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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-05
Conundrum. An.werea.

What well known Bible character can
be found in most churches? Abel Ia belly.
To what nation of Europe do all good
seeds belong? To the German nation
(germination).
What is the most precious herb?
Thyme.
How many people viii car hold? As
many as are inside
What word of three syllables specifies
the time to dance? Attendance.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-05
FAREWELL PASTORAL LETTER.
Bishop sbaretti commends Acts of the
United States.

Havana, Nov 5.-Blshop Sbaretti, who
Will shortly proceed to Rome, prior to
going to the Philippine islands as repre-
sentative of the pope to settle the church
question there, has issued pastoral let
ter of farewell. He says the idea had
arisen in Cuba that. owing to the sepa-
iaticn of church and state, the former
had lost her judicial personality. Those
who thought this do not know the ma
ture of the Catholic church, which was
sovereign society. He adds that amid
all struggles and contradictions, the
support OF Catholics was always given
Kim. He found that the validity of re-
ligious marriages was not recognizei.
this was matter Of deep concern to
lin, and some opposed him in his en-
deavors to obtain recognition for such
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-05
No. aa4.-ranIe with Anaerams

The Monkey and the L-camei.
AT Il great get-mein of the beasts the
monkey stood up to caneda. Having
let gray. distinguished himself and being
much a-dim-redS by all serpent it moved
the envy of the L-camei, who mace for
ward and be-nags to caneda also, but he
dame himself so rub-sadi0 that all the
man-ailsh set upon him with clubs and
rovedi2 him out of the grin'a
Nerven attempt for-heeis others any
thing yon-bcd' your or-pews"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-05
No. 3ao.-word square.

!. The portion OF married woman OF
q widow. 2. A tree cultivated for its
fruit and for the oil it yields. 5. Thin.
dried up. 4. That which happens. 8.
Fissures or decorations.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-05
No. 3ls.-Dtnmona.

1. A letter =. To increase. 3. To en-
bellish. 4. Sweet Of scent 8. To suffo-
cate in water 6. A kind of small pi-
geon. & A letter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-05
No. Neutrality-suspicious..

Syncopate one OF class that made
much trouble in China aud leave one OF
a nation t1yt is much talked about.
Syncopate articles OF clothing and leave
light beds
syncopate one of the United States and
leave part of a horse.
syncopate giver and leave an en-
trance.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-05
Iowa at WASHINGTON.

Washington, Nov. 5.-The postoffice at
Boxelder, Mills county, has been discon-
tinued and mail goes to Henderson.
Mahlon f. Hollingsworth, of Geneva
has been appointed mail clerk.
IOWA PENSIONS
Original - John Watson Columbus
City. SIS; Thomas f. ENiott Preston, Sc.
War with Spain--Clifford p. Stevenson,
Des Moines, SIS; Alva II. Jarvis. Waiver
Is. IS; Sanford NJ. Nosseller. Plainfield,
$40. Original widows-Flora L. Altman,
Boone. IS; Ida Smith, Sibley, SIS.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-05
No. 33D.-Buried Countric,

l. In the tableau Prince Charming
wore an enormous peruke of yellow hair.
z. AS am about to embark send
you my farewell.
3. DO you fancy other stones set in
diamond rings?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-05
10. 337.-Anngrnms.

Ia popular novel and its author.1
He met the nave of Larr.
II Is hunt a rebel.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-05

My first plus my second divided by my
fourth equals my third.
My second minus my first equals the
sum of my third aud fourth.
My first Plus my fourth is the square
root Of my second plus mig fourth.
My first plus my third equals the differ
ence between my second and my fourth.
My first. second. third aud fourth equal
the year in which was born famous
general OF the Revolutionary war.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-05
No. aas.-isidd,e,

] assist at your birth;
help make your mirth;
. I'm in IT, no matter what goes.
I've cap when I'm small.
But none when I'm tall,
And I'm never yard from your nose
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-05
perience.

