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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-14
A CHINESE DOOR OPENED.

AS the result of continued and per-
sistent effort on the part of the
state department an American-chinese
treaty has Just been signed in Shang
hal and awaits only the ratification OF
the United States senate which Will
give great impetus to American trade
In the orient. The lillin taxes. or in
ternal tariffs levied on goods from
transported, are to be abolished and in
their place American goods are to pay
one single tax of one and one half
times the import duty which will en-
title them to immunity from all LOCAL
taxation and will give them freedom of
transit turnout the empire.
Other important features are inciud-
ed such as the protection of American
investments in mining and railroad
building, of patents, trade marks and
copyrights and protection OF American
residents but the important result is
the simplificaton of trade and COM
merce for American business men in
the Orient What this means is inii-
pamprov FrEAa bdza inIa yddiG fri
pamphlet of the Pacific northwest
which glorles in the future of Puget
Sound country because of trade with
700. 1000, 900 OF people in the orient. The
opening OF oriental doors to American
commerce will In the next cycle OF
100 years develop a nation on the Pa
rife slope equal in wealth and popuia-
ton to that now living in prosperity
east of the Mississippi river, II IS
claimed that Puget Sound ports are
5000 miles nearer Hong Kong than
New York is and 5000 miles nearer
than Liverpool or Hamburg, hence the
Importance of open commercial doors
in the orient to the future development
OF a vast American empire along the
Pacific ocean. When fifty or eighty
millions of American citizens west OF
the Rockies are prospecting at their
trade with the pigtail people what a
marvellous nation Will their intercourse
and commerce sustain in this Mississ-
fnni yaIIavf
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-14

| companions into account.
The three stood in a close set clump
/ of four or five scrub oaks at the high
est point of Il thnly wooded knoll that
! sloped down in all directions to the
i prairie Their view was wide, but In
places obstructed by the trees.
/ Men said Kenton after u thought
full and watchful silence. "the thing
| looks kind o squally for us. ! don't
see much Of chance to get out Of this
alive, but we've got to try"
He showed by the density of his
voice and certain gray film III his
face that he felt the awful gravity Of
the situation. but lie was calm, and not
| a muscle quivered
"They's jes' two chances for u.s."
said Oncle Jazon, AN them's as slim
as broom straw We've got to stan
here an fight 1t out or wait till night
an sneak through atween 'em an run
for it,
Il don't see any hope O sneakin'
through the line observed Kenton.
Its not goin to be dark tonight
"Waa-l" Oncle Jazon drawled non
chalantly while he took in quid of to-
bacco I've been into tighter squeezes
an this many a time, an l got out
too
Likely enough said Kenton, still
rejecting while his eyes roamed
around the circle of sayages.
Il tit the skunks in Ferginny fore
yes thought of. 81 kenton, an down
In Carlina in them hills. If We think
I'm a-goin TO be scalped where they
amt no scalp 'ithout tryin' few
lodges, yer a dad dasteder fool AN
used to think We was. an thet's maxim
a big compliment to ye."
We'll. we don't have to argy this
question, Oncle Jazon. They're a-git-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-14

tin ready to run in upon us. and we've
got to fight. l say. Beverley, are We
ready for fast shootin'? Have ye got
a-plenty o. bullets?'
YES: Roussillon gave me hundred.
Do YOU think
He was interrupted by a yell that
leaped from savage mouth to mouth
all round the circle, and then the
charge began,
STEADY, now.' growled Kenton.
Lets not be in hurry. Wait till
they come nigh enough to hit 'em be-
fore we shoot
The time was short. for the Indians
came on at almost race horse speed.
Oncle Jazon fired first, the long, keen
crack of his small bore rifle splitting
the air with suggestion of vicious
energy. and 1.-THE young warrior who
was outstripping all his fellows leaped
high and fell paralyzed.
Cant shoot wo'th a cent" NUT
tered the old man. deity beginning to
reload his gun the While. but / jes'
happened to hit that buck. He'll never
git my scalp, thets sartin and sure
Beverley aud kenton each likewise
dropped an Indian, but the shots did
not even check the rush. Long Hair
had planned to capture his prey. not
kill It, Every savage had his orders TO
take the white men alive. Hamilton's
larger reward depended on this.
Right Oh they came, as fast rs their
nimble legs could carry them, yelling
like demons, and they reached the
grove before the three white men could
reload their guns. Then every war
rior took cover behind a tree and be-
gan scrambling forward from bole to
bole. thus approaching rapidly without
much exposure.
A struggle ensued which for desper
ate energy has probably never been
surpassed Like three lions at bay,
the white men met the shock, and lion
like they fought in the midst of seven
teen stalwart and determined sayages.
Don't kill them Take them alive.
Throw them down and hold them,, was
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-14
CHAPTER XIII Continued

