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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28

direction and then another, marking the
blocks of almost uniform size and cut
ting narrow burrows two or three inch
es in depth. After the field has been
plowed men with heavy bars sharpened
and flattened at one end separate the
cakes very rapidly, the burrows made
by the plow giving them leverage that
causes the ice to separate in uniform
blocks. A constant stream of loose
cakes are foated to the houses, where
continuous elevator operated by
steam engine carries them onto tracks
and into the houses. where another
force of men is kept busy arranging the
ice into layers The cutting and pack
ing of the crop is sight worth witnessi
ing. The work is now done in about as
many days as the old methods required
weeks.
When the public library and govern
ment postofiice buildings are assured,
the city can do little else than erect
new city building on it's vacant lots on
Norh Center street. One thing in the
city's favor in its efforts to procure
government building will be the gratify-
ing report from the postotfice OF the
years business. The report VIII be ready
some time in January and good show
ing is anticipated. From indications the
Marshalltown postoffice will be In the
first class with receipts of $4,000 per
annum before the city attains the pop
ulation of $4,000 necessary to raise 1t to
the same class.
Before the commentator gets another
Saturday turn at reforming this uni
verse the new year will have been fair
ly on it's way. 80 1t behooves him to say
today that there never has been year
in the history of Marshalltown when its
retail merchants and business houses
generally have had more cause for sat
isfaction. The entire year has been a
prosperous one and the Christmas trade
has been enormous. Marshall county has
found itself in the center of the favored
country wherein the corn crop was not
a failure, SO Marshall county farmers
have profited immensely by the prevail
ing high prices. All northern Iowa in
fact has been unusually favored and
Marshalltown's business houses, whole
sale and factory, have all prospered.
The writer happened to spend an hour
In the station two days before Christi
mas and he was interested in the crowds
who visited the city from all directions.
The Story City branch especially sent
large crowds of holiday shoppers to the
city, the trains on that line having been
crowded every day during the big trade
days. When the entire country is COW
cred with rural free delivery. business
will also be increased, as purchases can
then be made by mail and delivered By
the carriers at slight expense.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28

bits said Chauncey Depew. "and il
ought to be in their system. 1t is really
the western end of the Big Four and
Lake Erie & Western
Wall street thinks that L. F. Day, the
Iowa Central's vice president and gen
eral manager in ST. Paul. and President
Hawley, in New York, will soon see the
great road selling for what 1t is worth,
and the vanderbilts will have it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28
PRAYER RESTORED SIGHT.
Rev. pr. Herald Tells Of Modern
Miracle In New York.

