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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-16

II one wishes to have success with
roses and has only light and sandy
garden soil to work with. it will be al
most indispensable to take special pains
TO prepare the rose bed. Roses will not
do well in loose or sandy soil, and the
bed should be made Of good stiff clay
we'll enriched with cow manure. This
mixture should be not less than eight
cen inches in depth. and the doing of 1t
will solve the problem of rose culture
for many who now try year after year
and fail.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-16
Cattle Sales.

Chicago, July 16.-A few of the cattle
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-16

THO ce.aeut renee post 1s a coming
probability; then we will have post
which will last
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03
THE MAN BEHIND THE BABY.

You can hardly read paper without
being sure to find
Some sentimental poem on the man who
is behind.
Hoes cannon, picks and muskets and
some more are on the list,
But the man behind the baby in it's GO
cart has been missed.
The others may be heroes and quite use
full in their ways,
And more or less deserving of a poets
fervid praise;
But they cannot hold a candle to the man
we love to meet
Behind the cunning baby in it's go-cart on
the street.
With all the pride and dignity new papas
will display,
And nerved against the silly jokes his
funny friends essay,
And feeling SO responsible he pushes on
ITS trips
ane go-cart and the baby with the bottle
at it's lips.
It Is an inspiration to a bashful single
man
TO see this small procession with the
bottle in the van;
And notice how the women who are pass
ing have to stop
And gaze with admiration on the image
of its pop.
No nursemaid's cold Indifference he
shows to baby's cries;
He'll find the pin that's pricking and he'll
keep away the flies,
And he'll adjust the bottle when it tum-
bles from it's place
With true heroic dignity BETTING to the
He'll nicely dry the baby's chin and wipe
its little nose,
And soothe it, oh, so motherly, and
smooth its rumpled clothes,
And never lose his temper though It puz-
zles him a lot
To know just what's the matter with
the screaming little tot.
He'll talk to it the prettiest of baby talk
until
The baby thinks he is a fool-as smartest
babies WILL
And he will cut up capers just to make
the darling smile,
Regardless of the people who may won
der at his style.
But when the little carriage has double
load of joy
Two bottles and two babies and-not one
of them boy
The man behind that trouble may not
show it in his phiz,
But all the same a hero, and a big one,
too, he is.
You may talk about the courage of the
man behind the gun,
Who often is so frightened that he hasn't
strength to run;
But for a finer courage-when his wife
is tired out
The man behind the baby is the man to
brag about.
H. c. Dodge, IN Chicago Daily Sun.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03

were kidnapped, lured away and muir
dered by anarchists; had committed
suicide, or reposed safely in the
bosom of their families.
AT one o'clock Sugar had dropped
rs points, Baltimore & Ohio IS points,
st. Paul IA points, Metropolitan 80
points, Jersey Central II points and
Steel and Iron 81 points. The stocks
in which the missing men were not
known to be interested withstood
the shock with smaller losses, but
the whole list was mutilated almost
beyond recognition. The news had
reached London too late to permit
English operators to cover in that
market, and the cables bore the tales
of their dilemma.
Shortly after one o'clock brokers
in the employ of Street e Rogers
jumped into the market as buyers.
In the first hour of the session, be-
fore the break came, it was estimated
that they had sold not less than
100000 shares, and Kent brokers had
sold fully 100000 more. The total
sales for the first hour reached the
unprecedented total of 1,2SO,OOO
shares. From II until 1 o'clock the
representatives of Street & Rogers
did nothing. They then began to take
some of the stock as it was offered.
They became the center of riots.
Men fought like fends to sell them
stock In spite of their support the
offerings were SO numerous that
prices still declined. They bought
Sugar in 10000 and 10000 share lots.
In an hour Street & Rogers had COW
cred 100000 shares.
Two papers appeared with extras
containing a dispatch from Philadel-
phia stating that Messrs. Morton.
Carmody, Pence and Kent were In
conference at the Hotel Lafayette
1t related with great explicitness
that they were considering the de-
tails of a gigantic railroad combina-
ton, and the article contained a
brief interview with Mr.. Morton In
which he refused to discuss the OBJ
Jects Of the meeting, but regretted
that the public should have become
alarmed at the secrecy which had
been deemed necessary. The same
news was spread through the bro
kerage and commission houses by
the news agencies and came out on
the tape.
The effect was electrical. The mar
ket rose by jumps and bounds. Every
one seemed rushing to cover, but the
squirt was short-lived When the mar
ket had advanced an average of ten
points, Street & Rogers and Boston
and Chicago interests turned heavy
sellers. They threw the stock they
had accumulated at the bottom fig
ures right and left. They found
plenty Of purchasers. The Philade,-
phia dispatch was SO good 1t must bo
true. 1t sounded naturul, and was
logical reason tor the absence Of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03

