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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08
ONE GOOD APPROPRIATION.

One Of the important appropriations
TO be made by the legislature this win
ter Is small one to continue the Iowa
Library Commission, which was APP
pointed two years ago and which has
done great work in the short time
since it was established. When the first
appropriation was made for it few
people In Iowa realized the need or the
purpose of a library commission. Since
!, the commission has been in existence,
calls for its help have come in from all
sarts Of the state, until its expert Sc
stratary has found more demands for
sher time than she can fill.
The library business of modern times
has become science. The proper cat
alleging of books and the proper selec-
ton of books, which are very import
ant functions in library management.
ian. Small towns or struggling libraries
cannot afford to employ such a person
but the library commissions secretary
is the most competent trained librarian
that could be found and her services
have been in demand everywhere.
In addition to this work, members of
the commission. who serve without
ray, have travelled to Iowa towns to as
sist and advise and encourage local cit
ixans u.a,,,er,S oI,bs ~, IN ,.,r,i,r
free libraries. Eight or ten free public
libraries started during the last two
years owe their first inspiration to the
Iowa Library Commission. When
started these libraries depend upon the
travelling library for assistance and
State Librarian Johnson Brigham
freely states that the Iowa travelling
4rary never received general use I'M
the commission forced it to the at
gention Of the public. The secretary al
30 has established magazine clear
ling house, which is of great value to
fmaii public libraries in exchanging
ssheir surplus magazines for others
4 fanted or odd numbers needed to com
y etc their volumes. With the visiting,
king, assisting and advertising that
We work of the commission has given
to the free public library movement
these beneticient public institutions are
springing up in all progressive towns OF
Iowa. public spirited citizens have be-
gun to respond with fine buildings and
erdowments and with the inspiration
and direction given by the commission
Iowa is becoming Carnegieized by the
efforts of its own citizens.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

| According to the Council Bluffs Non
pareil. "the democratic party in con-
gress doesn't mind not having leader
as ii has no place to be led to-.
The Humboldt Republican SIS wei
satisfied with the conduct of it's neigh.
bors. 1t has no disposition to quarre
or find fault"
Referring to the unwarranted state
ment that the friends of Gov.-elect
| Cummins are secretly planning tc
make him candidate for United
States senator. the Sheldon Mail de-
clares Mr.. Cummins is not capable
of such bad faith, nor are his sup
porters."
| The Waterloo Courier is of the opin-
ion that the people of city support
ing a newspaper are responsible for
| its excellence or lack of 1t, that they
ARE the ones responsible for the daily
newspapers representing them being
good or just average or bad entirely,
by the support they give 1t.
The Boone Republican notices that
ohio is doing its best to keep the
name before the people"
The Iowa City Republican announces
that David Brant has begun work with
the Republican, and will devote his
energies in its various departments
with view of organizing the same
and continuing the high standard of the
paper and making improvements where
possible"
In noticing the prediction of Hon.
Lobster Davis" that Roosevelt will be
defeated for the presidency In 1904. the
Keokuk Gate City AYERS that Next
to Mr.. Bryan. Mr.. Davis enjoys the
unique distinction of knowing more
things that are not so than any other
man in the United States
Clear Lake Mirror: The Insurance
Press which comes to US this week,
announces under big head lines that
there are many mistaken ideas among
the people on fire insurance questions"
that governors, legislators, and edi-
tors make wrong deductions" and in
general that they are much wronged
people. Possibly this is SO but as long
as the insurance trust insists on rate
of $3.50 per thousand dollars on the
Mirror plant we are not inclined to
sympathize with them to any extent.
Marked papers have no influence in
such case and nothing but reduc.
ton of premium will cause us to mellow
towards the insurance trust.
The Hardin County Citizen declares
that the man who settles definitely and
satisfactorily the railroad assessment
problem in Iowa will have done more
than any predecessor has done"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08
csRmaNYs MOBILIZATION FUND.

