Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-10
Topics Of the Times

Observation-Disclosures
Spain killed 1900 bulls in bull fights
last year, which furnishes an example
of "beeffng," that it would bother All
American base ball team to live up to.
If the continental army whose deeds
we celebrate had been subjected to a
series of present day Fourth OF July
celebrations it would not have lasted
u week
The difference between a weed patch
and little labor on the side IS illus
trated by the case of William Smith
of Grundy Center who had half lot
in strawberries this year and sold $40
worth from his patch in addition to
those that We're put up by the family.
Reports from Spirit Lake show an
unusually high stage of water in the
lakes. Those who predicted a few
years ago that the lakes we've doomed
are now being requested to dry up
AT a recent meeting the Spirit Lake
council passed one hundred resolutions
condemning sidewalks. This action
covers nearly all the board walks in
the town. Cement walks will be put
In. Very likely new council Also
sss
"They have small patience with those
who in the name of reform insist that
the republican party must depart from
its ancient faith and incorporate into
its creed doctrines that 1t has opposed
from its BIRTH" says the Cedar Rap
ids Republican, referring to the de-
mand of other republican papers for
vitalization Of the reciprocity clause
in the Dingley law and President Nc
Kinley's defeated efforts to put reci-
procity into force.
or nine thousand persons assembled
in the great Ocean Grove auditorium
Mt Asbury Park, New Jersey. on the
fourth at the patriotic meeting of the
National Educational Association. it
was estimated that eight thousand nine
hundred were women In white gowns.
The assembly gave visible demonstra-
tons of the preponderating role women
are playing In American education.
'Marshing Thru Georgia" Is said to
be the favorite tune of the Japanese
soldiers. Native music has no marches,
as it Is without time" Patriotic
Japanese composers have however,
since the war began. remedied this de-
feet by adapting various foreign pieces.
The soldiers have picked up the new
airs. and sing with great delight the
Japanese words fitted to them.
John D. Rockefeller can travel seven
ty-five miles in his automobile over his
estate in Westminster. without running
twice on the same road. But what is
more to the purpose many an Iowa
farmer may travel twice the distance
behind D corn pillow without driving
over the same corn row twice.
The July Atlantic contains a clear
and temperate discussion of Large
Fortunes by Professor j, Laurence
Laughlin OF the University of Chicago.
Professor Laughlin points out how
they are made under contemporary
economic conditions. and how they
should and should not be spent. The
timeliness Of this paper in view OF re-
cent controversies will be apparent.
Professor William Benjamin Smith,
author OF THE Color Line" in making
his argument for the proof of the in
feriority OF the negro to the white race.
backs his statements by the latest sta
tistics from anthropology, ethnology,
sociology and the kindred sciences. In
order that his arguments shall be as
conclusive as possible, he goes into the
question with the greatest minuteness.
Among other interesting facts that he
proves by exhaustive tables of compar-
alive figures are. that the average stat
white, that the black is decidedly
weaker in lung capacity and In chest
expansion than the white, that the me-
gro's respiration Is considerably more
frequent than that of the white. indi-
eating tendency towards disease;
that the mean lifting strength of the
negro is lower than that of the white,
and that the power Of vision of the
negro Is inferior to that of the white.
AS final support to these facts con-
corning the negro's physical inferiority
to the white, he shows by statistics
that the death rate of the negro at
times exceeds that of the white by So
per cent.
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
To the Ft. Dodge Messenger it seems
that THE car is showing up with
mighty poor batting average in the
game this season"
Noting that some Denver men as
sert that they can stretch persons
backbone from one to three inches, the
naooro1, Journal ASSERTS 'rThara tent