Puny children with weak constitutions
can attain an unusual degree of bodily
and mental vigor by taking Rocky
Mountain Tea this month made by the
Madison Medicine Company; So cents.
Mcbride & Will Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-05

When the above objects have been
rightly named and written one below an
other in the order in which they are
numbered, the initial letters will spell the
name of famous American.-St. NicEo-
las.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-24
A Ci,ristmas Carol.

1t was Christmas eve.
Hiram Hardstone, contractor, sat alone
in his Office on one Of the upper floors Of
the sky-scraper Mr.. Hardstone sat alone
because he was holding down the only
chair on the premises. The clerks hired
to assist in bringing in the money. stood
up to their work.
1t was the night before Christmas, just
IS announced at the beginning of this
tale, but the fact did not get to Mr.
Hardstone at all The contractor was
too busy thinking about the available
chances of increasing the Hardstone
bank account.
Mr.. Har6stone had the first quarter he
earned hanging in a frame over his desk
He ineidently had several large bundles
of other quarters tucked away in a COM
pound interest bed. When Mr. Hardstone
was compelled to let go of money his
confidential clerk used the Office pliers.
) The young men who had worked out
four-year sentences in a business college
just to secure chance to assist Mr.
Hardstone knew all about the Christmas
Carol and for two weeks before Christ
mas eye they had been referring to their
esteemed employer as "Old Scrooge. AS
Hiram had eft-the second reader at page
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-24

This little bit told about the little boy
who started to get change for a gen
tleman. only to Slip and fall in front
of a street car. He was a manly little
fellow, and although about to die, in
sisted that little Jimmie should carry the
money back to the man.
Hardstone hated to think that the
newsie had been run over, but he rather
hoped that Jimmie Mikes brother would
find his way out to the Hardstone resi-
dence with that As cents change He
was fairly we'll convinced that the newsie
had gone South with the money, but the
little gem of his childhood days had
registered a lasting impression.
Hardstone, upon reaching the family
residence, ordered the butler to admit
ali ragged looking strangers. The but
Ter thought his master had encountered
the Christmas spirit, but Hardstone was
thinking of the 4S cents. Every time the
bell tinkled he felt a great hope bump
ing against his shirt bosom, but the
hours sped by and the IS cents was still
down down.
Here we are compelled to use the stars
again.
The Mullen family had been checked off
by the head of the house, and the re-
port showed little Mike alone still out
in the cold Christmas eve. It was about
time little Mike was reporting on the
evening paper sales, and Mullen Sr was
thinking up a few Christmas greetings
for the delayed son when the door swung
open and Mike limped into the room.
Where tell You been to dis hour O.
de night?' inquired the fond parent.
Don get sore replied the hopeful,
II has Inittens fer de kid, doll fer
Name. beads fer me mudder, pack q
Gigs fer meself an out o de wreck
saves ten seed fer you ter push de
pail fer suds.
I'm regular Sanity, cause I meets
up with sucker wot let's me walk
off with four-bit piece. 1 guess de OF
guy is waitin' yet"
That was explanation enough. and aft
er lighting cigarette Mike took the pail
and started for the corner
Some more stars here.
Mr.. Hardstone is trying to forget that
Jimmie, Mixes brother" piece.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-24

little signs telling you just how much the
shopkeepers thought their Christmas
gifts were worth, but he failed to en-.
thuSe.
Hardstone and the Christmas spirit
were still waiting an introduction when
Hardstone reached his corner Reckless
citizens We're telling the little newsles
to keep the change, but the contractor
was feeling for the copper pieces as
he stopped newsboy.
s.Poiper, Sir?" asked the neWsie.
Yes, growled Hardstone.
He could not find copper. The best
he could reach was a 5O-cent piece, and
this he offered to the small boy.
Il can't change four bits, mister
said the boy, ''but you hol' me poipers
an III get de dough from me pal jim
ME- and after showing the papers into
Hardstones hands the kid darted down
the street yelling for Jimmie.
Hardstone waited on the corner for
the change. His car rolled along, but
the contractor let it go right by When
the next car out Hardstone's way pulled
up at the corner the contractor was still
waiting. Jimmie was a hard boy to
find
Hardstone was sore but he hated to
think that the As cents change was gone
forever. After five cars had hurried by
he gave up waiting, and tagged the sixth
one. All the way home he thought about
the As cents change.
Before leaving the second reader Hard
stone had committed to memory that
tender little gem about Jimmie Mikes
brother. I've brought you the change
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-24
WArER As 4 FEBTJ1yzEr

