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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-16

! IOWA NEWSPAPERS.
IT COULD NOT SUCCEED.
lcedar Rapids Republican,


The transferring of one of the new
tangled. so-called old line life insur-
ance companies, from Des Moines &c
| Chicago. was made necessary because
the company had started out on tbs
wrong plan. The company that solo
out, the National Life and Trust Com
pany. was Differed, in large part, by
competent and honest men, But their
| plan was wrong. The company was
designed to be SO attractive to every
body, that everybody would buy one OF
the policies. A good looking proposition
was made to get takers, without re-
gard to it's safety.
So there was devised ten year poll
icy, called an investment endowmen.
bond. Legitimate insurance companies
have similar bonds, but the National
Life and Trust initiated only the name.
The insurance In this new policy was
a delusion. The owner of the policy
paid in $50 a year for ten years. If he
died at any time, his heirs would get
what he paid in, plus 20 per cent. If
he died during the first year he would
get s36 all told.
And SO on. In regular insurance in
case Of death the heirs would get the
face of the policy. that is, $500. Not
the premium paid, plus 20 per cent.
The insurance features in these new
policies was mere delusion. But as
Investments We're no better. There
was no promise except that at the end
of the ten year period the policy holder
would get $500 back, plus whatever his
share Of the net earnings might be.
One actually figured it out that that
might amount to about 4 per cent, but
the agents of the company held out
the idea that it might be double the
amount paid in during the ten years.
Neither as an investment nor as in
surance did the policy amount to any
thing.
So it is now given out that this poll
icy will be no longer written. The
Chicago company that has absorbed
this Iowa concern will write nothing
but straight insurance. The National
Life and Trust Company had for some
time been trying to get out of the
policy with which 1t started, but it had
to give up the attempt. So it went on.
Of business.
Now that the National Life and
Trust has had to abandon its ten year
policy, without insurance or investment
features that are adequate, it may be
breed will have to get out. The public
sentiment of the state is strongly set
against these companies and they will
have to get out. They had better all
remove to Chicago.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-16

been drawn and quartered and his head
stuck upon a pole without the gates
The designation of Philadelphia
mayor as ''yokel with sodden brain
is an otfense against decency of debate
which in the governors opinion be-
comes justification Of the gag law. That
other forum of free speech. the pulpit
is included in his complaint. Bishops
cation. and with only such information
as comes from muddy sources. to ex-
press their disregard for those whom
the people have intrusted with author
| ity"
| Despite the governors expressed dis
taste for the cartoon the Philadelphia
papers continue to publish those of a
nature extremely libelous under the new
conditions. The North American pre-
sents Senator Quay as an owl on tree,
with the libel bill in one hand Gust de-
livered, signed). and in the other huge
packer in the place of the familiar In
dian head on the penny. The line be-
meath is: 1.-THE old bind knows the
worth of penny" The Press prints
savage cartoon, "The Gag and the
Gambler" and the newspapers gener-
ally are going on exactly as before the
law was passed.
Governor Pennypacker is not great
man tho governor of a great common
wealth. He is a type OF the tool venal
politicians find necessary to their uses
ard in signing the libel law is simply
working out his destiny. None will OBJ
ject to a law intended to protect indi-
viduals from Inscriptions newspapers
and malicious publication intended to
injure or destroy business or reputation.
Such laws already exist, but
legal restriction of free press
which makes every daily paper
a prey to blackmailers, that
must multiply malicious prosecutions
and furnish a market where shysters
may sell their services to plumber sin
cere and painstaking publishers will
meet approval neither from the news 4
papers nor from the RESPECTABLE public.
Governor Pennypacker, in common with !
other Pennsylvania politicians, may re-
gret the passing of these times when |
drawing and quarterins" were part OF
l governors repressive policy. The
general public will not, however, favor
4 renaissance of those meth DDS.
Whether or not the ccults shall re-
move the newspaper gag in Pennsylva-
Ma it is doomed TO repeal. and many of
he legislators who voted for its pas
iage will be missed in the next assem-
Ny. The exemption of the weekly press
will scarcely earn its support of the
MEASURE or the men who made it law. The
,uhlic need is for the utmost freedom
# news and editorial EXPRESSION. News II
apers are public safeguards and the
privileges of the press are thetprivileges {
( the people. To muzzle it against the
xposure of swindlers and knaves, po-
tical or otherwise, viii not long be
ermitted.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-16
Made YOUNG Aqain.

