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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19
Down on ,Possum crick.

Talk about your fishin' if you want to.
don't see no fishin' now like what
used to see.
I'll admit they's gamey sport In these
here mountain trout;
Yet they's sompin lackin'-what can't
jist figger out.
They amt the same thrill an the con-
tentment an the joy
Like l felt in other days, when as
barefoot boy
I went dodgin' in an out among the
willows thick
That grew long the grassy banks way
down on 'Possum crick.
'Possum crck, that winds around
among the Buckeye hills,
Where the summer sunshine ON its wa
ter sits an spills!
I've concluded latterly it must be
purity small,
For on these here maps I've seen 1T new
er shows at all;
Reckon they was places you could jump
an not git wet;
Yet it seemed whopper to my boylsh
eyes, you bet;
When to git away from school used to
play off sick.
Then sneaked round an went a fishin'
down on Postum crick.
Used to git up to dig bait as soon as 1t
'uz light,
Fishin' worms, an grub worms at the
catfish like to bite.
Hunt around the brush to find the very
longest pole;
Hunt along the crick to find the very
deepest hole:
Bait my hook an throw 1t in an watch
the sinker bob
Ev'ry time it ducked it's head my heart
'ud give a throb,
Ev'ry time 1 felt bite I'd jerk most
mighty quick
When l used to go a-fishin' down on
'Possum crick.
Best time o. the year was roun' about
the first of June;
Then I've set and fished thru many
long, sweet afternoon
Liked to pull out sunnysides. but cat
fish was most fun;
Watched the suckers lynn still, like
shadders in the sun
They was wise an foxy, was the SUCK
ers; if you took EN-
Had to sneak up soft an slow right
close to EN- an hook 'em--
Then Id string the hull blame Kit upon
a forked stick,
When / used to go a-flshin down on
'Possum crick.
Since them days I've tished from the
Potomac to the Kaw;
From Platte canon to the Cowskin
down in Arkansaw;
But in all there is a nameless sompin
that l miss,
Amt the touch O. magic ner the undi-
luted bliss
That felt in them old days l used to
fish an dream
Down among the willows on that old
Ohio stream;
An If 1 of all the sports again could
have my pick,
l believe I'd be boy an fish in 'Possum
crick.
Denver News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19
Eurnng 9aum, Tna 3nudap 5ap IT, 1902

an explosion which lasted for forty
four hours The noise was heard fol-
thousand miles; the ashes were car
ried by the wind fourteen hundred sea
miles from the crater. The mass of
matter elected in that eruption of
Coseguina has been computed as great
enough to have covered a surface
equivalent to eight times the surface
of France. The eminent French en-
gineer, M. Buna- Narlla has estimated
that during the forty-four hours of ac-
tiVity the output of stones and ashes
every six minutes of the time was
equal in volume to the total volume
OF the prism of the Nicaragua canal
as calculated by the commission. That
is to say, Coseguina poured out in
six minutes what it would take the
canal contractors eight years to ex-
cavate.
such another volcano in constant ac-
tiNlty, with its last great eruption as
recent as 1889, dominates the island in
Lake Nicaragua which every ship will
skirt on the passage from Greytown to
Brito. This is Mount Ometepe On the
same island is a second volcanic peak,
that of MADEIRA.
In 1874. seven years after the ex-
plosion of Coseguina, occurred the
great earthquake which destroyed the
city of Rivas, near the Pacific shore.
and wrought great damage even at
GryetoWn, $50 miles awap on the At
lantic side. The line surveyed for the
Nicaragua canal between the lake and
Brito runs only five miles from Rivas.
We now quote from NJ. Bunau- Naril-
la, who, attic formerly engineer-in-
chief of the Panama canal and there
fore partisan of that route, is entitled
OTTO be heard on any question of fact
with the respect due to his personal
character and professional eminence:
In Panama there is within a dis
lance of $50 miles from the canal no
volcano, even extinct. The isthmus
there, since it's formation in the early
quartenary period, before man APP
peared on the earth. has not been modi-
fed. This is quite the contrary in Mica
ragua, which has always been the site
OF seismic commissions, whose lake was
formerly a gulf of the Pacific ocean, and
whose name was associated with the
most terrible volcanic explosion [Cose-
guinall ever recorded in history before
the Krakatoa explosion.
ut must be borne in mind that these
terrible menaces would mean, If real
lied, not only the destruction of that
costly canal but the ruin of the i'm
mense interests on both sides of the
which will have been devel-
oped by the great waterway and re-
ceive a death blow by its paralyzation.
Nothing similar can he feared in
Panama, as no trace of any volcanic
activity may be found on that 18TH
mus. whose rare and small seismic Vi
brations come from distant centers."
A few days ago the question of vol
canic menace seemed so remote as to
be almost negligible in the considera-
ton of canal legislation. Today, on ac-
count of the impressive demonstration
made by Pelee and Morne Garu, that
question merits and should receive in
the most careful attention.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19

