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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10

London-The effort of General Butler
o place his action at Ladysmth in a
better light is proving failure.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10

For sale-Refrigerator SIS. very
cheap. G. w. Beasley.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10
Biennial meeting knights of Pythias,
San Francisco, Cal, Aug. 1914, 1902.

Rate for above occasions. Peoria to
Marshalltown, including branch lines,
s4s Rates equally low from points
north. Limit. sixty days.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects
as Reflected in the Iowa
Newspapers.
The News Of Iowa From Hun.
dreds Of Different Towns
and Communities.
STEEL is SCARCE.
Waterloo Reporter.


Local architects and builders have
been notified that the steel mills from
now ON will refuse to hook orders for
steel to be delivered this season, but
will take orders for delivery after
Jan. l.
1t is not likely that this condition VIII
seriously interfere with local bulldlhs.
Most of the steel for work that is now
Under way or is to be started this sea
son has been contracted for and VIII be
delivered, tho in all probability there
will be DELAYS due to The anthracite
coal strike in the east. Some work rs
being badly delayed on account of this
shortage. Work on the new Lafayette
block has been held back for several
days and still it is not known when the
material will arrive.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL UTILIZATION.
IEldora Herald.
celebration full of enthusiasm and
patriotism was enjoyed on the Fourth
by the $40 boys, the employees and some
visitors at the Institution. The celebra-
tion partakes largely of the nature OF
an athletic field day, with music. ana
lots of good things to eat and drink.
There were sixty-five events on the
program. which begun at at $3.50 a. m.
with parade of the battalion headed
by the band.
Prizes of balls, bats and bananas
were given the winners of the several
events. An elegant dinner with ice
cream. peanuts, candy and lemonade
was served to all in the spacious dining
hall. Supper was as n picnic lunch in
the park. Besides this nearly all the
boys had from so cents to 81 each,
which they invested in confectionery,
balls, bats, kite strings, tin horns,
whistles and bottled soda water to the
axtent in the aggregate of about $3.50.
Twenty cases. or eighty dozen bottles.
of soda water We're consumed.
The buildings and grounds We're dec
Grated with flags and the band dis.
coursed patriotic music.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10
+ o r SAL e.

For Sale-Good Restaurant stock;
only restaurant in town of 500; will
sell cheap if taken at once. Address
T. c. Westeby, Alexander, Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10

Annual meeting Young Peoples
Christian Union Society of the United
Presbyterian church, Tacoma. Wash,
July 1927, 1902.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10

To Rent-Two or three rooms for
light housekeeping; modern: centrally
located. Address "B" care of T.-R
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10
TO r e N Z.

TO KENT.
TO Rent-My residence at 112 North
First avenue; furnished; all modern
Improvements. II. d. East.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10

To Rent-Good house; seven rooms;
three closets; pantry ETC., at 212 South
First avenue.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10

Men, Not Under rs years, to call on
old and new customers. No delivering
Position permanent to the right party
Pay weekly. Glen Brothers, Roches-
ter, N. Y.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10
IscELLA N ECU S.

Viavi, the way to health; 1o7 North
Fourth street.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10

We never saw a sore thumb that is
as sensitive as this particular back col
lar button bile" on Uncle Sans
neck
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10

Wanted-At once an energetic man
for Marshalltown to take agency for
our teas, coffees, spices. etc. Must be
able to give bonds. Address 504 Wal
nut street. Des Moines, Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10

Wanted-Good girl for general house
work, three in family, $40 North Third
street.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10

Wanted-Dining room and chamber
maid at Pilgrim Hotel.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10