zone of DR.. Kings New Life Pills
each night for two weeks has put me In
my teens again." writes d. II. Turner,
of Dempseytown, Pa. They're the best
in the world for liver, stomach and bow
els Purely vegetable. Never grippe.
Only rs cents at George r. Powers drug
CT
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-16
Missouri Pacific

Short line via the Pueblo Gateway to
Colorado, Utah and the Pacific coast.
Observation parlor cafe dining cars
(meals la carte), Pullman sleeping
cars. electric lights and fans, reclining
chair cars (seats free), and up to date
coaches. Also thru Pullman tourist
cars. For rates, etc, address Bissell
Wilson. d. P. A, Missouri Pacific rail-
way, Ill Adams street, Chicago. III.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-16
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Cedar Rapids Republican thinks
"the labor unions can afford to rest a
little while on the laurels already won.
If they continue to press their demands
the country over, it is very apparent
that counter movement will be UNDER
taken by the employers of labor In
such contest the employers have the
best of it, for there arc a great many
kinds of work that can be shut down,
throwing men out OF employment.
Enough work can be stopped to create
serious surplus Of labor in the country.
Enough is always enough even of a
good thing"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-16

81 am fixing up a surprise for John
but 1 am afraid that if he stays around
the house he will discover me-"
That's all right. You just tie a tow
ell around your head and ask him if he
can't stay at home today and help you
take up the carpets.
Baltimore News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-16

However" concludes the Nonpareil,
"the interesting lesson in all this is that
the republican party moves and keeps
pace with the progress of the times.
Doctrines that were perhaps tenable
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-16

Manila-The government has sup
pressed two seditious plays, one in
Manila and one in Batangas.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-16
A MILLIONAIRE SUNDAY SCHOOL
A Recent Session When "Givinq Up
Was the Topic and "Give and Make
Others Give" the Golden Thought

Others Give" the Golden Thought
| Life.
Leader: You will notice that our
| topic this morning is Giving Up, which
/ We infer from the Scripture lesson
| means that we must give up something
in life. First, let me suggest that we
,, need not worry with the argument OF
| the Nazarene, that it is easier for a
camel to pass through the eye of q
needle than 1t is for a rich man to en-
ter the kingdom of heaven; the COM
parison is not well drawn, for all de-
ponds upon the size of the needle and
the camel. He also mentions that we
should give all we have to the poor,
but we know that it would be simply
folly to consider that literally. If the
Nazarene lived today and should hap
pen to be president of an oil company
and should attempt to do business on
those lines, He would soon go to the
wall. Unanimous assent from the
class.)
These injunctions must be taken
practically. We naturally desire a
few shares of the future life, there
fore We know that it is business to
give up something that will extend our
influence with the Creator of all ma
tural products-the one who made the
universe of trusts, each of which He
holds in the hollow of His hand The
question is: What will be the easiest
service for us? Giving!
Now we come to the underlying
thought. The command to give is vir-
tually command to get, for we can
not give unless We first get something
to give. How shall we get it to give?
From the people! This will be two
fold work: When we get it from
other people that we may give up, we
will be making them give up, too, and
they unconsciously will be saving their
souls.
l should like to have an expression
from a number of the class as to how
we can arrange to give up something
according to these principles. AS for
myself, l have advanced the price of
oil two cents on the gallon, and at the
end of the year l not only will have ]
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-16

The Fontanelle Observer observes
that "the paramount issue with Mr..
Bryan is to prevent Mr.. Cleveland from
securing the democratic presidential
nomination next year"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-16
Wrong Use of Prayer.