amount to return. To prolong visit
get out of his house and I'd more to en-
ter your own. A natural result of this
Irritating tax is that of all capital cities
Vienna is earliest to bed.
The Denver Post culls the following
items in the brilliant record of Senator
Patterson, of Colorado. from the pages
of the Congressional Record:
Mr.. Patterson defended the motion
vigorously. The motion was lost-69 to
5.
There appears from the report of the
officer detailed to investigate the al
legged British mule camps no reason for
interference by the government and
shipments of cattle and mules from
that point will be continued. OF course
this will settled the Lathrop, Mo-, case,
too. The conditions at both places were
similar.
There isn't dirty and ragged kneed
little fellow in Marshalltown playing
marbles or base ball today who hasn't
the advantage of the boy king of Spain.
Alfonso had no childhood and. while
still boy, is facing all kinds of trouble
and worry. At the time when he should
be striving to keep his grade in the
high school and make place for him.
self on the high school team he Is the
. fl,a
of revolution. Then the ordinary high
school boy has better time, any way.
than the most firmly seated king in the
world.
Senator Patterson bitterly de-
nounced the amendment, which was
then carried-6S to 7.
Senator Patterson made a brilliant
speech favoring the motion. The motion
was defeated-76 TO g.
Senator Patterson moved an amend
ment to the substitute. Lost-74 to g..
Senator Patterson then arose to adj
dress the senate. 1t was moved to adj
iourn-94 to O."
Many congressman are complaining
that the salary is insufficient and that
they are in congress at personal sac
rif1ce. 1t is astonishing how many peo-
pie are willing to be sacrificed.
Karper--Well, I'd like to know what's
the difference between "a shop girl
and "a saleslady" anyway.
Harper-I give it up; but the differ
ences between salesladies are some
times fierce.-Philadelph Press.
The army department telegraphed to
an officer in San Francisco who had
been ordered to the Philippines: you
can go by New York and sail on trans
port that goes by Suez, if you choose"
The answer was sent back, Would
prefer to cross the Pacific direct"
Then the department wired him:
transport will make good time. Has
sixty women school teachers aboard.
The young lieutenant answered
save me berth en- transport. Chi
cago Chronicle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19
THE COUNT DE RocHAMBEAu.

| 1t is a gratifying circumstance that
a descendant of the great French sol
der will be at the unwilling of the
Rochambeau memorial statue present
ed by the French people. The present
! Count de Rochambeau, with Vice Adj
miral Fournier. Gen. Brugere and 9TH
ers are on board the Gaulois en- route
| to the ceremonies, which Will be the
event of the week. The present count
| is descended from an elder brother of
the famous French marshal and will
participate in the exercises
The statue to the memory of this
great man has been too long delayed
and while it is eminently fitting that It
should come as a gift from the people
ago have recognized by proper me-
mortal the notable service of Rocham-
beau. With Washington he planned the
consumnlate campaign which Ienned
CORVALLIS at Yorktown and resulted in
treaty of peace. Rochambeau led the
assault which preceded the surrender
of the British forces. In recognition of
his great services congress presented
him with two of the cannons captured
at Yorktown, upon which We're en-
graved his escutcheon and laudatory
inscription. Louis XVI, then king of
France, created him a knight of st. Es
prit, made him governor of Picardy and
Artois, and presented him with tEo
mastery paintings representing the
surrender at Yorktown. Rochambeau
sense ard modesty as for his services
and soltlierly ability. A marshal of
France, he placed himself and his
troops ,lnreservedly under the COM
mand OF provincial general ills ac-
ton was in direct contrast with that of
De Grasise, the French admiral, and, in
Fact, with the action of some American
generals. With all his great European
reputation as a soldier, he obeyed the
VI w I'LL llCilly
as tho he had been corporal instead
of one of the great soldiers 5f the
world. Between him and Washington
there always existed the warmest APP
probation and friendship. His descend
ants treasure full length portrait OF
the first American president presented
personally as a token of regard. The
fame OF Washington, the liberties of
the United States are inseparahly con-
nected with the name of Rochambeau.
He is part of the great past of the re.
public.
Jean Baptiste Donation de vimeure.
Count de Rochambeau, was born July
], 1925. Originally intended for the
church, he entered the army and by
force of character rose rapidly in his
profession. Besides the honors noted
above, he was made an officer of the
Legion of Honor by Napoleon. He died
in his castle at Vendome May TO- 1907.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19
VOLCANOES AND THE CANAL.
New York SUM-

