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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-11
Apparently the bear that walks like
man also lies like gas meter.

They've got now so that they simply
ask, whats the scorer They know
who lost.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-11

A bad cold is the surest thing5to be
caught on fishing excursion. IT, -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09

study. Possibly some scientific mac
curacies may creep into their writ
ings thru their idealization of the in
Givdua,ities of the animals they OBJ
serve but the facts remain that the
new school has awakened more interest
in the study of nature, taught more of
The real life of animals and inculcated
more kindness toward dumb brutes
among the people generally than all the
scientific treatises ever written. An oc-
casional inaccuracy of observation may
be pardoned IN writer's who have ac-
complished so much. Mr.. Burroughs
books are interesting. Longs and
Thompson Seton's are charming. Per-
haps each may be able to teach the
other valuable facts and the public be
gamer thru their differences as aired
in print
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09
AN UPRIGHT JUDGE,

a Sioux City judge has fined two resi-
dents of that city for permitting their
fowls 20 roam at large and damage a
Ineighbors garden. In delivering sem
tance the Judge said: Anybody who
will keep chickens IN town isn't en-
titled to bit of sympathy. Town is no
place for chickens, unless they are
fried boiled. roasted or made into
salad" The men were told to sell their
chickens, pay their fines or go to Jail.
The record of the case unfortunately
closes at this interesting point Whether
the chickens are now salad or the Gull
prts are in Jail current history of the
case fails to state.
The conclusions arrived at by Judge
Page are the same logical deductions
which have forced themselves upon
every householder whose neighbours
chickens have reveled in his garden
patch to its destruction. While the
judge may be off upon the food value of
chicken Salad, ne appears 10 De prop
erly posted on the poultry question. He
has perhaps in half-clad condition
chased down an offending rooster in the
early dawn and killed him with curses
and a hoe handle in a fence corner be-
fore the eyes of his shocked and horri-
fled neighbors. Possibly he has had his
dog poisoned in retaliation and met the
man next door in deadly combat above
the corpse of fowl or canine.
Whatever his experience has been it
has led him to wise action. The town
hen must follow the town COW. Judge
Pages decision puts the Northern Sc
curities merger in the background. 1t
overshadows Solomon and puts Portia
on the pig The city hennery must
go. Delenda est Shanghai!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09
AND THE PRESS HELPED.
IC'ainr Rnnids RnnnhIinnn

The banks are generally given credit
for the return of sanity TO Wall street
And undoubtedly the banks did have d
good deal to do toward putting an end
to the reckless speculation that was
going on there. But it would appear
from the statistics of the street, thas
there have been other conservative
forces put into operation aside from tbs
banks. Word comes from New YORK
that the public is keeping out of Wall
street; that the trading is wholly pro-
fessional. BY this 1t is meant that the
people turnout the country and the
men in the smaller cities and towns
are no longer sending money to Wall
street brokers to be invested in secur-
tiles listed on the stock exchange,
The general public is not now buy
ing these securities either outright OF
on margins.
Now the force that undoubtedly OPP
Grated to cause the public to withdraw
from the stock purchases, has been the
newspapers. With one accord almost
they have been advising the public for
year or more that the average secur,
ity listed on the New York stock eX
change was a dangerous proposition.
Promoters in the metropolis had come
to believe that there was money enough
to absorb anything that the printing
presses turned out therefore the
manufacture of Watered stock became
u flourishing industry down there. But
when the public withdrew their pat
ronage, that put an end to the increases
of securities, even more effectual!y
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09
1urIIsaKD DAILY By TIE
lNACHEN'S REMOVAL.

