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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-03

in the near future be permitted to ma
ture, they can be extended at a very
low rate OF interest, payable on de-
mand, and the holders thereof can nc
longer dictate prices to the govern
ment.
! Additional circulation will be nee
essary. Outstanding government bonds
are inadequate to secure it even If
their market value would justify their
use by the banks. 1t is even doubt
full If national bank currency based
on government bonds can be made adj
yantageous to banks. A lower tax on
! circulation would be counteracted very
promptly by corresponding advance
| in the price of bonds, and the profit
would accrue to the present bond hold
ers.
L see no objection to the issuance
of circulation based upon general cred
it's, if properly safeguarded. Neither
do l believe it necessary to make cur
Irency thus issued a first lien upon as
sets. A very small tax upon circula-
ton would be sufficient to cover any
possible loss. The government actu-
airy has demonstrated that tax OF one
eighth of one percent upon circulation
would have covered all loss from the
beginning of our national banking sys-
TEN to the present time, had each bank
maintained its limit of circulation at
reserve cities, and the government
would never suffer injury or embar-
rassnent as an insurer against ultimate
loss. The lowest tax suggested by
anyone would far exceed any possible
loss, and the government could assume
responsibility to the people and still
realize a profit When thus guaranteed
and primarily redeemed by the govern
ment at the expense of the bank of
issue, currency based on general as
sets. would be as acceptable and as
secure as the present national bank
notes on specific assets.
Il doubt, however, tho wisdom of
making provision for the issuance of
credit currency to the limit of the
banks capital Not that | would fear
unfortunate results, but in all financial
legislation the greatest caution must
be exercised lest the currency be sud-
denly and unduly inflated. A gradual
increase in circulation is well-nigh inn
perative, but a sudden and unnecessary
increase would be most unfortunate.
Il am not prepared at this time to
recommend branch banks. Recent
events confirm a previous opinion that
the peculiar conditions of this coun-
try would not be conserved by such
q policy. 1 think far better course,
for the present at least, would be to
provide an elastic currency, available
in every banking community and SUI .
ficient for the needs of that locality"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-03
HIGHWAY and Farm CROSSINGS.

%
In the letter of transmittal, the
board renews its recommendations of
1899 The report says:
THE question Of highway and farm
crossing is still in a somewhat unsat-
isfactory condition. The late general
assembly made no changes in the laws
and the board finds it is in the same
situation as indicated in it's report
of last year. The board again quotes
from its report of 1899 the following.
There has been within the last year
a number Of complaints against the
railways, occasioned in some cases BY
the change of grades thereon, where
the same crosses public highway. In
some instances before the change of
grade the public crossing would have
been considered reasonably safe as a
grade crossing. After the change such
crossings Were hazardous and danger
GUS There has been more or less con-
tention on the part OF the public au-
thorities having charge of or the super
vision Of public highways, with re.
gard to the meaning and construction
to be given the decisions of the SUI
preme court, wherein 1t is held that
a railway company, where 1t crosses a
public highway, should leave such
crossing In the same or as good COM
dition as 1t was before the construe!
ton of the railway. It has been claimed
in most Of the cases. on the part of the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-03
YOU'D KAInEk omONE

bgood cigar than an inferior weed. We can suit
your taste whether you prefer mild or strong close
rolled or loose. We are especially careful in buy
Ing our cigar stock and we fiatter ourselves that
Dur Judgment is pretty good. TIES. it and see.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-03
A WAY OPEN.
Hany a MarshaIltown Reader Knows
Ii Well.


There is a way open to convince the
Treatest skeptic. Scores of MARSHALL
iown people have made it possible. The
public statement of their experience is
proof the like of which has never been
produced before in Marshalltowp. Read
this case of 1t given by a citizen:
Mr.. w. FL. Cover. of $40 West Church
street, says; There was dull, heavy
pain in my back, the kidney secre-
tions were of very high color and OF
disa greeable odor. doctored and
used many remedies but without avail
Learning about Doan's Kidney Pills
procured box at Mcbride & Wills
drug store, and the use brought great
relief very quickly. The pains ended
the secretiens became clear and natural
In color. and odorless. was greatly
pleased with the results obtained from
Doan.s Kidney pills, and since using
them have felt better than for long
time"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster Milhurn Co, Buffalo, NJ
X, sole aiYents for the United States.
Remember the name. Doan's, and
take no other.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-03
Short Telecrans.

