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

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| When Count Reventlow referred t.
the American navy as being still in Its
infant Shoes" he probably was think
ing of wooden ones.
| Lack of railroad rolliag stock to car
ry coke has compelled the closing o.
many ovens, and a similar famine" ir
| freight cars has intersered with the
development of other American indus
tries. The question has become a seri-
Gus one. The public has a right to
right to demand that they provide
themselves with the necessary equip
ment to render such service as may be
demanded by the eNigencies of the
public need.
To judge man by what he says
Quite often. doesn't pay.
A better way to judge him is
By what he doesn't say.
Philadelphia Press
People in the vicinity of Niagara
Falls were this past winter granted the
privilege of walking wkere human fee,
had probably never trod before. An
ice jam near the head of Goat Island
diverted the water of the Niagara river
from the American to the Canadian
channel. Below this ice dam, where the
rapids have always roared and ragged,
the rocks were barred ard curious visi-
tors walked on the river bed, something
hitherto impossible.
1t seems probable that before long the
dogs as we'll as the daughters of rich
and fashionable folk will be sent to
Paris to finish their education. A
school for dogs has been established
there. Many society women already
employ maid or a man as a dog at
tendant, whose duty it l.. to train and
to accompany their pampered pets. But
IL is now possible to send them to a
school. where they can be taught to
bark properly. to bow in greeting and
farewell, to pick up FAN dropped by
the mistress and present 1t to her
gracefully, and to walk with proud and
prancing steps.
An Inviting Field.-"They say there's
an island in the Pacific with 900 inhab-
itants, where drunkenness crime, jails,
police and courts are unknown
us that 500, It's a wonder somebody
hasn't started to civiliZe it."
Brooklyn Life.
Montezuma has a plan to deduct 10
per cent from the rates o. tuition in the
city schools for the benefit of country
pupils. A provision is added to the
proposition that provides for the clos
ing of district schools whose pupils take
advantage of the reduction. The plan
Is likely to meet much opposition in the
country.
Muscatine is having disappointing
of the water works. The salient facts
in the case are briefly stated in recent
issue of the Dubuque Times. Under
private ownership a tax of mills
County valuation) was levied on ali
property within the fire. limits to pay
the cost of public service. The water
company paid $4,000 per year in taxes.
Under public ownership this tax for
public service has been continued and
the city has levied also n tax of 2 mills
on all properly In the city for sinking
fund purposes. Dwellers in the sub
prbs are demanding an extension of the
water mains and the trustees have no
money to meet the demand nor any
credit. Typhoid fever hes prevailed in
the town and the wafer supply, in
which typhoid germs have been found,
Is said to be the cause Of the epidemic.
There is a public demand for a filter
ing plant. The trustees have no means
with which to construct it and at
mass meeting the citizens have been
urged to subscribe funds with which
to construct altering plant on an
island to which it Is proposed to extend
the intake. The sinking fund aside.
public service at Muscatine is costing
more under public ownership than it
cost under private ownership.
A plan for the union OF all Protest.
ant churches, which seems the most
feasible of any yet suggested, is one
similar to that Of our national govern
ment, in which the several churches,
like states of the union, would manage
their own affairs internally, and be
in a general council for
the discussion of matters relating to
the general good Of the church.
The new 'auti-monopoly" law of
Texas appears to include, in spite Of the
efforts of labor leaders to obtain an ex-
cmption, labor unions as well as COM
binations Of capital within its condem-
nation. Every kind of combination,
whether of labor or capital. it would
appear, may be prosecuted under the
act.
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