| New York, Dec. 28.-With one eye en-
/ tirely gone. with the lens Of the othe,
| apaprently hopelessly dislocated. with
the sad assurance by one Of the mos
famous oculists in the world that his
sight was forever gone, Rev. DR.. Charles
NJ. Herald. pastor of the Bethesda Con
gregational church OF Brooklyn, prayed
for help. Today he sees.
There Is glimmer of light in his care
fully shaded chamber. He sees the dir
objects that come before him. The In
illumination has gone from his eye bali
| Science is amazed.
1T Is the will OF Almighty God" says
the reverend doctor. II prayed FOL
help. God sent 1t to me-"
The miraculous story, of the restora-
ton OF sight was told by DR.. Herald yes
terday. 1t was told In plain, unaffect-
ed way. 1t is full Of the thankfulness
of man who was blind but sees again
| Eight years ago the lens of my right
| eye became partly dislocated," said DR.
Herald. The eye was taken out. ex-
amined and replaced, But inflammation
set in, and 1t was necessary to remove
the eye six years ago.
..On Oct. % last the lens of my left eye
became partly disocated. DR.. Alleman
| informed me that two thirds of the lens
was In the back cavity Of the eye, and
the other one-third was in the anterior
cavity. He said an operation must be
performed at once.
In one hour my eye was operated on
in the Long Island College hospital. The
operation was performed successfully.
but the lens was broken and portion
of 1t left In the eye. DR.. Alleman said
there wassvery little hope that would
ever see again. But believed in prayer
I prayed to God that he would spare my
sight to me that might continue with
my work.
"The next day, to the great astonish-
ment OF DR.. Alleman, there was no in
Illumination in my eye. Nor has there
been since. can see everything dimly
now without glasses. DR.. Alleman says
by the aid OF glasses can see distinctly
again. believe the restoration OF my
eyesight is divine interposition. be-
lieve God heard my prayers and an
swered them.
II am asked If I believe IN Christian
Science. do not believe in Christian
Science as taught today by the Chris
tian Science leaders. They believe that
doctors and surgeons are unnecessary. I
believe God helps man and in my case
gave my sight to me thru DR.. Alleman.
But If man neglects to do what he ought
to do God Will not help him. In my case
God prevented causes which would nat
urally ensue ninety mine times out OF
100.
II believe In true Christian Science.
the Christian Science of the Bible. In
0lden times when human help failed
man went to God. but the so-called
modern Christian Science is a delusion"
Rev. DR. Herald was sued some time
ago by Mrs. Martha Dorxon Lowe. who
was formerly church choir singer. and
afterward went into vaudeville. She
took exception to sermon he preached,
entitled From Choir Loft to the Yau-
deville Stage
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28
HAS CHANGED HIS VIEWS.
Eli Perkins Writes Differently Of the
Iowa Central Than He Did Years

Ago.
Melville D. Landon ('Eli Prrkins''),
lecturer and humorist. who has contrib
uted to the Wall Street News few re-
marks concerning the Iowa Central rail-
road, does not speak of the property as
he did twenty-five years ago when he
was furnished an engine at Mason City
junction to fill a lecture engagement at
Grinnelf, and told of his trip in bit of
satire that has been widely published.
In the Wall street journal he says:
THE Iowa Central is getting to be an
all-over- creation railroad. 1T really runs
big trains from st. Paul thru the best
Wheat country in Minnesota and the
best corn country in Iowa, and Illinois to
Peoria, and connects with the Wander
biit lines over the Lake Erie & Western
and Big Four to New York"
1T is a great feeder for the Wander
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28
THE MAN WITH THE WRENCH.
He Il Making Trouble for Delinquent
Natar Conauner2.

The water department OF the city
started a man out today to shut of the
services Of consumers who are in ar
rears on their rentals. The result has
been that there has been haste on the
part OF those whose services were closed
to come up to Capt. G. n. Shaw's ONCE
In the city building and pay up. In adj
dition to the rentals the delinquents are
charged penalties for turning on and OH
the water. The penalties are usually 80
cents for turning the water of and q
like fee for turning it on again. but un-
der the ordinances penalty as high as
So may be enforced. The work will re-
ouire a number OF days.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28
Mapieton Advocate Sold.

Mapleton, Dec, IS. j. E. Jerome has
sold the Mapleton Advocate to n. b.
Ordway, who will take possession of
the paper January l. Mr. Jerome has
been proprietor OF the Advocate for the
past eleven years. and has built up a
very valuable plant. His many friends
hope he may continue his residence in
Mapleton, as he has been an active and
progressive citizen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28

n. t. Mcintyre. st. Paul. Mimi. who
has been troubled with disordered
stomach, says, "Chamberlain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets do me more good
than anything have ever taken" For
sale by druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28
GaIlstones Cured.
Treatment gives immediate relief and
permanent cure.
MarshalItown Ia
Marshalltown, Ia.

Appendicitis does not result from
hard substances lodging in the yermi-
form appendix. The trouble is caused
by pathological condition of either
stomach, bowels or liver, or of all. The
sure way to escape is to keep all the
organs in perfect health by regularly
taking DR.. Cranes Quaker Tonic Tab
let's. Cost so cents.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28
srAr. o, ONO, CRY OF ToLaDo, q.

