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The progressive farmer., 1902-11-04

paSSSO muSG0E Al CIl0 Sci NoAGo 4u1A
ters. With palmer fare went strong
er prayer. And the spirit which pre-
vailed in the great house of the plain
or on the river bank was duplicated
in the humber home in the clearing
and in the little mountain cabin.
These women never for moment, IN
victory or in defeat, questioned the
justice and the righteousness of the
cause They knew that it was right.
They reached that conviction by no
process of involved reasoning. They
went straight to the point. They
felt it. Once having decided that the
South was right, nothing could weak
en- their whole-hearted allegiance.
Politics, finance, economics, personal
ambition for place or pelf had no
place with them. Nor was the ques-
ton debatable. 1t had for them no
possible negative side. Their cause
was pure white.
They did not WaVer even when
tending their wounded and burying
their dead Disaster following disas-
ter appalled,, but did not shake them.
Then came the end But even with
the South PROSTATE, even after the
Stars and Bars, passing into the
shadows of the eternal night of de-
spair for those who had followed
them upon many bloody field, had
disappeared forever from among the
flags of world-powers, the women
were as firm as ever in their convic-
tions. They would not acknowledge,
they could not acknowledge, that re-
suits had placed them and the cause
in the wrong. Before the final blow
was struck they had begun to immor-
talize that cause in their beautiful
custom of strewing flowers upon the
soldiers graves. Afterwards, while
survivors of the battles were trying
to adjust themselves to changed con-
ditions and to take up the routine of
shattered lives, and when some, in
deed, had begun to wonder whether
it had all not been a mighty mistake,
the women still cherished the cause
which no longer had a wonderful
gray shell as it's exponent. They be-
gan to raise monuments to men who,
coming from comparative obscurity,
had won world-renown as warriors,
and to those who, nameless, have end
less fame, and, sweetly illogical, they
did not omit from their plan Of me-
MORALS men whose errors of judg-
ment and faults of character had
added vastly to soldiers tasks and
women's burdens.
Such devotion was a stronger bull
wark of the Confederacy than all of
it's material resources and it's states
manship combined. Defeat could not
diminish it. It persists in the belief
in the cause, despite the knowledge
that the purposes of the cause have
failed forever in this world. Women
who knew the cause militant and suf-
fered for it, leave it's memories a sa-
cred legacy to their dauohters and
The progressive farmer., 1902-11-04

Praise undeserved is scandal in
disguise.-Pope.
The progressive farmer., 1902-11-04
WOMEN OF THE SOUTH.

Their Devotion a Stronger Bulwark to
the COnfederacy Than All of Its Ma
terial Resources.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04

furnishings and clothing. with a good
increase in hardware and groceries and
provisions.
Business conditions in the far west
arc to some extent reflected by the fol-
lowing statement from Portland, ore
gon: laundering has been the most ac-
tive branch of industry III oregon this
wear Nearly 200,00o,ooo feet of lumber
has been shipped out of the state since
january i, little less than a third of
which has gone to foreign countries.
The increase over last year is about 10
per cent, and there is every prospect
and preparation for further growth OF
the business. The first shipments OF a
bountiful wheat harvest reached Port
land in the past week. The crop is in
excellent condition and the yield large
Prices encourage an elrly movement.
Nearly all the large wool clip has gone
to market at satisfactory prices. The
Columbia salmon pack thus far has
been large and of good quality. The
dull season in mercantile trade has
been very short this year, and business
is now of more than ordinary volume
for the season.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04
IN HUSBANDS POCKETS.
Wives May Freely Rummase There, a
Learned Jurist Says.
New York World.I

1t has been generally understood
hitherto that however literally a man
might endow his bride with his worldly
goods there was an accepted reserva-
ton in favor of the trousers pockets.
reserves, inviolable, outside of cere-
mony and agreement. 1t has remained
for Missouri judge to shatter domes-
tic tradition and rule that the wifely
hand has full license in the husbandly
receptacle of small change, pocketknife
and key rings.
There is an economic basis for the
decision The plaintiff was able to sat
isfy the court that without the privilege
of going thru the defendants pockets
she could never be sure of having any
thing to go thru in the family larder.
Large and small change was certain to
burn a way out unless she was in time
with her saving grasp.
OF course there are circumstances
that alter cases. Also there are excep-
lions which prove a rule. spend-
Thrills disposition may come within
both these categories. 1t would appear
TO have been the duty of the Missouri
court to emphasize this point, to the
end that the case of the suffering pock-
cts and the general rule of their strict
ly personal quality might be properly
Otherwise what ambition
can be supplied to a rising generation
to take the place of that old one, which
will surely be destroyed. to grow UP
and have pockets just like pas? %
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04
BUSINESS FEATURES.

