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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-16

inside, and hits us smartly in the face
with violence in proportion to the
lung power expended.
Those who are fond of posing their
friends with similar simple problems
may be able to turn to account the col
lection here made, and show that our
capacities are in many unsupported lit
tie ways more limited than we imagine.
Many men pride themselves on their
muscular strength. Let lady place
the tips of her forefingers together,
keeping her elbows on level with her
shoulders, and challenge any gentle
man in the room to separate them by
fair pull. Unless she be unusually
weak, or he be very strong, he will
probably fail; and his discontinue
may be fifty followed up by the invita-
tion to move her hand from her head
Or her middle finger from the tip of
her nose
The Hercules who can toy with
heavy weights should be asked to
break with his middle finger stout
wooden match placed across the roots
of the first and third finger nails. The
arm must be held level from the shoul-
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-16

der, and the fingers kept quite straight.
Even slight curvature gives sufficient
power to break a much stronger thing
than match; but we place great faith
In the wooden splinter to resist all eff
forts IL the conditions be properly OBJ
served.
Paper is tougher substance than
would be inferred from the ease with
which sheet can be torn. But roll a
sheet Of note paper into a cylinder and
exert your whole strength to pull it to
pieces. Here the chances are very much
against you.
Another edifying experiment is as fol
lows: Two persons face each other.
The one places his fists on top of one
another and strives to keep them there
while the other (by preference II LADY,
strikes them sharply with her fore
fingers, taking care that each finger is
applied to the corresponding fist OF her
opponent. The fists fly apart as If by
magic, because the muscles cannot act
In two ways at once, and while exert
Ing pressure upward and downward are
at the mercy of Il smart lateral blow,
unless-and man can safely risk the
strain-the lower thumb be secretly in
serted into the upper hand and held
there firmly.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-16

charge o I Unit
States lands. has
become a promi.
neat and spectaeu-
lar figure in the
bitter fight for the
range that being
waged by conflict
ing interests In the
cattle and sheep
country of t Ii e
West.
Col. Mosby's spe-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-19
Our Duty to Cuba.

Grant that we have done more for
Cuba than any country ever did for an
other not it's own; grant that in liber-
ating her from the yoke of Spanish op-
preston we established the strongest
title to grateful return; but all this
does not relieve us from the necessity
of making our policy a success at the
end as we'll as at the beginning. We
are on trial, as we'll as the Cubans. 1t
is to be tested whether we are capable
of successfully carrying out a great
work on which we have entered. We
are not responsible for the character of
the Cubans; we are not responsible for
their making the most or the best of
their opportunities; but we are respon-
sible for giving them a fair chance. We
can do this only by opening our mar
ket. We have shut them off elsewhere.
They must restore their sugar indus
try or sink in disaster. If they suffer,
turmoil comes, and trouble in Cuba
thru our failure will not only put the
stamp of incapacity on republican
management, but will reflect on the re-
publican party in every congressional
district of the United States.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-19

resolution fayoring the expulsion OF
Brooks but the final vote was III ayes
and 95 nays. AS this was less than
two thirds, Brooks was not expelled.
At later day, in a house debate,
Brooks had an angry colloquy with
Representative Arson Burlingame OF
Massachusetts,. Brooks was challenged
by Burlingame to duel. 1t was ac-
cepted. the duel to be fought with rifles
/ in Canada. Brooks. however, failed to
appear for the combat. on the plea that
he would have to pass thru the enc
my's country. He resigned his seat and
was unanimously reelected. The south
generally upheld him and gave him
presents of many costly canes and 9TH
err testimonials. He died in this city
Jan 81, 1857, less than a year after the
assault on Sumner
In the Voorhees-Ingalls episode, the
senator from Kansas charged that the
senator from Indiana once declared
that every soldier in the union army
should be branded II am Lincolns dog"
Voorhees, rose to reply, white with pas
sion He said that the senator from
Kansas had raked up an old campaign
charge that had been used against him
in Indiana and long since exploded. 1t
was known to all the people of Indiana,
and to all who We're conversant enough
with the facts to tell the story that he
had reference to certain spies in the
army. This the senator from Kansas
well knew and in stating the case as he
did he had told a deliberate lie.
Voorhees, apologized to the senate for
his ungentlemanly language.
Replying to personal attack by La
mar Senator Conkling once said: II re-
spect the rules of the senate too much
to violate them, but I declare that if the
senator from Mississippi would repeat
that language to me outside this cham
Der. I would denounce him as a liar and
cow.rd
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-19
The Last Of the Ministries.
INew York Sun.