In the julius tower of Spandau. Ger
many. lies the great sum Of 100000 0C
marks s29,O0O,oOO), set aside by an act
Of November, 1871, from the French in
demnity, for use, should the necessity
arise, for the sudden mobilization OF
German troops. This fund is examined
cnce year. At this ceremony a member
Of the reichstag committee on the ma
tional debt is usually present, and In the
New Yorker Revue for Dec. s, Hermann
Pachnicke describes his visit to the tow
err in this capacity in the month of oc-
tober last
Three iron gates. the second being lat
ticed, letting in light for the examina-
ton, open before the deputation into the
interior Of the tower, where the wooden
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08
a peep Mystery.

It is a mystery why women endure
backache. headache, nervousness, sleep
lessness, melancholy, fainting and die
" spells when thousands have proved
that Electric Bitters will quickly cure
such troubles. II suffered for years with
kidney trouble" writes Mrs. Phebs
Cherley, of Peterson, Ia. and lame
back panied me so could not dress my.:
self, but Electric Bitters wholly cureS
me, and, although 73 years old, nov
am able to do all my homework. It
overcomes constipation, improves ap-
petite, gives perfect health. Only 500 at
Geo. P. Powers drug stores.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08

butte as to his services at Santiago tina
will to some extent Offset the unfavor.
able verdict of the court. 1t seems rea
sonable to believe, in view of his prev.
ious action. that President Roosevelt
will be the last man to reopen the con-
troversy.
Senator Mason, of Illinois, has intro
duced bill providing for increasing
the pay of the rural free delivery car
riers from $500 to $3.50. This was
done to meet the general demand for
this increase. Each rural free delivery
carrier requires the use of two horses
and he has little salary left after pay
ing feed bills. Owing to the drain
upon the salary of the carriers and the
fact that 1t is only $500 the department
has had some difficulty in securing
enough men for this service.
New York's foreign corporation tax
law proved disappointing. 1t was ex-
pected to bring in s25O,00o, but real
ICED only one fifth of that sum.
1t was particularly noticed at the
recent New England dinner in Phila-
delphia that the speech of Chinese
Minister WI easily outshone all others
SO far as good English is concerned.
Among the orators of the evening We're
Justice Brewer Mr.. Hamlin, Mr.. Hill
and Mr.. Cochran.
Edward North, who had been Greek
professor of Hamilton college for fifty
seven years, but resigned month ago,
received 700 letters appropriate to the
day on Christmas morning from tho
alumni Of the institution. The idea
was suggested to the alumni by a ST.
Louis grad" and among the letters
were one from Secretary OF War Root,
who graduated in 1864, and one from
General w. II. H. Miller,
of the class of 1862.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08
Relief "a six Hours.

Distressing kidney and bladder dir.
ease relieved in six hours by the New
Great South American Kidney Cure
It is a great surprise on account OF its
exceeding promptness In relieving pain
in bladder. kidneys and back In male or
female. Relieves retention OF water al
most Immediately. II you want quick
relief and cure this is the remedy. Sold
by c. J. Lander. druggist. Marshall-
town. Iowa.
II You Arc Going 70 California.
Apply to agents Chicago & Northwest
ern railway. about the thru tourist
sleeping car service to Los Angeles and
San Francisco. Round trip trouist tick.
cts on sale daily.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08
TOO MEAN FOR ANYTHING.
TMinneapolis Tribune. j

