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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09
.arsi run. and fix your play 50 You get

cars run, and fix your play 50 you get
al the big ones
".I'll tell you Why: All the stee
cars are the last put on by any rail
road. and the numbers run usually into
FIVE figures. The little short sondolas
run three and four figures. and the man
that gets them is playn' a four-card
hand against five
How Biefoot Won.
- 1T takes Il quick eye to size up a
tfain. but YOU soon learn how if you
are wise ON the graft. Cabooses always
run big hands. They are always num-
bered higher than the newest car and
help a fellow out of "a big hole sone-
times.
".Once down in West Philadelphia
doubled on the caboose and won out
With Hill. My pal knocked the game,
sayin' nobody could hold five aces in a
straight game. but ] got the money
after we had settled the point with bal
last.
Any other game YOU can play With
4 mossy2' l asked.
We'll, says Bigfoot. they're good
for craps. too, but the game is too slow.
90! you slloot lie engine lof your pplHl
and get two. Your pal wins if q seven
for the first figure ON car comes be-
fore the two. If you get two for the
first figure, you take the coin
1.-The trouble about messy craps is
that whole train may pass before you
win or lose. l have played three trains
before a beer changed hands.
"'Of course, it amt SO bad when you
have nothing to do but loaf around and
wait especially when you don't have
more than II beer. Only the cheap
skates who have no big money play
messy craps. Messy poker is the thing
for quick action"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09
APPROVING OUR STAND.

The New York Sun has not particu-
larly favored the tariff revision express
sion of the Iowa republican platform,
fearing that it went to far over on DEM
ocratic ground However, in late is
sue, in quoting column and quarter
press favoring the position taken by
Iowa republicans, it is moved to say ed
itorially:
THE avowed willingness to follow
the Des Moines platform proceeds eth
er from the hope and expectation that
the declarations of that platform will
not be interpreted too literally when 1T
comes to the question of actual legisla-
ton, or from a sincere belief that the
time has arrived for overhauling the
American protective system"
Among the opinions quoted by the
Sun is one from the Philadelphia Press,
which notices that some republicans
have SHE'D at this Iowa expression.
"Why should they?" asks the Press.
1.-The declaration does not affirm fact;
it states q principle. If there is any
schedule which does afford shelter to
monopoly ought it not to be modified?
If in the progress of development such
q condition comes ought it not to be
met? The question is one of fact and
not of assertion. We are to deal with
realities and not with shadows. We are
not afraid of implications. The repub-
lican party has always been ready to
meet new situations, and when it is not
ready it will not be true to itself"
Here is another excellent expression
from the Boston Journal, which de-
cares it would heartily subscribe to
every word of that Iowa deliverance in
which our free trade contemporaries
profess to find so much cause for eN-
lltation That Des Moines plank would
make good model for the tariff plank
Of the Massachusetts republicans next
October but for the fact that Massa-
chusetts republicans know how to con-
struct an even better plank them
selves
1--WE have here in the Bay state the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09
most stalwart protcctionist common

| most Stalwart protectionist commons
commonwealth that can give the best
reasons for the faith that is in it, But
| the republicans of Massachusetts have
| never regarded any particular tariff act
| as fined and Interchangeable as the laws
OF the Modes and Persians. ON the
contrary, they have favored safe
changes in tariff rates at reasonable
| intervals, to conform to the progress of
our Industries and their changing rela-
| tons to the commerce of the world
Such tariff revision can be made With
out seriously unsetting business when
| it is made by the friends OF protection,
not by its enemies And as To recip-
rocity-the reciprocity OF Harrison.
Blaine and Mckinley massachusetts
has always favored it,
| The Indianapolis Journal is still an
other of the many sterling republican
| journals that have approved and justi-
| fed the position taken by Iowa repub-
licans. 1t says. This declaration of one
of the largest and most intelligent re-
publican states i'm the union is the sem
timent of the mass of thinking repub
licans of the country Moreover, 1t is
The sentiment which ran thru the last
speech of William Mckinley, so far as
r.,
is the expression of that wise republic
can statesman, Senator Allison, and it
will be the sentiment of a large major
ity of those who will be in congress
when that body reassembles, if the re-
publican members make any effort to
get at the opinions of republican vot-
ers. The mass OF the republican party
believes that if any schedules of the
present tariff are turned by manufac-
turers to the disadvantage of the Amer
lean people they should be changed
They believe that congress should pre-
vent favoritism in the Way of freight
rates to a few. and, if further legisla-
ton is needed. that it should be enact-
ed at once. In short. the Iowa platform
is the latest and best considered ex-
preston of republican belief and aspir
ation."
In other words the republican press
of the nation has generously accorded
Iowa the leading place in the republi-
can column and accepts her utterances
as the latest and best expression of
republican belief and aspiration" Even
those republicans in the state who
"shied" at this expression should take
new courage and buckle on the armor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09
lurning Narshalnu nua, Saturday Augu 1902