Rilly West Billy Emerson. Billy Rice
the stars fall fast Yet these artists
had all but survived their art, for negro
minstrelsy seems doomed, nor can even
the witty MIR. Dockstader give it a long
re5rieve. The public taste changed;
the minstrels relied too much on their
Old laurels and wore out their welcome.
we know the weakness of the pralsers
of past time, and we Will not say that
the theater at present seems to be IN
tended mainly for the benefit or detrl-
ment of girls too young to appreciate IT,
or as q means of passing an evening 10
well dressed. well-fed, mostly unimag-
NATIVE folks to whom it represents
few hours rest, the interval between
dinner and supper at one of the lobster
palaces of which New York will soon
principally consist.
1t seems tho, as tho tastes and times
were simpler once. Perhaps people
laughed more easily. The generation
that felt the death of Dickens as per-
sonal loss had the gift of hearty laugh
ter. During the civil war and after,
there was natural reaction toward
gayety. The great gods of ennui, the
Ibsans and the Tolstois, were not dron-
ing as yet. People We're willing to en-
Joy themselves in their own way; and
a manager couldn't boost stick into
STAR and n playwright was not a
cheap pathologist. Burton had not long
been dead; Wallack was still in his
prime The name of John Brougham
will recall to many not yet decrepit
something of the gayety of temper, the
high spirits of those not altogether re-
mote days. Mr.. Joseph Jefferson is the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-19
! Jnlua. 1l1rdnrsdap, 9l1arrh l9. 1902
When tn Conference Is.

When tn conference is, my Nav, she
goes
An gifts US all some bran new clo'es,
An fixes tn house up dest as nice.
An, Paw, he grumbles about tn price
But what Paw says don't cut much ice
Cause Nav, she lows she do wan
ter be
Ashamed of TIL house, er Paw, er me
When TIL preacher-mens come; an
great Gee Whiz!
We've husin' times VIII u tn con-
f'rence Is.
When TIL conference is, some strange
man stays
Aroun' our house fer days an days,
An Nav, she talks to i'm awful sweet.
An gives i'm tn bestest things to eat,
An me an Paw, we take back seat
He calls Paw Brother Smith. you see,
An Paw looks dest as foolish at me,
Cause Paw don't want no church In
his,
But he has ter go, when tn con-
f'rence is.
When tn conference is, Nav makes
us chase
TIL rooster chickens all over tn place
AM Paw, he runs hisself mos to DEATH
An cusses horrible, under his breath
An dest have t. keep as straight.
An ev'ry meal l have t wait,
An take it all roun,' it's muss hate;
Fer, me an Paw have plenty o biz,
Eut not much fun, when tn con-
f'rence isl
r. p. Smart.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-19
ATTACKING IOWA CITY.

The Boone News assails Iowa City in
q somewhat uncalled for attack, chars
ing that the moral atmosphere OF the
town is most demoralizing upon the
Young men of the university. 1t is
true that a university town with us
professional and post graduate schools
where full grown men attend will be
cursed by the presence of dissolute
women when college town whose stu
dents are all mere boys under 20 years
of age will never know anything of the
social evil, but conditions are hardly SO
bad at Iowa City as to occasion such
criticism as given by the Boone paper.
Furthermore the proposal to remove
the university outside the corporate
limits of the city is not going to I'M
prove the moral conditions. College
men have seen a Pullman coach load OF
loose women virtually imported from
Chicago to Madison. 100 miles. to assist
in the celebration of the annual foot
ball game at the Wisconsin University.
At the smaller colleges immortality is
much less prevalent among the stu
dents because of more immature years
and because of the much stricter sur
VIGILANCE maintained by the college au-
thorities, yet even among them are
found black sheep who will steal away
to nearby cities where they may ca
rouse as suits their natures.
This whole discussion of removing
the State University from Iowa City,
called up by Representative Larrabee's
bill making such thing possible, is
intended by Mr.. Larrabee to make it
possible for future trustees to estab-
lish a university campus on some de-
sirable site a short distance out from
Iowa City, where future buildings could
be erected and the university made a
place of beauty. No one but some mis-
chief-maker would suggest its removal
to some other town and it is an unwar-
ranted assumption to claim that the
removal from the center of Iowa City
is demanded in the interests of better
moral surroundings for the school. II
immortality has become excessive at
Iowa City it is time for crusade
against vice. That 1t has always eN-
listed there men of ordinary information
know and it is presumed that the au-
thorities of both school and town are
constantly alert in their endeavors to
suppress it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-19
A RuslNEss.llkE STEP.