i NNIlAI i En- ALI, NeOIltlUilpU.)
1t was sharp snap of the converse
tons thread. and at the same time our
three friends realized that they had
been careless In not keeping a better
| lookout. They let fall the meat they
| had not yet finished eating aad seized
their guns.
! Five or six dark forms We're moving
! toward them across y little point of the
prairie that cut into the wood quarter
of mile distant.
"Yander's more of en- said Oncle
/ Jazon. as if not in the least concerned.
wagging his head in an opposite direc-
/ ton, from which another squad was
approaching.
! That he duly appreciated the situa.
ton appeared only in the CELEBRITY with
which he acted.
| Kenton at once assumed command,
uess There WAS no doubt from the
first as to what the indians meant but
even if these had been ii would have
soon vanished, for i'll less than three
minutes tWenty-one savages were
/
swiftly and silently forming circle in
men. who had covered themselves as
best they could with trees, waited III
grim steadiness for the worst.
Quite beyond gunsfot range, but near
enough for Oncle JaZon TO recognize
Long Hair as their leader, the Indians
h,lf ,,1 hoe ci, IN
another all round the line Evidently
they dreaded to test the craftsmanship
Of such rilemen as they knew most
border men to be. Indeed Long Hair
had personal knowledge Of what might
certainly be expected from both Ken
ton and Once Jazon. They were terri
bic when out for fight The red war
riors from Georgia to the great lakes
had heard of them; their names smack
ed of tragedy Nor was Beverley with
out fame among Long Hairs followers
who had listened to the story OF his
fighting qualities brought to Vincennes
by the two survivors OF the scouting
party so cleverly defeated by him.
"The liver colored towards" said
kenton, "are afeared of us in shoot
in match. They know that lot OF
'em would have to die if they should
undertake an open fight with us. It's
some sort of sneakin game they are
studyin' about just now
I'm a-gittin mos too ole to shoot
wo'th cent" said Oncle Jazon, but
I'd give half O my scalp eff thet Long
Hair would come clost enough To- me
to git bead onto his lef' eye. It's toll
Bile plain tibet we're gone goslsns this
time, I'm thinkin'. Still it ID be mighty
ii l could plug out LET eye
or two fore I CO.
Beverley was silent. The words of
his companions were heard by him, but
not noticed. Nothing interested him
save the thought Of escaping and max
ing his way to Clark. To fail meant In
finitely more than death, of which he
had as small fear as most brave men,
and to succeed meant everything that
life could offer. So in the unlimited
seltishness Of lore he did not take his !
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-14
Asthma and Hay Fever Cured.

The truly marvellous cures of Asthma
which are being effected by DR.. Schitf.
mann's Asthma Cure certainly call TO,
notice.
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A Hay Fever sufferer writes: 81 have
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Send &c stamp to DR.. r. Schiffmann, Box
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package.
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mount While out nutting This was
hach IN the wild ana Wooiiy cast.
New YORK mas the reputation OF pc
iihg the richest city IN the World. put
will 1t continue TO be tnat after John
Alexander Dowie gets 'hru with it?
seolds about the abuse of rural tele-
phons lines, saying; Experience is
convincing many that telephone on a
party line can be made a real nuisance
IN more ways than one. The irresist-
bic desire to know what is going on
induces many to take receivers down
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-14
Long Hair's order, loudly shouted in
the tongue of his tribe.