that he has read during his experience
of twenty years in congress- Mr.. Dali
zell of Pennsylvania has expressed a
similar opinion. 1t is not often that
Speaker Henderson reads Il speech. He
hears too many To have an eager appe
tite for congressional oratory, and he
heard Cooper. too. but was so much
impressed that he sent for a printed
copy and has read il in preference TO
the novels people ON vacation ut the sea
shore usually prefer
The democrats will please keep in
mind that William j. Bryan says he
does not believe he could honorably
say no
Draw a circle 100 miles i'm diameter.
YOU Will mark the most active railroad
building section in the world said +.
O'IIealn, u Frisco railway contractor,
i'm Kansas City the other day Within
that small circle of 100 miles in dame
ter more than 1000 miles of railways
the territory railway contractors are so
close together that construction camps
of rival railroads are within calling
distance of each other. The Frisco,
Santa Fe, Katy Rock Island and 9th
or roads are laying tracks as rapidly
MS possible Within a few years Okla
homa will be one of the greatest rail
road districts in the union.'
She--T never saw a married couple
who got on so We'll together as Mr.. and
Mrs Rigby.
He-Humph, know. Each of them
does exactly us she liNes.-Brooklyn
Life.
A recent mail from the Philippines
contains an interesting summary of the
results of court-martial cases in the
Philippine islands. 1t shows that the
accused in 22T cases We're dishonorably
discharged, in PSI cases forfeited pay
and allowances. in 115 cases suffered
other punishment. in ITO cases were
fined, and in $40 cases We're sentenced
to confinement. The charges included
murder, manslaughter. assaults and at
tempted assault Most of the charges,
however, were for trivial offenses, and
were based upon complaints made by
native Filipinos. The record shows
that the military sentences for all seri-
Gus breaches of discipline, in some in
stances intlicting the death penalty.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09
EAyoRlNG HE ElLlPINos.

To illustrate the difficulty the Cath
Ollie church meets in the Philippines,
the Catholic World presents this view:
IF the Irish element in America
should place Irish priests in charge of
German congregations and establish
rules virtually excluding Germans from
membership in such orders as the Au-
gustinians and Mominicans, the Ger
man element would Very naturally ana
justly object. The Spanish authorities
in the Philippines placed Spanish fri
ars over the principal Filipino congre-
cations and excluded the natives from
the great religious orders. This is part
of the popular objection TO the frars.
We ought not to try to force on the
Filipinos church policy which We
ourselves would not stand
AS a result of an effort to do this. the
rriars are in bad ordor among the peo-
ple-in fact are in danger of their lives.
This makes it imperative that some
thing be done by our government TO re-
lieve the friction and to pacify the peo-
pie of the island. A hopeful feature of
the situation is that the Catholic lead
ers, clergy and press are largely aiding
our government in a fair solution OF the
question The above expression from
the Catholic World is in line with it.
The recent expressions of Archbishop
Ireland has had a good effect in the
Sap,a di,,antio,,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09
90 Tzveh7&AI
HOW HoBoEs GAMBLE.
Number of Freight Cars as Substitute
for Poker

