Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-21
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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Iowa Falls polled but twenty vote
az the recent school election and low;
:, City but 40. OF course the side door
Iwere open in Iowa City, but what's tn
matter with Iowa Falls?
t Eleanor Gates Tully. author of "Th
/ Biography of a Prairie Girl smiled tn,
7 other day when famous critic enthu
siastically praised the purity and tinisl
OF her English. Queer. ISN'T is? sht
said II went to the University of Cali
fornia and to Leland Stanford. for spe-
, school degree they wouldn't admit ms
, to any of the higher English courses.
! had to go into newspaper work and get
my English training in that school,
what supports the sun in the heav-
ens?. asked the country school teacher
"Why. its beams, OF course replied q
precocious youngster.
Kansas City Independent.
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/ In certain parishes in Louisiana the
4 roise of lamentation is beard because
the destruction of alligators has per-
mitted the multiplication of hordes OF
muskrats. and these pefnicious crea-
! lures burrow in the levacs to such AN
extent that disastrous floods follow. Al
llipators deyour muskrats, and where
the big fellows are plentiful the smaller
iadiusted are the checks and balances
OF Mother Nature! 1t may possibly be
1 advisable for some o. the southern
states to offer bounties for the propaga-
t:on of alligatrs, and 10 restock the
Ibayous, lakes and rivers with the I'M
/ couth saurians.
Second Warden r. A. Mcpherson
climbed the penitentiary wall at Salem
| Gre, the other night to test the vigil
| lance of guards. McPherson's feat was
| performed at the risk Of his life. Had
no heen discovered he would probably
have been instantly shot. He placed a
ladder against the exterior OF the walt
climbed up lowered his ladder into the
| iail yard, and descended. he Went thru
the prison shops. and rs final touch
| carried away the coat ard hat of one OF
the guards. 1t was from this jail that
1.-The famous Tracy ESCAPED last sum-
r,er, and it is supposed that the rifle
with which he fought his way out was
taken into the prison over the yard
fence.
The statement of Professor Behring
that by incubation of an infant with
absolute immunity from consumption
turnout it's life should be taken with a
grain of salt. The failure of so many
alleged discoveries OF specifics to make
good their assertions has been noticea-
BE and will justify the public in re-
lauiring more conclusive proof of the
professors assertion.
The recent report of the British COM
mission of inquiry as to the charges OF
wrongdoing in connection with the pur-
chase and shipment of horses to South
Africa 1n the Boer war has words of
rraise for "the excellen. laws govern
ing the transport of animals by rail in
the United States and in Argentina"
The method of transportation of ami
|mals, merchandise and passengers in
the United States is in advance of other
and older countries.
William Berrian, New York col
lector Of curios and historically valua-
BILE articles, has left as part of his es-
tate an arm chair formerly used by
Thomas Paine, the great deist and
reyolutionist. Altho strict Methodist
Mr. Berrian priced the chair highly and
used it himself for twenty years. The
chair will go to the old grocer's un-
married daughter.
Mr. Hermann Klein begins in the
April number of the Century Maya
zine series of articles which deal with
the opera folk whom he has known.
During the period of 1870 to 1900 Mr.
Klein Was prominent musical critic in
London, and most of the notable fig
ures in the world of music were his in
innate friends. The first paper, Mod
ern Musical Celebrities" sets forth the
authors personal recolections of such
well-known composers as Verdi, Wag-
FER, Gounod, List ana Tschaikowsky.
The later papers are to treat of famous
singers, among them AdAIina Patti and
nj. Jean de ResZke. Not the least in
teresting feature of these articles, so it
is said, is Mr. Klein's gcssipy talk on
the mounting of grand opera; particu-
larly so his recollections of the yicissi
tudes Of the late Sir Augustus Harris.
Charles d. Walcott, director of the
geological survey, denies the truth of
the statement recently attributed to
him that the anthracite coal supply of
this country would he exhausted in
sixty years. He says that on the con-
trary the supply will last for 200 years
Or more.
$1Oo-Dr. u. Detchon's Anti-Dieurer-
ic may be worth TO you more than 500
If you have a child who soils bedding
from incontinence of water during
sleep. Cures old and young alike. It ar
rests the trouble at once. 81. Sold by
Charles J. Land,r, druggist, Marshall.
town. Iowa