! the tongue of his tribe.
/ Both kenton and JaZon understood
I every word and knew the significance
| of such a command from the leader II
naturally came into Kenton's MIND
T that Hamilton had been informed OF
his visit to Nincennes and had offered
I a reward for his capture. This being
true, death as spy would be the GER
tain result ii he were taken back. He
might as we'll die now AS for Bever-
ley, he thought only of Alice yonder as
he had left her a prisoner in Hamil-
tons hands. Cncle Jazon. if he thought
at all. probably considered nothing but
present escape, though he prayed audi
bly, to the Blessed Virgin even while he
lay helpless upon the ground pinned
down by the weight of an enormous
Indian. He could not move any part Of
himself save his lips. and these me-
chanically put forth the wheeling sup
plication.
Beverley and kenton, being young
and powerful, were not so easily mas
tered. For awhile indeed they APP
own. They time and time again scat
tered the entire crowd by the violence
of their muscular efforts, and after it
had finally closed in upon them In a
solid body they sWayed and swung it
back and forth and round and round
until the writing. savage mass looked
as If caught in the vortex of whirl-
wind. But each tremendous exertion
could not last long. Eight to one made
too great Il difference between the con-
tending parties. and the only possible
conclusion Of the struggle soon came
Seized upon by desperate. clinging,
wolfiike assailants. the white men felt
their arms, legs and bodies weighted
down and their strength fast going.
Kenton fell next after Oncle Jazon
and was soon tightly bound with raw
hide thongs He lay on his back pant
ing and utterly exhausted, while Bev-
erley still kept up the unequal fight.
Long Hair sprang in at the last mo-
ment TO make doubly certain the secur-
ing of his most important captive. He
flung his long and powerful arms
around Beverley from behind and
made great effort to throw him upon
the ground. The young man, feeling
this fresh and vigorous clasp, turned
himself about to put forth one more
mighty squirt of power He lifted the
stalwart Indian bodily and dashed him
headlong against the buttressed root OF
a tree half rod distant, breaking the
smaller bone of his left forearm and
well nigh knocking him senseless.
1t was fine exhibition of manly
strength, but there could be nothing
gained by it. A blow on the back Of
his head the next instant stretched
Beverley face downward and uncon-
scious on the ground. The savages turn
ed him over and looked satisfied when
they found that he was not dead. They
bound him with even greater care than
they had shown in securing the others,
while Long Hair stood by stolidly look
ing on, meantime supporting his broken
forearm in his hand.
ugh, dog he grunted and gave
Beverley a kick in the side. Then
{ContinIted on Fifth PAGE
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-14
FUNK ON THE TARIFF.
Esprit Lake Beacon.l


The strong probability that Grea,
Brltaln Is shortly to erect tariff bar
riers with preferential schedules fa
voring her colonies may we'll be viewed
with apprehension In this country
The thrifty Briton has been slow In
srasping the idea that he is giving
vast commercial and agricultura,
benefits to the United States and other
countries that might be traded to the
advantage of public revenues and
national industries. This policy viii
be disappointing to other nations. and
particularly SO to the people of this
country, who have found their best
free market there, but 1t is intelligent
selfishness on the part of Great
Britain.
The policy of free and uninterr,,p.-
ed trade between all nations is ad :
mirable in its altrulstic lovliness, and
may conspcuously adorn the millennium
but 1t is not justified in the experience
of this practical age. Furthermore It
Is no longer the part of wisdom ana
discretion to maintain protection
without careful regard to its specific
operation. Few products of any ma
ton are 50 peculiar in character as
to find no competitor on the high seas
of commerce. In the language of the
lamented Mckinley, we must not re-
pose in fancied security that we can
forever sell everything and buy little
or nothing What We produce be-
yond our domestic consumption must
have vent abroad. The excess must
be relieved thru foreign outlet. and
we should sell everything we can, and
buy wherever the buying will en-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-14

MEN ARE MIGRATING AGAIN.

The fall flight of landseekers Is on
4 As regular as the birds fy does tn
Emigration of homeseekers take place /,
this country. Land agents on the traif
VIII tell YOU of a hundred men from
tnorthern Wisconsin moving al one tim,
to the tideWater counties of Virginia
ard at the next station a party vii
board the cars bound Cor the eheal
An Iowa farmer south of the North
western railroad Will move to Missouri
or Oklahoma. while his brother Ia the
next county north viii so to the Dako-
tas. and the city SPECTATOR will rush
past all of them to the Dominion OF
| Canada, where whole townships can be
bought for a small price. The Illinois
and Ohio man will rush in TO take the
farms these other men cave, thinking
that he. too, has found bargain.
Why do men migrate thus Why do
men trade horses? Surely both can't
TIE ceaseless hunt for fortune. For
tune seeking sent abroad a majority OF
the men who settled the New England
colonies. religion actuated the leading
few whose strength of character gave
its color 10 the early movement, but
fortune seeking inspired the NEST Of
them. Likewise fortune seeking has
driven men across the prairies. over
the mountain ranges ard even across
has alike inspired the coming of count
less thousands from continental Flu
rope TO American soil. where they have
fairly peopled whole states in this
union.
Once located ana not doing as we'll
financially as his ambitions demand or
rot as we'll as his neigkbors are doing,
man is easily tempted b. the Eidcrado
always waiting just over yonder hill,
south. the southern black man comes
north. the Iowan goes west and the
fastener comes here anu, strange as II
may be, they all seem to prosper. The
country is filing up. The natural In
crease and the foreign accrettons to
our population that usually lodge in
the poorer quarters of seaboard cities
are making an enormoas demand for
food. hence the land worker finds his
business profitable. There is grow
ing demand for his products. Farming
pays. So, on they move. New lands
are settled. new towns ar ebuilt. new
communities formed Today isappears
TO Us as a land boom and the land
aseGts that swarm on every train with
their parties of landses kers are looked
1poa the promoters, the hot air
Iaesi OF an era CT fictitious and forced |
saiaes. but they are merely the natural
agents Of a progress, a development /
hat fifty years from now Will be XII own /
II history as the marvellous growth of !
he United States Ii Is fortune seek
ng now. but the fortunes sought IN this +
country are so often .ound that the /
who follow are wort 10 I
al the wealth of the country I
wenty five years after The land agents
ave swarmed over the PLACE.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-14
CROP REPORTS CRITICISED.

