Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-01


q lawful exercise of the police power
and is not in violation OF the constitu-
ton. either as an unreasonable restrain,
lupon the liberty of the citizen or as a
deprivation of property without due
process of law.
Countries have to be educated up to
providing for new economic or social
conditions. Denmark is already adj
justing itself to the altered conditions
which decreased the probability of n
female child's marriage. 1t has a sys-
TEN OF insurance against the possibility
CT spinsterhood. III Denmark, if a sum
of about S225 is deposited on behalf of a
girl at birth, she becomes entitled, if
unmarried at the age cf go to receive
an annuity of s25. which is increased
by SIS every ten years. If. however,
she marries before she ia so, 1925 is re-
turned to her, or if she dies before she is
that age, there is contribution of some
$50 or $40 toward her funeral
The life insurance companies which
| iiourshing. AT the close of last year
they had gross assets il excess of ST.
tcO0,000,000, and their increase beyond
the figures of 1901 surpassed slS0,0O0,-
1000. OF this increase the New York
companies reported an advance of more
than $l14,000,000.
| The Ttnnnrnr MapaIilr boJ n n,,-
rious experience in his efforts to re-
place barter by metallic currency in
| Abyssinia. The Maria Theresa thaler
has for generations been current, but
for want of q smaller coinage salt
blocks became the standard of en-
change, and resisted all efforts, even
of the emperor, to replace them by
years ago. The salt blocks have given
way but not to the new coinage, which
the people will not tough. The new
standard of values is-the rifle cart
ridge.
An Oskaloosa man wrote his last
will and testament which he placed in
8 bottle and set atloat with a note stat
ing that he had suicided 1t was found
and search instituted When the fellow
was finally located he said he was jok-
ing. Most people with good sense will |
wish he hadn't been Joking.
The greatest ocean depth ever dis |
covered was sounded only a short time
11rinp ba
batross in the Pacific. Professor Agas-
siz was in charge Of the expedition, and |
near the island of Guam There the
beam trawl, attached to a steel cable,
was lowered to the depth OF 2S,S7S feet,
five miles, almost as high as Mount |
Everest. By means of thermometers
attached to the trawl it was found that
the water at this depth bore the tenn
perature OF only So degrees, Just little
above the freezing point.
Manson has so many worthless men
who live on the labor Of their wives
that the Manson Democrat gives warm
ing that whitecap operations are about
to begin.
The Grundy County Democrat tells
of a successful experiment in road work
worth the notice of road supervisors
and trustees. II says: &C Nj. Spyague,
one of the trustees Of Palermo town
ship who has been appointed to look to
the road work in one-thiri OF the town.
ship, has had a force Of men at work
this week on the BlokZyi hill one of the
worst pieces of road in the county Mr..
Sprague tried a new experiment by
using steam instead of horse power on
The grader. The experiment has been
lighly satisfactory. as about twice as
much work can be done in ihis way as {
T horses were used and he expense is /
much lighter. The engine will be kept (,
o do road work in the other districts I
ii the township"
II you could tell $4,000 people that I
sour farm is for sale some one of them
would buy it. The T.-R will tell them :
he story for Is cents invested in a For !,
Sale" ad.