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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
INDIAN MOUNDS IN IOWA.

Iowa CITY CltlZen.l
DR.. d. j. II. Ward of this city who
is locating and mapping Indian mounds
for the Historical society has thus far
located over two hundred of these relics
of the Mound Builders this summer, in
Johnson county. 1t is not only the
purpose of the Historical society to
keep track and make record of the
doings of the white people since they
first came into this section of the
country but also to ascertain every
thing possible about the Indians who
inhabited the state OF Iowa. The work
of Dr. Ward is confined to Johnson
county.
DR.. Ward, in the prosecution of his
work, the other day located group
of mounds in the big bend of the Iowa
river not very far from North Liberty.
On one of these there was white oak
stump Is inches in diameter. The tree
was evidently cut down about twenty
or twenty-five years ago.
About thirty feet away from the
mound there is another white oak
stump % inches in diameter. 1t has
15 rings which would indicate that it
was not far from that number of years
old. The stump upon the mound was
apparently Of about the same age as
that upon which the rings were count
ed so that the mounds. it could be
estimated, were over two hundred
years old.
The mounds constructed were not by
the Indians we knew. the Sacs and
Foxes or the Musquakies, but by
older NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Builders
They have nothing in common with
the later Indian either in manners,
customs or other peculiarities.
The mounds are generally 20 wide
by 40 or 60 feet in length and many of
them We're evidently used for tent
bottoms while some were also for
graves. They are generally made Of
yellow loess, commonly called clay, but
which is different from clay. Trees
have a hard time growing upon them
because of the hard, dry SOIL and the
high attitudes subjecting them to
storms. The mounds are nearly al
ways located on the highest ground to
be found and not far from some
stream
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
HORSE RACING AND GAMBLING.

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, corn'
menting upon the meager attendance al
the Cleveland harness horse meeting.
says:
Betting is the chief feature of every
great racing meet held IN this country.
The gambling fever has greater hold
upon the patrons of the track than any
| interest in horses. and the real race
| talk centers about the odds that the
books are laying on this or that favor
| tie. It is the thing to bet when you 40
| to horse race-'it makes the events
! interesting, you know is, the excuse.
The contests between the superb ami
mails as they come down the stretch are
subordinate, the winning or losing of a
bet Is magnified, and thru years of
that sort of thing the racing game and
the betting game have come to stand in
the same relation toward each other.
Nowadays men race horses chiefly be-
cause it furnishes an excuse for gam
bling"
Horse racing and betting seem to be
Iinseparable. The average observer OF a
thrilling contest of whatever character
is willing to wager some minor value
on its outcome. However, the average
race goer, especially at the smaller
meetings, goes to see the horses run,
not to gamble. The side bets OF ciga IS
or gloves are incidental, not the bust
ness. of their makers. The action ard
eagerness, of the excited animals, the
thunder of their hurrying hoofs and the
steaming intensity OF the struggle down
the stretch take the crowd to the races,
not the privilege of ventuling bet.
The public is lenient TO the average
better at the race track. 1t is the pro-
fessional gambler that degrades racing.
To him it is not matter of sport but
of business, and especially at the minor
meetings his business is more distinct
i've than different from ordinary rob-
berry. To his bookmaking privileges he
adds q fortune wheel. ansi when per-
mitted. as was the case at the recent
meeting in Marshalltown, a layout of
flat games so utterly crooked that
porch climbing becomes respectable in
comparison. He is ready to corrupt
drivers, has jockeys in his pay, de-
mands a hearing from the judges on
the grounds of having paid a gambling
privilege. and generally dlscredIts the
game. Professional gamblers are the
bane of the race course. 1t is a pity
that the track and the "tin horns" can
not be divorced. The public will coa-
done betting on horse races il col-
Quoted in fairness. 1t is the profess
sional gambler with his raraphernalia
of piracy to which it objects. If the
smaller racing meets are 10 endure and
retain the patronage and respect of the
respectable they must unload the tin
horn gambler.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
EDUCATION AND BUSINESS.