We, who live in what is called the
humid zones of the earth, fail to ap-
preciate the part that water plays in the
economy of nature. We have become so
accustomed to the timely fall of rain
that rarely do we give the matter of rain
absence and its dire consequence a
thought. Once in while. nature as if
to impress man with his insigniflcance
and absolute helplessness, arrests for
a short time, the water supply. The re-
suit is destruction But man with that
faith, born of knowledge of the aver
age stability of nature, hopes for better
times-feels somehow that the drought
will be broken and that it will not be
repeated another year.
When section of the earth had been
robbed of its natural inheritance by man,
without compensation, the result is a
desert. The sites of the oldest civiliza-
tons of the earth are now wastes of
desert sand. Man has INSTRUCTED the life
currents of the land destroyed the for
ests, the great lungs of the soil, and the
forces of decay have done the rest.
The cradle of civilizatien-the garden of
the infant race-has become. a desert
through ignorance of meteorolcg.c
laws. Our own country. though young,
is becoming old through misuse. Tie
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-24
An OLD EVIL REHIVED.

1t is many years since the grain
rate laws, so-called, were passed in this
state, and the railroad corporations were
through them expressly denied the right
of appeal from the DEGREES, legislative,
judicial or executive, establishing certain
specific rates That legislation was en-
acted in response to what the public
were told with much vociferation. was
public sentiment It was the product Of
grangeTism run mad and it was sustain
ed by certain newspapers with just the
same measure of improvidence and I'M
reason as they are showing at this
moment on a kindred question.
When the decision of the federal SUI
preme court was handed down in those
rate cases, the public was permitted
to return to rational frame of mind.
1t was seen then that not only was
legislation of that kind unwarranted and
foolish, from the standpoint of individ-
ual and corporate property rights, but
that it had resulted in serious damage
to the state and it's industries.
In the present ferment of public senti-
ment which is being maintained by GER
tain newspapers hereabouts for the
selfish purposes of those who con-
troll them the state is confronted
by just the same danger which
attended it then. Railroad batting threat
ems to become a popular sport now, as
it was fifteen or twenty years ago. The
newspapers which are promoting that
form of activity now will be found later.
as they We're then, bemoaning popular
thoughtlessness, when they are confront
ed by the consequences of their own dis
honesty.
The reading public is told that the
railroad commissioners have certain
schemes under consideration which are
designed to protect the people against
the marauding tendencies of the railroad
''satraps., Not only are the commits
sioners to have supervisory powers, but
they are to be the whole thing when
those schemes have matured. OF course
since their election those of them who
are anxious to stand well with the pub
lie, and who never before knew anything
about the practical operations of the
roads have become Very wise, and can
give experienced railroad men all sorts
of valuable information as to how to
run their properties. And of course, as
one of our excited contemporaries puts
it in discussing future legislative action:
'In the present state of public temper
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-24
sample of wisconsin Politics.

Mr.. Charles QuarIes, Mr.. Pfster's at
torney, says that the charge against the
Republican league of dickering with the
Democrats is a lie. Yet Mr.. Quarles will
NOT say. we believe, that Mr.. Pfister has
not "dickered. with Democrats in the
past. and what Mr.. Pfster has once done
is he not likely to do again2 In the one
ase he certainly found it TO his business
interests to 4.dicker with Democrats. =
Why does Mr.. Quarles. who is Mr.. Pts
ter's attorney and spokesman on occas
sion. think that Mr.. Pfster will not in the
future put his personal interests above
his party interests?
ssMy chief objection to La Toilette -
says Mr.. pfister's attorney, MS that he is
for himself first. last and all the time
and yet does Mr.. Quarles know Of any
time or occasion when Mr.. La Toilette
was for himself at the expense Of any
nriblic interest? And can he say as much
of his own client, Mr.. Pfster?-Milwau-
kee Free Press.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-24