Chicago-Governor Otero OF New
Mexico displayed his sporting proclivi-
ties here yesterday in the Pompeiian
room at the Auditorium Hotel. where
two hibulous youths plunged into the
fountain for a race. The novel race
was stopped by the porters before the
governor found opportunity to place $25
on "the red head"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-03
A Million Dollar Baby.

Butte, Mont, Dec. 3.-A son was born
late Monday afternoon to the wife of
William A. Clark Jr., son of United
States Senator Clark, the millionaire
copper mine owner. The baby will be
called William Clark the Third" and
being the first grandson born to Senat-
or Clark, will receive a check for ST.
100000 from his grandfather as prize
on the day he is christened.
Both mother and son are doing nice
". Senator Clark is in Paris. Mrs.
Culver Morris of New York, Senator
ClarlS's youngest daughter, gave birth
to a daughter several months ago.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-03
IOWA ACCIDENTS
Number Of Railway Fatalities During
the Past Year.

Special to 1Fmes- Republlcan.
Des Moines, Dec. Sin the Iowa
railway commissioners report just
made public, the following is given in
relation to accidents:
The comparative tables show the fol-
lowing persons We're killed in railroad
accidents in Iowa in 1902 and the year
preceding.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-03

Calcutta, India-The governments
project of wholesale incubation for the
plague has been brought to standstill,
owing to the accidental use of a poi
sonous serum, resulting in many
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08
New York Times.

New York Times.
Readers interested in recently published
book containing letters from Mrs. Mary
Cowden Clarke to Robert Balmanno may
like to know something of her method in
preparing her great work. 1.-The Concord
ance to Shakespeare as detailed in a letter
to S. Austin Allibone. dated May T. 1852.
and accompanied by a dozen pages of the
manuscript. She writes.
II had a wide-backed portfolio for each
letter of the alphabet; in some instances.
for example. it required two portfolios. 1
took fresh sheet of paper for each word
inscribed, and worked through two pages of
Shakespeare as they lay open before me,
letter by letter; thus: Suppose the top line
of the page was Angels are bright still,
though the brightest fell" 1 entered the
word angel under its proper head, and
all the succeeding words beginning with
"a" through the two pa ges; then bright"
with all the words beginning with "b''
through the two pages; then fell" ETC.,
and then on 10 two more. At the end of
each play collected all the filled pages of
the manuscript, that my portfolio might
be as little loaded as need be; but even with
this precaution the bulk in use was very
large. However, although the bulk may be
increased by using a fresh sheet for each
word, yet think the advantage of clear
ness thus obtained cOunterbalanceS the in
convenience. If also your work be of great
extent you will find it highly essential that
your manuscript papers should be all of a
size, as considerably diminishing the trouble
of subsequent sorting and arrangement
1t is well, likewise, to seize any oc-
casion (such as the conclusion of each play
afforded mel for sorting the filled manu-
script pages at once, instead of leaving the
accumulated heap till the end of the work
as a neglect of this latter multiplies and re-
multplies the time and trouble of the
task"
In such a method the concordance was
executed-a work containing 300 600 lines of
Shakespeare, not a word not alpha betically
arranged, the whole line given as we'll as
the play, the act and the scene, and con-
tanned in book of $50 pages of three col
umns each. Before being stereotyped the
work was read three times and compared
with the three most correct editions.
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Some Objectionable Books.

