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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-24
HOW TO REFORM THE TARIFF.
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dubuque Times.]
According to Governor Boies' address
at Dubuque Monday night, he is in
sympathy with the platform of the
Iowa republicans on the tariff. He said
those who favored "any modification
OF tariff schedules that may be required
to prevent their affording shelter to
monopoly" should vote for him, because
1t is only by a democratic victory in
the northwest, and in Speaker Hender-
sons district especially, that the east
can be convinced OF the northwest's de-
termination to have tariff reform. A
republican victory In tho northwest
would be taken to mean that there fs
little tariff reform sentiment here. Mr..
Boies said no platform like that Of the
Iowa republicans had been adopted
anywhere, except by the republicans of
the little state Of Idaho.
Mr.. Boies is mistaken. The republi-
cans OF Iowa are against general re-
vision of the tariff, but in favor of such
modification of existing schedules as
may be necessary to prevent affording
shelter to monopoly Platforms sus-
ceptible of the same construction have
been adopted by the republicans of sew
chusetts and Connecticut. The Con-
necticut convention said:
I'VE oppose a general revision of the
tariff at this time as both inopportune
and unnecessary. If in any schedule
import duties are found that have been
notoriously perverted from their true
purpose to the inordinate enrichment
of corporations, monopolistim In fact OF
kr~, ,1,1i
congress to apply in its wisdom the
needed corrective without impairing
the principle OF protection"
Corresponding sentiments will be
found in President Roosevelt's speech
at Cincinnati. Sept. Goth. in the adj
dresses of Governor La Toilette OF Wis
consin and republican leaders general
IL. Those opposed to touching the tar
if are in the minority in the republican
party both east and west. The Iowa
idea" as correctly expressed. has been
approved by republicans from one end
of the country to the other.
Changes in the tariff, where such
changes would prevent abuse, may be
expected at the hands of the next con-
gress If the republicans secure the ma
siority Otherwise that congress Will do
nothing. 1t is Governor Boies and not
Judge Birdsall who is out of line with
his party. For while the republicans
are for adjusting the tariff to the needs
of American industry, thus preserving
the principle of protection while pre-
venting its abuse, the democrats are
for adjusting 1T to a revenue basis. In
fact Governor Boies' platform calls for
"the immediate reduction of the tariff
to a revenue basis" and therefore, tho
he now declares in favor of according
American industry whatever protec-
lion may be necessary to it's develop
ment or preservation, his election
would be regarded outside of Iowa as a
victory for free trade and would en-
courage the democratic party in the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-24
SCHOOL GIRLS.

SCHOOL GIRLS.
IT'S a pretty age-that time
in a girls life when she has all
he beauties of womanhood
without the later lines of care
and worry.
But here and there even
among school girls appear pale
and drawn faces.
Pale blood is at the bottom
of the trouble and SCOTS
Emulsion can cure it.
SCOTS Emulsion brings
back the beauty to pale girls
because it is blood food.
Send for Free Sample.
SCOTT 4 BOVINE. Chemists, 4o9 Pearlst.. ny
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-24
IOWA OPINIONS ANp Mo1Es.

Referring to the popular feeling that
when the manipulators on Wall street
get into scrape and need money 1t IS
rot the duty of the government to help
them out, the Carroll Herald says: ut
is their own fault If they get pinched,
and why should Uncle Sam go into the
banking business for their benefit?"
The Montezuma Republican believes
"a republican has no right to be conf
dent until after he has cast his vote
and has assured himself that his
neighbors have done likewise
In noticing the fact that the ordinary
insane patients at Mount Pleasant
treat the inebriates there with scorn
and disdain. the Newton Journal is OF
the opinion that 1.-The drunkard is get
ting down rather low when even crazy
people Cespise him."
The Marion Register hays: "A bush
ell basket full Of empty whisky TASKS
was picked up yesterday morning on
the vacant lot north of the passenger
station. How prohibition does prohibit
the sale and use of intoxicating liquor
as beverage!"
at is only politicians of the peanut
order" asserts the Davenport Demo-
c1at, "who see politics in the presi-
dents course in trying to have coal
mined"
"The Disconnected will naturally vote
the democratic ticket" says the Cres-
ton Gazette. There is no stronger mo-
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-02-08
four Smithvilles, four Spartas and five