L
We learn from the Medical Record
that French physician, evidently Of a
fantastical turn of mind, Is so convinced
that corset-wearing is prejudicial to
feminine health that he proposes to re-
sort to drastic legislation to prevent 1t.
He declares that out Of every hundred
women that wear corsets only thirty re-
tain perfect health. This may be true
or false; but admitting 1t to be true, 1t
does not justify cruel and inhuman pun
ishment of the sort that the doctor sug-
gests. His proposition, in brief, Is that
the French parliament enact law for
bidding women under 80 to wear cor
set of any kind, but permitting any
woman over 80 to wear any corset she
may wish.
The punishment for violation OF the
law is fine or imprisonment and If 1t
stopped here it might be classed with
other French legislation Of a paternalis-
tic or sumptuary character placed on
the statute books merely for show and
without any intention of seriously en-
forcing it. But the third section provides
for the most rigorous formalities sur
rounding the manufacture and sale of
corsets: every one licensed to sell such
articles Is to be obliged to take the
name. address and age of every buyer,
and he is to be subject to fine and con-
fiscation of business in case he makes
an illegal sale.
This Is nothing more nor less than
vile scheme to make the ladies either re-
veal their ages or forego one of the fun
damental aids to beauty What would
the feminine world be without the cor
Get? Unhealthful. indeed! What does
such a consideration as that amount to
| In comparison with the horror of APP
bearing dowdyish and out of shape II
thirty out of every 100 corset wearers re-
| tain perfect health, the source of illness
can not be in the corset. but must be
traced to something else, because every
civilized woman is supposed to wear a
corset.
Suppose some faddish doctor comes
forward with the theory that trousers
are unhealthful since out OF every 100
men wearing trousers only thirty are in
perfect health-could he make out a
case upon such showing? Hardly. 1t
would be difficult to find In any modern
community 80 large percentage Of per-
fectly healthy men. and as they all wear
| trousers of some sort, their lack OF
health must be due to something besides
this necessary article of apparel. or
course no ouch law as the French doc
tor proposes will ever be enacted, even
| In France.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08

production could early be stimulated to
100000 or S.Ooo,ooO tons in few years,
on the little island Of Cuba, an
amount greater than our present
consumption, and thus effectually kill
the beet industry here.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08
ARE COLDS INFEcTlous7

Every once in awhile the people get
new point OF view thru the statement of
q physician who runs up against solid
facts to prove a theory he has evolved.
Such is the case in an effort to answer
the above query afiirmatively. The st.
Paul Pioneer Press states that II has
no eminent physician on its staff, and
is not, therefore, prepared on medical
grounds to dispute the proposition, laid
down by so high medical authority as
II supposes DR.. w. III. Gardner to be, in
affirms that call colds are infectious
and that without the presence of IN
lection 1t is impossible to catch cold
But ii is perfectly clear. even to a lay
men, says the Pioneer Press, that the
facts which he cites in support of this
theory prove nothing of the kind. He
finds, fer example, that colds are almost
unknown in the Arctic circle. because
the greater part of the region is unin-
that region, altho exposed to great pri-
vations and almost constantly wet thru
never caught colds until they reached
a coas. settlement where the inhabi-
tants had constant intercourse with the
mainland, when they caught violent
colds
To support it's contention that DR..
Gardner is wrong the Pioneer Press
says:
las matter of fact nearly every
body who has passed thru the early
stages of pioneer life In the west could
have told DR.. Gardner that so long as
people stay out doors travelling on foot
or on horseback, camping out on the
prairies or in the forests no matter how
much they may be exposed to rain or
snow, altho their clothes may be wet
thru night and day, yet, while travelling |
or sleeping IN theopen air, they never
catch cold. But when they leave the
pure open air to sleep in warm, ILL |
ventilated house the chances are ten to |
one they Will catch violent colds. and |
this altho nobody else in the house has |
cold and there is no other house in the
neighborhood. Whether these facts, |
familiar to all whose pursuits have re-
CURED long periods of exposure 10 the |
vicissitudes OF the weather In a con-
tinuous life for any period In the open |
air, support the theory of infection as
the cause of colds, depends on what is
meant by infection. No doubt colds are |
produced by a disease germ, but evil |
IDENTIFY the disease germ is not, in the
cases cited communicated by contact or
by emanation from any other person in
the neighborhood afflicted with the dis
ease. The cold results from the transit |
ton from pure. open air of the woods
and praires to the impure air of close,
rooms. The disease germ
is in the impure air. How it gets there |
is a question for the medical fratern-
ity'
The imes-Republican is inclined to
think the p. P. has the best of the ar
gument
Big Defauiter's Pardon Condemned.
LOmaha Bee.]
The Nebraska press is so nearly
in condemning the pardon
OF BARLEY that the few who uphold the.
action CO the governor must feel lone
some.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08
Farm Machines for Russia.
fPhiIadelnhia Ieduer