proper conservation and distribution of
the natural rainfall is essential to the
preservation of plant life, even in the
humid regions
There was time when Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois were abundantly supplied
year after year-droughts were unknown
Sometimes too much water fell--the
farmer was annoyed, he could not pillow
by reason of the mud. But the forests
have been stripped from the hills, The
low lands which acted as sponge to
hold the surplus water against a rainless
season, have been tiled and ditched 1t
has been only thirty years, and already
the land is dying for want of moisture.
Droughts occur with surprising ire
quency. The annual crop is no longer
sissippi valley is gradually becoming
semi-arid. Not because the rainfall is
decreasing to any appreciate extent,
but because it is not conserved for the
use of plant life. The Red river valley,
that dread basket of America" in which
man had but to SOW in order to reap is
no longer exempt from the whitening eff
feet of a scant water supply. And all be-
cause man has drained off the life blood
without reserying the power to restore it
when needed.
The irrigation agitation is bringing to
the attention of the country these stern
facts The intelligent public is begin
ming to realize that something must be
done to arrest the enormous waste of Wa
ter; that water is the great fertilizer,
that a desert supplied with water in
season will bring forth abundantly. The
public is being taught, also, that the hui
mid regions must do something to retain
the surplus moisture against possible
necessity, if man is to be sustained by
the soil Irrigation is not alone neces-
certain crop life in the western parts OF
Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas. 1t
is necessary in every farming community.
Land in Minnesota and Illinois that is
| worth $50 per acre as it is, with irriga-
ton appliances to use the surplus water
! that falls in the wet season, will at once
raise in producing power to a value of
| $500 per acre.
Forest reserves, reservoirs and irriga,
| zion bitches are the known factors which
will make the solution of the agricultural
! problem easy The United States, with
its naturally fertile soil, its even rainfall,
| its sources of water supply, from noun
! tains and artesian wells, need never feel
| foreign competition in the productions of
| the soil. The world can be fed from the
Mississippi valley alone, with proper at
tention paid to the use of the rainfall.
! Enough water falls on the surface OF
| the plains between the 9Sth and 105th me-
! ridians, if conserved by reservoir and dis
tributed by ditch, to render them as pro-
ductive as the valley of the Nile
| The question of national system of
irriga ton is before congress- 1t is not
sectional issue. The West needs it no
more than does the East. The question
is paramount to that of tariff, transpor-
| tation or trade.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-24

g
lis, Lesson XIV, to take up his march
aleng fortunes road he had missed the
class in English literature, and with Mr..
Dickens daguerreotype missing from the
Hardstone album of famous characters
the Scfooge remark failed to get to Mr..
Hardstone.
1t was still Christmas eve when Hiram
Hardstone pulled down the roller top of
his desk and reached for his oyercoat.
He used the elevator getting down to the
ground and saved at least seven minutes
wear and tear on his overshoes. The e1e-
yator man wished him a Merry Christ
mas but he said he didn't think it aud
passed on out to the street
The merry-faced throng that must go
with every Christmas tale was using up
most of the available space on the side
walk when Mr.. Hardstone butted into the
passing parade for walk to the street
car AS he walked along he saw the bril-
Hantly lighted windows decorated with
the CHEEKY punches of holly and the neat
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-24
apuc s:s"s2 $. aqol5 a4c
The Rise and Growth of 0oeaih.
By E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS.

do more than this; they may form mems
minds, Increase useful human faculty
and talent, thus becoming producers in
positive manner, and the same is true
OF judges so far as their opinions and
decisions become source of helpful
legal instruction or information to the
public.
Production is not negative simply be-
cause 1t begets no new thing or form.
The making of clothing does not do
this but it is positive production. Ex-
cavating for railway creates no new
thing; it simply removes obstacles. 1t
is, however, positive production All
production might be considered as sim
ply the removal of obstacles.
Is speculation productive? Does it add
to the community's hoard of wealth? An
sWer to this question depends on the ma
ture OF the speculation in question Very
much so-called speculation, perhaps
most of it, is certainly not production
In any sense, being purely of the nature
OF betting and gambling, which simply
transfer money from one hand or pocket
to another, but cannot increase the COM
munity's total wealth by penny. What
one man gains by these means someone
else inevitably loses. In practical effect
they always decrease wealth. because
they make against industry and thrift.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-24
WEATHER FOR TODAY.