Wanted-Dining room girl at Sun
dells Cafe.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16
Under the Prison Floor
Daring Attempt at Escape
Fooled in Nick of Tim,

expired. He only asked if a certain
cell had been examined. 1t had not.
In it six well known desperadoes wers
confined.
1 went to the cell. There were four
bare stone walls, some iron cots and
a chair-no other furniture. All the
cells were fioored with heavy flag
stones laid in cement, but this one
had also good board floor above the
flags. While l talked with the pris-
oners on various subjects, 1 examined
that floor. 1t seemed solid, and all
the cracks were filed with dust. But
there was one short piece. Hitching
my chair nearer to it, l inserted my
knife-blade under that piece. 1t came
up. The search was over.
In an excavation made in the flag
ging were the uniforms, and much
more-cold chisels, hammers and
saws, stolen from the masons, and
plenty of dirks made from chisels and
case-knives. In case of failure to
pass the guard the prisoners intended
to oyerpower it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16

One of the hitherto unwritten
stories of the civil war is that of the
military prison on the Dry Tortugas,
near Florida 1t was used to confine
soldiers sentenced by court martial
and was guarded toward the close of
the war by a detachment under Capt
w. R. Prentice, who relates in Nc
Cures Magazine some of his expert
ences at his lonely post.
One day twenty-four uniforms
were stolen by one of the prisoners
from the quartermaster's storeroom.
1t was understood what such a theft
meant-that twenty-four of the most
desperate characters among the pris-
oners, disguised as soldiers, expected
to pass the guard some dark night,
seize schooner and escape.
The plan looked very feasible. For
days a quiet but careful search was
carried on. No clue could be obtain
ed. The guard at the postern was
doubled. At last l took into my con-
fidence a prisoner whose term had
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16

department and army headquarters.
where abode Gen Halleck, his military
adviser, for news and views. Head
and heart were strenuOusly cOncen-
trated on the fight. wherever it might
be- His fertile brain saw, too, the
critical points in the game oftentimes
far more clearly than some of his
so-called "ablest generals"
He not only wished to know what
was going on in the fight, but per-
formed his own part nobly. In the
heat of action or at crucial moments
his orders, suggestions and inquiries
were fired off spontaneously from
wherever he might be at the moment,
and at such periods he was generally
cover at the war department" with
Mr.. Stanton.
That is the chief reason, says Les
lie j. Perry in Lippincott's, why SO
many of his dispatches are dated at
that department, and not because he
perhaps held Stanton in higher es-
TEEN than the SECRETARY of the navy, or
state, or treasury.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16
Green Rlackbosrds.

A blackboard" of green artificial
slate, which, it is claimed, is more
restful to the eye than the old boards,
has been invented by A. F. Parshall,
and was first adopted by the public
schools in Little Rock. Ark In fact,
T. any large cities have utilized this
new invention and occulists give it
the highest Recommendation. 1t is
believed that children with weak eyes
are often subjected to serious per-
sonal injury through the constant use
of bIackboards, which are known to
be injurious to the eye Green is ma
lures color, and is naturally restful
TO the eye. So far the invention has
met with favor among those VINO ex-
perimented with il.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16
Lincoln in War Times
Thy thee Create Preside Was |
So emil

Surprise is often expressed by intel
Iigent people that so large a proper
ton of President sLincoln's most i'm
portant kilograms and some of his
letters are dated from the war depart
ment instead of the executive man
sion, and none of them from the navy,
treasury or other administrative bu-
reaus. This is generally deemed a
very singular fact. and from it writ
ers have plausibly drawn the concur
sion that Lincoln personally liked the
secretary OF war better than any OF
the cabinet officers.
While this indeed appears to have
been true, it does not necessarily 50
follow. He certainly held Mr.. Seward
in high regard, yet he seldom went 20
the state department.
In the circumstances it was not at
all singular. The explanation is easy.
War was the business of that time.
and Lincoln's eyes were always bent
to the army, especially when great
military events were impending. He
habitually haunted the adjacent war
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16