New York Mail and Express.
On the same day that we read denial
that George Washington was Christian
announcement was made Of the publication
of three new books-one an attempt to
prove that the Borgias were highly moral
and respectable family; another asserting
that Tiberium, instead of being the eX-
emplar of all that is vicious and profligate,
was in reality 1.-The best type OF Roman"
and 1.-The ideal SENATOR" the third aiming
to convince US that Jeffreys Of "the bloody
assizes'' was not bit worse than his con-
temporaries and on the whole a fair, if not
a lenient, judge.
The efforts to lower our demi-gods to
the common standard of humanity have
been frequent of late. We have had 1.-The
Real So-and-so" and 1.-The True So-and-so"
written about nearly all the heroes and
statesmen whom we were taught as school
boys TO believe were superhumanly good
in character and conduct. Little harm has
been done by the show of Washington,
Franklin and other WORTHLESS as mortalS
with human faults and foibles instead of
the painfully perfect beings we had con-
sidered them But when these attempts
are considered in connection with the
equally prevalent desire to rehabilitate all
the villains Of history, we are confronted
with trend of thought distinctly modern.
These books are simply the expression of
a new Out Widespread IeelliB lndt all
men are much alike and deserve neither
eXaltation nor complete condemnation.
Only the neutral tint of gray suits this
new judgment If the statue be snow white
it glares at US too brightly. So we chip
off a corner here and there and plaster up
the places with mud. The fragments we
pound into a well-mixed whtewash and
proceed to smear over the blackness of the
effigy of every famous butcher The result
is hardly the artistic ideal in either in
stance. But it is the fad of the moment
beyond ali denial
1t is time, however, to draw the line
when we learn that a novelist is to give
us new version of the justification of
Judas, once essayed by a group Of me-
dieval casuists. In all other instances we
are open to conviction that no man should
be hero or villain 10 posterity any more
than to his valet. But we decline to give
UP the ancient IScariot
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08
William Blacks Art.
Literary World.

Literary World.
One of the cardinal principles Of the liter
airy art of the late Mr.. William Black may
we'll be commended to the vast army of
novel writers who have taken the field
even since his first triumphs were won.
1t was life as he saw IT, says his bio
grapher, Sir Wemyss Reid. which he tried
to depict, not that imaginary life of melo-
dramatic adventure so dear to so MANY
of his literary followers. People are not
always committing forgery, or bigamy. or
running away with other mems wives or
being falsely accused OF murder" Mr.
Black used TO say. "I would rather
write about men and women like those
whom 1 have actually known than about
imaginary monsters have never seen" If
for nothing else William Black IS to be
remembered for the green fields and clear
waters by which he led us in the pathways
of his fiction. And now the beacon light
house which forms his most fitting memoir
ial stands on Quart Point in the Sound
of Null and in Sir Wemyss Reds simple
but impressive words, casts it's rays over
the waters where, in Blacks most powerful
story, the yacht of Macleod of Dare went
down"
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book trade Of this country. IL has we'll
nigh obhterated opportunities for reprint
ing English books without authority from
the authors and without compulsory COM
pensation to them. Former conditions
made IL certain that all popular English
books would have more than one American
reprint, each competing with the others,
and each made TO sell as cheaply as posi-
ble-for p cents, for 10 and even for 5.
Hence has come 10 the American author
competition with his English brother on
equal terms-a competition in which he has
constantly proved himself 10 be the better
man-until, as an American publisher re-
Gently said, there are not more than four
or five English novelists who remain vital
factors in the American market to-day.
Another cause operating with the fore
gong mas been the ENORMOUS increase In
the size of the reading public. Twenty-Five
years ago a book that sold to the extent
OF 10000 copies was something of phenom-
enon. Nowadays a single year has chron-
icled half a dozen that rose TO sales or
more than 100000 copies. 1t is the increase
IN higher education which, In the frst In
stance. has raised up this new army of
readers. Cheaper and larger newspapers,
including the formidable Sunday issues,
have supplemented the work begun by the
schools; they have held people fast to the
reading habit. Along with them, or follow
ing them, have come the monthly maya
zines. multiplied in their numbers, vastly
extended in their range OF topics. and pos
sessed in many cases of calculations that
rival or surpass those OF the most success
full metropolitan newspapers.
A third cause that must be named is
the awakening OF new interest in life out
OF doors. Coincident with the spread OF
education has been a drift of population
toward cities and large towns, OF which the
statistics, needless to be named here, are
formidable. Young men seeking success In
life migrate TO places where their trained
talents can best find employment. Success
has attended the most of them, with grow
ing incomes, wider horizons, experience in
travel, finer social connections and the at
tendant obliga tions-above all, a need for
change from the engrossing activities of
the working part of the year. Hence has
come the familiar reaction against town
life that every year drives thousands more
and more to the country-it may be TO re-
side in homes of their own, 1t may be TO
live in hotels, to propel the bicycle or play
golf. Out of this has come leisure for read
Ing and a desire for it, an interest in ma
ture, in American history, in the world
beyond our own immediate borders and in
the books that relate to those topics,
whether nature books, histories or books
of travel. Mans social nature has at the
same time been developed and inspired on
new and broad lines, while interest in So
ciety, as novelists present IT, has been
deepened, widened and refreshed.
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Literary Notes.

