Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-24
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

thirteen by fourteen. Owing to its pc
GUITAR location it is now assessed at q
taxable valuation of 5000. 1t might no,
be easy to find a parallel.
The anti-saloon WORKERS in Butler
county will print and circulate at theil
own expense complete lists of the
NAMES on the saloon petition lately cir
culated in that county. They figure tina.
certain curtain lectures bound to
ensue when the wives are fully in
reduction in the number of names now
borne by the petition.
That "a man who wears a thirty
four-inch pair of trousers, in girth and
length. should not aspire to be mayor
of Iowa City is the expressed belief
of the Iowa City Republican. Abraham
Lincoln, when asked to state the proper
length of neither limbs for a proper man,
simply required that the leg should "be
long enough to reach from the body to
the ground Doubtless Mr.. Lincoln
spoke hastily, but this is not the only
Instance where Lincoln. Blaine and
others of the great ones gone have been
in error-according to the Iowa City
paper.
Admiral Walker, who 1t is predicted
will be made president of the canal
commission to be appointed by the
president. is another Icwan who has
greatly distinguished himself during his
service in the navy and IS chairman of
the canal commission appointed by
President Mckinley. He is an author
ity on all matters connected with the
canal.
n ell-know Assyriologist, DIR.
Hugo Winckler, has published an ac-
count of the legislation romulgat by.
King Amraphel. of Babylon, which. so
FAR as is known at present, was the
llrst BOOK of laws ever given to the
world. hng Amraphel lived $3.50 years
b. c., and is mentioned N the Bible as.
a contemporary of Abraham, sc that his
statutes were drawn up fully five CEN
turtles before the laws of Moses. They
number 2S2, and contain the following:
If Il woman who sells beverages
gives bad value for the mcney paid her,
she shall be thrown into water.
If Il wife be IA spendthrift, or if she
otherwise neglect her duties, her hus-
band may put her away without COM
p%ensation; but If a man put away his
wife for no other reason than that she
has no children, he snail return her
whole dowry.
If Il betrothal be resc:nded, the man
shall pay the IN compensation.
"A widow with grown-up children
sion from a Judge"
Missouri now has en- anti-cigaret
law which will become effective in
ninety days. The parental shingie
welded with judgmsns and a nervous
arm is likely to show more immediate
results in this reform than may be
hoped from legislation.
IN cities and towns in which the wa
ter supply is wholly under the control
of competent and faithful public Off
Gals epidemics of typi,cid fever are
almost unknown" says The New York
Tribune. From the earliest times ex-
p%erience has shown thai he entire pro-
vision of water for every community of
any considerable size or Importance
should be handled by ,nen who hold
places of trust in which they are re-
sponsibie to the taxpayers"
The Keosauqua Republican Is hope
tul that the next Iowa republican plat
form will be all right. The Republican
NAY set its mind at ease. There is no
need for worry. The next Iowa repub-
lican platform will r. made by the
republican party of the state and will
represent the c~oncensus of republican
belief among Iowa republicans; and
this should be satisfactory to all real
republicans. The platform will be all
right.
Here is a newspaper derivation of the
@ord "canard:' A canard means, in
french, a duck: in English it has come
10 mean u HOAX OF fabricated newspaper
story. It's origin is amusing. About
fifty years Il French Journalist con
tributed to the French press an expert
ment of which he declared himself to
have been the author. Twenty ducks
we're placed together, and one of them,
having been cut up jnyo very small
%,ieces, was g~luttonousiy gobbled up
by the other nineteen. Another bird
was Their sacrificed for the remainder,
and so on, until one duck was left,
which thus contained in its inside the
other ninetsen! This the journalist
ate. The story caugh. on, and was
copied into all the newspapers of Eu-
rome. And thus the "canard" became
immortaliZed.
The editor of the Thundering Dawn,
a Buddhist paper recently started. an
nounces in his salutato.y: This paper
has come from the womb of eternity.
i,1st as we all come. 1t starts It's circu-
lation with millions and millions of
numbers. The rays of the sun, the
beams of the stars, the leaves of trees,
the blades of grass, the grains of sand,
thes hearts of tigers, elephants. lamps.
ants. men and women are its subscribe
ers This journal will henceforth flow
in the universe as the rivers flow, and
the oeeans surge" This leads to the
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