Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-05
TOPICS OF THE TIMES


Democrat should attempt to support life
on these two necessities alone he would
be likely to think of the others. Out
side of that city there are many of us
who have been led to believe that water
was not so considered in Davenport.
Il
The Butler County Press has been
a Minnesota teacher. Mr.. Booton's du
ties as postmaster made the sale adj
visable.
| An apparently unnecessary order has
been made by the postmaster genera
that after Oct l matter mailed within
the United States shall rot be accepted
If it bears United States stamps over
printed philippine" and conversely
that matter mailed in the islands shall
be refused if it bears the ordinary
United States stamps without the same
| "surcharge." There would seem to be
10 reason why the same stamps should
rot be available in the United States
and the Philippine islands, as the postal
rates are the same in both countries.
| The same rule was enforced in 1898 and
| 1899 with the postage and the revenue
stamps, to the inconvenience of many
persons; the new rule Will undoubtedly
discommode many in the future. If the
philippines had stamps OF their own, as
the British colonies have, the case
would be different.
| The meat famine at Burlington is an
| ILLUSTRATION of how largely the average
city is dependent upon outside cities
and firms and railroad facilities. Cut
off from packing house meats by the
high water the Burlington people be-
gan to fear they must go without beef
and pork.
| For some years a potato, semi-aqua-
| tic, and originally grown in Uruguay,
| has been cultivated in the neighborhood
/ of Marseiiles. NJ. Heckel director of
the Colonial Institute of that city. has
made report to the French minister of
agriculture on the subject, in which he
says that the growing of the potato in
question, which he calls the "commer-
son." is most promising industry. 1t
has gradually become sweet, large and
mealy under cultivation, def1es frost
and has eatable foliage, the cutting of
| tubers. Moreover. the "commerson"
keeps we'll; it does not rot; rats do not
eat it, and the plant is subject to no
potato disease. But what is most Won
| oerful of all is that the common potato
bug quickly dies after feeding off its
| foliage.
| Gabe Ganzy-I wonder why It's that
we never see no fat villains in none of
the dramatic troops that come along
here?
Manager Pettyville Theater = Too
many cigarets and too few salary.
prob'ly. Puck
The Burlington Journal (dem.) and
the Davenport Republican are tossing
the alleged crookedness CT A. w. Ma
chen and the fact that he was a Cleve-
land appointee back and forth. But it
doesn't so much matter whether he was
appointed by democratic and retained
by a republican administration as that
he is accused of rascality as an official
of the government. Every democrat is
not horse thief nor Is every repub-
lican an honest man. If Machen has
been guilty it was not as an adherent
of either party. but as II government
employe. The investigation is seeking
to punish thief, not partisan.
A single ocean steamer brought $500
Storage passengers to the port of New
York one day recently. 1t is at this rate
that immigration is being overdone and
the United States saddle1 with ser-
Gus burden to be carried thru the next
period Of depression.
The ST Paul school teachers are get
ting at one of the real evils of indus
trial instruction in the public schools.
The evils of such instruction are not in
the work itself, but in its manner of
Introduction and direction. Perceiving
the great benefits to be derived from
industrial instruction and realizing
their lack Of means, school boards have
been inclined to have the regular grade
teachers give instruction in the indus
trial work. This leads tc over worked
and often vexed teachers, and generally
b. poor teaching, for not all teachers
c. be expected to be interested or pro-
ficient in instruction that is thus forced
Upon them. Some of the simpler forms
Of industrial instruction probably can
not be left to specialists; but when
schools go In for 1t on a large scale, as
little Of the special work as possible
should be put on the shoulders of the
regular teachers. The policy Of over
loading the teachers is bad all around,
whether the superf1uous load be from
Industrial instruction or something else.
whats the price of your best tea?"
asked the woman with the market
basket.
1.-TWO dollars a pound" replied the
clerk.
isn't that too steep?" asked the bar
gain chaser.
Yves. ma'am," answered the youth.
That's what my folks buy tea for
Chicago News.
Time for the terrapin and turtle
story. Five years ago G. II. Taylor, OF
Ashland. Mo- found land terrapin. He