LUCAS COUNTY.
FrANx ], CHHNnY makes oath that he is the
senior partner Of the 1fm OF =. j. CaHNEy&Co.,
doing business In the City Of Toledo, County
and Bate atosssad, md that saiS arm viii pay
each and every case Of CstasYh that cannot %
cnred hy Ne une Of HALl,s CATAR1H CulH.
FRANK T.. CHENEY.
Sworn "a. before me spd suhscribed In my
presence, this 9Th day OF December, AID. 1885.
ssXI. a. W. GLEASON,
~ Notary Pss0Iio.
HELPS Catarfh Cure istaken Internally and acts
directly on the blood and mucenb surfaces OF
the system. Send for tsstimonisle, nee.
+. !. CHENEY = co., Toledo, q,
- Gold b. Druggists. 100.
Hairs Family Pils are tie bsst
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28
TWO Toes Blown OF.

Prlmghar. Dec. 2S.-While out hunt
ing w. n. Brown, of this place, had two
OF his toes blown off by the accidental
discharge of shotgun wlch he was
carrying. Brown Ia a one armed man,
and not overly handy with gun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28
COUGHS AND COLDS IN CHILDREN
Recommendation of Well Known Chi
cago Physician.

use and prescribe Chamberiain's
Cough Remedy for almost all obstinate.
restricted coughs. with direct results. /
prescribe 1t to children Of all ages. Am
glad to recommend 1t to all in need and
seeking relief from colds and coughs and
bronchial Affections. 1t is non-narcotic
and safe in the hands of the most UNI
professional A universal panacea for
all mandklnd.-Mrs. Mary r. Melendy,
Nj. d.. Phi. D.. Chicago. Ill. This remedy
ic for sale by druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28

There is no such thing as a harmless
cough The trouble goes from bad to
worse unless checked. Aliens Lung
Balsam cures the worst of colds 1t
allays Inflammation and clears the air
passages.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28

No: you can not sell ANY old thing"
merely by advertising. Many lini-
ments are advertised. Only one, Perry
Davis Painkiller, has stood the test of
sixty years. Today it is more popular
than ever. IS and so cents.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28
YOU'D RATHER SMOKE

. rood cigar than an inferior weed. We can suit
your taste whether you prefer mild or strong close
rolled or loose We are especially careful IN buy.
our Judgment Is pretty good. Test 1t and see.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28


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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28

Miss Gertrude and Mr. Charles Bend
lage entertained about thirty Of their
friends at their home Friday evening
The evening was spent with cards. mu-
sic and dancing. followed by the serving
Of light refreshments.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-01
FOOTBALL GROWING IN FAVOR.

The football season has well begun, ana
the indications are that it will be even
more exciting than usual. There nave
been several people killed, and the num-
Der of those who are MANNED either for
life or for several weeks is too great to
compute. After a while there will be a
change in the method of scoring and we
will read something like this: Powhegan,
two killed, four badly wounded. Major
fractures five; minor fractures, eight. =
Grand Forks Herald.
1t seems that the game of football is
being carried to more brutal extreme
this year than ever before. Although the
season is yet but a few weeks old, the
number of fatalities has already ex-
ceeded those of some entire previous sea-
sons, while the number of frightful &C
cidents is appalling. At La Crosse a few
days ago one player had an arm entirely
torn out of the socket at the shoulder
which is but an example of the many
horrible cases of n1angling resulting
from the game. Truly, 1T is paradox
that this sport should belong peculiarly
to the colleges, universities and high
schools of the country, Institutions where
only such influence as make for intelli-
gence. civilization and refinement are
suppose TO prevail.-Pipestone Star.
Football as now played is but few re
moves above pugilism. The usual list of
deaths from the game this season is al
ready being recorded, and there is still
another month before the last game is
PLAYED .-Litchfield Independent.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-01
ABANDONED FARMS.