The April earthquakes In Guateilltia'
by which it is now reported that hHe
or six thousand lives We're lost, ana
the yet more appalling catastrophe IN
the Windward islands, illustrate again
the utter helplessness of the human
creature and the futility of the strong
est works of his hands, when assalled
by the unknown forces OF the globes
interior.
This is the commonplace remark
suggested by the recent earthquakes
and volcanic furies. Is it not better
q lesson and Il warning of some prac-
tiical benefit to the people of this coun-
try and the world in general?
The United States Government Is
about to construct an interoceanic
canal Either congress or the execut-
i've will soon have to decide between
the Nicaragua route and that by way
of Panama. The danger Of destruction
to the canal by seismic disturbances is
one of the recognized factors of the
problem. The first report of the Itsh-
milan Canal Commission discussed this
danger, apportioned it about equally
as between the two routes, and dis
missed the possibility of canal de-
struction in this manner as a risk
which may be classed with that of .
great confagration in a city like Chi
cago in 1871, or Boston in 1872.
The danger from direct volcanic &C
tivity, that is, from, eruptions was not
considered by the commission. Mar
Unique, however has just shown the
world what an awakened volcano can
do.
The Nicaragua route is lined with
volcanoes, some of them having dem
onstrated the tremendous activity of
the fires underlying that part of Cen
trail America. 1t is sixty-seven years
since Coseguina, in the northwestern
corner of Nicaragua burst forth with
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19
Reveals a Great Secret.

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are effected by DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry for consumption. Here's the Sc
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ers'.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19
Whoopinq Cough.

A woman who has had experience
with this disease tells how TO prevent any
dangerous consequences from it. She
says: "Our three children took the
whooping cough last summer, our baby
boy being only 3 months old, and owing
to our giving them Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy they lost none of their
plumpness and came out in much better
health than other children whose par
ents did not use this remedy. Our old
est little girl would call Justify for
cough syrup between whoops. Jessie
Pinkey Hall, Springville, Ala. This
remedy is for sale by druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19

largely lost sight of in the universal
demand for material success. There
is really no reason why there should be
a separate code of morals for business
from the one which obtains in private
life. That this is true is not the fault
of the average business man. He is
honest. 1t is due to the bunco steerer
in business whose principle is based on
that reversal of the golden text "do
others or they will do you"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

If the Bohemian maestro Kocain, who
has recently been offered 100000 for a
series of American concerts, is able to
fiddle up to his name we may expect a
revival of the delierous approval which
greeted Paderewski
A Miss Robinson was married to a
Mr. Cruso in New York recently. The
wedding should have taken place on
Friday.
Thousands of sufferers from the VOL
canic disturbances in the West Indies
have been ordered to leave their homes
and this step demands that they be fed
and sheltered until able to find some
means of livelihood. 1t is clear that the
relief measures must be continued 70,
some time.
That United States Consul Ayme is
counts for the first news of the Mar
Unique disaster being quickly and
graphically given to the world. This in
cidentally shows the advantage of fill
ing the consulships with up to date
newspaper men.
Alonson Wood, a retired builder and
an inventor of prominence, of Toledo,
o. has applied for patent on flying
machine AZ feet high, 80 feet wide and
weighing about two tons. 1t is a de-
parture from other machines, consist
ing of titled planes or propellers, which
are made to revolve around a central
shaft. These planes have a total area
of 1900 square feet and will be driven
by gasoline motor. The engine is ten
feet square, and the lifting capacity is
estimated at twelve tons. Other pro-
pellers will drive the machine thru the
air at velocity which Mr. Wood esti-
mates at mile minute. Mr.. Wood is
the inventor of the roller. coaster and
sold his rights therein for $4,000.
Birds and snakes left Mont Pelee sew
eral days before the great eruption, but
human beings in the neighborhood
reasoned away the danger and We're
overwhelmed. So called instinct at
times has its advantages over reason.
Mr.. Bryan suggests Bob Taylor, the
Tennessee fiddler, as available demo-
cratic presidential timber. In these days
of the craze for continuous vaudeville
the suggestion has it's weight. Mr..
hD nj ha Stl
and failed. Perhaps Bob might make a
hit with his fiddle.
To those familiar with the writings
of p. F. Dunno the explanation that
MIR. Casey" of the Mason City Globe
Gazette is mot the real Mr.. Dooley"
may seem a trine redundant.
1t is estimated that the monthly av-
erage for one years teaching in iowa
does not exceed SIS This of course in
Guides the twelve months of the year.
1t is not hard to see why so many
teachers are leaving the profession.
Better wages for rural schools is ne
cessity if they are to improve.
If the butchers continue to join the
public in fighting the beef trust the
monopoly will begin TO realize the ex-
tent to which it's greed has overshot the
mark.
In Vienna every mans home is his
dungeon from 10 D. m. to a. m. Wen
ma is city of flats, and at 10 p. m. the
common entrance door of each block is
closed ard bolted. Thereafter persons
passing in or out must pay a fine of I'd
to the concierge until midnight, and 4d
from that hour to a. IN. To go out to
post letter costs I'd, and the same
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19
QUESTION: OF MORALS.

