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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28

here that the woman sharpshooter is
most numerous, and has attained her
great proficiency.
This does not mean that it has be-
come the custom for the fair sex to
wear pistols as ostentatiously as jew
elry, but it does mean that when walk
ing or driving unattended the Virginia
woman is at all times protected.
1t would surprise even the natives to
know how many Virginia women really
know how to handle a gun, and who
have the forethought and the nerve to
put their knowledge into execution.
1t was only the other day when a
plucky little country school teacher,
Miss Mamie Rhodes, who instructs a
small class of children about ten miles
from Suffolk, near Driver, Va boldly
stood by printed interview in these
words.
Yes l always carry a revolver when
driving to my school, and | keep it with
me while teaching. Should any suspi-
cious man attempt to enter nay school
house he will first have to meet bull
let's
Miss Rhodes frank admission has
broken the ice, ana now Histns "oiiieii
who carefully kept secret their skill at
gunplay, are openly admitting that
they can hit the bull'seye at consider
ably more than twelve PAGES.
If all the women of Virginia who can
shoot We're gathered it would be quite a
formidable looking army OF skirts and
guns. Most of them are proud of the
accomplishment, too. The men mem
bers of the family speak with pride of
the experiences OF their wives or sisters
or daughters
The women who have adopted the
custom are of the best class. too. They
have the encouragement and support
of their male connections, who recog-
nize that the need of such preventive
measures is an actual one.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
Prospective investors.

Should look up information regard
Ing lands along and contiguous to the
line of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
& Northern railway before buying.
Professional and business men OF all
kinds should acqaint themselves with
the many opportunities offered at the
new towns along this railway. On the
first and third Tuesdays of March,
April and May round trip tickets at
very low rates will be on sale to points
| in the following territory: Alabama,
Arkansas, Arizona, British Columbia,
Canadian Northwest. Colorado, F1ori-
da, Georgia, Idaho, Indian Territory.
Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana.
Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota. Mis-
souri,, Mississippi. Montana. New
Mexico, Nebraska, North Dakota,
North Carolina, Tennessee. Texas,
Utah, Virginia. Washington. Wiscon-
sin, Northern Michigan and Wyoming
Full information regarding rates. time
Of trains, ETC., will be cheerfully given
upon application to any representative
of this company John G. Farmer. A.
G. P. & T. A.. B., G. r. & N. R'y,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
.sHlRT SLEEVE DIPLOMACY. .

Whatever the English opinion of the
Shaw's Pittsburg speech may be and
despite the sneering reference to
diplomacy in shirt sleeves" made by
the angry British press, the
American people are very well salts
fed not only with the secretary's evil
cent belief in the commercial future of
his own country, but with the sort of
+ "diplomacy" that evoked the sneering
and somewhat spiteful reference to
shirt sleeves. There is nothing in the
reference, however it may have been
intended, to awaken resentment. Shirt
sieve. diplomacy and craftsmanship
are the groundwork of American sue
cess and the foundation upon which
American liberty was built above the
ruins of pompadoured and powdered
monarchical system. 1t was a band Of
history of the United States at Con-
cord and a farmer whose consummate
Generalship and steady courage carried
an instruction on to the dignity of a
revolution. 1t was in the shirt sleeved
ranks of labor and poverty that the
spirit of human liberty found Lincoln.
The greatest soldier of modern times
worked in his shirt sleeves in leather
store.
1t is a source of pride to every typical
American that all the achievements of
6 nation admittedly the foremost of the
world may be traced to the man in
shirt sleeves. Few in this country are
more than the three proverbial genera
tons away from the shirt sleeves. This
sort does not suffer in comparison
with the gold-lace diplomacy of Great
Britain, whose aristocracy has
lost by incompetency the greater
portion OF the prestige gained
by its commonalty thru pluck
abroad and industry at home
Perhaps an adaptation of the
American idea to British diplomacy and
craftsmanship might save for time a
monarchy rapidly drifting to ruin.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
ROOSEVELT AND THE TRUSTS.