lheN. WlllaTuN Is. InOrp.I
History has been a struggle between
two types of religion--one which makes
the deity a convenience and the other
which makes Him a sovereign. The
time is come for some stout open deny
ing of these superstitious notions.
which have gathered like barnacles
about Christianity.
Il care not whether 1t be Dowie and
his people declaring that God will heal
the sick in answer to prayer, or mis-
sions and orphanages that claim to get
their money in answer to prayer. or
the baseball pitcher who asks God to
help him send his ball over the plate,
or Hetty Green saying that God has
blessed her in her mortgage suit, or
all the well-meaning people who really
think that if their little wants and
wishes can be rolled up into a fervent
enough praper they will prevail with
God-it is all of one piece, honeycomb-
ed with superstition and injurious to
true religion.
No type of religion which repre-
sentS the world as run on the Drincipiy,
of special favors to individuals can
command the highest respect or allie
glance of mankind. 1t is like getting
by personal influence the ear of the
chairman of a meeting. Your very
that he will give YOU pref
erence when you rise to speak is pur-
chased at the expense of your faith in
him as one worthy to be chairman of
that meeting. And so it is in the, in
terest of u larger and higher religion,
q greater and more reverent concep-
ton of what prayer really is. that these
denials must be made of ideas beitt-
ling to God and unworthy of the age
In which we live"
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-28
ROOSEVELT ORGANIZES
FOR THE NEXT CAMPAIGN.
Senator kean of New Jersey to BE His
Eastern MannSer-Beycridge to
"WhOOp Things Up" in Indiana.
The Republic Bureau,
Eth ST. and Pennsylyania Ave.

iflH anu TcIiisSI Nv anna ave
Washington, July GL-Senator John II.
kean of New Jersey is said to be slated for
the Roosevelt manager in New York, Penn
sylvania and New Jersey for the coming
presidential campaign. Senator kean is re-
garded very competent political man
ager. and in the past two years has grown
wonderfully in the esteem and respect of
his colleagues in the Senate and men in
public life who were in position to observe
his work.
The President is said to be very fond of
him. Senator Kean's resources as diplo-
matte mollifier, which are extensive. will be
drawn upon to allay the factionai irritation
which exists among the Republicans of New
York. and it is minated that his selection
to handle the campaign was due to realiza-
Senator Beveridge will be an active factor
in political affairs in Indiana in behalf of
the President. The young Indiana Senator
has been busy since the fourth oil March
getting into touch with politicians of his
State, and. it is said. has personally talked
with the best posted men in each county in
his STATE. Indiana information is to the
effect that Senator Beverage will take up
his close contact with the situation for the
party's benefit as we'll as his own.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts Will De
relied upon, it is said. to conserve the inter-
ests of the President and the party in New
England. While Senator Lodge is popularity
regarded as more OF statesman than
politician the President is said to have cen
siderable respect for the political intuition
of his friend and will lean heavily upon him.
Not much has been said recently about the
Roosevelt manager for the Southern States
General Clarkson started out to fill that
role. but the President kind OF marooned
him by his action in the case of the Lily
Whites Of the South. and for some months
General Clarkson has played the part of
Brer Rabbit strictly. The belief is growing
that the President has cut the South out OF
his calculations.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-28