w. G. Edgar, in the Northwestern
Miller. attacks the modern educators
methods as non-practical and says:
''The American man of business of
today is looking angrily at the public
school system which he has been told
Is the finest in the world and demand
ing to know why the young men, its
fruit, can neither spell correctly, write
decently read intcll!gently, perform
simple problems In everyday arithme-
tic surely or show working knowl-
adge Of commercial geography such as
business man requires.
1.-THE up-to-date pedsgogue is look
ing foolish and defending his system
as best he can. The victim, the young
man who thought he was learning
something to use when he went to
school, is looking desperate and will
soon look hungry unless he accepts a
position as errand boy or porter.
'This poor youth and his parent have
been im-hammed."
Mr. Edgar takes the typewriter as his
text and charges that Americans teach
ers with a desire to be esteemed pro-
gressive have gone to the extreme of
impracticability in jumping to a con-
clusion that machines were bound to
do all the writing that the world re-
quired and that the occupation of the
penman was practically gone. Incl
dentally, somehow they seem to have
included the art of spelling as another
OF the unnecessary things. In conse-
quence, young men are coming into the
market places looking for oppornni-
ties to earn living who can neither
spell correctly nor write legibly, and
back of them stand a horde Of So
called educators who are responsible
for their ignorance, contending blatent-
~ that 1t is no longer necessary either
TO spell or write"
This lack of completeness and neg
lect of ordinary branches Mr. Egbert
charges with being responsible for a
generation Of young men who, now
that they have finished school, are un-
able to earn living save at the sacri-
flee of more years spent in practical
business education. meantime serving
at low wages where otherwise, had
they been properly taught. they might
have readily secured good fair salary.
".rhe educators of today" continues
the article quoted. who have degener-
atsd into faddists and have scorned the
simple, homely, necessary branches of
ar English education, the primary and
essential things requisite for every
American citizen. have essayed to Gre
ate a race of artists who shall be able
to make a picture without first having
learned to mix their paints, and the re-
suit is failure.
Young men who know few ele-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
THE SCARCITY OF FARM HELP.

An eastern writer noting the COM
plants of the scarcity of farm laoorers
In different parts of the country at
tributes the hack to the general pros
perity of the country. which mas Iur-
nished employment for the immense
immigration of the past year on public
works, railroad constructions ana SINH
lar labor, preventing the incoming Ia
borers from spreading over the coun-
fry to supply the insistent needs OF the
agricultural districts.
This is only partly true. however. The
immense migration has been largely
from the south of Europe, and especial
ly from southern Italy. The Italian
peasant is apparently not good mate
rial for American farm labor. His nab
It's and general inclinations are such as
fail to recommend him to the American
farmer. The Jewish immigration has
been large but the Jew has long ago
forgotten his pastoral and agricultural
predikections and Jewish farmer is a
rarity. The Hebrew immigrant must
make his home among his own peculiar
people to enjoy the privileges of his
religion. He is not attracted to the
farm except as an itinerant vendor OF
merchandise. The padrone system does
ITS part in keeping Italian laborers to-
kether in gangs, but the greatest rea-
BON for the non employment of the
Italian peasant upon the farms lies in
the American farmers, distate to the
'dago" farm hand. He doesn't want
him and refuses to hire him except up
on compulsion.
Then. too, the reports Of scarcity of
farm help have been largely exag gerated
The supply of good month hands has
been limited. but there has been no
actual famine oe hired men of the more
indifferent class. The reported scarcity
is greatly due to the changed conditions
of farm work due to the introduction
of labor saving machinery and the en-
nloyrnent Of "day hands" for limited
period during the rush OF planting and
gathering crops. Then farm labor is
scarce and the city or village must be
drawn upon. If the village laborers
have steady work, as Is now the case,
there is famine of farm help for
limited season.
The best class Of farm hands is al
ways scarce. They are the capable
men who are willing to accept respon-
sibility and Ego ahead with the work"
They are always in demand and do not
remain farm hands. The Italian peas
ant can never take his place. OF the
other class Of farm laborers, which is
Indifferent to everything but its wages,
there has been no serious scarcity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
The Great Parks Of Colorado

Constitute one Of her chief glores.
They contain fields, forests and plains:
they are watered by creeks and rivers,
and contain villages and farm houses:
they have springs and lakes where no.
tells and other plices of entertainment
are found for those seeking health and
recreation.
To enable people to reach tsese ia
yored localities without. unnecessary
expenditure of time or money the Union
Pacific has put in effect very low rates
and splendid train service from the
Missouri river to Denver.
Accommodation are provided for all
classes of passengers on these trains,
the equipment including free reclining
chair cars. dining cars. buffet smoking
cars. drawing room sieepers, day
coaches. etc.
Full information cheerfully furnished
on application to j. w. Turtle, 7. p. A.,
220 West Fourth street. Des Moines,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31

mentary things thoroughly, who can
read, write. spell: who understand per-
centage, can add, subtract, divide aild
multiply quickly and surely, who know
the modern geography OF their own
and foreign countries; in short, whose
education stopped short at the gram
mar school. are actually in demand over
their older and more extensively
taught comrades, who come from the
high school and college, having long
since forgotten what little they ever
knew of these things and cast them
aside as useless and unnecessary.
They start into business. life at bet
ter wages than their friends who have
been fortunate enough 10 continue
longer at school, and by the time the
latter Join them in the commercial
world they are so far ahead of them
that they never catch up The pedn-
gogues and faddists may claim that
they are trying TO make scholars and
not business men. A very large ma
jority of the graduates OF the high
school and college must, nevertheless,
go to the world of business for their
livelihood; they can not al be profess
sional men. 1t is unfair-.nore, it is a
crime-to turn these young men from
oiy
means of earning living
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
Wood Ashes for AppIe Treas.