Wall street fears that the steps re-
Gently instigated by President Roose-
welt looking to enforcement of the in
terstate commerce law will have a de-
pressing action on railway stocks.
There is feeling in railroad circles
that it's strict enforcement will cause
serious trouble. 1t is claimed by the
practical railroad people that this
vantage over the weaker ones. Rates
being the same and the cost of ship
ment or travel equal as between a
strong line and its weaker competitor
the average shipper or passenger
would use the more fully equipped line
In order to get business the weak road
would cut the rate and this involves
railway wars. They claim that portion
of the law that requires the same rate
on long hauls as ON short hauls is i'm
practicable and would do injury to the
export trade, and that to make an ex-
port rate which would meet trade con-
ditions and then adjust the short haul,
local rates thereto, would be to put
railroads into bankruptcy. Railroads
holding this view are preparing to make
a strong attempt to secure changes in
the law should strict enforcement fol-
low the presidents order.
The enforcement of this law has been
thoroughly ineffective so far as some
OF its purposes are concerned. Many
violations have been practfced, and un-
der the impression that strict enforce
ment was impracticable, have been to
all intents and purposes permitted.
President Roosevelt, however, believes
that the duty of an executive officer is
to enforce laws and not to decide upon
their merits. AS q consequence there
will be action on the part of the inter-
state commerce commission.
The presidents order is another evil
dence of his good business sense. The
executive officer is selected to enforce
laws, not to make new ones or amend
or modify those in force. If the law
is right and just 1t should remain intact
and it's enforcement be matter OF course.
If any provisions are contrary to good
public policy the best way to bring out
their weakness is thru their enforce
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-19
MIGHT Was Her Terror,

II would cough nearly all night :ong'
writes Mrs. Charles Applegate, of Alex
andria. Ind, and could hardly get any
sleep. had consumption 50 bad that
if l walked a block l would cough
frightfully and spit blood, but, when
all other medicines failed, three 81 bot
ties of DR.. Kings New Discovery wholly
cured me and I gained fifty-eight
pounds" It's absolutely guaranteed to
cure coughs, colds, la grippe. bronchitis
and all throat and lung troubles. Price
so cents and 81. Trial bottles free at
Geo. P. Powers drug store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-19
Prince Henry Buys a Horse.
Ichicago Tribune. ]

I0n1CaSO lTlpuilt.1
One of President Ropsevelt's new
s11, 900 team was bred and broken near
here by DR.. G. o. Burke of Atlanta, III
Dr. Burke drove the animal for
year on his professional rounds IN
Mclean and Logan counties. and then
sold it to New York horseman for
$475. The latter put price of $4,000
upon the horse, found mate which
was a perfect match, and then sold
the two to the president. The horse
raised here is four years old, dark
bay, without white hair or blemish.
The animal was seen in Central 1lli-
nois and attracted much attention
among horsemen. A brother of DR..
Burke, who lives in Missouri, has full
brother of the one secured by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. When Prince Henry
was in Washington he was delighted to
find that there was a chance of finding
horse similar to the pair purchased
by the president, and left instructions
to buy the Missouri animal and ship
hmim to the royal stables in Germany.
The great granddam of the horse sold
To the president once drew Abraham
Lincoln into Springfield in a binding
storm. Forty years or more ago.
when the Chicago & Alton road was
4 first built thru to Springfield a party
of distinguished public men. including
Lincoln, David Davis and others, left
Bloomington for the capital. 1t was
winter and snow storm was In pro-
gress At Atlanta the train was
stalled The party could not wait and
rented a team for $50 and drove to
Springfield. One of the horses which
pulled the party was the maternal an
cestor of DR.. Burke's colt. When Lin
coin became president the four horses
sprang into local prominence and the
story has come down to the present
generation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-19
BRITISH MECHANICS IN AMERICAN SHOPS