The outlook in the commercial field
is still of a favorable character. AS no.
ticed by Dun, manufacturing plants
are we'll occupied as a rule, iron and
steel leading, followed by textiles and
footwear. Aside from damage by rains
in Texas, the weeks crop news has
been encouraging.
In Chicago seasonable conditions and
the presence of many visitors brought
heavy business to the leading retail
lines and department stores. The job
bling houses increased their sales and
shipped considerable merchandise for
what is usually quiet month. Current
dealings in dry goods, boots and shoes
and clothing compare we'll with previ-
Gus years. The corn growing sections
are expected soon to buy literally.
markets owing to the corners in corn
and oats. These are now practically
closed. Apart from severe losses sus-
tanned by over confident short sellers,
there was mucn inconvenience caused
among houses handling the cereals
named.
Boston reports that merchandise
markets show improvement in several
directions. General retail trade has be-
come more active, following better
weather, and dry goods jobbers report
an increased interest in fall goods by
retailers.
At Baltimore in wholesale lines con-
dit.ons are generally satisfactory, and
indications are that fall trade will be
fully up to expectations. Cleveland re-
ports that general trade is good for
July. In New Orleans trade conditions
show some Improvement. At ST. Paul
sales in all branches of jobbing and
manufacturing trade for the month of
july lust closed show an increase over
the same month a year ago, very sub
stantial gain being noted in several
lines. Crop prospects are good, and an
unusually active fall season is antici-
pated. In ST. Louis fall business has
fairly set in. There has been some lit
sic delay as harvesting was retarded by
excessive rains. Orders are particular
ly heavy in dry goods. shoes, hats, mems
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04
FAMOUS HANGING GARDENS.
Worlds Beautiful Landscape Effects
Will Be RivaIed at Worlds Fair

st. Louis Special When the Louisi-
ANA put hase exposition directors To-
Gated the worlds fair in beautiful For
est Park, With it hills and valleys and
picturesque Woodlands they had in
mind the possibilities there presented
for q landscape picture that would i'm
clude Il series of hanging gardens and
cascades effects To rival. il not sur
pass in grandeur the worlds famous
| hanging gardens of Babylon, of China,
and Arabia.
More than a thousand men and two
hundred teams are now engaged in
grading the hills ON two sides OF the
big exhibit palaces into terraces rising
one above the other. and these terraced
gardens are to be the hanging gardens
of the worlds fair of 1904
The hanging gardens of Babylon,
reconstructed over 500 years before The
Christian era, We're reclloned at that
time among the wonders Of the world
There We're five of these gardens ut
Babylon, each consisting of an artificial
hill. 400 feet square. the sides divided
into terraces of earth resting on stone
platforms covered with groves. ave-
MUGS and buds of flowers. and provided
with galleries and banqueting rooms.
They We're irrigated from a reservoir ut
1.-THE summit filled with water raised
IRON the Euphrates, just as the lang
| ing garden cascades of the worlds fair
ut st. Louis will he irrigated from the
/ big forty acre reservoir on the ground
recently acquired for that purpose, to
Which water will be raised from the
Mississippi river.
There are today many hanging gar
dens in various parts of the world par
ticularly on the mountain sides in Chi
ma. water being raised in buckets some
times thousands of feet to irrigate
them. Colonel S. r.. Miles of the Brit
| ish army has just described the hang
ing gardens he found on the mountains
in the interior of Arabia about sixty
miles southwest of the trading port
of Museat. Visitors have to cross a
stretch of desert to reach this beautiful
region OF verdure amid the thirst lands.
one of the inland towns is Sheraizi.
pcrched on the brow of lofty cliff
which falls TO the valley beneath. The
town is built ON so steep deciivity
that the houses appear to overhang one
another the only way of communities
ton being by means of steps Leading
from one to another row of buildings.
These extensive gardens, spread
along the precipitous valley walls are
the most beautiful feature of Sheraizi.
The whole face of the mountain side to
a depth of over 1000 feet is cut into
parallel series of Lodges or terraces.
Owing to the sharp angle of the slope,
the Lodges are not over ten to twelve
feet in width. The Inhabitants would
be glad of greater depth of soil and the
garden spots have been enriched by
large amount of fertile earth brought to
them. The steep mountain side is all
most barren, except for the beautiful
strips of green where VINEYARDS. orch
ards and wheat fields are bearing.
These curious gardens with their var
led foliage and ripening fruit grain and
vegetables form very attractive and
pleasing sight.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04
Dull During Dog Days.

