peoples expense. He
doesn't earn his own breakfast. He
was not elected prince by the free
vote of the people, but he rides on their
backs by. virtue of that ancient myth,
the divine right of kings"
Yet his coming is a good thing. 1t
is the signal and the signet of peace.
1t is one of those victories not less re-
nowned than those of war. 1t is better
a thousand times than the clash of bat
tleships amid seas. Empires can be
friends. In all that is noble and grand
and of good import, the tour of the
prince and the welcome he has received
is greater thing than Dewey's victory
at Manila or that of Schley Cor was it
Sampson?) at Santiago harbor. These
were destructive, We're red with human
blood, were the work of passion and
typical brute force. The princes COM
ing was full of peace and goodwill.
The ties OF friendship between the two
nations will be made stronger. 1t will
be harder to find a casus belli hence
forth. When little Alice Roosevelt
broke the bottle over the PROV of the
Meteor and cabled the kaiser her sim
pie childish message, that august per-
sonage Rugged 1T to his breast and was
as proud of it as q lover is of a note
from his sweetheart. The great press
dinner in New York, W hen 1900 news
paper men entertained the prince, was
an eye-opener to the German people,
and the press of that country is almost
sure to fird larger liberty. Expressions
of i'll feeling over there toward America
have dropped out and trade relations
between the two countries will be easi-
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