Number of Freight Cars as Substitute
for Poker.
Altoona, Pa. Aug S.--"Not long ago y
said Frank Hopkins. a Pennsylvania
ifilroad detective, Il discovered a new
game, or rather became acquainted
with the details of on old one little
known outside the tramp camps which
line the railroads. For quick action it
has ping-pong and other effete amuse-
ments backed clear into the corner.
"One morning while | WAS camping
with Il gang had spotted. q gentleman
we called Bigfoot rose YEARLY from his
turf couch and asked me if / had two
bits.
What for l asked.
Why, to play, of course he an
swered.
I've got four beers" l said. -Four
beers is tramp for 20 cents.
Well, I'll so you Il beer on the next
mossy.' he said.
Look here 1 said, L haven't been
on the road Very long. an you have me
goin'. What's the game
What kind of a piker are you, any
how, that you never played mossback
poker" he exclaimed.
No Short Card End.
Show me how i says. and the
beers is yours if you get them.
you've played poker in your E!ne, 1
guess. he said with some scorn.
Il admitted l had.
Well he went on. this is poker
With no short card end. All you need
is the coin and mossback train an the
game starts. You take messy for the
deck because the cars go slowly and
you have time to read the figures The
engine is the first hand. Say it is num-
bered 2021; you have a pair of deuces.
First car is my hand; say it is num-
bered $3.50; you lose, for l have trays
against your deuces. Are you wise?'
Il admitted l had the idea.
Here comes a messy. now yelled
Bigfoot as he munched the end of a
secondhand cigar stub. I'll take the
first hand for beer a throw
Il agreed.
"1420,' he yelled as the locomotive
passed. That's ten high; the cipher
counts Il ten spot
3l,311,' l yelled.
"'Got me skinned on ace full he adj
mitted.
$780, he yelled gleefrlly next. You
can't beat trips with old 1886
GLOW does your 1856 suit YOU? l
asked.
pair of fives is good on them Cen
trails he said. See. I skinned you
again on that measly 1146 of the Read
ing
Il lost again on a CTS, p. F.. w. &
G.. against n Pennsy. S99S. L still was a
beer to the good in my stack, but he
cleaned me out on Il 4l.l4i Pennsy.
against a S,443 Missouri Pacific.
Notice I had 4-11-44?' Bigfoot
asked me. Then l knew how it hap
pened.
".Fellows think there amt no short
card end to the game, Bigfoot confided
as he pocketed my four beers. But
there is. an I'll put next. Skin your
eye over the train when you see it
coming. Count back how far the steel
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09
a Cure for Cholera lnfantun,

Last May" says Mrs. Curtis Baker,
of Bookwalter. Ohio, IAN infant child of
cur neighbours was suffering from chol-
era infantum. The doctor had given up
all hopes of recovery. l took a bottle
of Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy to the house. telling
them / felt sure it would do good if
used according to directions. In two
DAYS time the child had fully recov-
cred, and is now (nearly year sinee) a
vigorous. healthy girl. l have recon-
mended this remedy frequently and
have never known it to fail in any sim
gle instance" For sale by druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09
ANOTHER NOTCH.

men buy Iowa farms and steam heated
mansions are erected the Iowa men buy
Dakota farms and the cattle and grain
begin to flourish as never before. This
is the long established movement of
population. 1t means that Dakota
lands are safe investments, if within
the rain belt and if sold to actual in
vestors. but woe unto the SPECTATOR
buying on margins if he gets caught in
the reaction.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09

The regular bus service was never bet
ter, and one is sure To get Somewhere.
sometime, by patronizing them.
At this writing all of the hotels and
cottages are crowded. The season il;
on Now the boats are crowded With
young women with sleeves rolled up
and collars turned down. They're going
TO get Drowned up if it takes all sum-
nler to do it. Now the fashionable young
man is much in evidence. He, too, rolls
up his sleeves and turns down his shirt
collar and thus exposes his brawny
rcck. Also turns up his trousers legs,
because its raining in London' All
OF which indicates that it takes all kinds
OF people to make a world.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09
LANDS AND THEIR VALUES.