Liberty II. Bailey, in Country Life in
America" for November takes a hope
full view of abandoned FARMS He also
sees the beautiful in them and has Illus
t1ated his article with superb photo
graphs Of his own making.
Viewed as all economic question, SAYS
Mr.. Bailey, the abandonment of New
England farms should rot disturb us
more than other shifting OF population.
In the present day, most of the lands
that are now abandoned would not have
been settled. They would remain in tim
Der; and now, by the inexorable power
of economic forces, they are returning
into forest. The first flush of the settle
ment of the West has passed. Manu-
featuring industries have attained stable
conditions. People are looking again to
the country. The better farms are being
-farmed. On the hills of Western Massa-
chusetts I found cow puncher from
Oklahoma settling on an abandoned
farm to make his living by farming.
Farmers are buying up adjacent lands
and extending their business. Near the
railroads, city people are building cot
tageS and retreats on the sites of old
farms, to find respite and peace. The
remoter places are passing back into
forests, and numbering is again an in
dustry in old New England. Where
aCl-Cc were ulOWluSSs piOWiuSo dic
now wild and free stretches of woodland.
D1lapidated stone walls ramble through
the woods and are heaved by the roots Of
great trees. Here and there is the ruin
of foundation, with trees growing in
side and the tiger lilies still persisting
at the border. Now and then only a
clump of tansy marks spot where peo-
pie lived. Roads that once were clean
from wall to wall, are now narrowed to
mere wagon trails, where strawberries
ripen in June, and goldenrods bloom in
September. There are abandoned roads,
silent avenues of a rural life that has
sunken into the past. There are school
houses on these old highways where the
wild growth is stealing into the play
grounds There are school houses where
no children go to school. One can follow
these narrow roads oevr the hills until
he loses all contact with human effort,
ard is overcome with the feeling that he
is far and far away
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-01
AN AMERICAN COUNTRY SEAT.

Levi p. Morton, minister to France in
Garfield-Arthur administration, vice pres
;dent of the United States III the Harri-
son administration, later governor If
New York, and long a commanding fig
ure in financial and public affairs, has a
large country seat on the eastern side
of the Hudson river, at the little town
of Rhfnebeck. The place itself is known
as Ellerslie. Although a large estate, it
is so secluded in the native forest growth
that it has all the retirement and indi-
yiduaIity of an ordinary farm.
The larger part of the great estate is
in grass, for grazing and for hay, all
though corn and other annual farm crops
are grown to a considerable extent. Mr..
Morton's choice in farming is stock, and
his herd of nearly 400 Guernseys is one
of the best In the country, The dairy
house is one of the best equipped, and
the butter has long brought fancy prices
in the select New York clubs. Floeks
of sheep range over the rolling pastures.
The poultry houses are very extensive,
and formerly some $500 chickens were
Matched and fed, largely for broilers for
the New York market In late years,
however, the rearing of poultry on a
large scale has been discontinued, as it
did not produce commercial results. 1t
is the desire of its owner that the man
agement of the farm should follow as
closely as possible along lines of the most
profitable conservative agriculture of the
day.
The personal part of the estate COM
prises something like 100 acres. Several
miles Of curyiIg drives are covered with
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-01
FOR THE CHILDS SAKE.


