Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-03

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ours than in the British navy. Possbl.
= the man deserted from the Barfuer an,
enlisted in our navy: but that he re
g Iceived anything more than the regula
y inducements for doing so--better pay
better food and the prospect of better
compensation for his eXpertness-i:
wholly inconceivable. Thu United State:
has never been hard up Cor good marks
: men. something Great Britain has twice
: had cause to remember.
Bayard residents are much exercised
because Of the decision Of the NIilwau-
= kee railway to change the station name
They are afraid they won't like the
/ new one. Thus while without reproach
they are not without fear.
How great a fire an insignificant
blaze may create is illustrated by the
Croft fastener for mail boxes, which
has created such a disturbance at
Washington. 1t is an i:.nocent looking
it might be made and sold at about two
bits a gross. Like the ledge attach
ment TO scales. the size of the little
piece of metal seems sproportonate
to the storm it has been the means of
raising.
Oskaloosa is boasting Of street car
accident and incidentally calling atten-
ton TO its new line. This fourishing
city has never been able to have an ac-
Icident of this nature before. previous
|calamities having been limited to a
balky mule on the old ;ine
/ Do children lie? Yes: constantly
persistently and universally, says the
Kindergarten Magazine. A child does
mot tell the truth because he could not
| He does not know the truth, and his
approximation to the truth is very
much wagner than ours. And there are
certain qualities of his mind which
make it inevitable that he should per-
vert the truth. In the first place, truth
lis synonymous with Knowledge. He
does not know what truth is. In the
| second place (and it is the same with
u.s., children gradually approximate the
truth. They have their ideas of truth.
In the third place, the clild's magma
| ton drives him often 20 tell what is
not true.
A movement has been begun in Rich
mond, Va, for the removal of the body
of Patrick Henry from its present neg
L.
Johns churchyard, in Richmond, ana
the erection of a marble monument to
the Virginia orator and revolutionist
The idea is to have Henry's body
buried, If possible, beneath St. Johns
church, about at the spot where tradi-
ton says he stood while delivering his
famous speech which eliminated in the
words, Give me liberty or give me
DEATH The suggested monument will
be of white marble and under cover
ing like that of Clay in Capitol Square.
Second Baseman Abba.icchio, OF the
pre-eminence as baseball player. His
name ought to help any team. II
sounds like an absolutely fresh cuss-
word and suggests good stick work.
Joseph Bashaw died recently at Sa-
lem, Ore, aged ia. He was soldier
under Napoleon |. from 1906 to 1875 |
and fought at Waterloo. He drove an
OK team to Oregon in lS47.
The projection" on Mars observed a |
few nights ago at the Flagstaff observ-
atory will interest astronomers, but 1t
will not be interpreted by them as !,
signal to the earth. a phenomenon OF
the same general character can be seen
On the moon when only q portion of that
body is Illuminated Under certain con-
dtions the sunlight falls sideways on
the upper portion OF a mountain whose !
base is in shadow. Tie bright patch
seems to be entirely detached from the
ragged edge of the incomplete lunar
disk, but that fact does not prove that
the object is not part of the moon
itself. The spot reported from Flag
staff may Be identical with those seen
several times before, or it may be
detail not noticed before.
As to its nature, tho, there can be little
doubt.
Young Anatom.st.-Some days ago
two little fellows of and years heard
older people speaking OF skeletons. The
7-year-old boy listened intently to the
when the elder boy. with
an air of superior knowledge, said alb
ruptly:
You don't know what skeleton u.s.
and do"
80 do T." replied the younger. 81 do
know. l know for certain, do"
Wei, now, what is it?
ITS bones with the people Off"
-Lippincott's:
BILLY" Hamilton, recently elected
president of the Corn Belt Editorial AS
ISOLATION, is likely to give the editors
Rooseveltian administration.
A two line want ad can run two days
in the T.-R. for twenty-five cents and
$4,000 people will read it.
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Special Summer Excursion Rates to
the West.
The Iowa Central Railway announces
the following special summer excursion
rates. June LIST to September Goth, 1903