Hfinnesota-Snow Tuesday; Wednesday
falr and colder; northwest winds.
upper Michigan-Cloudy and unsettled
weather. with snow Tuesday and proba-
bly, Wednesday; variable winds.
WisconSin-SnoW or rain Tuesday;
Wednesday fair and colder; variable
winds.
4owa-Rain Tuesday, and in east portion
Wednesday; variable winds, becoming
northwest.
North Dakota-Snow and colder Tues
day; Wednesday fair; northwesterly
Winds.
South Dakota-snow and colder Tues
day; Wednesday fair; northwesterly
winds.
Montana--Generally fair and colder
Tuesday; Wednesday fair; west winds
St Paul = Yesterdays observations,
taken BY the United States weather bu-
reau, ST. Paul, P. F. Lyons, observer. for
the twenty-four hours ended at O'Clock
last night-Barometer corrected for tenn
perature and elevation: Highest temper
allure, Is; lowest temperature, IA; average
temperature, u; daily range, IA; barome-
ter, 1850; humidity. IS; precipitation, 0;
p, m, temperature, Is; I p. M, wind,
south; weather, cloudy.
yesterdays Tempera lures
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-24

But not all speculation deserves this
condemnation. If | buy 100000 bushels
of wheat when it is low | help prevent
it. from going lower. If | hold it for
rise and by and by sell. 1 help keep
the price from going as high as it other
wise would. In other words, my opera
lions tend to make wheat prices and to
prevent or minimize fluctuations, which
is always greatly beneficial 1t would
SEEM therefore, that speculation may
take place in way to prevent loss and
discourasement and therefore be-not
positively, but neutrality-suspicious.
Generally speaking, it is only speculation
with genuine intention to transfer the
goods which has this valuable effect,
steadying prices and tending to help the
net efficiency of mans productive opera
lions. Betting on futures, in which vast
amount of speculation essentially con-
sists, does not have this saving efficiency,
but precisely the reverse.
In concluding this lesson, let us look at
a few special cases connected with pro-
duction. l. There are forms of techni-
cal creation, as the making of things
that do no one any good. which have
no connection with production in the
economic sense. The word production
might be applied to creation of tf1at sort.
but it would not be wealth making pro-
uuctlOn. Z. w nat we nave seen 10 De
true of gambling betting and vicious
speculation, viz, that while they may en-
rich individuals they do not enrich but
tend to impoyerish the community, may
be equally true of processes which actu-
ally multiply wealth of a certain type.
If the wealth they originate is only
flake" wealth, like obscene books and
pictures, then the productiveness which
begets it is only fake" productiveness.
8. There is production-real productions
which at first and Yisibly swells general
wealth alone, advancing individuals pos
sessions only in the same ways as all
public benefits do. Many, not to say
most, new railroads cause loss to their
first owners. Few, if any of them fail
to benefit their locality. Good public
works require taxes, but more than re-
pay these, whether enhancing the selling
value of individual estates or not. T.
National wealth may be increased at the
expense of the wealth of the world, just
as private wealth may at the expense OF
the community. What the enriched ma
ton gains need not come by way Of con-
quest or by any act of it's own whatever.
Great Britain for years had cheap sugar,
partly as a gift at the cost of the con-
tinental states through the operation of
their sugar bounties. In consedr
Dundee jams and marmalades undersold
those made -beyong the channel q new
source Of gratuitous gain to the British
nation. We should in strictness deIlom nil
nate as absolutely productive only sub
industries as promote the wealth Of man.
kind.
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