The removal by Postmaster Genera
Payne of August w. Machen from his
position as superintendent of rural free
imail delivery is likely 20 RETRO
permanently one of the best and most
widely known government officials. The
rural mai! department is now trans
ferred from the control of the first as
sistant postmaster general 10 the SUI
pervision of the fourth assistant. The
reason advanced by Postmaster Gener-
al Payne for the change IS the facilita-
ton of the investigation Eow under way
of alleged nlalfeasance in the rural de-
livery department Of the postal service
There are. grave charges made against
officials connected with The department
and which seriously strike at Mr.. Ma
chen. If a 1.-THE of the allegations of
Icrookedness are proven II is time that
a clean sweep We're made of Mr.. Machen
| aud such of his subordinates as have
been partners in fraud and theft. That
chen's knowledge in no wise excuses
him. He is, and will be, held RESPONSE
Bile for the dereictions of his subordi-
mates, and whether or not his Individual
hands are clean must pay the penalty
OF his caralessness. Postmaster General
Payne announced that the permanency
g III. 4. IL,
result of the investigation, but that
Machen's official decapitation is thing
accomplished no one has any good rea-
son to doubt.
Aside from the charges pending
against him Machen has been highly
satisfactory official. The extension of
the rural service under his superintend-
ency has been accomplished rapidly.
systematically and largely to the salts
faction of the public. Mistakes have
been made, but only of Il minor nature
and readily to be remedied. AS active
head of this department Mr.. Machen is
entitled 10 great credit for valuable
public service. But if he has used his
public position to further private ends
let his head fall into the basket. Wheth-
er with or without his knowledge, there
has been too much graft connected with
this service, not only in Washington but
freely not all of Il found it's way
into the pockets of Washington officials.
The investigation now in progress
should be extended over the entire rural
service and a general cleaning up made
of incompetents and grafters. If Ma
chen has been guilty he should go and
his guilty subordnates down to the low
est should follow him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09
A DISAGREEMENT OF DOCTORS.

In the current number of the North
American Review DIR. William Long
makes further defense of himself and
Mr.. Thompson Seton against Mr.. John
Burroughs charges OF studied mac
curacy in their descriptions of ami
NAL life. Mr.. Burroughs in a late
number Of the Atlantic magazine, de-
MED many of the statements made
by Long and Thompson Seton in their
books on nature study attributing the
alleged mi statements much to ignor-
ance and more to studied effort on the
part of the authors mentioned to make
a good story.
Mr.. Longs defense is bright and in
teresting and on the whole fairly con-
vincing. He makes claim for in
mankind and quotes instances which
have fallen under his observation more
wonderful than some of those that
brought denial from Mr.. Burroughs. In
an analysis of Mr.. Burroughs as a
critic he quotes his cutting criticism
of the poet Lowell for putting butter
cups and dandelions into the same
field and of Bryant for giving fra
GRANGE to the yellow violet. The OBJ
servation of the poets has long ago
been proven correct and Mr. Burroughs
wrong. His observations had been con-
fined to his own immediate locality
and he knew not the habits of flowers
in other fields. Ergo, Mr.. Long argues
that the narrowness of Mr.. Burroughs
field of animal observation has had it's
effect in his criticism of the work of
himself ana Mr.. Thompson Seton. 1t is
not that Mr. Burroughs does not know
his own animals but that he can not
know the changes OF habit and indfvid-
uality of the same orders under differ
ent conditions and environments than
obtain upon Mr.. Burroughs farm. In
all Mr.. Long has made an excellent
plea IOF the SluuuiHS VI tIle iuOueIu
nature writer.
Inaccura.cy of statement is not to be
excused in any science and natural his
tory is science. The question is, who is
and who shall decide in this
between doctors? Mr..
Burroughs is always accurate in his
field tho at times a little tasteless:
Long and Thompson Seton are per-
petual source of delight to their readers.
The later nature writer's pad the skel
eton of zoology with the living flesh of
actual animal life and habits. They
give each animal an individuality of its
own. Their stories take on an interest
and charm unknown to the writings of
the older school of naturaliSts. People
read Thompson Seton, Maurice Thomp-
son and Rowland Robinson who have
hardly heard of Agassiz and to whom
Culver is utterly unknown. The mod
ern writer has popularized nature
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09
INVESTMENTS IN
SOUTHERN LANDS

