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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-24
DISTRICT COURT.
Rowen- City Case Nearing an End
Saloon Case Dismissed

HoWen.Crty Case Nearing an End
Saloon Case Dismissed.
The concluding evidence in the suit
of j. N, Rowen against the city, In
which damages are claimed for injuries
received by a fall on a sidewalk was
heard this afternoon and the arguments
commenced. Much of the testimony was
in the way of expert evidence and re-
lated to the nature and the extent of the
injuries sustained by Mr.. Rowen. 1t is
probable that Rowen will be awarded a
verdict for a small amount.
The suit of Mrs. Christine Johnson
against Gustave Bierman, in which
damages were claimed for sales of IL
quors to her husband, has been dis
missed by Mrs. Johnson.
The criminal calendar will not be
reached before next week.
ALBION.
Sept. 2S.-William Holroyd sold his
farm four miles northeast of town to
Con Coulton. Consideration s65 per
acre.
Mr.. jacobson, two miles. northeast of
town sold his farm for s7l per acre, Mr..
Wiley, Of Anderson county, being the
purchaser.
F. d. Dennis is building an addition
to his store.
Mrs. Howard, of Chicago. is visiting
here sisters. the Misses Hamilton. of
this place.
Union services We're observed in the
NJ. Il. church last Thursday in memory
of our late president.
Frank Humlong has purchased the
Vale property and moved to town. His
daughter Maggie expects to so to Den
yer. Col, to spend the winter.
Mr.. Hare. our mali carrier has been
quite sick but is convalescent.
Mr.. Johnson. of Barnes. Mahaska
county, has opened store in the brick
building, formerly occupied by 3. F.
Brown. ss
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-24
An Oversight.

An OVerbIHHt.
The Waiter-EScuse me, but haven't
you forgotten something, sir?
The QUESTION. quite likely. What
did you find Chicago News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-24

Halls Family Pills are the best.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-10-26

the American public. THE amount
required to effect Miss Stones safety
is but mere bagatelle compared to
the millions which have been spent
TO maintain the officers Of the Board
in their easy. eXtrayagantly paid
posts" ] know OF no board in this
country which has boasted so much
OF its accomplishments; but if Miss
Stone is murdered some other medium
will certainly distribute the money
for foreign missions gathered here.
And il is very likely that appeals for
foreign heather from any board will
fall upon deaf ears if MISS Stone be
harmed. The conduct of the Board
is un-American. unchivalrous, cold
blooded, unbusiness-like. The dis
pleasure Of the American people is
already made manifest by the re-
proaches aimed at the Board by the
secular press. To America this wo-
mans life and security is worth more
than the 10000 heather, meE. women
and children, that IN the ninety years
Of its existence the board boasts Of
having saved by the expenditure Of
tens Of millions Of dollars. And if
Miss Stone is not included among the
number saved the Board will never
have another million dollars to spend.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-10-26
The Naval :, rouble.

Any opinion that We may have held
concerning the ele ration Of character
of admirals, comnodOres. captains
and lieutenant commanders, has been
dissipated by the naval inquiry. We
are an INLAND people. North America
is so large that the coast jewellers are
an inconsiderable part OF the popu
1atiou. Sailors, either common sea-
men or officers, are an uncommon
sight. We think Of them or We did
think OF them before this investi-
cation had progressed so far, as bluff,
hearty, generous, truthful men. De-
catur, Paul Jones, Nelson have made
The definition for all VI US Of sailors.
The investigation at Washington
makes it necessary TO revise our def
inition. After this for few years.
until the impression wears OF, an
admiral must be a man who is jealous
Of all the officers under him, who in
case VI war will send misleading dis
patches home. claiming victories be
did not win, or one who 10 pursuit
OF Q fleet is the last man to see the
masts of the enemy in a protecting
harbOr and makes all sorts OF excuses
to get away from the neighborhood,
only being kept there by repeated
commands from the head OF the de-
partment. According to the new def
initions with which the investiga.
tions have supplied US. there is a low
standard Of truth among the higher
officers Of The navy, and an officer
once out Of favor with the depart
ment at Washington incurs the ILL
will of all the officers on all the ships
of the American navy. The dissipa.
zion of an old ideal is unpleasant but
il it is so that the isolation Ut the sea-
faring man makes him jealous and
more than ordinarily selfish, land
lubbers ought to know it so as to quit
expecting high-mindedness from those
who 60 down to the sea in ships.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-10-26
"Cup."

