Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-13
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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| Two million meals at two pence each
is the task a London corporation mas
set for itself. 1t proposes to proNiae
substantial and appetizing means at
| this price for the poorer class OF popu-
lation.
| King Oscar of Sweden holds the
French Humane Societys medal for lie
saving HE won it at Monte Carlo not
however after the method employed oy
! Mapnate Schwab. The king, then the
crown prince, was awarded the medal
for stopping a runaway team and saw
ing two ladies whose lives were endan-
gered by the runaways.
Young Algernon Sartoris, whose
mother was Nellie Grant, daughter OF
the president, and whose father was
member of the English aristocracy'
seems to have the right kind of stuff In
him for an American citizen. Press dis
patches describe him as working in an
electric light establishment at Pitts
burg at 10 cents an hour in order that
he may complete course of practical
electric engineering.
| An Indiana woman has brought suit
against neighbor for damages, on the
ground that the defendant drove her
/ husband to suicide There are some
women who would feel under lifelong
obligations to the neighbor who con-
ferred such favor.
DR. Parkhurst, like all theorists. can
not tolerate the slightest infraction OF
law He demands the rigid and literal
enforcement of the law In every case,
land has read the riot act to Mayor Low
because the latter has not succeeded In
stamping out vice and renovating New
York morals in few weeks. These re-
| formers spurn with contempt the prac-
| teal side of any question. 1t Is, of
course, aggravating to the mayor, but
then he understands that men like
Parkhurst serve a purpose in the world.
/ Like flea, they keep us active and
alert when we are inclined to sit down
lazily and become too content With
things as they are. The Parkhursts and
the prohibitionists are doing good work
in tagging trains and signalling the
dangers ahead, but to put them on as
engineers, they would crowd on steam
/ and shut down the safety valves, and
the next thing we know there would be
a general smash-up of the municipal
coach all along the line.
If the Rockford Register is to be
credited Floyd county citizens are the
proper sort of settlers for a new coun-
try. 1t says: "a gentleman who has
recently returned from Sisseton, S. D.,
tells us that there is one country school
there and every one of the thirty-fi
kids attending it are Ottos-the pro-
/ geny of the band of Otto brothers who
Went from this locality few years
ago.
The national editorial convention
will be held this year in Hot Springs,
Ark, beginning April Is. Fifth district
editors who desire to attend as dele
gates should apply at once to E. e.
Taylor, executive committeeman, Traer,
Iowa.
A father was lecturing his son on the
evil of staying out late at night and
rising late in the morning.
You will never succeed he said.
unless you mend your ways. Re-
lmember the early bird catches the
: worm"
and what about the worm, father?"
said the son sneeringly. Wasn't he
rather foolish in getting up so early?"
, My son." said the old man, that
worm hadn't been to bed at all; he
was only just going home!"
Oscar Diegman the Iowa sailor whose
heroism helped make history with
Hobson is studying hard in preparing
to meet the examination for a COM
mission in the navy. Gunner Morgan
and other enlisted men while COM
petent technically fell down badly on
round dances and society small talk.
1t is to be hoped that Oscar has not
neglected to cultivate these important
essentials.
Thaumaturgists are now proposing to
talk thru telephones beneath the sur
face of the earth without wires. 1t is
possible. if their latest claims are to be
credited that in time all large business
houses will have direct connection with
the uttermost ends of the earth by
wireless telephone.
Electric lights in switch lamps are
a new improvement to be inaugurated
by the Illinois Central If newspaper
, reports are correct. 1t is proposed
to use the electric light wherever a