Such investments are speculative.
The south is not new country. Mar
Ret and shipping facilities are ade-
quate and first class. The climate Is
mila and favorable. Notwithstanding
these and other advantages, southern
lands are selling for prices far below
their real value, and at present prices
net large returns on the investment.
For free set of circulars, Nos. to 10,
inclusive, concerning the possibilities
of lands in Kentucky, West Tennessee.
Mississippi and Louisiana, on and near
the Illinois Central Railroad, for home-
seekers and investors, address the un-
undersigned,
j. F. MERRY,
Asst Gent Pass'gr Agent I. c. r. r.,
Dubuque, Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09
A Sure Th;na.

It is said that nothing is sure except
death and taxes, but that is not alto
Gether true DR.. Kings New Discovery
for consumption is a sure cure for all
lung and throat troubles. Thousanrs
can testify to that. Mrs. C. B. Van
Metre, of Shepherdtown. w. Va, says:
1T had severe case of bronchitis and
for a year tried everything l heard of,
but got no relief. One bottle of DR.
Kings New Discovery then cured me
absolutely" It's infaliihle for Group.
whooping cough, la grippe. pneumonia
and consumption. Try it. It's guaran-
teed by George p. Powers druggist.
Trial bottles free. Regular sizes, so
cents and 81.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09

:L00KER-0N In IOWA:


Lake City, May S.-Buliheads by the
| acre was the experience of fishermen
near Laurens one day last month. A
| Dig rain occurred, a stream running
Into Il small lake overlooked and COW
cred acres Of grass land. just at that
time it occurred to the bullheads large
and small to take their annual vaca-
ton and go up stream to get away from
the eternal monotony of lake life, and
as the stream was about half a mile
wide when they started it seemed a
picnic indeed. But when the river re-
sceded and left them in pasture land,
with only an inch or two of water to
keep their eiils moist it wasn't SO fun
Ivy. And 1t did not add to the hilarity
of the occasion, from the bullhead point
of view, when the big boy and the lit
tie boy arrived with pitchforks and
rstlles and captured at a low estimate
over 200 pounds.
The problem of help on the farm is
far from being solved. Twenty-six dol
lars S21 al1G even $50 month are being
paid and contracts are made at those
figures, including board and washing,
from now TIL corn picking. Then many
of these men will make sl.75 to SO day
for several weeks. These facts and
figures are being written to the old
country" and every day men and boys
of Is or 20 are arriving from Germany,
Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and go
to work on IOWA farms rs soon as they
arrive. A man. a Norwegian, was
pointed out to the writer. who arrived
here from Norway three years ago,
whose brother sent him the steamship
and railroad tickets to Paullina Since
his arrival he has earned money enough
to pay back the money his brother adj
vanced, and in addition he has sent
tickets back to Norway and brought |
over three grown sons. One of them |
was on the train with the LOCKER on, /
when only IL days from Norway, and a |
Norwegian who was talking with him
said the young man would go to work |
tomorrow at SIS a month, board and |
washing" This is as much, so the wri-
ters informant said, as that young man |
could earn and save in u year in Nor |
way. $50
And here's the problem for the think
er: Never before has the farmer used |
so much machinery as now-all labor |
saving machines too Corn picking is |
the only actual manual labor necessary
on the farm now, and machines that |
gather and husk corn are now coming
Iowa town an implement oealer was re-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09
than when the New York banks refused

tIiaTI WIFI tli' 1SEW 1UTK DarlKs TcIuscd
to loan money on them.
These two forces, the banks and the
press working together, have saved the
Icountry's prosperity. The Wall street
balloon would have gone on expanding
until it would have burst, had not. this
check been put upon it. In this in
stance what is the professional specu-
lator's loss, is the country's gain The
money formerly used for the purposes
of speculation is now largely being put
to legitimate and judicious use in the
development of enterprises near at
home.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09