washington correspondent has an
interesting news story in print OF the
gossip among politicians as to Roose-
velt's prospects in 1904. The presi-
dents activity, it is said, in enforcing
the anti-trust law has turned against
him the great monied men OF the coun-
try. Jim" Hill of the Great Northern
is quoted as having vowed the destruc-
ton of Roosevelt, and the fear has been
raised that if Roosevelt should be made
the republican nominee campaign
fund of millions would be raised to de-
feat his election.
Whether there is any great danger OF
the millionaire's opposition or not IS
a question, but whatever there is Will
be shown In the nominating conven-
ton. Railroad and trust magnates can
control delegates where elections are
beyond them. If Roosevelt has to fight
them 1t will be to secure the nomlna-
ton, and then a most perplexing d.
lenlma will confront them. Ii the trust
barons and combine kings prevent the
nomination of Roosevelt because of his
opposition to illegal trusts the people
win defeat their republican candidate.
OF course it may transpire that Rcose-
welt will fail to deserve nomination
and other candidates may appear
stronger but In his enforcement OF the
antitrust law the president is making
himself solid with the people. His de-
feat in the convention at the hands OF
the monied magnates would defeat the
republican party, and in view or the
character of the man it is altogether
likely that President Roosevelt Will re :
ceive the nomination for president on
the next republican ticket in spite OF
the dislike of "Jim' Fill, Morgan or
any conspicuous trust millionaire.
There are two methods by which re-
publicans can invite certain disaster IN
the next presidential election; to nom
mate Mark Hanna or to allow Roose-
Welt to be ousted by the trusts he has
disciplined.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28

ignorant, and to a degree vicious after
less than forty years of freedom is to
be expected, but that in SO short time
a negro should sit as chairman pro
tempore of republican national con-
vention; that such names as Douglass
and Washington should have lost mona
of their historical dignity when borne
by negroes; that Dunbar should take
rank as poet and literateur and Tanner
as painter are convincing proof of the
latent capabilities of the race.
Nature delights in fallow ground.
When she needs great reformers, or the
originator of a new school in art or
ethics, she relies upon the poor and
primitive for his creation. Thus it may
be that the negro will, In the process
of his evolution, furnish the distinctive
American literature as he has already
furnished the only distinctive American
music-ragtime Instinct with music,
color and form the negro nature has
possibilities of art as a tropical soil
holds possibilities of growth. Perhaps
in the coming decadence Of the Caucas-
ian the colored races are tofurnish the
staying power to carry on the march of
civilization.
Let the negro cease Wishing to be-
come white man and remain a negro.
He can find in his own race the types
for his emulation. Let him learn that
TIC be respectable black man is better
than to become vicious imitation of
the white. Let him work for the up
building of his own character. He has
the centuries to build in and when his
race shall have attained greatness he
will find that its color has long been
forgotten.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28

always mere physical weakness;
never saw one who showed the slight
est disposition to run away. On the
contrary, the trouble most comman-
ders in the field have is in keeping their
men from exposing themselves unnec-
essarily. But the bravest man ever
saw was civilian without uniform
the barefooted Japanese coolie who at
tended me during the first part OF the
battle of Port Arthur. He was without
a weapon of any sort, but when the
Japanese advanced to storm Chinese
triple fort, the little brown fellow
stopped and picked up stone. When
asked him what he intended to do with
it he said that would kill a Chinaman
when he got close enough. There was
a hero of the antique mold! That man
stood for elements that lent romantic
glory to the warriors of other times
the strong arm, the steady heart, the
clear eye, the pride of individual Prov
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
A British Triumph.
TLondon Chronicles

One of our trade secrets has re-
manned undiscovered by the Ameri-
cans, viz, how to produce xylonite ping
pong balls absolutely round.-Daily
Paper.
While the Yankees are stealing our
trade by degrees,
And are Boosting of swamping out as
they please,
It's comfort to hear
That in one little sphere
Our benighted old country is holding
her own,
BY the help of secret to others I'M
known.
They may capture our markets for iron
and steel,
They may swallow our ships in Nor
ganite deal;
They may show us how rotten
Our lead is in cotton;
May send us their linen, their hemp
and their shoes,
And their writing machines they may
force us to use.
They may keep us IN maize ana may
flood US with wheat;
They may beat our poor farmers with
fruit or with meat;
For, indeed, it's tremendous
What treasures they send US,
And yet we have beaten them clean out
of time
In a way l extol in the jubilant rhyme.
Let our principal industries totter and
fall,
For the world is we'll lost for cellu-
loid ball,
And our flag 1t shall wave
Der the free and the brave,
Just as long as we guard as secret
profound
How it is we can turn table tennis balls
round!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
PLAYING PEEK A BOO WITH DEATH.