The ~Cup."
Sir Thomas Upton is true sports
man. Just before the yacht races
were run, at the close Of dinner
served on board The Shamrock, he
said in reply to toast: Let the
best boat win" After he had lost he
was satisfied that the races we're fair
" conducted and that the best boat
did win. As there were only two
boats. the sentiment was not gram
NAUTICAL but the spirit OF the wish was
eminently commendxble. and the
spirit is more than grammar. Not
many people know the name OF the
owner Of the boat which actually did
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-10-26
"A Triumph's Evidsncs.r

stories have strong local color. His he.
roes have Photographic resemblance
to life. They are like a plaster cast
Of living hand whose owner con.
sented for a moment to allow it to be
covered with plaster. When the
mold is filed up with the compost.
tion, and finally Clipped off, all the
fine marks that pertain to the human
hand and that never were and never
should be copied 10 marble, are there.
Although the lines and crosses, the
intricate and innumerable dots and
dashes, which distinguish real hand
from a marble or painted one are
never duplicated. although every one
of the several billion hands in the
world is unique; whenever We see
copy of hand containing these lines
and crosses that We never saw before
we say "Aow life-like!" Whereas
when we see plaster copy of a per-
feet hand taken from a statue SCulp-
tured by an artist who knows how
an ideal hand should be made, it
scarcely attracts our attention. 1t is
characterless and recalls no one hand
in particular in which We have ever
had any interest. The artists ideal
has all the qualities of a hand with.
out possessing resemblance to any
one hand.
There are characters in stories that
We agree are human enough, only We
never saw anybody like them. |
u sed to ascribe my inability to iden-
tify such characters to insularity and
non.cosmopolitanism. but latterly l
have come to believe that it is the
authors fault when his men and
women are strange, unfamiliar, stacy.
In constructing them he has used too
many notes. His hero is a composite
and has the unfamiliarity of many
men with the aspect Of one, like those
strange composite pictures of gradu,
ating class.
Mr.. Whites boys recall this boy
and that one l have known. There.
fore know he has reproduced some
ono boy of his own experience-him-
self proabably-for his boys are drawn
from the inside.
In the October Scribner's, Mr..
White has a story called "a Tri-
umph's Evidence" The scene might
have been laid in Lincoln, Nebraska,
at one of the two hotels or at the
state capital. and the time might
have been last winter, and the most
prominent senatorial candidate in
Nebraska might have sat for the poi
trait of Mr.. King. For instance:
"The senatorial deadlock occurred
this way: Anything TO beat King.
the state chairman, was the desire
of fOrty.four legislators. Fifty one
were willing to do anything to elect
him. Six men voted patiently for
state senator Metcalf, day in and DAY
out, while three legislators insisted
that there must be a clean man Or
there would be no nomination. II
took fifty-three votes to nominate.
In the last named group were state
senator Moulton, and two young men
-Haff and NOrris-alumni of tue
State university. The group
was dubbed Ladies' Auxiliary klnS
was supported by the party machIrr.
and he held his men in bonds stronGer
than iron; the men opposed to nm
were the party malcOntents, who hdd
grievances against the partly
sonal, vicariOus, or imagined. NE
anti King men said that JOab L. Bi.-
ton, president Of the Corn Belt RAJ
road, whose name was cOmmOn'
linked with scandal in state polltir~'
was furnishing King funds. Wh,u
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-10-26

which is rarely the case, or from in.
sufficient remittances from home are
always hard up and need all the
money they can earn by admissions ia
the arena.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-10-26


