Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-25
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Because of the retirement of Colonel
Pratt from the governors staff Gov
ernor Cummins has appointed Repre-
sentative Wilson, of Washington coun-
ty, to fill the vacancy. a reporter has
discovered that in the Gear-Cummins
senatorial contest Wilson supported
Gear. Perhaps Cummins did not know
that and perhaps the O%skaloosa Herald
would raise a howl if some one should
commend the governor for c~onquerins
his prejudices and trying to do the
square thing.
That there can be some radicalism
on the labor question without the labor
unions as we'll as within is evidenced
dent Parry, of the Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION. Criticising Hanna's utter
ances he says. MIR. Hanna corralled
the manufacturers of the country in the
first Mckinley campaign because of the
fear of Organism. He led them into the
mckinley camp because of this fear, but
if he thinks he can ring-nose h manu-
facturers of the country on the labor
issue and lead them into the camp of
the Gompers and his aggregation. |
think he oyerestimates his strength and
Influence very much. The National
Association of Manufacturers is not a
political organization, and will not be
led by any politician. As long as | am
president of the association it shall not
be used as a kite to advance the for
tunes of any politician or political
party"
Gibson Bowles, an English politician.
is wrought up over h progress of tenn
perance in England. ut is impossible"
he says, with alarm. ito walk thru the
streets of any English town without
seeing that temperance is making fear
full strides Mr.. Bowles is quite likely
Interested in a brewing establishment.
Glasgow provides something novel in
the line of model tenements for the poor
namely. a lodging house for mothers
with children. There are one hundred
and sixty bedrooms, a large Kitchen,
where food may be bought ready
cooked; smaller kitchens, where one
may cook her own meals, a laundry, an
elevator, electric lights in the bedrooms
and a day nursery. It one boards,
breakfast costs 5 cents, dinner s cents
and tea 6 cents. The board for one
child is As cents a week; for two. 80
.~x $50 So <h.aa ~, 90 - tc
each. Even at these excessively low
rates, the lodging house showed a credit
balance Of $500 last zee
There is a Chinese story which tells
how a very stingy man took a paltry
sum Of money to an arttst-payment is
always expected in advance-and asked
him to paint his portrait. The artist
at once complied with the request, but
when the portrait was finished nothing
was visible save the back of the Sit
ter's head.
What does this mean?" cried the sit
ter. Indignantly.
Well replied the artist, II thought
a man who paid SO little as you paid
wouldn't care to show his face"
China and the Chinese.
When a business man. standing be-
fore the Physicians Club Of Chicago,
asserted that there were M hundred
thousand children in that city who
couldn't tell a daisy from a violet or a
dandelion from a rose, The truth of the
statement was challenged. 1t vas de-
cided to test 1t by actual experiment.
so. armed with bouquets. n of the
doctors visited a number Of public
schools in the slums. In his report he
acknowledged that things were almost
children were familiar enough with the
of popular actors and prize
fighters, but the rose was the only flow
err they succeeded in Identifying by
name. There were other blossoms which
they appeared to recognize as having
seen often before. but of their names
they were quite ignorant.
First Doupe-Have You seen the new
cigaret music box?
Second Doupe-No; what is it?
First Doupe-Eyery time o put 10
cents in the slot you get a pack of
cigarets, and the machine plays Near
er, My God, to Thee
New York Sun.
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According to the view of DR.. Scharff,
the atlantis" of Plato was a reality
and not a myth, says a recent number
of knowledge" Madeira and the
Azores having been connected by land
with the European and African conti-
nents SO late as the early portion of the
human period. This connection was,
however, but the last phase of a great
Atlantic continent, which the author
at an earlier epoch to have
extended from Morocco (Which was
then connected with PortugaD to South
America, reaching at Least as far south
as st. Helena. The evidence in favor
of this former extensive lane connection
has been drawn from a careful survey
of the whole fauna OF the Atlantic
islands, which displays marked affini-
ties with that of the Mediterranean
countries on the one hand and that of
South America on the other. That a
land connection between Africa and
South America existed at a relatively
remote geological epoch is now gener-