Writers on natural history subjects
iare given to description of the ever
spresent terror of death that is co-exist-
emit with animal life. Chased here and
there one by the other, life in the AMI
NAL world seems strenuous compared
with quiet human existence. But is III
The averge mans life is spent IN
lodging death quite or nearly quite as
much as is the wild animals. There
are thousand opportunities for fatal
accident always at hand in the crowd
ed city streets. He slips thru the maze
of loaded trucks and trolley cars wher'a
an instant's delay or misstep means
injury. TO save a minute he speeds
across the grade crossings before the
incoming express train. He drinks mi-
crobes and typhoid bacilli in city water
and hopes that death Will pass py Oh
the other side. Ptomaines Turk IN his
canned foods and tuberculosis In his
milk and meats Sewer gas Stays him
at his desk and gasoline and gas ex-
plosions lift him skyward at home.
Electric wires tangle to his destruction.
At home, in his Office, on the street
and upon the train he keeps up the
dance with death as continually as the
little animal over which the naturalist
lecturer grows pathetically eloquent.
Withal he is not an object of pity.
Long familiarity has led him beyond
the realization of his danger. Perhaps
this is also true of the other animal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
Cheap Railroad Rates for May
Meetinos

For the national Baptist anniversa-
RES to be held in st. Paul on May 49,
20 next the Iowa Central railway Will
sell tickets at the very low rate of one
fare, plus So, for the round trip. Sale
dates are May is, 10 and 20, limited to
returning on May 20. Depositing tick
ct with joint agent at st. Paul and
paying so cents will secure an extern
sion Of the ticket to June 80. Fine
chance to hear leading Baptist speak
ers of the country. Splendid programs
representing missionary, educational
and benevolent interests Of the Bap-
list church. For further information
apply to local ticket agent or write to
George s. Batty, G. P. & T. A., Mar
shalltown, Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
A Book for Club Women.

The Santa Re passenger department
has issued a pamphlet with the title
"a Book for Club Women" which is Of
special interest to those who contem-
plate attending the biennial conven-
ton of the Federation Of Women's
clubs to be held at Los Angeles May
to s. 1t describes the California clubs
and contains other important matter
and will be mailed free on application
to E. L. Palmer, passenger agent. 400
Equitable building, Des Moines.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
BUSINESS FEATURES.

Commercial reviews of the week re-
port an increase OF legimate business
shown by gains at the. leading cities,
except New York. of six per cent over
the corresponding period of last year
and twenty-six per cent over 1899.
Manufacturers are well employed eX-
cept where labor difficulties have inter-
rupted operation, railway earnings
have gained more than five per cent
and the averge of commodities has
advanced.
Sales on securities on Monday We're
the largest since May 8, 1901, and on
the same day last year transactions es-
tablished new record, which has been
important difference is noticed, how
ever, A year ago the general public
pervaded the market and bought indis-
criminately, but there is only moder-
ate outside interest at present, which
was gradually increasing until the bad
crop news induced caution. 1t is worthy
of note that while railway shares are
$40 higher than they We're a year ago,
the average of gas, traction and indus
trial properties is almost as much low
er.
Corn was attracted to market by the
better terms offered receipts for the
week reaching 1,394,479 bushels, against
1,13S,39s a year ago. but Atlantic ex-
ports fell off to 340,237 bushels, against
1,275.156 in 1901. Meats We're we'll sus-
tanned. Cotton rose to the top point of
the season on light receipts and reports
OF reduced acreage. Increasing mer-
chandise exports during the first half
s2,752,056 at the port of New York for
the third week as compared with the
same time last wear while commercial
imports decreased s2,O25,7o2.
Liabilities of commercial failures for
April thus far have been $4,5S1,537, of
which $1,696,594 were in manufacturing
$2,462.423 In trading. and $422,720 in
other commercial lines. Failures for
the week numbered PIP in the United
States, against 215 last year, and eight
cen in Canada against twenty-six q
year ago
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
Euranu u gundap Aprir IS 1902
nto 100000 shares of s1O0 each. reserv.