Iceiying a carload. of manure spreaGerS
4 This machine sells for $125, and thu
/ dealer said he would sell this carload
land more this spring. And right in thu
| face of this machine farming the nes
4 to run the machinery can not be had
/ for love or money. It's fact that
many owners of Iowa farms, who had
! moved to town and attempted to run
] their farms by aired help, have been
obliged to move back to the farm and
make a full hand at actual labor. And
| there's an end in sight to this high
| price for farm labor The renter pay-
| ing $3.50 to 81 an acre does not want
much hired labor cat $50 a month and
found" The owner of Iowa land when
offered SIS an acre begins to figure the
/ interest on $4,000 at ! per cent, and
iper contra to post, in his mental books
| the income from go acres after deduct-
| ing labor, taxes and insurance. And
the outlook for many OF these owners
and renters of fiat lands in northwest
iern Iowa is gloomy enough to justify
itheir dismal crostking. For the rains
continue, many fields of small grain
that sprouted and came up finely are
under water again. and hundreds on
acres will be ruined. Again, there will
be much land that now it is impossible
to plow in time for q corn crop So the
voice Of the kicker is again heard, and
General Prosperity fails to silence him.
Sc
Referring to the pres ent typhoid epis
demic in many of our larger cities, a
doctor tells the Looker-On what the
people in his town did in the way of in
viting visitation of this dread dis
ease. 1t seems the race track was to be
enlarged, fences moved, ETC.. so that 1t
became necessary to fill in low place
on the grounds So hundreds of loads
of stable manure, as well as odd
fifth, tin cans. etc. of The town were
dumped into this low place, notwith-
standing that the city water supply
washed the banks of the made
ground. And there is a story, whether
true or false the writer has no means
of determining, that in one Iowa town,
where typhoid has had quite run.
the cause was leakage into the water
supply pipes from an old dead water hole,
where stagnant water is very much in
evidence when the. river goes down in
the spring after the annual freshet.
Worse, however, is, it that the city
council had their attention called to
this condition of affairs, but took no
steps to end the evil, thinking there was
so little in quantity it would not seri-
ously contaminate the general supply.
It's hardly necessary to add any COM
ments concerning either Of these cases.
-. 70 m,>Axx.A.A =
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09
.H.F. CAMPBELL
II North Sixth Street
Repairing Gasoline, Kerosene
Stoves and Lamps.
Old Prone S06
colonist Excursions to the West.

The Iowa Central railway is selling
special one-way colonist excursion
tickets, at extremely low rates. and will
continue the same daily to and includ-
ing June is, 1903. Points in Califor-
mia, Washington, Oregon, Montana,
Idaho, Arizona, etc, are included In
these excursions. See local agents or
address the undersigned for detailed In
formation as to rates, thru tourist cars,
etc. A. B. Cults, G. p. Il I. A., Mime
spolis. MINI.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09

Speaking from the fui'ness of his
neart PA" Smith. of the Scranton
journal, remarks: Brother Hunger
ford, Ct the Carroll Herald, has been
fondling LATE Young, of the Capital, for
several years. For time LATE would
eat cas- out of Hungerford's hand and
purr like a cat. But LATE who thinks he
must serve his masters Uhe trusts,
flung at Hnngerford some false and low
inslnuntionsn
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09
NOVA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Odebolt Chronicle has heard
man say that another fellow told him
that he knew an Ida county republican
who was not candidate for state sena
,er.' The Chronicle thinks the story
is highly Improbable, however"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09
More rigid enforcement of the laws

More rigid enforcement of the laws
against carrying concealed weap-
ons would have an effect not
only upon muderous assaults, but upon
accidental killings. Dozens of boys
are walking the streets of every city
with pistols hidden in their pockets and
men of the shady class are rarely with
out some such weapon. A revolver is az
in the hip pocket of the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09

After all a good corn crop is worth
more to the country than all the trips
Gil the presidents have ever made says
the Davenport Democrat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09
From a Cat Scratch