1t gives one some idea of the magni-
tude of American business enterprises
to learn that a single establishment in
the west has chartered two large steam
ers to carry agricultural machinery to
Russia. If one manufacturer can do SO
much bushes in the undeveloped en-
pire of Russia, what must be the extent
of his operations turnout the world
And now must American manufacturers
in general be expanding!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08
contented Customers.
IChicago Tribune.l

"One of the curses OF modern busi-
ness" remarked the passenger with the
whiskers, lis the habit SO many
people have of buying goods and then
bringing them back and changing them.
1t keeps one clerk busy nearly all the
time at my store making exchanges"
II never have the slightest trouble OF
that kind said the passenger with the
patch over one eye. And / have been
In business forty-three years"
What is your business, may ask?"
I'm an undertaken"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08
New Jersey Put to the Test.
IWashington Post

[ w dSIItII6 0OII Z USt'1 =
There is no better test of the quality
of party than the selections 1t is able
to make of the men who may speak for
it with authority. The republicans Of
New Jersey will be put to an immedi-
ate test when they shall fill the vacancy
occasloned by the death OF the lamented
sewell. AS the state is, SO are its SEN
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08


"AlI bow now to Yung La" says the
most powerful subject at the present
moment is the restored favorite, Yung
Lu, nephew of the empress dowager. He
is in charge Of everything and Lu
Ch'uan-lin is his willing assistant. The
Grand Secretary Wang Wen-s hao has
no power at all, and purchases peace
by a complaisant smile and seeming
acquiescence in all matters. Taotals.
projects, sub-prefects, and district
magistrates desirious Of getting sub
stantive post need only pay the price"
for the same and purchase the privil-
eye of serving under the banner Of the
all-powerful Yung Lu--also at certain
price.
So despairing are honest officials Of
any change for the better In the present
government that many have left anu
are leaving the service under all sorts
Of pretenses. A high court official was
heard the other day to declare publicly:
II am of opinion that our country can
not last much longer; hence the only
way left to US is to rake in all the
money we can and retire and live the
rest of our lives on the competence we
have gained. This Is the best for all OF
u.s." With this as the keynote one need
not be surprised to learn that posts are
being sold constantly to anyone who is
able to pay for them.
A Taotai need spend only a couple OF
thousand taeis to have his name In
serted in hegrandcouncil books for inn
mediate preferment. while any expec-
tsnt metropolitan official can now, by
the expenditure Of from 60 to 10 taels,
at the proper board buy permission 10
go to the provinces as an expec.ant offs
ciaL"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08
HON eseekers' Excursions,

Tickets to nearly all points in the
United States on sale at all ticket Of s
fees of the Chicago Great Western
Railway, on the first and third Tues
days of January and February at the
low rate of one fare plus 81 for the
round trip. Good to return in 81 days
from date of sale. For detailed In
formation address ]. A. Ellis, ticket
agent, Marshalltown, Ia
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08
FEET SUGAR AND CUBA.