Swart of skin, Joseph Schwartz, burned
by the suns of many climes, reads his
Humboldt and sells palmetto hats to pay
for his next trip to anywhere.
He who speaks eleven languages is the
first of those quaint characters. followers
of expositions, who has arrived at the
Worlds Fair site, with his wit and his
wares.
Native of Dalmatia and citizen of Ar
gentine Republic. this rolling stone is gath
e-inS the moss of yagrant lucre and the
wisdom learned by the wanderers of earth
In the written words and over the sigma
ture of John NJ. Thurston, member of the
National Worlds Fair Commission. "Por-
tuguese joe" as he was one time known,
is master decorator. lingust of great
ability and automatically familiar with the
situation in America
Other words Of praise and commentator
stare at you from the pages of Joe's treas
ured album. General Nelson A. Miles
recommends him as linguist and interpreter
for service on the United States ship Blake,
on goedetic survey in Cuban waters.
And the ship bears Joe to the tropic seas
for the season of '9S-'99 In his pocket he
carries the note from Senior Gonzalo de Que
eada, bespeaking for him the courtesies of
the fighting patriots.
Daniel II. Burnham. who was Director of
Works Of the Columbian Exposition, ap
pears in the book several times. with
strong Endorsements of the man who was
the first sailing master of the launch
"Clarksdale." used by the Director and
officials during the construction OF the
White City
EXCEEDINGLY VERSATILE.
Next one finds him commended by Thomas
r. kimbail. who was chief architect of
the Omaha Exposition and one OF the
architectural commission of the ST. Louis
Exposition. for any position from first-class
interpreter to high climbing, which seems
wide stretch of accomplishment.
Charles F. Henderson, assistant general
counsel of the Union Pacific Railway and
one time director of the Omaha Exposition.
tells over his name that Schwartz speaks
eleven languages and is a paragon of wit
and action.
The lanSuages-Joe's brilliant jet black
eyes snap as he reels off German. Spanish.
Italian. Russian, Portuguese, English. and
if you please, all of the Slavonic tribe of
ton.:ies, and does it fuently.
He floated into ST. Louis in the early
days of the Mexican pavilion construction
at the Exposition grounds and just natu-
rally attached himself to that work He
helped to rig the fagstaffs and do sundry
jobs.
Down on his chocolate skin poured the
inimitable heat of st. Louis summer days.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-28
FUMES OF AMMONIA FATAL
TO MEN IN 4 BREWERY.
Besides the Three Dead, Five Persons
Are Overcome Before They
Can Escape.

New York. July 27.-Three men are known
to be dead and five injured as the direct re-
suit Of the blowing out of cylinder head
of an engine attached to an ammonia
pump in the Jacob Rupert Brewing Com
pany's ice plant. on Alexander avenue, to-
day.
One hundred and fifty men were at work
at the time and as soon as the engine
stopped working the ammonia flowed from
the pump. the fumes spreading to all parts
of the building.
Patrolman David ]. Goss was overcome,
by the fumes while rescuing others. and his
injuries may prove fatal. The dead are:
Otto Smith. engineer: John yincinsky, fire.
man, and Charles Carpenter.
Upstairs the smell of the fumes carried
warning and the employees rushed to the
roof, a narsow stairway delaying the few
who were overcome. The assistant engi-
neer. Charles KATE, was on a platform over
the engine when the explosion occurred,
and jumped into pit filled with oil under
meath the engine, where he remained more
than three hours before discovered. He was
unconscious and had been burned on the
face.
KILLED By EXPLOSION.
Pueblo. Colo, July T.-By an explosion OF
ammonia used in cooling apparatus two
buildings at Nos 105 and 107 East Fourth
street were completely wrecked and ono
man, II. w. VIM. of the Winn Meat and
Fish Company, was killed
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-28