plants to harbor swarms of possible
food creatures with their eggs and
larvae, and where such vegetable
growths do occur, as in the floating
weeds of the Sargasso sea, race of
fish and crustaceans at once appears,
limited to that locality and obviously
fed from that source alone. Neither
does the sea, except in certain areas,
greatly abound in vertebrate fish.
A bucket of Atlantic water is to
the eye simply vessel of transparent
brine, unfouled with weed, void of
fish. and in most cases not visibly
infested with any form of floating ma
rine organisms. Yet at any moment
shoafs of fish numbering millions of
individuals may elect to enter this
apparently foodless waste. The herring
shoals disappear into the deep Allan
tic and return in good condition, oily
and exuberant, and the whales find
sufficient food to make them the fat
test creatures in creation. Many of
the whales are carnivorous. Some,
including the right" whale, have long
been known to live on small sea crus-
taceans which were supposed to be
found in exceptional numbers in the
Arctic seas. But the case of the typ
ical "shoaI' fish, such as pilchards
and herrings, offered special difficult
ties.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16

of Clara Barton When calamity lets
loose then Americas Florence Night
ingale is at the front with her "ca-
lamity fire engine" as she calls the
Red Cross.
Miss Barton is on he- way from
Russia, where the seventh triennial of
the Red Cross has recently adjourned
1t was held under the patronage of
the Empress of Russia-Maria Fee
dorovna-and represented every coun-
try except China and Mexico 1t was
a notable gathering assembled to dis
cuss matters relative to their humane
work, how better to advance it and
how to increase its value
Is it true that the United States
fails to fully value the services of
Clara Barton now that she has dem
onstrated the work of the Red Cross
Will the American people give post
mCrtem instead of ante-mortem
praise? Clara Barton has lived ~
useful years-a significant statement.
Distant nations delight to honor her.
Kings and queens have bestowed dec
orations, jewels and medals upon her.
What has America done2 Is the adage
true in her case concerning the
prophet not without honor save in
his (or herr own country? Ask any
soldier or sailor who has met with
disaster or witnessed task him
where he places Clara Barton in the
history of this country Proudly does
she wear upon her breast the famous
iron cross of Germany. sigRifying un-
usual services performed
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16
Fought on Oil Field

Operations will shortly begin in a
new field of the Kentucky oil belt.
Capt. S. D. Bottom, who owns the
noted Perryville battlefield, ten miles
west of Danville, has contracted with
\ New York syndicate for the boring
of wells on the field, which is claim
ed to be rich in surface indications.
Here in 1868, well was drilled to
the depth of 500 feet by New York
parties, who leased many thousand
acres in West Boyle for development
purposes. On the morning preceding
the bloody conflict between the forces
of Buel and Bragg. the expert drill
ers, who were boarding with Col.
Samuel Bottom, father of Capt. s. D.
Bottom, as usual went to their work.
During the day the soldiery of the
north and south met, and by
O'Clock in the afternoon the soil
around the prospective well was soak
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16

1t is announced that Cardinal Got
ii, whom Pope Leo is said to have
designated as the new pope. has been
made project of the propaganda, or
official in control of the church's af-
fairs in the United States and coun-
tries where the Catholic is not a
state church, to succeed the late
Cardinal Ledochowski. Cardinal Got
ii was born in Genoa. the son of a
dock laborer. He was made a cardinal
for good work in settling church diff
fculties in Brazil
Cardinal Vannutelli will replace
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16
Bloody Civil War Bottle
Raced Around the Derrick

ed in human blood. and more than
1000 men who had been cut down in
the bloody fight lay in heaps around
the hole in the ground. Six hundred
of the bodies were buried on the spot,
and nearly 500 were brought to Dan-
vile and inferred in Bellevue GENE
terry.
From that day to this nothing
whatever has been heard of the drill
ers or the head promoters, and it is
supposed they Joined the army or
were killed in the conflict Repeated
letters addressed to their former
place in New York were returned to
Col. Bottom by the postal authorities.
Portions of the old machinery are
still on the ground. The well showed
small vein of oil, which has been
utilized by the farmers for some
years for the fabrication of their
machinery Enquirer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16
Dust Saved Washington City.


