Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-04

ural demand, extreme caution should
be exercised that it does not serve to
deteriorate the quality of the states
future horse crop.
SERIOUS FIRE DISASTER.
Very genral regret is felt in the state
over the total destruction by fire of the
Harris Emery Company department
store and adjacent buildings in Des
Moines Tuesday morning. The great
Harris Emery building, with it's five
stories and basement filled with goods,
was burned to cinders, the aggregate
loss on this and other structures being
placed at $46O.000. This was fairly we'll
covered by insurance. One of the most
serious features was the throwing out
of employment of about go employees OF
the big department store alone.
The fire was the greatest and most
disastrous that ever occurred III the
capital city. 1t had reached such head
way when the fire department arrived
that nothing awaited to save even the
adjoining buildings With Waterman
in the building it is almost beyond COM
| prehension that disaster of this kind
could have occurred in a city supposed
to be equipped with all modern appli-
ances for fighting fire. Equally mys-
terious is the origin of the flames. This
lesson shows the inadequacy of precau-
tions and the ineffectiveness of appli
ances at times to prevent such disas-
tiers.
! BY the aid of insurance and an un-
broken spirit the Harris-Emery Com.
pany will rebuild and continue bust
ness. They are fortunate in having
competitors of notable public spirit in
1 Younker Brothers. who rendered them
the use of the building they are about
i TO vacate as temporary quarters
PLEA FOR EDUCATED FARMERS.
In an address before the Farmers
National Congress in Boston yesterday
President w. d. Hoard. of Wisconsin,
pointed out what he considered the
principal drawback TO agricultural
lprogress a present, and that is the
wide gulf between the teacher Of ag-
|ricultural science and the working
farmer Others have noticed this him
ldranee a,d commented upon it, but
none Il > more force than President
Hoard. n declared that the average
4 farmer has too little sympathy for or
ganized methods for better agricult-
ural education. This is seen IN the
fact that. as a class, he spends thou
sands of dollars to educate his children
TO be lawyers and doctors. where he
spends one dollar TO especially fit them
TO be intelligent farmers, And further,
that but few farmers believe there is
such thing as a science of aglicult-
ure.''
1t is probable that the present gen
Grafton of farmers Will Justify them
selves by showing they have had NJ
q opportunity TO become scientific farm
ers;; that they We're brought up in pic,
neer days under hard conditions thai
did not permit of such education; anc
that while they are able to provide
their children with some Of these edu-
cational privileges, they are not WHOLLY
responsible for the bent of their incii-
nations and intelleets- There are many
unatractiye features about farm life
and while a portion OF The hard worl
upon the farm has been minimized b,
Z machinery, one farmer with whom tn.
.lwriter talked declares that disguise j
las we may, good farming calls for hare
land severe work. Thousands OF farm
ers who provide edueations for SON
: lament the fact that so few of then
are willing to stick TO the old farm
Ii is apparent that better era j
dawning, and that education an
: lco-operative methods. such as Nj
! Hoard referred to as needful, VIII i'm
= prove farming methods and enable th
agriculturist TO get the most out OF tn
soil with the least waste OF us neces
sary ingredients.
:. IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
d The Scranton Journol declares tthei
: is no wavering in the republican co
e umn in Greene county this year. RI
. publicans are smiling, prosperous an
/ happy, and the occasional calamit
a bowler who comes among us to poi
$. out tale OF suffering and woe, fine
! little sympathy.
X The Waterloo Reporter notices thi
THE democrats of Floyd county ha,
% Nominated B. f. Wright for represe,