| A Minneapolis paper observes that
the Dakotas are getting a large share of
the immigrants that have sought homes
| in the northwest this season, conse-
quently lands are booming in price all
| ever these states. The situation is one
that affects citizens in every town in
Iowa, for it is safe to say that every
tenth man in an Iowa town who has
money to invest is specializing in north
ern landsl The great question is. How
! long will the boom last?" 1t is unques-
| tionably true that many Dakota farms
are not yet selling for what they will
chaser bought and paid for his farm
with the intention of keeping it as an
investment there would be little dam
ger of reaction. But this is not the
situation. Nine out of ten buyers of
| Dakota lands are non-residents who are
specializing. In most cases they are men
Of limited means, who buy on a margin,
paying small amount down, expecting
to Sell quickly. and exhaust their linn
the margin. Sooner or later a reaction
will come and when these men can not
| turn their deals as fast as they expected
to, their payments will come due and
| they will be lost Like the bucket-shop
Spectator who buys grain, investing
| his all in margins, so long as the market
| let a slump come and he can not raise
any more margins. hence his invest
ment is wi out, while an Armour or
4 Upton, Who has the money TO protect
| his deals. seldom loses.
| The T.-R. has great faith in the
northwest as a grain and stock raising
country. 1t can plainly see that the
present wave of immigration that is
sweeping over the Dakotas is of a bet
ter and more substantial character than
any that has gone before it. The Da-
kota country will be greatly enhanced
in value when these new settlers estab-
| lish thier homes, but just as true as
turning there are fewer land booms
that have no reaction. If Il man can
afford to keep his land it will take care
of itself and ultimately make him rich.
but if man of limited means has
loaded up with great tracts on small
margins he had better begin a hurried
crawl from under his burden. Money
can not always be borrowed as easily
as it is today and times have been
known In which farms had almost no
sale at all, altho they retained their
values Well
1t has been pointed out in these coll
umns that farm lands in Iowa are sure
to hold values upon which the income
will pay very low rate of interest for
the reason that the Iowa farm is now
sought either as Il home or as an in
vestment of absolute stability equal to
a government bond. AS the country
grows in wealth more men are able to
pay fancy prices for farms as homes
and more people in the towns are seek
ing farms for safe investments in which
to put the funds of trust estates, ETC.
Because of this demand Iowa farms
will continue to command prices upon
which they will earn a very small in
come. One hundred dollars per acre
will soon be only an average price. The
result will be, as already noticed, that
farmers who want to own farms on
which to make money must move on to
the northwest. west and south, in the
regions of cheaper lands. AS the Illinois
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09
special Excursion Rates,

Via the Northwestern line to Hot
Springs, Deadwood, Lead and Custer,
S. d.. and to Colorado and Utah points,
good to return until Oct. 81. A SPLEEN
did opportunity is offered for an enjoy
able vacation trip. Several fine trains
via the Northwestern line daily. Apply
TO agents of the Chicago & Northwest
ern railway.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09
Just Look at Her.

Whence came that sprightly step,
fautess skin. rich, rosy complexion,
smiling face. She looks good, feels
good Here's her secret. She uses DR..
Kings New Life Pills, Result-all org
ans active, digestion good, no head
aches, no chance for blues" Try them
yourself, Only 20 cents at George p
Joo,yarc'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

In noticing that Col Mowry was not
very satisfactory to the railroads and
he was defeated. Ditto Ketchum. the
Tama Herald declares that Some OF
these days the people OF Iowa will serve
notice on the railroad companies TO get
out of politics..
Some men have an idea that because
they belong to a union they are at lib
erty to do and say what they please
remarks the Clarksville Star. in refer
ring to the fact that union strikers got
Il licking for calling non-union work
men "scabs
the people can we'll be proud of" says
the Newton Record. in speaking of the
republican state platform.
The Indianola Herald is of the opin-
ion that the democratic party of Iowa
will find when its leaders come to an
alyze the republican state platform.
they will have much difficulty in break
ing any of its planks.'
Monticello Express: Judge Hubbard
was noted as foxy politician. but he
never broke a promise when once made.
Marshalltown people do not believe his
mantle has fallen on his son Nat.
According to the Tama Free Press.
the absolute harmony in the Fifth
district lis the harmony that kills"
The Dubuque Telegraph-H Herald does
not approve of Archbishop Ireland's
defense of the administration with ref
erence to the friars, and it notices a
storm of disapproval in the Catholic
press. The TIL. says: whether 1T
was his purpose or not. and we do not
mean to even imply that it was his OBJ
ject. the archbishop in rushing to the
defense of Roosevelt Root, ct AL,
plunged too deep for rescue. Emerg-
ing from the storm of criticism he
wears the politicians brand"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09
Weight lost In Cooking.