Adrian, Mimi, June 1st-Philip Doyle,
of this place, says he has found out med
icine that will cure any case of Kidney
Trouble. As Mr. Doyle was himself very
sick for q long time with this painful dis
ease, and is now, apparently, as well as
ever, his statement carries the conhrma-
ton Of personal experience.
The remedy that cured Mr.. Doyle is called
Dodd's Kidney Pills.
In speaking of the pills, Mr.. Doyle says:
in regard to Dodd's Kidney Pills, they
are certainly a wonderful medicine-the
best that | have ever taken.
II was very bad for long time with
Kidney Trouble and could get nothing to
help me till [ tried Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Il used altogether about ten boxes, and
] can say emphatically that | am complete
ly cured. | am entirely well, without a
symptom OF Kidney Trouble left.
Il can heartily recommend Dodd's Kid
ney Pills to anyone who is suffering with
Kidney Trouble, for they made me all right.
Il have advised several of my friends to
try them, and not one has been dlsappolnt-
ed"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03
scious Of the shadow which was now


darkening the street.
The storm broke at II o'clock.
The yellow slips distributed by
news agency contained the following
paragraph in double-leaded type:
"11:O5 a. m. Andrus Carmody, Pal
mer J. Morton, II. j. Kent and Simon
Pence cannot be found. They were
last seen in Mr.. Morton's offices about
four o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Their relatives know nothing Of
their whereabouts. The police and
detective force have been notified"
A message of similar purport was
recorded on the tape.
Any description of the scenes
which followed ON the floor of the
Stock Exchange would be deemed
aggeration by those who never
have seen a speculative panic sweep
all before it. The tempest was
loosed. Before it's fury the sturdy
financial oaks bent in the blast. The
puny speculative sapHngs were up
rooted and borne away on the wings
of the cyclone. Staid old men who
had not been seen on the floor of the
exchange for months, rushed hatless
through the streets and hurled them
selves into the crazy mob.
The so acres of the financial dis
trict was a Bedlam. Men tore pa
pers from the hands of newsboys
and rushed away without paying
for them. The widest rumors, if
of evil purport, became certainties.
The word went down the street that
a great bank had closed it's doors.
There was no fragment of truth
in the statement, but it was accept
ed as an unquestioned fact. It was
charged that the great enterprises in
which Carmody, Pence and Morton
were concerned were insolvent, and
that these men were in secret con-
ference, endeavoring to arrange a
compromise with creditors. Mr..
Kent was regarded as the Spectator
who had been intrusted with this
news, and commissioned to use it to
recoup some of the losses.
The evening papers were flooding
the city with extras. The news was
so stupendous as to confound the
genius Of the designers of headlines.
There was neither space nor type
sufficient to depict their emotions.
But the magina ton of the report
ers was equal to the crisis. In be-
wildering succession the millionaires
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03
CHAPTER V.
THE WALL STREET PANIC.