four Smithvilles, four Spartas and five
Jefersons and SO on. In some in
stances there is postofice of the
same name in each of the seven States
AS one may imagine, this only tends
to confuse the average mind.
Periodically the clerks are examined
at railway mail headquarters. Packs
OF cards, each card bearing the name
OF a postoffice, are furnished q candi-
date for examination. He takes Do
sition in front of a case of pigeon
holes labeled with the names of differ
ent railway postoffices throughout the
country. He throws the cards, dis
tributing them to proper routes, just
as he would packages in a postal
car. After he finishes the examiner
goes over the cards and charges up the
errors the clerk has made and gives
him his percentage of correct distribu-
ton. The clerk is also examined on
general and Standpoint" or station
schemes at different times.
1t is asserted at railway mail serv-
ice headquarters that there are clerks
who have reached the capacity of their
minds in the matter of remembering
names. They now remember so many
that it would be absolutely impossible
to learn another State or part of a
State. 1t would seem that of the mill
ions of cells in their brain machinery
none are left to fill, all having been
taken up In the prosecution of the ex-
acting duties imposed by their occu-
pation.-Chicago Record Herald.
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Kansas Torn Apart.

The attention of the Kansas State
Board of Agriculture has been called
to occurrences which are mystifying
the alfalfa farmers of Jewell and Re-
public counties. 1t is reported that
great cracks and sink holes are ap-
pearing in the alfalfa fields there.
The cracks are sometimes rods in
length, from two to six feet in depth.
and from one to ten feet wide. They
appear only in alfalfa fields, and the
farmers have never before seen any
thing like them.
They do not come gradually, but
suddenly. 1t is becoming dangerous
to drive a team across alfalfa fields
because the ground may suddenly sink
beneath it,
Some section hands were working
on a railroad track few days ago
near an alfalfa field on the farm Of
Edward Randall, not far from Jewell
City. They heard cow low but there
was NO cow in sight. The sound
seemed to come from under the
ground.
They made search and discovered
the COW in an alfalfa sink hole, sew
eral feet below the c1rface. The cow
was so weak that she could not stand
after she had been dug out.
The alfalfa plants have very long
roots. One theory is that these roofs
loosen the ground so that it is washed
away by an underfow.-New York
Sun.
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think that something had gone wrong
for sure. At her bidding he rode into
town for help, and after awhile Boxer
and Smith were in bed and their
wounds dressed.
Smith was shot through the hip and
left arm and beat aboua the head;
Boxer was wounded three times, had
his front teeth knocked out and his
left leg broken. Both men we're placed
in the same room in separate beds,
but they could see each ether, even
though forbidden to talk. The local
doctor said they would certainly re-
cover. Miss Wilson lowered over each,
not deigning to notice the wild glare
in her cousins eyes. nor the deep
bewilderment in Smiths. She knew
somebody had Numbered, but felt she
could afford to wait.
AS for Plainville, it only regretted at
that moment that Boxer had not killed
Smith. 1t was true to its editorial
hero.
Late tndC nlgnC MISS wilson, sitting
with the. injured men. heard Editor
Boxer hoarseiy say to Editor Smith:
what did you attack my cousin
for7'
81 didn't"
"You did. you lying"
1t took all the girls strength to force
Boxer down into his bed. Then intel
ligence came to Editor Smith. He
grinned, hurt as he was.
Il gave Harrison's cousin a cut" he
said, "for beating that child. but not
your cousin. rode all last night to get
here this morning to ask your cousin
to be my wife. She'd accepted me
about five minutes before 1 met you.
When you saw me l was coming into
town to make peace with you on the
county seat fight. had to shoot you
to get chance to explain. Shake"
"Oh." said Boxer, and his bandaged
hand crossed to Smiths and Miss Will
son laid her own on top of BOTH
II. 1. Cleveland, in the Chicago Rec
ord-H erald.
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CATS. AND coLCRS.
What Happened When Milk-white Puss
Upset the Bluing Bottle.

