Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-16
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, South
Carolina and Florida combined.
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Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks
/ of Indiana was graduate of Hanover
College at Madison in that state, and
| his widow has given $4,000 for the
erection OF library in his memory
/ there.
/ The Congressional committee on the
revision of the penal legislation of the
! federal statutes has decided that the
maximum penalty for any person who
boards a railroad train, ear or locomo-
tive with intent to commit murder. rob-
berry or violence against any trainman,
eXpressman, mail messenger or passen-
gers shall be twenty years in confine-
ment.
| We are bound to catch tiff not in
December or January, then in February
and fifteen below zero is proof of it.
| The Commercial Club of Kansas City
| has asked the Missouri legislature 20
appropriate $4,000 for a statue OF
Thomas II. Benton, to be erected in
Kansas City, as near as possible to the
spot where Benton made his famous
prophecy in 1856. that this continent
would be bound together by bands Of
iron, and that our products would be
carried to feed the innumerable mill
lions of the Orient Pointing with
outstretched hand toward the setting
sun, he said: There is the east; there
is the road to Indie !"
Here is further testimony against In
creasing railroad freight rates. Dun q
Co.'S review shows that January rail-
way earnings We're "a per cent greater
than for the same period in 1902.
DIR. Edward Everett Hale. speaking
the other day before the Mothers and
Fathers Club of Boston, said: "Tene-
ment houses some seventeen stories
high, packed with people and causing
all kinds of tenement house laws to be
made, are as wicked as hell" He ex-
pressed the hope that in a hundred
years from now there would be no great
cities. What we want" said the ora
tor. .s to initiate our children to live
in the open air. to grow to love the
country, so that they can know the diff
ference between a turnip and potato
and between grass and hemlock. When
this has been brought about we will
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mechanical machine life we are now
living"
Premier Balfour admits that the Bril-
ish government is disturbed over the
Balkan trouble. 1t is in the same boat
with other nations in this respect.
In the Atlantic Monthly for February
is the first of two valuable and very
readable papers upon Academic Free
dom in Theory and In Practice" by
President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale.
After reviewing in an exceedingly in
terestng manner the development of
freedom and independence in teaching
President Hadley comes to quarters
with the academic situation in this
country at the present time. No one in
terested in the larger intellectual life of
this country can afford to miss this
stimulating plea for the intellectual in
tegrity of our teachers.
Now that trust busting legislation
has been completed, congress may prof.
itably turn its attention for the remain
ing two weeks to rounding up other
work.
OF those taking civil service examin-
ations for appointment in federal de-
partments last year, s. per cent re-
per cent fell short of it. OF those who
passed the examinations % per cent
were. and rs per cent were not. APP
pointed.
One of the proposed changes in the
New Hampshire constitution, which the
voters of the state will pass upon on
March 10, relates to the phraseology of
the bill Of rights of New Hampshire,
adopted in 1888. After reciting the ne
cessity of morality and piety, section G
of this bill of rights empowers the
legislature ito authorize, from time to
time. the several towns. parishes, bod
les corporate or religious societies with
in the state to make adequate proyiS-
ion, at their own expense, for the sup
port and maintenance of public Prot
estant teachers of plety, religion and
morality" The proposed amendment is
the omission of the word PROTESTANT"
Madge-She has lovely complex
ion.
Marjorie-No wonder; that girls
studied chemstry.-Smart Set.
In Massachusetts a jury In the SUI
preme court has given a verdict of $21,-
900 to Charles Bjoinquist, 81 years old
for the loss of both legs, in his suit
against the Boston & Albany railroad.
Bjoinquist was stealing a ride on
freight ear in East Cambridge in 1899,
when one of the trainmen ordered him
off. The boy jumped and fell under the
wheels. The plaintiff alleged that the
accident was due to the fright given 20
the boy by the company's employee,
while the defendant corporation con-
tended that the fact that Bjoinquist
was tresspasser cleared it of liabili-
ty.