What happened on this famous
Tuesday has been lightly touched on
in the opening chapter of this his
tory. The morning papers had de-
voted considerable space to the "bear
furry" in Wall street. There were
guarded illusions to the coup per-
formed by Mr.. Kent, who had con-
Quoted his operations with little at
tempt to disguise his attitude. His
profits were variously estimated at
from $75O,0O0 to 100000, and it was
strongly intimated that he would live
to regret the unwarranted scare he
had precipitated.
On the following Tuesday morning
London ignored the New York break
in prices and opened strong. Chicago
and the speculative west looked on
lis splendid crops and telegraphed
buying orders in generous volume.
The galleries around the trading floor
OF the Exchange were crowded with
the sight-seers who are always in
force when the market is excited
The hand of the big clock slowly APP
preached the hour of ten. The thou
sand or more brokers gravitated to-
wards the various standards which
bore the names of the important
trading stocks.
The market opened strong and at
slight advance in spite Of large
offerings of stock by Kent brokers
and from Street & Rogers acting
for their unknown principals-the
market held it's own the first half
hour. 1t was at this time that
vague and portentious rumors were
circulated on the floor, and whis-
pered over telephones. These ru-
mors were greeted with general in
credulity, but the effect on the mar
ket was apparent from the time the
first suspicion was breathed. London.
Chicago and other speculative centers
continued buying and selling, unconr
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03
THE AUTOMATIC WAITER.
An Illustrative Instance of the Per-
functory Working of "a Hash
Singers Intellect.

II believe that there is no work in the
world that makes such machines of. men
as does the business of waiting in some Of
these quick lunch eating places said the
business man THE brains of the walters
seem to work like monographs. What they
hear liz the way of orders given them is seem
ingy registered and reproduced without
any apparent mental activity or realization
of exactly what the order means. The other
morning, for instance, | overheard this
dialogue and monologue in a/Park' Row
restaurant. Two men seated at the same
table gave their orders to the same waiter"
relates the New York Times.
Bring me a couple of soft-boiled eggs
and a cup Of Coffee said the first man.
Same thing for me-. waiter, said the
second, adding in a jocular way: but be
sure the eggs are fresh
All right was the reply.
"And moment later his voice came from
the back of the restaurant: 'Soft-boiled for
two-an' have two of 'em fresh!"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03
CHAPTER ".

CHAPTER Nv.
SOME STRANGE HAPPENINGS.
Mr.. r. J. Kent, the great operator,
paced slowly up and down his room,
but never missed an examination of
the tape as it escaped from the
chattering Ucker, by an interval ex-
ceeding half minute. AS the hour
of two approached, the little machine
became furious in it's efforts to keep
pace with the operations of the
sweating, swearing and struggling
brokers, two blocks. away. Mr.. Kent
let the tape side through his fingers
and read record which translated
was as follows: 5000 shares Sugar
1491a-2,2O0 Sugar 149-4,OOO Sugar
14sA-7oo B. & o. 1o7A-1,1oo B. & O.
1o7-2,8oo B. & o. 1o6A-5oO B. & O.
1oG-3,2O ST. Paul 171-4,O 900 ST. Paul
1701s-5O0 ST. Paul 17O-3,O0O ST. Paul
16eA-1 400 Metropolitan 173A 900
Metropolitan 1721a-1,6OO Metropoli-
tan 171H-4,ooo Jersey Central 1914
800 Jersey Central 15S5s-1,70O Jer-
sey Central 1876 Jersey Central
15sA-2,4Oo Sugar 1475s-8oo Sugar
147
Mr.. Kent stepped to his private
telephone.
"Who is selling that Sugar?" he
asked his broker.
s'Street & Rogers are selling most
OF it now. Brokers for Morris &
Hauser of Boston, and Wright & Fan
ming of Chicago have also been sell
ing it. These houses have been sell
ing st. Paul, Jersey Central, Balti-
more & Ohio, Metropolitan Steel and
Iron and other stocks,'' was the
prompt answer 81 advised the office
of it some time ago.
"Who is the selling for?"
"No one seems to know
"What do Ravens brokers say?"
''They seem to be up in the air.
They are still buying Sugar"
fAll right. Good-bye.''
Mr.. Kent called up Mr.. Haven, the
great sugar magnate.
"What in the devil is the matter
with your Sugar stock?" he demand
ed.
81 don't know" was the response.
@1t's all right. l am buying it as fast
ms it is offered. What is it now?"
Mr.. Kent examined the tape.
"One hundred and forty-eight and
b quarter" he replied. 1T has been
down to 146A but has recovered
some. Who is doing that selling?"
''Sure [ don't know" answered Mr..
Haven with some impatience. prob
ably some one taking profits. 1t will
go up again"
All right. Thank you. Goodbye"
Mr.. Kent studied the tape for
few moments. The market was
slowly steadying. The public was
sbeying the mandate. buy on every
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03
FIXING 1T UP.
Father Had to Do Something to Stave
Off Consequences of His
Daughters Scorn.