did 1 ever tell you how clouds of
dust once saved Washington City from
what many people believe would have
been certain capture at the hands of
the Confederates? asked a member
of the old Veterans Reserve Corps.
which was on duty at Fort Stevens
during the war, to a crowd of eompan-
ions in a downtown hotel the other
day No one in the assemblage had
heard the story, and so the veteran
continued:
1T was when the army of Northern
Virginia was just outside the capital
city. You may remember that Gen.
Early, who was in command of this
particular division of the Confederate
forces. in writing to refute statements
published in Northern papers to the
effect that he could easily have
marched into Washington, said. I
knew the defenses were weak when l
arrived, but my troops were so ex-
hausted from the enforced march that
a halt was absolutely necessary. and
the next morning l knew by clouds of
That dust, gentlemen. was raised
by few men, not exceeding one hum
dred. of the Veteran Reserve Corps.
The temporary commander of this
company, a stout man of medium
height, whose name or rank 1 did not
learn, because he wore no blouse or
insignia, placed the men in line of the
rear of and between Fort Stevens and
Fort Slocum- After making a short
speech, IN which he urged every man
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16

Cardinal Gotti as project of the sacred
congregation of bishops and regular
discipline.
The selection of Cardinal Gotti to
succeed the late Cardinal Ledochow
ski in the most important post in
the gift of the pope is universally re-
garded as indicating the pontiff's per-
sonal wishes as to the personality of
his successor. Cardinal Gotti has long
been considered the most likely of
the cardinals for succession to the
papal throne. He belongs to the re-
formed branch of the Carmelites.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16
patti, at Sixty, stiII Young.

Patti, at Sixty, Still Young.
While Adelina Patti was shopping fn
London recently a gentleman over
heard the young woman who served
her at the counter address her as
Miss" He says: What a tribute to
her perennial beauty to be still taken
for a young miss at the age of sixty
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16

The eminent German portrait
painter. Franz Won Lenbach, admires
strawberry blondes" more than any
other type of women, though he de-
clares that they are SO ethereal that
they can not be happy in marriage
unless they are adored and petted all
the firne
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16

to South Africa has been protested
in the commons by the Irish nation
alists, is the lord chief justice of Eng
land. to which post he succeeded in
1900 on the death OF Lord Russell
Prior to his elevation to the peerage
Lord Alverstone was Sir Richard Ev-
erard Webster. baronet and queens
counsel The latter rank in the high
er branch of the law he attained at
the age of SO, which is believed to
be record age for this distinction At
present Lord AHerstone is probably
the ripest judicial scholar in Eng
land
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16
Genuine ocean Water.

The sea, except in the shallow
water-fringe along the shore is de
void of vegetable matter 1t contains,
in general, no growth of weeds and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16

to do his best, he directed us to
march down some distance on the
grass past Fort Stevens. Once there,
he told us to break ranks and right
about, returning in the miadle of the
main road and kicking up all the dust
we possibly could We doubled on the
line, marching down on the grass and
coming back in the dusty road. 1t was
dry season, and we all had on broad
soled shoes We made the dust fly,
tell you, and it is no wonder Gen Ear
~ thought reinforcements by the thou
sands had come to the relief of the
handful on duty at the fcrts-''-wash-
ington Star
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16
Mexican War veterans.

The heroes of Texas of over half a
century ago are gathered in Fort
Worth in their annual reunion They
are the veterans of the Mexican war,
and there are but few of them with
the elastic step and the straight. erect
FORM The greater number are bent
with age. and the heads OF the MAORI
ty are as white as snow. There are
about sixty of them The youngest rs
~ years of age (several being this
age), and the oldest has passed the
eighty-fifth milepost- 1t is a grand
and glorious little band OF patriotic
men. who were the fighters for Texas
independence in the 40s. and who by
their gallantry and bravery enabled
Texas to throw OF the yoke of tyran-
ny and become, as they feel. one of
the greatest, indeed, il not the great
est state in all America--Dallas News.
May 81
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16
CLARA eARToN's LIFE WORK.