Elizabeth of the German Garden" has
written a new book, which will appear in
the autumn.
1t is announced that, besides the new VOL
ume OF Jane Welsh Carlyle's letters, fur
Their letters of Thomas Carlyle will shortly
be presented.
Mr.. Anthony HOPE has new novel ready.
but the name and nature of it are as yet
unknown. 1t is to be published after the
coronation is safely over.
Judge Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania, pos
sesses, it is stated the largest private IL
brary in this country devoted to a single
object-the preservation Of historical ma
terial relating to the owners State
The writer described as 1.-The gifted young
Canadian poet'-Mr. Bliss Carman, to wit
lis about to publish a coronation ode. and
the fact will remind the readers of Ameri-
can periodicals that he is in cruth no Amer
lean. but a subject of King Edward.
The price of histories and other works of
erudtion and permanent value to the IL
brary is said 10 be steadily rising in Eng
land; even at secondhand they are snapped
up greedily. This fact is partly attributed
10 the increase of public libraries in that
country and this.
Rudyard Kipling is the illustrator as well
as the author OF new volume called "Just
30 stories, ana MS pictures are said to be
admirable. Evidently he gets his gift from
his father, who will be remembered as the
illustrator OF Kim and the maker of the
cover design for THE Days Work
Mr.. Richard lie Gallienne sailed for Eng
land last week. and it is thought that he
will not return TO the United States. Mr.
lie Caffeine at one time expected to make
his home In this country, but. of late his
success has not been all that he expected
here, and so he has gone back TO the scene
of his old-time vogue.
King Oscar of Sweden has written a vol
urne OF poems In French and viii publish
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but from school commissioner it is re-
markable. The appropriateness of women
as teachers, especially in the earlier years
of a childs school life, has become so uni
Versally recognized as to be accepted as
matter of course. Children OF tender years
require that gentleness and consideration
which only woman can give TO them.
Man. ever awkward with children. cannot
hope to compete with women as instructors
in those grades.
That a majority OF schoolteachers only
teach a short time and then wed is not a
disadvantage to the profession. Teaching
Is more or less monotonous task in which
only the most ardent do not lag. The places
vacated by the brides are constantly being
filled by others, fresh TO the work. who
bring TO 1t unwearied attention and the zest
Of novelty.
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Summer Reading for Americans.

Francis w. Halsey. in Review of Reviews
The books which the regular houses now
offer in summer are among the best pub
lished through the whole year-both as to
contents and as to manufacture Indeed,
the summer reading public has it's needs
looked after with something of the same
care and intelligence that are bestowed
upon books for the holidays, and this at
tention has been bestowed with n devotion
that has increased year after year
Were causes to be sought for the change
might find many A primary one has
been international copyright. which has ef-
fected something like a revolution in the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08
HORSES LIKE THE OPEN.
Showmen Say the Animals Are Not
Happy When IncIosed.
New York Times.