nant because President Roosevelt
asked Mr.. Washington to dinner and
actually dined with him. They do
not deny the fact that Mr.. Washing.
ton is southerner and credit to
the south. All men admit that he is
one OF the most distinguished men in
this country and that bis birth place
and dwelling place are the more dis.
tinguished for his presence. A north.
erner cannot understand low, any
more clearly than in war times, just
the feeling that southerners have for
the darkies. Now as in The pre-
rebellion period black women nurse
white children. They hold them on
their laps. fondle them and kiss them.
They are excellent nurses for the
sick and the super-sensitive nerves of
aristocratic patients are not disturbed
by the necessarily intimate associa-
tion with a black nurse. But il one
OF these patients. recovered from a
sickness, were TO be obliged to ride on
a railroad car with negro, trouble
would ensue.
The south is proud Of Booker Wash
ingtor. Southerners recognize his
good sense and have constant re-
course to it. Somewhere, l think,
Mr.. Washington himself has said that
he preferred southern intolerance
tempered by intimate understanding
of his race to northern patronage and
imperfectly concealed race-repulsion.
Topsy expressed the same thing to
Miss Ophelia. Miss Ophelia had the
conventional New England disap.
provo! of slavery and sorrow for the
slaves, but she could not bear to have
Topsy's hand touch hers. On the
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-10-26

other hand, the angel child Eva was
content to sit upon the floor near Top
sy and read the same book with her.
However much we northern people
may desire to ameliOrate the cOndi-
tion Of the southern negro, We can do
so only by gifts Of money to educa-
tional institutions, such as Tuskeegee.
The black race is not the problem of
the people north Of Mason and Dix.
On's line which, in spite Of oratory, still
exists. The black southerners must
work out their own salvation with
the white southerners. We can give
individuals of neither race absent
treatment for either ignorance or
prejudice. The blacks are in the
south. They are dramatically fitted
to live there and there they are 60
ing to stay. Industrial education, as
Mr.. Washington says. will accomplish
their second and more significant
emancipation. From this distance
we can only hasten that Self-Ha anu
mission by gifts of money to manual
training Institutions. II President
Roosevelt's invitation to dinner has
10 the slightest degree lessened south
ern prejudice against the race or
heightened the high respect Of the
south for Mr.. Washington, the whole
country is grateful to the President.
If it has increased southern distrust
OF northern intention and increased
the bitterness, in spite of which the
social condition of the negroes must
gradually improve. the invitation.
though given with the most generous
Of motives from one great man to an
other was premature.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-10-26

win. The glory is ABSORBED, Win the
owners full consent, by the New YORK
Yacht Club whose officers and men,
bers have been the patrons OF yacht
ing, and have by undiscouraged pat
ronage Of the sport kept interest in
it alive.
Per contra everybody knows the
name Of Thomas LawtUn, the man
from Boston who said he was going
TO chop up his boat because it was
not fast enough to get into the race
at all. kindergarten experiments
have discovered that children are
disciplined into the knowledge and
practice OF good citizenship by the
games they play together and the
conventions they agree TO abide by
during the progress Of the games. A
kindergarten visitor is usually i'm
pressed only by the gayety Of the lit
tie children in their play. The team.
work which means concerted and
harmonious action is apt TO be over
looked.
Yachting is grown-up game and
is a means Of discipline to the play
els. Mr.. Thomas Lawton, who is a
self made man, and with all the faults
Of a self-made man, wanted to play
the game because Of the compliment
and conspicuousness likely to be be-
slowed upon the winner. His motive
for building yacht could, of course
have had no influence upon that
yachts lines and speed, but when she
was distanced the country was sat-
listed. The impression obtained be-
fore the preliminary trial races came
of that the management OF the n. Y.
Y. c. objected to the admission OF the
Lawson boat because of its superior
lines. chances Of beating the Colum-
bia, and the relief when Lawson's
boat hardly showed at the horizon of
the race course was perceptible.
Mr.. E. d. Morgan. the responsible
manager Of the Columbia, made him.
self very inconspicuous. he is a
yachtsman Of long experience. At one
time he owned seven boats. his
grandfather was the war governor of
New York.
- =
The Booker Washington Incident.
There are very few southerners who
are not troubled and in a Wav indiu-
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-10-26
Football.