into 100, 900 shares of 500 each, reserv-
ing for himself a little over one half
enough to retain controlling interest
the balance he offers to his readers at
500 share. And now it remains to-
be seen how many of his patrons will
assume the risk of continuing the prof
it's which Mr. Munsey assures them
has been derived from the business. If
his figures are correct, as to the magnl-
tude of his business, there is nothing
compatible tc it in circulation and divi-
dends save the New York Herald and
the Ladies' Home Journal. 1t will be
remembered that Mr. Munsey was the
first to put that class OF magazine at
the popular price of 81. With cash
capital of $40 he began his business,
gaining his experience with his weekly
story paper, which was killed off by the
development of the Sunday newspaper.
Eight years go he began the publica-
ton Of Munsey's at it's present price,
with no profits the first year Then be-
gan a steady growth, showing for the
past seven years an average net gain
of 100000 per year. It's net profit Ter
the year 1901 was $69S.615.
Mr.. Munsey's ambitions are reaching
out in various directions, planning an
expansion of his business to include the
daily. paper and the book world. At the
close of the past year he bought the
Washington Daily Times and the New
York Daily News-the latter already
earning as much as his magazine, and
these he calls merely the beginning of
newspaper business he hopes to es-
10 nd ,a
even hints at other industries.
The contagion is In the air. The
bravest and the wisest go down before
it. Sousa has already published ro-
nance, which the critics, in their kind
ness of heart toward the great must
clan, are handling very gently. But
worse has come to pass! The. great Sci
enlist has caught it. Not content with
the spurs won in his special field, Mar
conf is reaching out after literary lau-
rels This wonderful wizard who had
no time for the lecture business, not
even time for courtship and matrimo :
n.y. finds the leisure to prepare book.
Perhaps he wants to show authors
that 1t is possible to write modern
story without woman in 1t. It is to be
thrilling" tale without spark of love,
yet will it throb with fire and magnet
ism and sparks and currents, and some
other things supposed to be insepara-
bic from '.the greatest thing in the
world"
Well, whatever Mr.. Marconi writes
may be worth reading, but alas, that he
should prove himself only common
clay, after all!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE NEGRO.

Notwithstanding the admitted facEs
that the masses of our colored popula-
ton are densely ignorant and largely
lacking In intelligence and morality the
announcement recently made to the
patrons of lecture course in this city
Is significant. The secretary request
ing the patrons to express in writing
their preferences in connection with a
forthcoming course thought 1T nece.; :
sary to warn them that Booker Il.
Washington had heretofore and might
secretary, went on to say, the associa-
ton had futilely endeayored to secure
his appearance before the people of
Marshalltown and had found the de-
nland for his services SC great at $3.50
nightly that his dates have been booked
many months in advance. The speaker
seemed to feel assured that nearly
every one Of the large audience to
which he was speaking wished to hear
wv anu QeSlTeQ 10 lOie-
stall almost inevitable disappointment.
This incident. tho small. was not In
any wise trivial. 1t illustrated the mar
vellous, change less than half CEN
fury Has accomplished, and accent1-
ated the possibilities of the negro race.
No one in that large and cultivated au-
dience expressed surprise that the rep
resentatiye of q race rescued by slavery
from barbarism should, within the first
generation of It's freedom from serpi-
tude, become one of the foremost intel
Iectual leaders of his time; a teacher
and leader not only Of his own peculiar
people, but of the dominant race that
had owned him and his chattel.
Nevertheless the incident pointed
backward to great change and for
ward to changes still greater. It was
at once vindication and a prophecy.
A race that produces men like Book
er T. Washington has cause for pride
and foundation for racial hope. That
the masses of an enslaved. people are
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
Better Than Pills.