Inc question OF extending reciprocal
fade relations to Cuba is chiefly that of
permitting the island better tariff rates
sfor marketing its sugar and tobacco in
Sthis country. President Palma declares
CUBA must have favorable trade conces-
sions with the United States in order to
sprosper. The sugar and tobacco indus.
etries In our nation are interested to the
asxtent of desiring that their business
shall not be injured. Just how far con-
gress can go in thus aiding Cuba with
put hurting home interests will be a
problem for congress to solve, and 1t is
reasonable that we should go as far as
prudence will allow.
A writer who has been investigating
the sugar question in it's relation to
Cuba and the beet interests here and in
lGermany produces figures to show that
in Germany the cost of production of
beet sugar is 2.26 cents per pound. He
6nds II a little more difficult to ascertain
1.-THE cost in the United States. but after a
comparison Of various figures places it
at 2.75 cents per pound.
= He states that our consumption of SUI
& gar for 1902 will approximate 100000
tons. With IL per cent sugar yield this
A would call for some 20,oOO.000 tons of
heets, requiring for their production. at,
Bay, eight tons per acre, 100000 acres
BIT ground. The output for this year is
Estimated at 100000 tons. Assuming that
ahis output Increased at an average rate
BIZ 100000 q year, it would require at
BEAST fifteen years for the beet sugar
lrop to furnish our annual consumption
IL sugar. He asks: What will 1t cost
nurse that particular industry, as
aming the possibility of its attainment
such dimensions? For one item, the
bin of the island of Cuba. For another,
be sum of somethink like a round bill
in of dollars from the pockets of the
american people in the shape of an en-
Sanced price of their sugar.
z I, by tiSii oWH anu their
swn figures the beet sugar people do not
eed this protection. Their own esti-
!ates plainly show an ability to meet
9,e competition Of Cubas raw sugar.
yhich may be roughly computed thus,
Sing minimum figures:
Per Pound.
lost of raw sugar in New York. cents
ost of refining ................... cent
Total OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 3 cents
This is but a general approximation,
it is not far wide of the mark, and
.nds at cents. as against the 2.75
hts allowed by the beet sugar people"
the other hand European estimates
e the new sugar crop of Cuba for
year at nearly 100000 tons, or lit
pre- than a third of what is con-
"A here. They also claim that Cuba
produce sugar at a cost of not to
ID 1.25 cents per pound. To this
be added the cost of transporta-
ana marketing abroad The beet
people. however. claim that sugar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08
For Over Sixty Years

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for children while teething.
1t sothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain. cures wind collie and is
the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty
five cents q bottle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08

Alonzo Kilby and Roy Hamilton, pris-
oners who escaped In Yellowstone
county. Montana, were surrounded.
lKilby said he would never be taken
talive and was killed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08
A Big Defauiter's Pardon Condemned.
TOmaha Bee1

The Nebraska press is so nearly
unanimous in condemning the pardon
OF Barley that the few who uphold the
action &C the governor must feel lone
some.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-08

then. that the little-eating worker bless
es the world with fruits which the vo-
luptuary and the gourmet may possibly
enjoy at his well-fed ease, but can never
hope in the least degree to emulate.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-01
is JUST ONE INSTANCE
TARIFF ON LEAD PENCILS is A
HEAVY TAX.
Manufacturers Make an Enormous Profit
from the American People and Sell
cheaply. to ths Foreigners.

Washington, October 31.-TTnGre is one
item of tariff inequality ana injustice that
you newspaper men, II nobody else should
register protest against" said Judge
Griggs in the course OF a conversation to.
day. This concerns the simple matter or
lead pencils. Lead pencils which are
welded by Americans, without regard TO
class. are SO protected by the tarin tnat
we have TO pay double the price that IS
asked OF the foreign user OF our pencils
Fifty cents per gross specified duty on
every gross and 70 per cent additional al
valorem is the tarin. Take the pencil
marked IS. M" aud M American graph
lite pencils, such as are nude by the
Dixon pencil company-the Joseph Dixon
Crucible company. The regular price to
the trade here is $3.50 per gross; the price
for export is $40 per gross, less 40 per
cent, So per gross, or just one-haIf what
is charged to the American dealer in
many instances, am reliably informed
they have been sold in Japan and other
countries at Sl,s0 per gross. rhe lowest
price that can be charged TO any whole.
sale dealer in the United States is s4.Sv
per gross, less 20 per cent making S3. 90
PCT bi"sS' VI JUST poupie What the Japa-
nese merchants can buy American iead
pencils for.
''lf anybody wants to verify this, let
him get a Dixon pencil catalogue They
issue one for domestic prices and another
Tor export prices. There are only -FOUR
manufacturers Of lead pencils In the United
States They are the Eagle Pencil com.
pany, the American Lead Pencil company,
the Taber Pencil company, and the Dixon
Pencil company. They have monopoly or
the pencil business simply by reason OF the
protective tnrtn The pencils that are now
sold at retan' at cents ana frequently
more would cost you newspaper men and
the rest OF the American people cent
each ana the manufacturer would make
50 per cent on the product. but for this
operation OF the high protective tarin