Football.
The fascination which football has
for rich and poor, lettered and inlet
tered, athlete and pale clerk has not
been satisfactorily defined and &C
counted for. 1t is perhaps one of
those expressions Of human feeling too
deep for words. but which when the &C.
casion arises is overwhelmingly dem.
onstrated In action. Baseball is more
Ineligible to crowd. The players
are distributed over the diamond as
chess-men over board. and the plays
are not often punched, SO that the
audience can keep track Of the ball
and indemnity the players by position
and characteristic action. But in
football there is only heap of dusty
boys and it is occasionally difficult to
be sure that the heap is human. 1t
looks more like an octopus, creature
of one body and many arms and legs.
Nevertheless 10 this mournful town
where everybody is still more or less
broke and where daily on every street
corner monuments Of former opulence
meet and remind one of their depart.
ed influence, somehow the inhabi-
tants raised between twenty-five aud
thirty thousand dollars to 60 to Min
neapolis and see the game OF football
between the Minnesota university
team and the Nebraska university
team. The game lasted only two
hours or so and Nebraska was crush
ingly defeated, but robody seemed to
be sorry he went and the excursion
lists said as old Caspar said Of Blen-
helm that is was GLORIOUS victory"
A committee is trying to raise in Lin.
coin few thousand dollars for a peal
OF chimes to be placed near the CEN
ire OF the town and serve as a monu.
ment to the memory of President Nc.
kinley instead Of the triumphal arch
that was first proposed. The project
has net yet been received with suffici-
ent response t. insure its success.
Considering the strength Of the spell
We are under il we could get the foot
ball team to give the chimes fund a
benefit we could buy chimes worth
listening to; but there seems no easy
way OF ef1ecting the conjunction be.
tween football and chimes. More
particularly because college men,
whether from reckless spending,
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-04-05

Albert Edward comes TO the throne
of England at an age when most men
consider their active lifework practic-
ally over. He faces task calling for
every energy Of brain and body and
freighted with the gravest responsible
ties. AS an Offset to this, he Is stout of
frame, rugged of constitution, and gen
orally in robust health. He Is idolized
by the English. a fact that is accounted
for by his democratic habit of making
every man he meets his friend. His
princely bearing has been agreeably
shaded with courtesy to his Interiors in
rank, and he has been active in his sup
port of deserving public charities. In
entering upon his reign he has the good
will of every subject-a condition that
lessons the difficulty of his position.
One Of the penalties of royalty Is the
obhteratOn of private feeling. The
state demands of the new king the per-
Torrance Of certain public ceremonies
with which his personal bereavement
must not be permitted to interfere. His
mourning for his mother must be OBJ
served in secret Before his subjects
he must bear himself with cheerfulness
and dignity. 1t is a situation Identical
with that Of the favOrite actor, who
must strut and grimace for his public,
even though his heart be breaking. In
his youth this king was a rollieking.
devil-may-care prince. He had the fol-
lies Of youth and outgrew them. BY
his acts as Edward VII. will be dis
covered the exact strength and quality
Of his manhood.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-04-05
AMERICAN POETS LoNe-LIvED.
With Some Exceptions, Our Bards Have
Reached the Allotted Age.

With Some Exceptions, Our Bards Have
Reached the Allotted Age.
A most striking fact is the longevity
of our poets. The typical American
poet-when one thinks of it and no
tees the faces that look down from his
library walls-is found to be an aged,
hoary man, says Oscar Lowell Teiggs in
the Forum. OF the eight poets pic
tured on the frontispiece, six are gray
boards and incline to badness and of
the black-haired heads, Lanier lived to
be 80 and Poe to be 40. No American
poet has had the advantage of John
Keats of dying young with still enough
accomplished to be compared with
Shakespeare on the ground of his prom
Use. Many fair hopes centered in Cora
Fabri, Anne Aldrich and Winifred
Howells, the youngest of the sister
hood to lay down their pens; but their
work was too incomplete to give
prophecy of their maturity. Joseph
Rodman Drake at %, Stephen Crane
at 20, James Berry Bensel at 30 and
Francis Brooks at 81 had hardly begun
their true poetic career. Probably our
Literature sustained its greatest loss in
the death of Richard Hovey, who was
destined to accomplish great works and
to win high renown; at SO be was just
prepared for bold adventure. Timrod
and Emma Lazarus had fulfilled much
of their promise at IS. Edward Row
lands Sill and Bayard Taylor, whose
premature deaths were much lamented.
had yet time at 46 and % to accom-
plish not little well-rounded and we'll
proportional work. Longfellow. Low
ell, Whitman, Story and Halleck en-
tered the 10th; Emerson reached the
SOth mark; while Freneau, Whittier.
Holmes and Bryant passed it. Dana
lived on into the Goth.
Some few sensitive natures, like Poe
and Richard Realf, suffered pain and
travail, largely the fault of their pc
culiar temperament; ill-health affected
the output of some; the Civil War cut
short the lives of several: accident
closed a few careers; and four suffered
violent death at their own hands. But
for the great majority the currents of
life ran smoothly, and, save the or
binary Incidents of change, they lived
in serenity of shirt
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-04-05