On the arm to the worst sort of burn,
sore or boil. DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve is quick cure. IN buying Witch
Hazel Salve be particular to get De-
Witt's-this is the salve that heals
without leaving scar. A specific for
blind, bleeding, Itching aid protruding
niles
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09
Half Rates to Dedication of the Iowa
Soldiers Monument at Shiloh Bat

Via the North Western Line. Ex-
cursion tickets will be sold at one fare
for the round trip May &c and 81, linn
tied to return until June IL, inclusive.
Apply to agents Chicago & North
yV,sster-, R,y
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09

When you want pleasant physic try
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab
lets. They are easy to take and pleas
ant in effect. For sale by all druggists
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09
a1 Moe.1..-sd

Lansing, Mich.-Ths bill providing
for nomination of candidates for United
States senator by the people was killed
in the house yesterday.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09

The Waterloo Courier thinks at will
be most difficult to persuade the people
OF the west that the president has nu.
taken The correct position concerning
the recent coal strike and railway
merger schemes. 1t may be a bid for
popularity, and if it is, it is 1.-The kind
that wis"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09

The Ogden Reporter says that I'm the
eyes of a real estate man the saloon is
the greatest of nuisanccs. He may him
self like an occasional drink, but he
will not let it be sold on his own land.
And lropinquity powerfully affects hah-
it Ire swinging sign of the saloon
suggests thirst; its absence means So
briefly. The average man won't travel
far for drink. IAN this" the Reporter
believes, lis worth thinking about Il
is the silent forces of natural law th;tt
accomplish more than q bass drum
campaign. The coming man will be So
Der largely from compulsion at first, ana
then this will turn to a habit
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09
lur1g 5pbirt 3arsha1ltn1um nua Saturday lap g l9n3

ordinary man as in belt above the
waist. An occasional round up of per-
sons suspected of its violation by the
police might breed greater respect for
this law.
If the dipsomaniac in the inebriate
asylum will not work neither should he
eat. Any farmer who has taught
calves to drink is competent TO suggest
{. method likely to change the inebri-
ate's ideas of this duty. The state does
rot owe big, healthy drunkard q
living.
\ GAINESVILLE man, named Smith, IN
a scuifle with his wife for the possession
of a silver dollar which he had placed
in his mouth to prevent her taking it
from him gulped accidentally in the
course of the struggle and swallowed
the coin. The human slot machine goes
about its business now with the dollar
shaking about in its nsides. Mr.. Smith
is in a dollar, but finds himself unable
to make change even with physician s
assistance. He feels like 80 cents.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09

To the Boone News 1T would seem
that the prayers for rain in 1901 have
been sufficiently answered by this time"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09

Before the Boer war the debt of Great
Britain was $3,175, 100000. Now the
total is 100000, 0OO so the cost of the
little war in South Africa may be
placed at $S25, 100000. The British ma
tional debt is about four times that of
the United States.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09

While Webster City is delighted over
the prospects Of securing skate fac-
tory Marshalltown residents have come
to the conclusion that twenty-three are
too many.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-09

Statistics prepared by the census Of
flee show the city population to be 1913
per cent of the entire population of the
United States, while the country popu-
lstion is 51.9 per cent, and the sub
urban is los. In 1890 the rural popula-
ton was 57.S per cent of the entire pop
ulation.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1903-05-30
DOESN'T RESPECT OLD AGE
BELLE OF THE BENDS.
RUTH AND ANNIE LAURIE.

It's shameful when when youth
fails to show proper respect for bid
age, but Just the contrary in the case
of DR.. Kings New Life Pills. They
cut off mladies no matter how severe
and irrespective of old age DYSPEPSIA,
aundice, fever, constipation all Weld
to this perfect pill. Price goo at Fin.
lays Drugstore.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1903-05-30

Newer before did thoroughly appreciate tne Ju guar
~, f the inspiration of the old minstrel when ne asAeu
IVY " W .tprea,bes there a man with soul SO dead
Who never to himself hath said.
This ia my own native land"
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1903-05-30
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