q Upon repeated occasions we hear
81 complaints made that the government,
I crop statistics are inaccurate, unsatis-
gfactory and ought not 20 be prepared.
IL Notwithstanding this criticism newspa-
aper men find that there is no class of
Sgrowing season that will receive the
ysgenerai interest manifested In any
sbody's crop estimate. be he a we'll
Aknown farmer. a grain dealer or the
Vgovernment bureau CHEZ
knokledges of crop promises in adj
Svance of harvest is absolutely required
Nearly every line of human industry is
Fmore or less dependent upon the crop
outcome, and as modern business is
planned In advance, accurate informa-
zion in advance is essential. The rail-
way man. the manufacturer and the
ssFnerchant must regulate their OPERA
!. 5lons in accordance With the purehas-
ing power of the farmer and they will
secure in advance reliable information
is to what this is likely to be. Crop re-
torts will be made whether the govern
nent engages in the business or nor.
he men and the interests needing such
= Information can and Will secure it thru
,rivate sources.
The farmer on the other hand, needs
he same information In order that h
nay deal with those who buy and
andle his crops with equal knowledge
the factors which fix values. The
armer however is isolated, and his
srsonal interest is not great enough to
ermit of his securing crop information
,om private sources. The large manu-
scturer or the Spectator can afford to
" for the information he wants, but
te individual farmer must rely upon
svernment crop reporting, or act with
sss of knowledge concerning the crops
the country than Is possessed by
h lose who buy them of him.
&c it were not for the official crop re-
frt. all kinds of wild crop news would
circulated to influence the markets.
I'd out OF the mass of contradictory
ports, inspired by personal interest, 1t
ould be impossible to know what the
cts were. The official report, gath
ed as it is without bias and free from
e suspicion of self-interest is a con-
rvative, steadying. influence that fur
shes a basis from which some knowl-
Z ge of the facts may be had
Much of the complaint against crop
PORTS, however is due to wrong ideas
yarding the work. For instance, the
ures published during the growing
ason are merely figures for COMPARE
"a. They show the ten-year average
st. corn crop conditions for that same
.sonth to be .72 for example) and the
J, verage for that month of the present
FAR 10 be five points better That does
u mean that corn this year will yield
bushels more than ten-year av-
&c; 1t means that the prospect for
month, or the crop outlook. Is that |
sch better than it has been in the
he month of years past. Early frosts |
essive rain or drouth. insect pests
other vlcissitudes may occur In the
this to follow that Will change the
spect altogether. Again crop re-
!, Is are received from all parts OF a
~ e and estimates are made for the
lie state. Critics eonvenant With
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-14
The salve That Heals

Without leaving scar Is DeWitt's.
The name Witch Hazel Is applied to
many salves. but DeWltt's Witch Ha-
eel Salve is the only Witch Hazel Salva
made that contains the pure unadul-
terated witch hazel. If any other
Witch Hazel Salve is offered you it Is a
counterfeit. f. c. Dewitt invented
Witch Hazel Salve and DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Saive is the best salve in the
world for cuts, burns, bruises, letter or
blind, bleeding, itching and protrudins
piles. Sold by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-14
; low A NEW S.
; PAPERS = = =
MUDDY IN THORNTON
IEnterprlse.l

Now that We have a full Pledged
street commissioner we shall expect to
see our streets in a better condition.
Just few evenings ago we noticed a
ady crossing the street between the
two leading business blocks and she
was actually carrying part of cross
ing in her hands to keep out of the
mud. OF course this doesn't happen
every day, but just after one of our
autumnal showers if person wants
to cross the street It's a case of sink
or swim" fellow can't depend upon
hitting the high places as they are
generally submerged, ard the muddy
water is liable to splash in his eyes.
Say congress is being appealed to for
almost everything; let's try 'em q diff
for a ferryboat. Our street commits
sioner wears hip boots and he can pu,,
Ii TO earn his salary