upset the bIulng Bottle.
81 never knew until recently that
cats knew SO much about colors." said
c bright little woman who lives in the
upper part of the city, ''but have no
doubt whatever Of the matter now.
The fact was brought to my attention
in rather singular way.
1--WE have a nest of cats at our home,
and we have always been very much
attached to the feline tribe. They are
all pets. But there is one cat in the
group that we have been unusually
kind to. She was the particular pet
of the family.
'Her body was covered With the
prettiest white fur l ever saw. 1t was
without q b!emish, and we came to
look upon her as the prettiest cat on
the face of the earth. But something
happened to her one day while she
was rummaging around in an old pam
try, and it changed the course of her
life completely. She got mixed up
with a lot of bluing bottles, and when
she scrambled out of the pantry she
was as blue as she could be.
"She was fearfully distressed about
the matter and seemed to be some
what alarmed over the sudden change
in her appearance. But the surprise
she felt was nothing compared to the
surprise shown by her relatives and
associates. In the moment of her
alarm she turned to the mother cat of
the tribe, and there is where the in
teresting point comes in. The old
cat would have nothing to do with
her. She resented her approaches by
splitting at her, and manifested her
dislike of it all in other ways equally
as unmistakable.
From that time on she became an
outcast; her relatives and associates
would stink away from her, and she
continued to live in isolation, and all
on account of the change which had
taken place in the color of her hair"
New Orleans Times-Democrat
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American Soldier. Great Gum Chswer.

American Soldiers Great Gum Chewers
The American soldiers are, perhaps,
the chewing gum manufacturers best
customers, and during the war with
Cuba the sales Of gum were enormous.
Manila is now becoming a good gum
market. Honolulu is another. Aus
tralians chew a great deal of gum.
Samoa calls for large supply.
The older countries are more con-
sentative; and in them chewing gum
makes Roadway very slowly, although
trade has sprung up in China, ia
pan and India, and considerable con-
signments so to France and Scandi-
navia. Yves ern Canada, beyond Win
nipeg, is a great chewing gum district,
and it is rather interesting to note
tina. the new country points at which
nervous energy is booming progress,
are identical with the points where
chewing gum finds its ready sale. The
man on a nervous strain seems to find
a relief in the mechanical action of
his jaws. 1t may be added that. after
soldiers and bicyclists, the habitual
visitors to racetracks are said to be
the most confirmed gum chewers %
the world.
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From the NV York Tribune.
Circulatss Warm Air.

Most people put away their electric
fans in the fall. thinking they will have
no further use for them until the
warm weather arrives in the spring.
but we show here a simple arrange
ment which makes 1t possible to util-
lie the electric fan for blowing hot as
well as cold air. 1t is the invention
of Edwin f. Portor, and can be used
to heat rooms and Offices wherever
there Is gas jet handy. 1t also keeps
the air In circulation about the room
instead OF allowing it to remain still
and dead ali day. In this apparatus
the frame or guard which surrounds
the blades of the fan Is of hollow tub
Ing. and is connected with asgas let
by a rubber tube. The frame being
perforated at intervals the gas is ig-
nited as it flows from the openings,
the resultant heat being driven about
the room by the action of the fan
blades. The inventor designs this
heater especially for attachment to a
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THE MOUTH.