The question has been asked. In
what way are Chamberlain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets superior to pills?"
the answer is: They are easier and
more pleasant to take, more mild and
gentle In effect and more reliable. as
they can always be depended upon.
Then they cleanse and invigorate the
stomach and leave the bowels In q
natural condition. while pills are more
harsh in effect and their use is often
followed by constipation. For sale by
druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
TIC california Excursions.

On account of the convention Of the
Federation of Women's Clubs at Los
Angeles, Cal, on May to s. the Chi
csgo Great Western railway Official
route) will run two excursions, the first
leaving Minneapolis at 10 a. m. and ST.
Paul at 1890 a. m. on Thursday, April
az. and will be joined by the Iowa dele
cation at Des Moines the same evening,
arriving at Los Angeles via the Santa
Fe route at $3.50 a. m. on Wednesday.
April 80. Stop-overs may be arranged
for Las Vegas, Hot Springs, Santa Fe.
N. NJ, and at Williams, Ariz, to visit
the Grand canyon. The second excur-
sion will leave Minneapolis on Satur-
day, April &c. at 10 a. m. and st. Paul
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Sioux City Tribune thinks no
matter how much man encourages
women outside of his own family In
their work for suffrage they will lack
his vote as long as he is not willing to
see his own sister. wife or mother in the
political whirlpool"
The Rockford Register pleasantly
says: Senator COPYRIGHT has with
drawn as a candidate against Colonel
to quit il not when to start"
In the opinion of the Odebolt Chroni-
Gle: Had the leaders of the house
obeyed the wishes of their constituents
and followed the advice of Mckinley
and Roosevelt at the beginning of the
session there would have been no re-
volt, and ere this bill giving Cuba the
relief we owe her would have been
signed by the president
The wise editor of the Fonda Times
warns his readers thus: If you meet
a man now who shakes hands cordially
and asks about the health of the fam
lily, and praises the baby, 1t is safe to
ask him when the caucus is to be held.
The Clinton Herald thinks 1.-THE as
sociates of Representative Richardson,
who accuse him of being poor leader,
should stop and consider what Rich
ardson is trying to lead"
"The days of martyrdom are past.
People are now being led away from
the steak" viciously says the Burling-
ton Hawkeye.
The Cedar Rapids Republican re-
marks that instead of drawing q
knife Senator Money, of Mississippi
might have drawn nickel out of his
pocket and paid the street car conduc-
too much fight in some of the southern
gentlemen who are sent to Washing
tom
1t is suggested by the Vinton Eagle
that IF farm produce continues to go
much higher it will soon be in order
for the farmers to hold conventions and
pass resolutions of sympathy for the
poor people who have to buy It." The
Eagle wonders where the honorable
Bryan can be hid that ne has not re-
solved against the tyranny of the
farmer
The Williamsburg Journal Tribune
asks: why shouldn't beef be high
When corn sells up around the halt
dollar mark, hay for $40 ton and land
for SIS an acre, the price of beef or
pork should sell at good figure. Let
the workmen who are complaining
about the price of meat pinch the wage
rate up trifle and all will. be we'll"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
Season viii Open early.

Fort Dodge, April 26-It Will be good
news to base ball fans to learn that the
base ball season in Fort Dodge will
open earlier than was at first planned.
It is practically decided that the season
will open about May 20, and the OPEN
ing game will be played with Sioux
City, now In the lowa-Dakota league.
The announcement that the season will
begin In but a few weeks will tend to
stir up an interest in the base ball cir
cles which have been comparatively
quiet for several weeks.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
Home.eekers' Excursions

on the first and third Tuesdays Of
March, April and May at one fare.
plus 50, will take you to points Ia
Minnesota, Iowa, North and Soul na5
kota, Montana. Idaho. Washington:
Oregon, British Columbia, Utah, Colo
RADIO, Nebraska and to many points
south. southeast and southwest. For
full information address George s.
Batty, g. p. and T. A.. Marshailtown.
Iowa. Send for an interesting fres
hnokIet on hou.e csc ekers n