Red Cross Leader Honored in All
Countries But Her Own.
When peace is or, one hears little
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16

And victory. fair victory,
Our enemies are ourst
For all the clouds are clasped l.. neE&
And all the earth with flowers
Aye. still depressed and dim with dew,
But wait little while,
And with the deathless. radiant rose
The wilderness shall smile
And every tender. living thing
Shall feed by streams of rest:
Nor lamb shall from the flock be lost,
Nor nursing from the nest
John Rusk.a.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-16
(I illllPfirsIdles
The Dawn of Peace

Put off, put off your mail. o kings,
And beat your brands to dust.
Your hands must learn surer grasp.
Your hearts better trust
Oh, bend aback the lance's point,
And break the helmet bar;
A noise is in the morning wind,
But not the note of war.
Upon the grassy mountain paths
Inc glittering hosts Increase
They come. They come! How fair their
feeti
They come who publish peace.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-05

Dean Frederick w. Farrar, the
world famous preacher and author,
took the temperance pledge for the
following reasons:
First become convinced that the
use of alcohol in any form was not
necessity.
Second-I was struck by the indfs-
putable fact that in England 10000 in
habitants of our prisons, accustomed
to strong drink all their lives, and the
majority of them brought into prison
directly or indirectly by it. could be,
and were, absolutely deprived Of it.
not only without loss, but with entire
gain, to their personal health.
Third derived from the recorded
testimony of our most eminent physi-
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-05
RENOuNclNC THE WORLD.

Men talk Of renouncing the world
that amusement or this amusement,
this pursuit of this manner Of living,
and persons using it mean by "the
world" something they do not practice
and somebody else does. When q
man processes to shun the world he
forgets the vanities OF the world in
his own home, and in his own heart.
It is not another mans world we are
to shun, but our own world, that in
our circumstances. our positions, be
what it may, which we are putting in
the place Of God. The world is the
world God has made. and which we are
striving to have and enjoy without
God-that is, the vanity, the unreality,
the dissipation. and that is what We
promise to renounce when we enter
into the Kingdom of Christ a kingdom
filled with the realities of the spiritual
world, and the true and real power
and energy of enjoying, of living for
God. And when we say we renounce
"the pomp and vanl,ies of the world"
We mean this-everything that at
tracts us from God. 1t may be inno-
cent and enjoyable in itself. but If we
make it our idol and put it in the
, place of him who made it. it becomes
all Domp and vanity. and 1t is thing
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-05

Poverty is the cause Of most of the
drunkenness that afficts the race. And
drunkenness Is the cause of much pow
erty. It should be the aim of every
friend of temperance, therefore. to
give his cordial sympathy to all ef-
forts to abate poverty. But social
changes that affect the material con-
ditions of the masses of men come
about slowly, and while these changes
are progressing it is not waste OF
energy to view the average man and
woman as a free agent and to urge
upon him and her the duty and advan-
tage of letting alcohol alone.
That method, though it does not
promise the elimination Of the drink
habit from society, at least makes GER
tain the savings of many men and
women.
1t is doing good in detail, while wait
ing for larger causes to produce
wholesale results.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-05
Veterans Welcome Old Foe.

The annual reunion of the survivors
Of the Second Illinois cavalry was held
at Quincy. H., recently, N!d an ex-
confederate soldier was the guest Of
honor He was Capt. J. II. Mcdowell
of Nashville, Tenn, and he came to
return a carbine which he took from
a soldier of the Second Illinois cav
airy. Capt. Mcdowell was dressed in
the gray uniform he wore in the con-
iederate army. He captured the car
bine at the battle of Holly Springs,
taking 1t from Isaiah Wedman, who
was killed in tnat battle. Capt Nc
Dowell presented the carbine to M. l..
Weidman of Farmer City. III, a son
of the man from whom he took it
nearly forty years ago.
1--WE of the South thought we were
right" said Capt. Mcdowell, as he
handed the old carbine to Mr.. Weld
man. But, thank God we lost. Provi-
6ence decided the war right. and we
are now glad you Won"