Human Character Revealed by the Con.
tour of the Lips.
According to a physiognomist the
lower lip is the most important part
of the mouth as an Indicator of char
acter. According to it's fulness, fresh
ness In appearance, and width 1t indi-
Gates benevolence and liberality. A
pale, shrivelled and narrow lower lip
reveals decided want of these quali-
ties.
There are thick under lips that hang
30 that they become almost disfig-
urement, and these, as well as looking
ugly, denote Incidence and a love Of
luxury. Taking the opposite extreme,
however. it is not desirable to have
pronouncedly thin lips, for when the
outline of the lips is narrow and united
to mouth with sinister expression,
there Is indicated great deficiency of
natural kindness in their owner,
want Of warmth in their owner and
but little capacity to love. Well de-
fined and developed lips, the outlines
OF which are rounded out are admired
for their beauty and moral worth, be-
ing, as they are, tokens of tender
hearted, amiable and sympathetic dis
position.
Well closed lips are sign of discre-
ton. If the upper one is long, In adj
dition to being pressed down firmly
upon the lower one, both mental and
physical power appertain to their own
er. Supposing the upper lip is very
short, and the middle teeth of the top
row are constantly exposed, fondness
for praise is betrayed.
frequently another type of mouth is
seen, one in which the corners of the
lips descend, indicating person of
respondent disposition, prone to
dwell overmuch upon the serious side
of life. But when the corners turn up
in the form of Cupid's bow, their
possessor is Of bright and cheerful
nature, always finding a silver lining
to every cloud and good in everything
London Mail.
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the morning and either Smith or will
be dead by night. If l fall, old man,
make any explanation. but spare the
girl, and give her all I leave"
The cashiers only comment was:
you can't do anything else, and as
to-morrow's dull day I'll just close
the bank and ride over with you.'
Then the hands Of the two friends
met, and their eyes said that Smith
must die. The next morning came
fast enough, and at 8 o'clock Boxer,
heavily armed as men were in those
days and localities, and astride Of Lis
favorite yellow horse, rode away from
his Office with the cashier. They said
to the curious that they were going
out to look over some land.
They took the trail which would lead
them by the little red schoolhouse.
where Miss Wilson had already gath
cred her flock and commenced the daily
lessons. Their horses swung of with
easy lope. but came to dead halt
when on the trail toward them rode
Smith. the man they wanted. He was
astride a bay mare, foam and DUST
covered, and he raised hand in friend
ly salute. although his gesture was
otherwise taken by the two men in
front of him.
Boxer was out With his gun and
tremendous oath and had opened fire
in a hurry. The cashier swung to one
side and clear of range. Smith shouted
at Boxer, but getting only shot in
reply whipped out his own gun and
replied. The shots came fast and
furious, the two horsemen dashed into
each other. Boxer went down and
Smith too, and they clenched on the
prairie sod and beat each other In the
effort to kill.
After a time there was silence and
the cashier rode up to find Boxer I'M
conscious. Smith on top of him and
bleeding badly. From the schoolhouse
there came running the teacher, and
she fell upon both men and sobbed and
moaned and made the cashier think
she had gone mad. First she would
kiss Smith and then she would kiss
Boxer, and then sob as If her heart
would break. The cashier began to
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/ Il " SdACo Dut al
army of men in the employ
of Uncle Sam are burdened with {
mental practice unheard of, as re
CARDS extent, in any other country OF
the world.
Things that a railway postal clerk
must remember have increased in such
volume that one would think every cell
| of his brain would be filled with the
name of postoffice or railway connec-
ton, and the wonder is that the clerks
mind does not falter under the press
ure. Despite these facts cases Of in
sanity among this class of public serv-
ants are rare.
One Chicago postal clerk maintained
for several years record of 21,0OO
cards (which take the place of letters
! in examinations with an average per
cent. of correct distribution of a frac.
ton over ninety-nine per cent. He
knew how to reach that many offices
in several States by the shortest,
quickest route, and he knew the cor
rect location of each office in its State
A clerk on the New York and Chi
cago Railway postoffice must know the
correct location Of every postoffice in
a group of States made up of Illinois,
Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota,
South Dakota and Nebraska. In these
seven States there are 1871 post
offices. Not only is the clerk required
to be 'up" on the general scheme.
which means the correct location of
the postoffices in each State, but he
must know how to reach the whole
$4,000 postoffices from one or more
stations
A clerk running between Chicago
and Minneapolis underwent no fewer
than seventy-eighth examinations in
fifteen years, learning 1906 offices in
fifteen different sections of the United
States. In some of these examina-
tons he was required to make a Chi
cago city distribution, which means
that while running over the country at
the rate of mile a minute he must
distribute letters to the carriers of the
Chicago delivery. He must keep not
only where every public building and
leading mercantile house is located,
but also how to divide the numbers on
particular street, so that he can "tie
OUT his letters to the correct carrier,
according to the route of the latter.
This same clerk made thirteen examin-
atoms in ten months, with an average
correct distribution of 99SS per cent.
In twenty examinations he came out
of nine of them with a clear 100 per
cent. each.
Think of such a task, taking into
the puzzling similarity
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Street Aid In Accidents.