In communication to the Iron Age
a New York publication, Stewart Utt-
ley, an English working man who has
been in this country looking into in
dustriaI conditions which obtain here,
makes an attempt to prove that the SUI
periority of American industries and
the triumphant march of American
commerce is due to British labor en-
ployed in our factories and shops. He
claims to have found English forgemen,
rollers and mechanics at the great iron
centers. He found that the largest lace
factory in the United States employed
English lace makers from Nottingham.
The carpet weavers were from Kidder-
minister and the looms from Lancashire.
The more he saw the more convinced he
came that America even today is
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-19
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Ft. Dodge Chronicle, comment
ing on the Cuban question, says: Good
business sense would seem TO indicate
that such reciprocal trade and tariff ar
rangements should be made between
Cuba and us as will give her good
market with us and give us practical
control over her market"
civilian ]. Bryan gets into the capt.
tol at Washington whenever he wants
to because he owns just as much of
that ediflce as any other American citi-
zen; but when it comes to delivering
an inaugural address from the east
front. that is quite a different matter.
That is not done thru courtesy, but by
q majority vote of the electoral col
lege." says the Davenport Democrat.
The Sioux City Tribune takes the
view that "The Iowa legislature ought
not to adjourn without making the So
called merger bill general. II it's
right not to have a limit on railroad in
debtedness it is right not to have linn
1t on any other corporations"
The Waterloo Courier thinks Cover
nor Cummins' reappointment of l.. G..
Kline to the state board of control will
be generally commended. Mr.. Kline is
the democratic member of the board.
He is a man of great ability and high
character and has proven a valuable
member of the board"
The Burlington Hawkeye, in COM
menting upon the action of the city
council, which recently passed resolu-
ton to the effect that none but union
labor should be employed on the street
work of the city of Burlington. says
with much truth and vigor: "This is a
piece of demagogery prompted by the
pending municipal election and OF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-19
Full information cheerfuIIy furnishsd
on application to J. w. TUTTLE,
r. p. A., 401 Walnut street,
Des Moines, Iowa.
All About Spirit and okoboji Lakes.

All About Spirit and okoboj Lakes.
A descriptive and illustrative booklet
OF Spirit and Okoboji lakes in north
western Iowa, located along the line Of
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & North
ern Ry., will be sent free on application
to the undersigned. This book also
contains the game laws of Minnesota,
and Iowa. There are a number Of good
boarding houses and hotels around
these lakes, and plenty of good cottages
to rent. Jno. G. Farmer, A. G. p. s. 7.
A. b., C, n, s. N. R'y. Cedar RapidA
Iowa. -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-19

Rumor has it that Sir Thomas Lip
ton will marry an American girl. Sort
of finding the lip twixt the cup and the
miss.
The Northwestern railroad has is
sued an edict which will be hailed as a
reform by all women and many of the
male sex. Hereafter passengers on all
suburban trains out of Chicago must
keep their feet on the fioor-at any rate
must refrain from resting. their shoes
on the opposite seat. Presumably 1t
will be enforced. because the conductor
who fails to make an offender obey it
will be fined ten days pay whenever
his neglect of duty is reported to his
superior officers. Another reform need
ed is rule to dispose of the innumer-
able baskets, telescopes and parapher-
MALTA which travelling family pile over
the half-dozen seats in their vicinity.
Bloodshed is always to be deprecated,
but the salutary effect on his class of
criminals produced by the killing of a
Nebraska blackmailer will very likely
sion in that part of the country for a
long time. 1t certainly proved back
set to the business in that particular
neighborhood.
Iowa farmers will do we'll to look well
to their seed for the planting now near
at hand. Tests of Illinois seed corn
made at the state experiment station
show that corn stored in cribs in that
state is worthless for planting. Reports
from other points are to nearly the
same effect. The drouth last year APP
the seed germ and thereby complicated
the seed question for this year.
The Manson Democrat is authority
for the alleged fact that each of the
proposed thirty-two stories of Fort
Dodge's proposed new hotel will be
named after a county in Ireland The
top of the bar is to be of polished
blarney stone.
"Say. pop" said little Patsey Gegan
over his lessons, whats 'f-a-c-i-l-e'?''
Did we niver hear tell o. the shtuff
swell women puts on their complex
ions?" replied old Gegan. What lie
would it be but face ile'2"
Philadelphia Record.
Every stamp cancelled in the post
office at ST. Louis carries away with 1t
an announcement of the Louisiana pur-
chase exposition to be held next year in
that city. The cancelling machine as
it destroys the value of the stamp
prints in a panel on every envelope
Worlds Fair, st. Louis. 1903" The
idea is a new one and valuable from an
advertising point of view. St Louis
has picked up new idea that Chicago
walked past.
AT the first annual meeting of the
trustees of the Carnegie fund of $780,
000,O given for education in the Scot
fish universities, the report showed
that out of six thousand applications
+ for grants from the fund large per-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-19