There Us usually not SO much differ
enGas<h morals as in cunning between
the 6uuro man and his victim. Almost
every confdenc game and swindle de-
ponds Coz Cts success upon the greed of
thu, victim. Recently in Chicago a
wealthy woman was successful in an
attempt to send to the penitentiary two
men who had swindled her out of $4,000.
These men had told her of another
whose life depended upon medical at
tention which he was unable to secure
on account of poverty. The men had
discovered that the invalid owned par
ticularly valuable mining stock that he
her that she advance $4,000 to buy this
stock at hundredth of its market val
ue and a division of the spoils be made
between herself and the other swind-
lers after the transactions was accom-.
plished To this she readily assented
and discovered later that in an attempt
to swindle a dying man out Of fortune
she had been made the victim of
threabare fraud. She lost her $4,000
The confidence men are in prison for
term of years. So far is morality is
concerned she should have been sem
fenced with them.
Those who fall into the snares of
the green goods man the vendor of gold
bricks, the seller of $1,000 bonds for
500 and the thousand other bald
swindling devices that appeal to the
victims greed and desire to profit by
the loss or necessity of another, are not
entitled to the sympathy of honest men.
1t is question whether they do not de-
serve punishment at the hands of the
law. The woman who was willing to
take advantage Of the suggestions in
valid's desperate need was morally
quite as criminal as the swindlers she
consorted with and the opinion of the
general public will be that her loss was
less than she deserved. But how much
did the woman go beyond the latitude
we allow in business? She was anxious
to take advantage of ignorance and ne
cessfty. Many a man of business
takes the same advantage when oppor-
tunity offers. The seller whose dire
need drives him to dispose of his prop
erty finds the buyer disposed to hold
the benefit given by his position as pur-
chaser at forced sale. 1t is not a ques-
ton so much Of just price as Of how
cheaply if may be bought If a stock
speculator were able to buy mining
shares or any other security at one
hundredth Of its actual worth the meth
DDS involved in the transaction would
be lost sight of in admiration of his
acuteness and wisdom. The general
business principle is to buy as cheaply
and sell as high as possible letting the
other fellow look out for himself. That
is about the idea the Chicago woman
held.
The moral aspect of business is too
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19
Homeseekers. Excursions

on the first and third Tuesdays Of
March, April and May at one fare,
plus 50, will take you to points in
Minnesota, Iowa. North and South Da-
kota, Montana, Idaho, Washington
oregon, British Columbia, Utah. Colo
RADIO, Nebraska and to many points
south. southeast and southwest For
full information address A. b. Cults.
G P. & 7. A., Marshalltown, Iowa.
Send for an interesting free booklet on
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19
Like a Drowning Man.

give years ago dyspepsia took such
hold of me that could scarcely CO."
writes George S. Marsh, Nocona. Tex
81 took quantities of medicine, but
nothing helped me. AS drowning man
grabs at straw grabbed at Kodol
Dieting Is unnecessary. After few
bottles am sound and Well" Kodol
digests any good food and cures any
form of stomach trouble. Geo. p. Pow
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19
Wants Others to Know.

81 have used DeWitt's Little Early
Risers for constipation and torpid liver
They are all right. l am glad to en-
dorse Them writes Alfred Heinze, of
Quincy, Ill. Never grippe, Safe pills.
George p. Powers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19
Annual Field Day, Des Moines, Iowa,
May g. 1902.

For this enjoyable event the Chicago
Great Western railway will run spe-
cial train, leaving Marshalltown at $40
a. m. Returning will leave Des Moines
at 1880 p. m. Rate for the round trip,
SIPS. Tickets good only on the special
train. For further information apply
to j. A Ellis. ticket agent, MARSHALL
town Iowa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19
Very Low Rates to San Francisco and
Return

Via the Northwestern line. Tickets
will be sold May 27 to June 8, inclus-
i've, limited to return within sixty (6O)
days. on account of Imperial Council.
Mobiles of Mystic Shrine. Thru draw
ing room and observation private COM
partment sleeping cars and tourist
sleeping cars daily. Personally con-
Quoted twice a week. Apply to agents
Chicago & Northwestern railway.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19
For Over Sixty Years

Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup has
been used for children while teething
IT soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain, cures wind collie and Is
the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty
five cents a bottle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19

A big haul by highwaymen, substi-
tutes and others who steal the good
name and fame of Rocky Mountain Tea
made famous by Madison Medicine
Company. 35 cents. Mcbride & VIII
Drug Company.