lIIN NIOouS llepOTleF.I
The dog days are here. We acknow-
ledge that fact without argument. We
say that we feel like a dog. Doubtless
MANY of us act like one-snarl when
ANYTHING displeases us and sneak away
should an extra effort seem necessary.
ITO hot to BREATHE some OF us say,
for every breath means that Il set of
muscles must move and every move
ment of a muscle means that our bod
les must contribute more perSpiration.
The LAWS of cause and effect are proven
many times over. Even eating is a bur-
den, and drinking makes us sweat the
more But as we must get warm, as
we can't help perspirirg. a little more
warmth a little more perspraton. will
not hurt us. and we might as We'll shake
off this dog day dizziness and get to
work. Nothing is worth while unless it
is worth working for If business is
what we want. during the dog days, we
must go after it. 1t was so easy last
spring to talk about Hot Weather Re
tailing" and we figured out on paper
lust how to make the hot weather
months pay. But now it's time to do
the dog days are here, and Gen. Apathy
will take the fort If we don't collect
our forces. We must conquer the dull
ness if we would put money in our
purse. To make the dog days pay trib-
ute. we must use a compelling force
nothing else will do We must charge
our bargain magnet with such Il heavy
current that people will be drawn to
us. nolens-volens. We may have to
STAY awake at nights to work out the
nroner scheme the correct plan of at :
tack but let us remember that We're
here for business, dog days or any other
time Every piece of summer mer-
chandise on our shelves after Sept. 1st
lis lust like money that is bringing III. ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04

KETCHUM THANKS MS FRIENDS.

IL
lous publication Mr.. n. S. Ketchum in
sists on publishing the following letter
He feels very grateful for the loyalty of
his friends al! over Iowa who put up
so grand fight for his candidacy and
wishes TO SO express himself He says:
Editor of the Republican: l
wan to personally thank you for the
interest you took in MY candidacy for
railroad commissioner.
| know my friends want to thank YOU
also. 1t is pleasure to me to know he
great influence your paper has in Iowa
politics, especially in the territory COW
cred by your circulation. l find the re-
publicans everywhere pleased with
YOUR frankness, and steadfastness in
your policies.
l personally feel very grateful for The
interest you took in my candidacy IN
person and thru Your valuable paper,
and while we Won out With very
handsome majority UP To the last hour
of the convention, | feel that my mat
tiers after that We're in the hands of
the convention, and over which we had
no control, and had it not been for the
treachery of few of the delegates, in
Linn county Of our own district we
W ould certainly have won out with a
handsome majority.
AS you know it has always been my
policy TO be open and above-board With
all business matters, | hope to be so
liz political affairs. and that is why l
cannot understand men who will make
pledges and then break them Why
men viii go out of their way 10 insist on
YOUR hearing them With their declara-
tons of fidelity. and at the same time
know that | knew they We're misleading
me? This is something, l cannot under
stand AS this is my first outing in
politics as a candidate. l want to ex-
press to you my gratitude for the
fidelity of your friends and the men
all ever Iowa who pledged themselves
to me and stood by mel am truly yours,
n. S. kETCHI Nj.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04
A TENNESSEE MooNsHINER.