one eminent survivor of the eminent
actors on whom the patrons of negro
minstrelsy in its best estate We're
brought up. Why, boys who waited
with beating hearts for the curtain to
rise, who wouldn't have missed a sound
of the orchestra, who yelled so fero-
had heard Eddie Booth offer his
kingdom for horse, especially of a
Saturday night, and felt their hair
stand up as Ned" Forrest cursed Con
eril and Regan with all the wind of
those tremendous lungs.
NEGRO mnstrelsy was no foolish
whim. 1t was legitimate art III its
good time and Mr.. Dockstader and Mr.
Primrose have not forgotten the tfadi-
tons. A long beadroil of names and
companies comes to the mind. The
rattle of the bones tickles the ear
agreeably. The eye of memory sees
those preposterously black faces. i'm
possible red lips, abysmal mouths
world shadowing feet. Where did those
monumental shoes come from? The
banjo has fallen into the hands of the
girls-luclSy banjo!-and they play it
as If they We're petting a canary bird
or toying with caramel. The old
nlinstrels used TO whack it. thump 1t,
take it by violence. They We're robus-
tious with it, and yet they dragged
sweet tones out of it. The dialogues
between the interlocutor and Mr. Bones
were meatier if less artistic than
Platos The songs, comic or sentiments
al, were given with AN irresistible
heartiness. often with clever art. We
can see Billy Emerson as Policeman
Moriarity threatening the truclman:
I'll have you off that dray for ogling
the ladies'
The girls all cry,
AS go by,
Are you there, MORT ar-i-tee?"
Good old Billy. He used to make ev-
erybody feel just as happy as big
sunhower. He sang that, and Love
Among the Roses and "Moriarity'
around the world And he was only one
of jovial crew, high livers, honest and
thirsty souls, most of them. Like every
honest good fellow, they spent their
money freely. Rich again and again,
and paupers at the end.
Billy Rice with his stump speech!
How many ludicrous monologues, tenn
perance lectures and what not, punctu-
ated by the thumps from AN impossible
cotton umbrella, have the Ministries
given! The Morris brothers; Nelse Sey-
mour, one of the mightiest minstrels of
all: Mr.. Birch, Mr.. Backus. Mr.. Ber-
nard, Mr. Wambold. all fresh in prop
erly regulated and grateful memories
Luke Schoolcraft, the Watermillion
Man. and Harry Bloodgood-claudlte
jam rivos; turn off the "reminiscences!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-19
GOTHAM RISK RATES RAISED.
Fire Insurance Firms Make Advances
to One Hundred Per Cent.

= 'S 'HSu' aISc IF"H'S Wane NoSdHSSS
to One Hundred Per Cent.
New York, March 19.-The New
York fire insurance exchange yester-
day made radical advance in fire in
surance rates on many classes of prop
erty in this city. Rates on hotels in
this city We're advanced 25 per cent,
as we'll as also the rates on all omni-
bus or mixed special hazards in single
occupancy manufacturing risks, ex-
cepting certain ratings on breweries.
There were also advances on rates
covering dwellings,, combined stores
and dwellings, apartment houses and
fiat houses. These rate increases
range all the way from 25 to 100 per
cent of the prevailing premium
charges.