Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-21
quoth Towers. II hope your royal high
ness has not come down here to deprive
me of my character"

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ness has not come down here to deprive
me of my character
When the Hon. John Hay Informed
the Ohioans on Saturday night that. II
his arithmetic was right, six years still
remained of Mr.. Roosevelt's term. the
did not surpass the bounds
permitted to the after-dinner lightning
calculator. But what did Hanna mean
when he got upon his feet at the earli-
est opportunity and publicly announced
that the production of presidents was
still a thriving industry in Ohio?-New
York Sun.
Idaho has just taken a new departure
which is of great consequence for ner
welfare. The republicans. for the first
time in half a dozen years. have re-
gained control OF the state. A republic
can, Weldon b. Hepburn, has been
elected TO the senate. to succeed Helt-
field, democrat. Idaho has had a siege
of democracy and populism which will
probably cure her citizens of any fur
the desire to experiment with either
Of those distempers in the near future.
The furious Impotence Of the pas
& on board the ST. Louis because
they could not travel more h about
$50 miles a day proves how people have
been spoiled by railroad flyers and
ocean greyhounds. The whole delight
full voyage across the Atlantic was
spoiled for them. Instead of enjoying
the enlarged privilege of sea and sky
and sweet salt breeze given them with
out extra charge by the delay, they held
indignation meetings in the cabin and
begged the captain to transfer them to
a fast steamer. Seasoned travellers
take slow freighters and the most
charming sea voyages are still made
under sail.
Whether President Shelton, Of the
State Teachers Association, was cor
rect or not in stating that three-fourths
of the money spent on salaries to teach
ers in the rural schools is thrown away
the fact remains that salaries of S25 per
month are not going 10 secure the kind
OF instructors parents would like to
have for their children. II the school
teaching business will thrive and &C.
complish its best results with extremely
labor 1T will be the hrst
that ever succeeded on thal
nolicy Farmers have learned that an
careful farm hand is cheaper
at n good salary thar a disorderly, lazy
fellow at q small salary. Likewise man
ayers of large business enterprises
agree that well-paid men make the best
nrofts for the employer and the RUE
seem to guarantee that the con-
soIidate country school in which a
and fr~st-class teacher could
be employed would accomplish the pest
for rural school patrons.
Men of today will live to see the time
when the bulk Of the telegraph business
will be transmitted by wireless instru-
ments. The children of that day will
read in their school histories of the
ereat Juror o~ccasioned turnout the
world when the king Of England and
h president of the United States ex-
changed greetings via the wireless
route. and they will wonder why the
reonle Of those times made SO much
noise about SO common and simple Il
thing as t~elegraphing without wires.
Governor Cummins has interfered to
son a prize fight. 1t will be interesting
to read the "stand-pat" newspapers to-
morrow to see If this proves him a dam
ocrat.
The fellow who suggests that the
Irnited States navy be sent to sieze
enourh of the isthmus thru which To
build a canal is a trife previous. 1t is
tr,e that as the German olonles In
South America grow in Importance this
nation may become involved In serious
with Germany over rights
which the United States terms collect
lively as the Monroe doctrine, but the
,op;c that presumes q struggle to.be IN
a,i+ah,e and then concludes that we
eho,,ld rush into the land-grabing pusl-
ness post haste is about as sensible as
the philosophy of the inebriate VINO
goes on a glorious toot today because
tomorrow he may die.
The trial now in progress at Eldora IN
which a poor fellow, blinded for life by
the carelessness of q gunner while the
victim was springing a clay pigeon
trap, is seeking to recover damages
should serve as a warning to all per-
sons who are thoughtless and careless
in the presence of danger. Incidents OF
this kind seem far away to the reader,
h,t the news editor knows that dread
FIJI and fatal accidents are the result OF
FIJI and fatal accidents as the result OF
csrelessness are sure to happen every
day So common are these things that
the newspaper man expects them ana
as he goes to work in the morning ne
makes a mental reservation of space In
that days paper for the .hat
he knows are going to happen before
the day is done. We can't be too care
FIJI in what we do and some of US should
he more careful than others.
Proposed Coal Mine Seizures.
Minneapolis Tribure.l
W. evenacr that the Jenkins resolu-