The G l o b e has frequently found oe-
casion to express its approval of the pro-
visions of what is known as the child
labor law of this state. 1t is a sound
public policy which prevents young boys
and girls from being thrown into the
work of earning a living before their
mental and physical faculties have had
at least something like reasonable OPP
portunity to mature.
The present labor commissioner is I'M
derstocd to have given some additional
attention to enforcing the law. He de-
serves commentator for doing so. But
when he supplements his activity in that
direction by calling attention to the fact
that the plain purpose of the law fails
in many cases, he shows himself to be
far more than perfunctorily interested
in his official duties.
Commissioner O'Donnen is reported as
saying that many of the children who
are denied the right under the law to
secure employment are nevertheless al
lowed to remain absent from school, and
the plain purpose of the law is thus al
lowed to defeat itself. He is right. The
number of young children in this and
other cities who are not at work or at
school, but are allowed to wander
around in idleness, would surprise the
ordinary person.
The G o b e does not agree with the
state labor commissioner as to the rem
edy lying in the appointment of paid
truant officers. We do not believe such
officials at all necessary. 1t represents
but small addition to the duties of the
ordinary patrolman to see to it that any
boy or girl seen on the streets during
school hours be made TO explain them
selves. The G o b-e+ does not know of
any city ordinance regulating this mat
ter. But it is easy of regulation. The
common council should take the matter
up, and have enacted a rigid truant
ordinance giving the police the right and
making it their duty to take in custody.
subject to inquiry. any boy or girl found
running tie streets between the hours
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-01
AMERICAN GAME PRESERVATION.

Forty states prohibit the export of GER
tain specified game. and thirty-seven Of
these forbid the shipment Of quail
killed in the state to points
outside the state. This is right
The game belongs to the people of the
state, and there is no state where game is
so abundant that the supply is greater
than the demands of its own people.
Moreover, the right to export it Is a
temptation to exterminate it for the ben
fit of Others It should be limited to
those fairly entitled to enjoy it.
The importing of live game from for
eign countries, and from one state to an
other under reasonable limitations. for
breeding purposes, is manifestly right in
the line of game protection.
If law could be enacted forbidding
any cold storage company from having
game on storage ten days after the be-
ginning of. the close season in any state,
it would be a great measure. At present
the cold storage companies fill their
shelves with game, and serve it at all
seasons, in spite of the law. They are a
greater temptation to slaughter than all
the other things put together. And such
stuff it isl "A quail or snipe that has been
on ice six months, served, as 1t so often
is. upon the ocean liner in July or
August is no better than a sour piece
of white oak chip. Yet, to enable them
to indulge in this class of MENU the laws
are more grossly violated than for any
other reason.-Review of Reviews.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-01
THE sE1Br ArENUE SHINE.

Selby avenue is one of the leading
arteries of city traffic outside of the bust
ness district It's condition for the past
ten years and over has been disgrace
full. It is now thoroughly impossible and
has been so for a long period for all
other vehicles save street cars alone. The
condition of its pavement is dangerous
not only to life and limb but to
cedar blocks which strew the surface Of
the avenue-for their displacement is al
most general-must necessarily have an
injurious effect on the health of those
living in the vicinity.
The paving of this avenue has been so
long delayed that 1t Is doubtful if prop
erty values will ever recover from the
enduring injury done them. It is mostly
a residence avenue, and its desertfon
even for purposes of residence has been
prevented only by the uniformly excel
lent character Of the buildings erected
on it, especially west of the former pow
er house at Dale street.
The G l o b does not pretend to place
the blame for the delay which has
prevailed in having Selby avenue paved,
although in the past 1t has been gener-
ally recognized that the street railway
concern was the strongest, If not the
only, force at work In preventing any
improvement. Neither does the G l o b
pretend to be able to specify the forces
which are now operating to cause a
further delay of the work. In these col
umns the president of the board of pub
lie works, and the commissioner Of pub
lie works have been represented, the
one as saying that the Improvement
could not now be made to advantage, and
the other deprecating delay. President
Hammer IS a painstaking and conscien-
tious public official, and he must be re-
garded as knowing some sufficient reason
why the work is not to be proceeded
with. The reason quoted in these columns
is certainly not very convincing in it
self
It would be to the public advantage
if Mr. Hammer and Mr.. Claussen could
reconcile their opinions and views on this
subject, so as to place the avenue at the
general public disposal at an early day.
We believe neither of them will deny
that it is today virtually a private road
way, maintained for the uses of the st.
Paul City Railway corporation. If it is
to continue to bear this character it
seems to the C lob e proper that
formal dedication of it be made to that
end