In some tests at the New York ex-
pertinent station it was found that the
foliage was greatly improved with wood
ashes and the trees were freer from
scab. The color of the fruit was also
improved in some seasons and with
some varieties. but during the seasons
which favored the perfect development,
of the fruit, the color was not helped
Apparently the use of ashes has a tend
ency to hasten the perfect development
of the fruit. Some seasons this ripening
process was carried so far where ashes
were used that the apples did not keep
as well as on plats untreated
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
BACK GIVES OUT.
Plenty of MarshalItown Readers Have
This Experience.
Sold by all drnseists. % Ger


This Experience.
You tax the kidneys-overwork them.
They can't keep up the continual
strain.
The back gives QUIT aches and
pains.
Urinary troubles set in.
Don't wait longer-take Doan's Kid.
ney Pills.
Marshalltown people tell you how
they act.
Mrs. w. H. Price, Of 303 Summit
street, says: Experience taught me
that Doan's Kidney Pills, sold at Nc
Bride & Wills drug store, Gun be relied
on to cure pains in the back or other
evidences of disturbed condition OF
the kidneys. This is Of considerable
Importance because there are q great
many preparations on the market
which are worthless and after the suf-
ferer makes repeated attempts to OBJ
tain relief and the results are not forth
coming he naturally grows discouraged.
This too prevalent kidney complaint
seems to be one OF the ills to which
nearly all our sex IS heir, but the fact
that Doan's Kidney Pills are sure
cure will be the means OF bringing
health and happiness to many who
have heretofore sought this boon with
out avail. I speak advisedly because
the remedy not only relieved me per-
sonally Of pain, but am in position
10 judge from the experience Of others
whose opinions can be relied upon"
For sale by all dealers; price 80 cents.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. T.. sole
agents for the United States.
Remember the name. Doan's. and
take no substitute.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
Made a Spider His Excuse.

Governor Durbin, of Indiana, who has
won no little praise for the resolution
with which. during the Evansville riot,
he upheld the law was not bad in his
boyhood, but he was m!schievouS. His
friends often tell the story of how, thru
mischievousness he once won a bam-
boo fishing rod.
The principal of the school that he
attended was a man of considerable Sc
verify. The boys all held him in great
awe. They were, therefore. amazed
when young Durbin one day said to
them
DO you dare me to go up to the prin-
c:pal and say Hello and slap him on
the back?"
I'VE certainly do" they replied.
We'll, III do it, said Durbin. I'll
do it today. But what will you give,me
for letting you see me do it,"
I'll give you that there bamboo
fishln' pole of NINE" an illiterate boy
said.
IAN right" Durbin agreed. Watch
me when school begins"
The principal sat on an elevated plat
form. The reckless Durhin. as soon as
the session opened advanced to him,
and, sure enough, gave him a hard
whack on the back. and at the same
time exclaimed "Hello!"
The principal turned fiercely.
What is the meaning of this?" he
cried.
There was the biggest spider on
your back 1 ever saw, sir said the
boy.
"oh. was there" said the notified
principal. Thank you, my lad. for
knocking 1t off. Where is it, tho?"
1T escaped down that crack said
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
KILLING Quack Grass.

In certain sections of the country
quack grass is a troublesome pest, and
it seems almost impossible to get rid
of it, although it can be done by the
following method, If the work Is thor
oughly and persistently followed:
Plow the fields containing the quaclS
grass as early in the spring as possible,
then run large and heavy disk harrow
over the ground in both directions, do
ing this work at frequent intervals I'M
til late in May, when SOW cover crop
of oats, Canada peas and barley. This
cover crop VIII make thick, heavy and
rapid growth, smothering out all Of the
life in the Quack grass roots that was
not destroyed by the narrowing. The
use of the ground is not lost by this
practice, for the hay will be strictly
first class and be gathered in large
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Newton Daily News asserts that
1.-The moneyed interests and the pro-
ducng interests are as necessary TO
each other in the accomplishment OF
things as q team and a driver are to
each other. But say, 1t would be nice
LIE the farmer could drive once in a
awhile. wouldn't 1t? He could If he
only would There are labor organi2a-
tons of all kinds and financial orgari-
cations of many kinds; just wait until
the farmers see the point and organize.
Then there will be something doing
The Davenport Democrat says: THE
bankers of Iowa are all right. Take
them together on the deck Of steam
boat. in their convention hall, or in the
Hobbies Of the hotels and they make a
business-like, sociable and genial com
pany. Davenport had a good opinion
of them before they came, but the good
impression has been very much i'm
proved by closer contact. The bankers
will have fine year of it. Their great
est trouble will be to place the large
surplus the farmers of the state will
put into their hands after the harvest"
To the New Sharon Star an effort to
resuscitate the populist party In Iowa
seems wholly unnecessary. It's TOO
much like corpse trying to wink a
long time after burial"
civilian r.. Curtis may denource
some of Iowa's insurance companies"
says the Dubuque Times, but he dare
not lift his voice against her chief
glory, the roasting ear
In regard to lynch law tae Boone T.e-
publican asserts, when the public UNI
dertakes to perform the duties for
which 1t elects officers, then it is time
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
low A n E w S.
) PAPERS 4 = =
PRIMARY ELECTION Law.
Hampton Recorder.l