FMr. Smiffkins your daughter has scorned
my love!'' says the Houston Post.
Has, eh?"
"She has!"
Funny girl, amt she?"
Yes, she scorned me! scorned mel And,
Mr. Smiffkins-"
"WelI?"
"About that $50 I loaned you sometime
back, | would like to have it Immediately"
Huh, because she scorned you?"
Because she scorned mel"
well, femme tell you, I'm hard up right
now, and"
mo excuses! The money, please.'
If she hadn't scorned you, you wouldn't
want it, would your
'Why-er-no, | suppose not"
''Well, I'll tell you what III do. I'll talk
to her and get her to take back her scorn
till the first of the month"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03
these men. AZ two o'clock the mar

these men. AZ two o'clock the mar
ket was firm and slowly advancing
Notwithstanding the vast offerings
from Street & Rogers. At $3.50 Wall
street was growing optimistic. It
regarded the selling as proft-taking,
and bought with confidence. Sugar
rose to within seven points of the
opening figure.
Then came the final disaster. It
was announced that John NJ Rock
well, the great capitalist, and Hiram
Haven, the sugar magnate also were
missing. simultaneously, word was
received from Philadelphia that none
of the gentlemen mentioned had been
at the Hotel Lafayette, and that the
dispatch was bogus, having been sent
out by a commission house which
took this method to recoup some of
it's losses. In the crash which fol-
lowed several houses went to the
wall. Their holdings were thrown
on the market. Sugar dropped an
extreme 40 points. Other securities
suffered in proportion. A man stood
in the middle of Broad street and
blew his brains out. Staid old invest
ment stocks which had regularly
paid dividends for years dropped five
points between quotations. Sugar
fell II points on sale of 400 shares,
and did not steady itself for ten
minutes, during which time it was
worth $500 a share less than it
had been those few minutes before.
II O.
ers to the rescue. For two days
they had been selling on good news
and buying on bad news. Again
their brokers stood in the breach
and bought Sugar, B. & O., ST. Paul,
Jersey Central, Metropolitan and
Steel and Iron from men who seemed
willing to give it away. When the
gong sounded at three o'clock, the
signal that this awful day was
ended on the Stock Exchange, these
brokers were yet surrounded by
swarms of men frantic in their eff
forts to sell stocks at any prices. It
was midnight before the lights went
out in the offices of Street & Rogers.
Scores of haggard men arranged pri-
vate settlements on terms which
would permit them to remain sol
vent.
The profits of the unknown prin-
cipals or syndicate represented by
Street q Rogers, of New York, Nor
ris g. Hauser, of Boston, and Wright
& Tanning, of Chicago, were con-
servatively estimated at S24,0OO,00O.
The members of the firm of Street
& Rogers gave out no figures and
refused to name the men they were
representing. They stated that they
had considered the market over
bought, and had sold stocks in antic-
ipation of natural reaction. The
unexpected bad news had found them
in situation from which they could
not help reaping an enormous adj
vantage. They had simply taken
profits on the various movements of
the market, and did not share the
apprehensions of those who feared
for the safety of the missing men.
Mr.. Street declared that prices were
too low at the closing figures, even
if it were known that the worst had
happened. Intrinsic values could not
be permanently affected by the fate
of individuals, and he advised buying
on any further declines
Thus closed the most memorial
day in the history of Wall street.
ITO Be Continued
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03

Aching backs are eased. Hip, back, and
loin pains overcome. Swelling of the
limbs and dropsy signs vanish.
They correct urine with brick dust sedi-
ment, high colored, pain in passing, drib-
bling, frequency. bed wetting. Doan's
Kidney Pills remove calculi and gravel.
Relieve heart palpitation, sleeplessness,
headache, nervousness, dizziness.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03
Not Acquainted with 1t.