The municipal authorities of Paris
are experimenting with unique street
equipment for rendering prompt aid
TO the injured. 1t is described as being
like a letter box pillar, and contains
folding stretcher, few medicines,
bandages. etc. In order to get at these
objects 1t is necessary to break the
glass. as when calling" fire engine.
lp this way the key Of the case and
access to telephone inside communi-
eating the ambulance service are OBJ
tanned. This would obviate at least
the. necessity of hunting up tele-
phone and a policeman. In order to
give aid to case Of accident, as is
how necessary.
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day, In particularly violent mt Of
temper. Miss Rogers whipped one Of
her boy pupils until the lad fell faint
ing at her feet. The news spread but
slowly because Editor Harrison die
not notice 1t In his own paper; Editor
Boxer thought 1t was none of his
trouble, and the public in general
heard of it only long after its occur
renee. But when Editor Smith learned
of 1t he penned these scorching lines
In his editorial columns:
1--WE have no cousin and we cannot
fight a woman, but If we had a cross
eyed female cousin and she did all that
we heard of somebody else's cousin
doing-that somebody else being a
measly, piratical editor of this county
We would either move her to Hotten-
tot settlement or send her back East.
A word to the wise is sufficient"
The Sandberg paper duly reached
Plainville, and Editor Boxer casually
glanced over it until he came to the
quoted paragraph. Whatever made
him think it referred to his own cousin
no one knows to this day. But when
he had read the paragraph in question
he quietly thrust the paper into an
inner pocket and then solemniy
marched about the town until he had
collected the twelve other copies that
he knew came to Plainville. Then he
returned to his Office and sent for his
most intimate friend-the cashier of
the one private bank. To him he said:
Smith has gone his full length. He
has grossly insulted my cousin in his
paper. He is so hard up he must
attack woman. She hasn't seen the
paper and shall never see it if 1 can
help 1t, but I'm going to Sandberg in
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Some Of the most peculiar of taxa
lions recorded are to be found in the
archives Of Holland. In 1871, for in
atance, there was in existence a tax
imposed on all passengers travelling in
Holland. In 1874 duty Of two shill-
ings was levied on each person who
entered tavern before noon. on those
who entered a place of entertainment
on marriages and deaths. and on many
other things. II person was buried
out Of the district to which he belonged
the tax was payable twice over.
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OF names that are used to designate
postoffices. Then. too. must be consid-
cred the fact that there are hundreds
of cases where in each State is a post
Office OF the same name. For instance,
In the States named above there are
five postoffices named Hamilton. six
Grants. four Gardelds. four Genevas,
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wv or counties was attempted
Y in the Northwest a great
deal of trouble was pre-
clpitated between rival land companies
as to the location of the county seats.
Each company desired county seat
on Its particular tract of land but as
tnere were not counties enough to go
around this was impossible. Fights
and feuds followed and the liveliest
promoters Of these Were the pioneer
EDITORS. In one of the counties that
may appropriately be called Cayuse
the final location of the county seat
was on Sand Creek, In the east end
OF the county, and well removed from
Two other promising settlements in
the county known as Plainville and
North Star. The county seat was
called Sandberg, with that rare love
for ugly titles manifest in the Amer
lean mind when naming a town, river
or mountain peak. In each settlement
there was an editor-Boker at Plain
vile, Harrison at North Star and Smith
ut Sandberg. The latter, as soon as
his community had captured the coun-
ty seat, manifested his joy by series
OF lurid editorials growing over his
rivals and denouncing their opposition
to Sandberg as villainous.
The fight, on paper, was a glorious
one. 1t grew SO warm that no man
from Plainville or North Star dared
to visit Sandberg, and when the one
school teacher of the latter town
CHANGED to enter Plainville he was
Immediately seized by the Infatuated
inhabitants. deprived of his horse and
clothes. and compelled to walk forty
miles of rich prairie land. naked, in