He was some six feet tall. but his
shoulders stopped. and he looked less
the mountain bad man than the brok-
en-down farmer, says Leonidas Hub
bard, Jr., in the August Atlantic. His
hair had been coal black, but plentiful
White streaks We're making their adj
Vent. Apparently 1t had not been
combed for days, for it stuck out in
mats and tangles from under the edges
OF a frayed and ragged black felt hat.
His beard was short and scrubby
grizzled like his hair. His eyes wera
blush gray, and when he spoke there
was a look in them which 1 have seen
in the eyes of more than one politician.
"a look which says. Il know you and
you know me, and you know I'm tell
ing things which are not true because
it is part of my business to do So.
Much Worn suspenders fastened by
nails, held up pair of threadbare
black trousers. A dark calico shirt
hung open in front displaying a sum
Drowned chest. When the man walked
it was With a decided limp, the result
OF wearing manacleS in an Alabama
chain gang.
The cabin had one room. In one end
was an immense stone fireplace, and
on either side of this a loophole or
window some six by eight inches in
area. There were no other windows
than these and there was about the
whole interior glcominess which
might prove disconcerting to AN official
coming suddenly in from the sunny
outside. A table leaned against one
u tl,;., ,l,.1 y
which stood half dozen quart bot
ties, some tin cans, and few dishes.
In the end opposite the fireplace We're
two beds. At the head of one stood
a brace of repeating rifles, a Marlin
and a Winchester, so placed as to be
within easy reach of the sleeper The
walls We're as bare as the floor save
for the wings and tails of some half
dozen Wild turkeys which hung about
from nails and pegs
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04
MEDICAL ADVICE FOR SCHOOLS.

An observing woman is quoted as
saving there is no one thing in which
the Value and efficiency of the pubic
school system could be SO improved as
in a more intimate association OF the
medical profession With the pubic
schools. She believes, and With good
reason, that school boards, superinten-
dents and principals should be in con-
slant touch With expert medical adj
vice, given by doctors appointed as
medical inspectors, school physicians or
in some similar capacity. Schoohpuses
should be built i'll consultation with
them. Alterations should be be made
on their advice. From 10 10 so per
cent of school children are believed to
have defective sight. AS the child ac-
Quires nine tenths of his school educa-
ton thru his eyes, it stands to reason
three is some connection between the
two. Bad lighting and bad ventilation
should be absolutely eliminated from
children OF the school course in enough
under The most favorable circum-
stances This woman goes on to say:
when a teacher notices that a childs
teeth are bad. why should there not be
some one to whom she can send him and
have them attended to? Thatmakes you
nj. ~, IA,
so saps the vitality and energy as indi-
gestion, without making the subject
sick enough TO be actually regarded as
an invalid and unable to work. And
the richest cause of Indigestion is poor
teeth, and teeth once decayed can never
be replaced. The struggle for existence
is so keen now that the fact of indi-
gestion may lower a mans vitality just
enough to make him a failure thru life;
or the fact of weak eyes may keep him
from getting a job some time. The state
supports the schools in order to produce
successful citizens, doesn't ito Then it
would pay the state to look after the
health of these children. OF course,
when they become really i'll. they car
go to the hospital. But an ounce OF pre-
vention is worth much more than
pound of cure in this case. The schools
should have body of experts to look
after the teeth and eyes of the pupils,
and after the health of individual pu-
pills in whom the teachers find abnor-
NAL conditions. Many a child has been
disciplined who was on the verge of
nervous breakdown or drifting toward
neurotic conditions OF very serious
character. The doctor could determine
the cause OF the trouble, whether it
was in the school or in the home, and
could communicate with the teacher or
parents accordingly. There is no such
opportunity anywhere for the state to
watch over the health of the rising gem
Grafton as by doing it regularly and
systema tically in schools. The public
has no right to demand this service of
the teachers. They are not paid for it.
Expert medical service should be made
part of the school machinery thruout
the country"
Where schools are aggregated in cit
les and towns in sufficient numbers to
do this, it could be arranged for with
out much additional expense and would
prove Of great benefit.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04
Look Pleasant. Please.