1t has been a subject OF remark by those
who saw the performance of Buffalo Rul's
wild West in the Madison-square Car
den, New York, and afterward in this city
out IN Master street, how much more spir-
tied the horses appeared in the omen air
This Is noticed every season by those con-
nected with the exhibition, but even they
were impressed with a keener apnreciation
OF equine susceptibility to environment a.,
an incident that occurred during the viSft
Of the Wild West" in London in lSs7
An invitation was extended for an affe~-
noon performance on the lawn near the
long walk and forest OF Windsor CasfIe
her Majesty demonstrated lively interest
IN the daring horsemanshfp excfffnr $50
sodes. historic incidents and novel r.srsl,'
alities OF the wild West" exhibitfon 60.
an especial object OF royal curiosif, VS.
"a me Sossaeks. then seen for the first time
IN peace outside Of Russia. This was fbe
nrst amusement entertainment pernitfe "a
al the castle. Others OF an operaffc srf
dramatic nature followed
The troupe, OF just about the, same ma,
nltuGe as IL Is now, comprising some ga
Iougn riders and as many horses -
m cArs AZ the windsor Castle station and
FORMING IN parade-a gallant sfpht sIncs
all were at their best-marched 10 he -,
POINTED snow ground. fronting which Tie
queen marquee was erected Rllt vb.n
the noIses came In sight Of the greaf r,es8
o"-like expanse OF green with to sba.5v
reaches OF forest beyond a thrill ~ ~
Tlbslne thrss seemed to run through them
a 1..sS tl'eW up their heads. pricked thor
ears and neighed. Then one and an e,Fe.,,-
ored 10 run. caper and ho,1nd i;.- .ei,-
Just turned loose 4iNe S"'eS
- ~ was diillcult even for their skillful nd
IS 10 control them And when opnort,,rf
Ties were given them TO CART ae-s,,i--
~ 'oss AFTER neeing Indians. cavalryrnen
g Mde 10 rod en- without saddles. Cossacks who
those horses did gallon Even ~ ,,s,,e io
81 =, O ,Ss caught the general contagion but
III IT. sneiT own malevolently obstinate wav-
erse.. Susnt against subjugation with
n e 70 be thrown down in helplessnesss re re
h hore the mated saddle could be mr. ,,rt,
h h,,s. anu wnen once mounted, aid not sfAn
ronins until S Eng plunsing. twisting ana
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The Worlds Work.
Just when this paragraph is written any
bookseller will tell you that his shelves
are so overcrowded with new novels that
he can sell few of them; and the best suffer
least from such an overproduction. in
the meantime. authors, publishers and the
public are finding time to reflect: and re-
Election makes 1t clear that ping-pong now
engages those half million or more of
mighty minds which were yesterday en-
gagged in reading historical novels that
contained neither history nor romance
But these things bear the same relation to
literature that gas logs bear to a hickory
fire: they cannot warm the heart
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08

women at ythat-who have attempted TO
live and work in the noise of cities. have
come 10 the sanitarium.
They are not content TO choose, as did
Mrs Browning.
They don't want the headaches, and they
wish TO continue on their fine career.
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A ChiId's Questions.

why did my little sister unless she meant
TO stay?
Could anybody love her more than we?' says
little May.
why did she go? Where did she go? What
makes her stay away?
tie May.
Alas these fearful questions wake sad memories
to-day;
He needs her most who loves her most" is all
that I say.
M. A. B. Kelly, in Youths Companion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08

them in Paris He is not the only poet
sovereign, for Prince Nicholas of Monte
negro has written many lyrics and couple
of tragedies in verse, while the Emperor
of Japan makes writing poetry his recrea-
ton. The japanese ruler, however, does
not publish his verses.
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The Lost Needle.
Chicago Tribune.

Twenty-seven years ago Mrs Samantha
Ambergris, a quiet, modest seamstress re-
siding in Walnut Grove. Ill. was sewing a
button on her husbands trousers Having
occasion 10 thread a needle. she held IN be-
tween her lips while she looked for a spool OF
thread. Just then she sneezed violently and
the needle disappeared, nor could she find il
after the most prolonged search.
The incident passed entirely out Of her
mind. One day last week, however Mrs
Ambergris, who is now an elderly woman