Rural free delivery Is an addition to
the postal facilities of the country that
has come to stay. When an appropr-
alton of 100000 was asked for to in
augurate the experiment Mr. Loud,
chairman of the House committee on
postoflices and post roads, objected; but
when it was proposed to appropriate
$3,5OO,OO0 to go on with the business
the chairman of the committee had
nothing to say. Mr.. Sperry of Connec-
ticut. a member of the committee, had
much to do with getting the matter
started. He was for many years post
master at New Haven. and his practi-
cal ideas with reference to the conduct
of the business of the Postoffice De
partment have been Of much service.
Mr.. Sperry gives it as his opinion that
1t would be useless now to try to pre-
vent the spread of rural free delivery.
in which opinion, doubtless the other
members of the committee, and the
department itself. agree. Rural free
delivery has commended itself to the
people of the farms, and since they
like II Congress would not presume
to withdraw or do much hanging back.
The wonder Is that free rural delivery
was not undertaken before. but now
that II has proved OF such utility and
popularity, the whole country is reach
ing out It's hand, and expansion of the
system must go on until there are no
more townships to conquer.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-04-05
A Female Electrician.

Mrs Ayrton, who is well known for
her researches in the field of electricity.
had the honor the other evening of din
ing with the 800 members and guests of
the Institution of Electrical Engineers
at the Hotel Cecil, in London. Her
presence brought up the novel question
how she should be recognized by the
speakers at the dinner. The earlier
speakers said, MY lords, lady, ana
gentlemen" which sounded odd. The
Lord Chief Justice improved on this
with my lords, Mrs. Ayrton, and gem
tlemen," while Sir John Wolfe Barry
struck out the formula, my lords. mad
am. and gentlemen" Mrs. Ayrton some
time ago justified her election to mem
bership by thoroughly scientific es-
say, "on the Kissing of the Electric
Arc" subject which she still further
investigated, and on which she read n
paper, in completion of her inquiry at
the recent meeting of the institution in
Paris.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-04-05

all reasonable errands for any su-
perior.
Freshmen shall not run in the col
lege yard nor up and down stairs, nor
call to any one through a college win
dow"
In the Ancient Laws and Liber-
ties" of Harvard similar restrictions
upon the freshmen are found. Among
them are;
mo freshman shall wear his hat in
the college yard unless it rains, halls or
SHOWS, provided he be on foot and have
not both hands full
Freshmen are to consider all other
classes as their seniors.
mo freshman shall speak to a senior
with his hat on, nor have II on in a
seniors room, nor in his own If a senior
be there.
when any person knocks at n fresh
mans door, except in studying time.
he shall Immediately open the door
without inquiring who is there"
Fighting Freshman Sustained.
The death blow to the hat law and
most OF these other absurd regulations
was struck over 100 years ago, when
Levi Hedge, who was afterward a IA
nous professor, threatened to knock
down a senior who demanded that he
remove his hat. The trouble was
brought before the president OF Har-
ward for adjudication and he decided
in favor of Freshman Hedge.
Although these regulations We're early
overthrown the spirit underlying them
was kept alive and frequently mani
tested itself in the mistreatment OF
members of the freshmen class. The
new college men were smoked out 9"
taken from bed at midnight and doused
under the town pump. painted with
green or red paint, made to eat or drink
vile combinations, blindfolded and
made to run three or four miles. made
to sing or dance or deliver Oratlons
while very often they were shorn OF