Photographer c. c. Harlan, of Eaton
o., can do so now. tho for years he
couldn't because he suffered untold
agony from the worst form of indiges-
ton All physicians and medicines
failed TO help him till he tried Electric
Bitters, which worked such wonders fol
him that he declares they are Il god
send to sufferers from dyspepsia and
stomach troubles. Unrivaled for dis
eases of the stomach liver and kidneys
they build up and give new life TO the
whole system. Try them. Ouly sc
cents, Guaranteed by George p. Pow
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04
S4s to California and Return on Chica-

Tickets on sale July % and August
9 to 10, good until September so. to
return. Holders of these $4S tickets
have the choice of three daily thru
trains from Chicago, including the
luxurious electric lighted new Overland
less than three days en- route
and equipped with all the comforts
OF travel Standard Pullman, COM
partment and tourist sleepers from
Chicago daily to the coast without
change. Personally conducted eNcur-
sions in Pullman tourist cars each
week. Booklets free. Ticket office 2l2
Clark street and Wells street station.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04
IOWA cPlNloEs AND NOTES.

Referring to the confinement of in
ebriates in asylums the Nevada Repre-
sentative thinks 1T is a sign of moral
and general progress that the expert
ment implied by this law is to be tried" y
The Decatur County Journal is inn
pressed with the thought that There
should be some way of settling labor
disputes and thereby put stop to eX-
pensive strikes. THIS VIII be done
someday. The people will not always
.ouietly submit to great industrial in
conyeniences and loss caused by fool
ish DISPUTES for which they are not in
the least responsible. Let US have ar
bitl.ation."
AS to the tariff revision plank the
Iowa City Republican found the sec
ton of the platform under consldera-
ton decidedly Objectionable before the
convention met. and it does not lind
anything palatable about it now
The lama Herald says: "Tama
county republicans heaped Goals of fire
on their Marshall county brethren at
Des MONIES yesterday by unanimously
supporting ketchum for railroad COM
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04
Skaters all Records.

Twice in hospital, f. a. GuIledge,
Nerbena, Ala. paid vast sum to doc
tors to cure a severe case of piles, caus-
ing twenty-four tumors. When all fail-
ed Bucklens Arnica Salve soon cured
him Subdues Inflammation, conquers
aches, kills pains. Best salve in the
world. % cents at George L. Powers
d,.l1c 81
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04

missioner Even Col. Mowry, who was
whose action last yen had much to do
with the colonels defeat. That l<eteh-
um was defeated is another regretable
incident in the recent political history
of the Fifth district. The defeat of
Buchan for clerk of the supreme court
is also regretted thruout the district.
The republicans of the Fifth district
are themselves largely Responsible for
the recent humiliations they have sui
fered."
The Charles City lnteligencer notices
that in the tariff question The con-
MENTION took no backward step--i- was
thoroughly progressive republican, and
was dominated by the Younger and
more thoroughly p-to-dste element of
the party, and the wisdom of their &C
tions will be shown by the logic of
events sure TO follow The work of the
convention WAS thoroughly and We'll
done"
OF the republican state ticket and
platform the Glidden Graphic says: On
such platform and with such ticket
the republicans can stand with pride
and wage vigorous campaign. There
lis nothing so inspiring as a righteous
cause. The platform presents the true
sentiments and wishes of the people.
The Pocahontas County Sun declares
that The state convention construc-
ted a platform upon which the whole
state can stand
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04

returns. We must sacrifice some COM
fort, some profit, but ii dog day dull
ness overtakes us and knocks us out,
1t is our own fault. We have the store.
We have the goods. And if we make
success of August business, we need
two other things-energy and brains.
Mix the two and be ready for results.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04
To NV Friends.

I was troubled With my stomach for
several months. Upon being advised to
use Kodol did so. and words can not
tell the good it has done me.-George
w. Fry, Viola. Iowa. kodol cures all
stomach and bowel troubles, indiges-
ton and dyspepsia.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04

The sky looks bluer, the sun shines
brighter, feeling of youth and
creeps over the soul after TAX
ing Rocky Mountain Tea made by the
Madison Medicine Company. So cents.
Mcbride e Will Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04

The best physic-ChamberIa
stomach and Liver Tablets. Easy to
take. Pleasant in effect. For sale by