|
| We are surprised that man with the
cal politics should miss the mark SO
badly as TO advocate the idea that the
adoption Of a primary election law
should be optional with the counties.
With equal propriety might the adop-
| ton OF the Australian ballot law be left
optional with counties. The design of a
| primary election law is to get free
from certain corrupting influences"
And 1t follows, that If these influences
| are strong enough to encourage COR
ruption in the management Of any po-
litical machinery, they would certainly
be strong enough to prevent the adop-
ton of a primary election law in their
counties.
| There are two essential requisites in
a primary election law. and without
them any law on the subject is worth
less. The first is that the primary shall
be made compulsory and under the
charge Of sworn officers, and the sec
ond is that all parties shall hold their
primaries on the same day, at or near
the same place. and that a record shall
be kept of which ticket every voter
votes. This latter is the only remedy
for the practice complained Of in a
primary, Of democrats voting at re-
publican primary or vice versa. A
man is not likely to go past the ballot
| box of his own party. and is not going
to walk past the political associates
of his own party, to put ballot in the
box of the opposing party This day
should be set by statute and violations
of the law should be punished the same
as those committed against the cleo
ton laws.
There are other points that the law
should cover, but these are the requi-
sites without which primary election
law would not be worth the paper It
was written on.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
erutaIly Tortured.

A case came to light that for persist
ent and unmerciful torture has perhaps
never been equaled. Joe Golobick. of
Colusa, Cal. writes: For fifteen years
endured insufferable pain from rheu-
matism and nothing relieved me, tho
I tried everything known. l came across
Electric Bitters and it's the greatest
medicine on earth for that trouble. A
few bottles of t completely relieved and
cured me-" Just as good for liver and
kidney troubles and ganeral debility.
Only SO cents. Satisfaction guaranteed
by George p. Powers. druggist.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
caiarrh of thu Stomach.

When the stomach is overloaded;
when food is taken into It that fails to
digest, it decays and inflames the mu
cous membrane, exposing the nerves.
and causes the glands to secrete mu-
Gin instead of the natural juices of d.
gestion. This is called catarrh Of the
stomach. For years suffered with ca
tarrh of the stomach, caused by indi-
gestion. Doctors and medicines failed
to benefit me until I used Kodol Dys-
pepsia Cure.-J. r. Rhea. Coppell, Tex.
Sold by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
Most Popular in the World.

What is the most popular advertised
medicine in the world? A few years
ago it was supposed to be a brand of
pills made in England claiming a sale
of 100000 packages a year. This rec
ord is badly beaten, however, today
by the famous American family medi-
cine Cascarets Candy Cathartic, which
are selling at an average of over 10000
boxes every day, over a million boxes
a month, and over 100000 boxes a
year. This appears to be evidence of
overwhelming popularity, the most
noteworthy on record.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
Special Excursion Rates to Colorado,
Utah and the Black Hills,

Via the Northwestern i.ne. Beginning
June 1 excursion tickets will be sold to
Denver, Colorado SPRINGS. Pueblo, Salt
Lake City. Hot Springs. Deadwood.
Lead and Custer, S. D., ETC., good to
return until Oct 81. A splendid oppor-
tunity is offered for an enjoyable vaca-
ton trip. Several fine trains via the
Northwestern line daily. Apply to
agents of the Chicago & Northwestern
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
s45 to Portland, Ore. and Return.

On Aug. to IA, inclusive, the Iowa
Central Railway will sell excursion
tickets to Portland. Ore, Seattle and
Tacoma, Wash, Victoria and Vancou-
yer, B. c., at the extremely low rate Of
s45 for the round trip: tickets limited
for return to Oct. 10. 1903: stopovers
allowed in both directions and passen-
gers have the privilege of going one
route and returning another. See agents
for further information or address A.
b. Cults, G. p. & T. A. Minneapolis,
MINI
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
Cholera infartum.

This has long been regarded as one
of the most dangerous and fatal dis
eases to which infants are subject 1t
can be cured, however, when properly
treated. All that IL necessary is to
give Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy and castor oil, as d.
rected with each bottle, and cure is
certain. For sale by all druggists.