The Sunday school teacher was impress
ing on her pupils that discomfort always
follows wrongdoing. What is it hurts you
here when you're naughty" she asked,
placing her hand on her chest. Stomach
fruits coming into his mind. and do you
know" said the teacher, chose little
heather mentioned nearly every organ in
the body and never mentioned that abstract
thing, a conscience E'-N Y. Times.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03
Your Money Back
IT Ut Don't Benefit Ycu
pEpSik SYRUP CO., Monticello, iii.
All There Is to 1t.

'FTell me- pleaded the artless maid,
wherein lies the secret of the art Of con-
versation!'
The sage affected the attitude he was wont
to assume when in the act of imParting
wisdom, and said
My child, listen"
Il am listening breathlessly she an
sWered.
'Well, my child he rejoined chat is
the art Of conversing agreeably STRAY
Stories
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03
Her Preferences.

Fashionable Doctor-My dear young lady,
you are drinking unfltered water, which
swarms with animal organisms. You should
have it boiled; that will kill them.
Patient-Well, doctor, [ think I'd sooner
be an aquarium than cemetery.-LondOn
Tit-Bits
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03
Those Delightful Americans.

vouched for by an English lady resident in
Florence She has balcony that over
hangs street in which are some shops,
and few days ago an American mother
and daughter paused to look in at the Win
dow, and interchanged the following re-
marks: Mamie, are you quite sure that this
is Venice? why, yes, mamma, was the
reply, you know it says in our itinerary
that we are to be in Venice on April Is. and
to-day is April 10, sure!' London Mod
ern Society
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03
Putting Him Wise.

'Say," queried the man who was looking
for free information, can you put me next
to a sound Investments
Sure" replied the successful Spectator.
Buy tickets for a symphony concert
Cincinnati Enquirer
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03

The FourTrack News, with a monthly
edition of $4,000 copies, has steadily in
creasing subscription list, while its system
of distribution is one of the pest enjoyed
by any magazine. In the United States and
Canada it is handled by thirty-four news
companies, while the international News
Co. distributes it throughout Europe. For
eign, offices for the reception of subscrip-
tons are maintained at London, South
ampton, Bremen, Paris, Havre, Antwerp,
Liverpool, Hamburg. and Genoa, and files
are kept at the office of every United States
consul and consular agent in the world.
Through the express companies and tourist
agents it is also on sale at upwards of 500
places, embracing 30 cities in forty-fve for
eign countries.-From Printers Ink.
The fool sits down and waits for extraor-
binary opportunities to come his way, but
proceeds to make them great.-Chicago
Daily News
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03

Miss Passay (coyly)- "And just think!
Last evening he suddenly caught me in his
arms and kissed me- Miss Pepprey- He
always was a good hearted fellow-and so
unseltsh. Philadelphia Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03

Some folks, said Uncle Eben, is busy
because dey hab heap O work to do am
some because dey wants to git away an go
hshin'. "-Washington Star
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infalli-
Bile medicine for coughs and colds.-N. W.
Samuel, Ocean Grove, n j., Feb. II, 1900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03

''There are only two things folks can say
about me\which make me mao" said the
philosopher. Zone is the truth, and the
other is a lie."-Town Topics
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03

The gourmet's rule: ''Never put off till
tomorrow what you can eat to-day. ~ on
kers Statesman.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03
Ladies Can Wear shoes

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease. A certain cure for swollen, sweating,
hot, aching feet. At all Druggists, 25c Ac-
Address A. S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, n. Y.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03

People who live only to amuse themselves
in earning their daily bread.H More.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03

Three solid through trains daily Chicago
to California. Chicago, Union Pacific &
Northwestern Line.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03

the free sample of Doan's Kidney Pills
which I ordered for q girl nine years old
that was suffering with bed wetting, and
she improved very fast. The pills acted
directly on the bladder in her case and
stopped the trouble j. G.. LUcERo.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03

She-'I do so love the springtime" He
$50 do |. [ adore it. Our medicine sales
are always the biggest in the spring '-Bos-
ton Transcript
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-03

''The Klean, Kool Kitchen Kind" is the
trade mark on stoves which enable you to
cook in comfort in a cool kitchen.