Joe dreamed of Mexico and hats He sent
lcr,; a carload Road OF palInettoes those sky
Mexcdns in their own land.
The hats are here and, what is more. they
threaten a revolution in the swagger tops
of the smart young men of the town. One
is beginning to see them at the site about
the Administration building, bound all
around with Scotch plaid.
The crown of the palmetto stands a sheer
two feet in space and reminds of mis-
son bell IN the sunny chimes of the monk.
One can almost hear it ring chimes when
wearing it into the city. and few have been
brave enough to risk the funeral knell that
might peal from under their own hats.
SELLER OF QUEER HATS.
Yet the brim is something to praise be-
yond measure-one and one-half and two
feet in the stretch, timber with lightness,
flexible as the gossamer OF Indian summer.
fashioning the follies of your imagination.
Such aie the things that linguistic Joe has
imported into the Worlds Fair city. The
carload has near disappeared.
Strange that wight from South Amer
lea should make rage in hats, but Joe
Is threatening TO pull down the trade in St.
must have to follow the finger of unrest
which ever beckons him over the ocean
and the plain.
OF two things Joe is fondIy reminiscent
his visit to the last palace of Huascar, the
royal Inca. whom Pzarro put to death so
treacherously. for his golden treasure. Joe
Andes in the season Of 1866. to see the
ruins of the mighty race.
The other thing is that Fall of IgauZa in
Argentine, a cataract 80 feet high and 5000
feet long. roaring its mighty rivalry to our
Niagara In the remotest depths of the
coming to be called by Americans
Joe has made the circuit of the globe
twice. The first time. he started from Chi
cago. June 2, 1891. with 81 in his pocket He
covered between 5000 and 5000 miles on
the journey. which, he says. was taken to
perfect him, in his aim to become master
interpreter.
In the course of these golngs and COM
ings across the face of the earth. he has
become familiar with many strange peoples
and their habits. Professor W. J. MCGEE,
Just appointed Chief of the Department of
Ethnology and Anthropology at the Worlds
Fair, is among the subscribers in Joe's
book.
He recommends this disciple of Humboldt
for any position in a prospective expedition
for the Pan-American. in the interest of the
Department of EthnolOgy. At that EXPOSE
ton Joe was the linguistic assistant of the
Argentine Commission. Juan s. Attewell. as
attested by the Commissioner in Joe's Won
derful book.
Joe. although an unlettered man, has
some of that philosophy that does not
come out of books. He observes for in
stance. that the life of cities between brick
canons built by man Is not the true life Of
happiness.
The life of the farmer the world over. is
to his thinking the only rational way for
man to pass his time in this time of bond
age, and. again. he goes to Humboldt to
strengthen his opinion that after all the
calumny that has been cast on the rolling
stone. 1t is the despised loose rock which
buffers Its bread with sweetest savors.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-28
ADMITS HER SON WAS
NOT GENERAL CLAYS.
Mrs. Dora Clay brock Will base Claim
for Part of Estate Strictly on Her
Relations With First Husband.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Lexington. KY. July 2I.-Mrs. Dora Clay
Brock says she will not claim that her son,
Cassius Marcellus Clay Brock is the son of
General Clay. the Sage of Whitehall, in
urging her claim for a portion of his es-
tate.
She says the little boy. now six years old.
is the child of her late husband, Riley
Brock. who was accidentally killed at Long
view. ILL.,. few weeks ago. Dora was here
with the child yesterday and some of her
friends gathered. from what she said about
falling heir to the property which was left
her by General Clay in his will. that she
When asked regarding her four years
married life with the famous man. this
timid child of the mountains said:
well. we never occupied the relations of
man and wife. He loved me and thought
loved him. He would have me sit on his
knee and caress him and he said he loved
me. He would give me toys like child
plays with and he appeared to look upon
me as child. which I really was
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-28
LEFT FAMILY TO END LIFE.
Schenectady Man Killed Friends
Wife, Then Himself.

New York. July 27.-The body of man
who killed his woman companion and then
committed suicide at the Morton House yes
terday was identified to-day as Christian
Weiss of Schenectady, where his wife and
three children live.
The dead man was about IS years of age.
a brewery collector and for sixteen years
member of the Elks having Joined the
order at New Brunswick, N. J. He was
native of Switzerland where he left a di
vorced wife and one child when he came to
America.
Later in the day man called at the
dertaker's and identified the woman as mis-
wife. He is Hugo Quittner of Schenectady.
He said he was. about to so into the hotel
business and that his Wife had come to
New York on Saturday to hire servants.
He said Weiss, who was enc of his closest
friends. had followed her. For the last
wear Weiss had shown too much attention
to Mrs. Quittner and some III feeling had
been occasioned between the men.