BY the time it is placed on the table, an
eight-pound roast of beef weighs only about
five pounds. Other meats shrink proportion
ately. Nearly half their weight is lost in the
process of cooking.
Right here IS the greatest economy of
canned meats. They are cooked and ready for
the table. They are all meat-no waste; no
bone; no gristle.
II canned meats cost twice as much per
pound as fresh meats 1t would be economy to
buy them. But the fact is they sell for about
.:Rex' canned meats, which are the best on
the market. are put up in q great variety. They
range all the way from a lib. can of corned
beef to tiny tin of potted turkey. The best
sellers are sliced beef. lunch tongues, Vienna
sausage and corned beef hash. Veal ham, and
beef loaf. as well as Rex" pork and beans, are
also great favorites.
handle Reg goods will you not kindly so adj
wise The Cudahy Packing Company at South
Omaha. Neb.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09

The coronation of King Edward to-
Gay was something like a ctear, done
over job.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09

Wheat harvest is practically over in
South Dakota. With scarcely an eN-
ception. the reports as to grain yields
which come from all parts of South Da-
kota are favorable, fully bearing out
predictions that the state will this year
raise one OF the largest crops in its his
tory.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09

"It is strong document and one that
the people can we'll be proud Of says
the Newton Record. in speaking of the
republican state platform.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09

David Harum" has made way for
later candidates in the lists of the best
selling boks, but is still in demand The
total of its sales is astonishing. On
Aug. / the record was $4,000 copies.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09

The nomination of E. l.. Boies for
congress against Henderson in the
Third district will make it necessary to
refer to the candidate as the son CT his
father
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09

According to the Tama Free Press,
the absolute harmony in the Fifth
district lis the harmony that kills"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09

Writing from Atlantic City, on the
coast, to the Chicago Record Herald,
w. Il. Curtis says: Speaker Hender-
son, who is here with his wife and
daughter for few weeks, has been
reading the speech delivered in the
house of representatives shortly before
adjournment by Mr.. Cooper of Wiscon-
sin on the Philippine question. and de-
clares it to be one of the best speeches
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
The New Yor K World.

The Federation of Catholic Societies
has adopted resolutions expressing
confidence that President Roosevelt
will deal justly with the friars.
The Washington times., 1902-03-22
New Orleans Entries.

NEW ORLEANS, March 21.-Entries fol
tomorrow's races:
First race-For fou--yea olds and I'D.
ward; one and one-eighth miles. Loves
Labor. 1l2: Tenderloin. Boot 1903: Trag-
edy, 107; Chancery. 10i; Paul Bart. 95,
! Kentucky Muddle, go
Second race-For four-year-olds and up-
ward; handicap; six furlongs. Sir Christie
pher. 104: Tom Collins Automaton. 100:
Maggie Davis. 90; Four Leaf c. %: Di-
vonne, 80; Gala Day, 92: Moderator
Weideman, 30.
Third race-For three-year- olds and
upward selling; one and one-Guarter
miles. Jessie JarbOe, 107: Swordsman
104; Linden Ella. 102; Eugenia s.. Socapa,
10l: Ell Moran. 100; Meggs. 81: Lillian
Reed Reflect 95; Free Admission. 93:
Homage, 81: Meme Wastell, S.
Fourth race-For four -year-olds and
upward: $4,000 added four miles. Aim,
107; Major Mansir. 1o1; Little Elkin 81;
Bristol, 96; Little Tommy Tucker, 49,
AVIATOR. 80; Jackanapes, 30.
Fifth race-For three-year- olds and up
ward handicap; one and one sixteenth
miles. Danish. 1902: Tom Kingsley, 9S;
Van Hoorbeke, 81; Petit Maitre Ida Led
ford, 80; John Mccarthy, 80; Digby Bell.
81
Sixth race-For four-year -olds and up
ward; selling; one mile and seventy
yards. Philma Paxton. 104: Leroyd. %:
Jerry Hunt. 10; Judge Magee. Chorus
Boy, Donator. 107; Hanswurst, 106; Jim
W. Lofter, 105; Preston. 102; DR.. Car
rick, 10l