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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
BIENNIAL ELECTION.


The constitutional amendment to Sc
cure elections once in two years will
come before the people at the general
election again this year. Two years aga
Adair county gave a majority against
the amendment. 1t is in no wise par
tisan question. The newspapers that
oppose the amendment are free /.
charged with selfish purposes in that
there is more printing to do and more
to make newspapers interesting with
annual elections than there would be 4
they were held only every other year.
This is, of course, true, and will not be
questioned but there are other consid-
erations that should not be forgotten
and the subject cannot be dismissed
with n slur at the alleged motives OF the
newspapers. The annual election is a
source of much expense and labor but
in our opinion 1t is worth all that i
costs. The consideration of publil
question is a source of practical edu-
cation. When campaigns are on the
people are considering the sources AMI
of public wealth and
the wisdom of public methods.
The citizen who studies these ques-
tons closely is best qualified to ex.
ercise intelligently the right OF fran
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
The DAY OF The AMATEUR

Professional sport" is on the wane
ir public approval. With the exception
of baseball and racing the professional
is falling to draw the crowd. a big
prizefight stiN brings large box re-
ceipts, but these come largely from a
class In whose predictions the police
court more than the public is con-
cerned. The fact is that sport which is
paid for, sport that is a business prop
1sition pure and simple is taking its
proper place in the estimation OF the
people. There is a vast difference be-
tween watching hired player and one
who plays from the pure love of con-
test.
No pair of yachts built for gain and
racing for purse of money could force
she wide general interest that is awak-
sned by the contest for the battered and
antrinsically worthless Americas cup.
There is no faint of professionalism in
L. The public turns out in tens of
thousands to witness the football teams
IF the great universities pitted against
each other for the love of the game and
Rhe honor of their alma matters. One
Of the reasons that professional base
ball lives and attracts is that in many
Instances it costs more TO keep pro-
Hessional team in the field than 1t comes
to. and the pride of winning is kept
above the hope Of gain. The amateur
Ss in the saddle and TO stay.
The public is tired of graft and gam
sling in its sports. In Chicago tha
Newspapers are urging crusade
against the gamblers who have de-
graded the noble sport of racing to a
purely betting proposition. They are
lick of that sort of sport" There is
no real reason why horse racing should
not stand on the same plane in the
United States as in England, where 'fn
and out" running is not tolerated and
rarely attempted and where the sport is
IN the hands of gentlemen instead of
gambling syndicates. 1t is not at all
probable that betting and horse racing
can ever be divorced, but the betting
may be put in its place as a parasite
upon the sport and cease TO be the rea-
son why racing should exist.
There ara signs of a renaissance OF
legitimate sport. Billings mare broke
the worlds troting record purely for the
love of the sport and joy of the contest
against time and the distinction it car
ried. Upton spends his millions to win
an ancient and battered cup. Ameri-
can rifemen cross the seas to shoot for |
glory. The day of the amateur is near
at hand.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
MORE Room IN MEDICINE.

In contradiction of the apparently
well founded assertion that the medical
profession is overcrowdei and the out
look in this field of endeavor discour-
laying to the beginner the Journal OF
the American Medical Association de-
clares the opportunities in the profes-
sion have largely increased. 1t says:
AS the advent Of university ideals in
medical education is with us as yet
barely an accomplished fact the OPP
portuni;ies spoken of in teaching, in
research, in sanitary science are bound
to widen more and more as time goes
on. The fact that medicine now offers
the talented. energetic. well-trained
nan something more than, and differ
ent from, the chance to crowd into the
ranks of the practitioner will attract
men with broad training and high
ideals"
The fields of research and success re-
ferred to by the Journal are those ad-
Joining that of the general medical
practitioner. gacteriolosv broueht with
it a widening horizon for the medical
profession. There is no doubt there are
too many physicians for the financial
good of the profession, that there are
too MANY real specialists is sim an
open question. The problem of SANTA
ton M ci,ies hos +o1,a, =, .,,t;,ai,, 5ir-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
Dysentery Cured Withe ut the Aid Of
a Doctor,

'I am just up from hard spell of
the fiux" (dysentery) says Mr.. T. A.
Primer. a well-knoWn merchant OF
Drummond. Tenn. Il used one small
bottle of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhea Remedy and was cured
without having doctor. l consider Ii
the best cholera medicine in the world"
There is no need of employing a doctor
when this remedy is used, for no doc
TOR can prescribe a better medicine for
bowel complaint in any form either for
children or adults. 1t never fails and
is pleasant to take. For sale by all
dru opistS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
THE HUNDRED BOX RULE.

There Is now considerable grounds
for hope that the stringent order re-
Gently issued from the postoffice de-
partment limiting the establishment OF
rural free delivery routes to such as
might supply 100 families will be modi
fed to more practical and equable
Unit. The order cuts off q large pro-
portion of western communities from
the service. The 100 box route while
not an exception in the prairie states
is outnumbered two to one by those
where seventy five to ninety boxes is
the limit within the distance the car
rier may drive In u day and give re-
spectacle service. The rule appears to
have been based on the assumption that
the 100 box limit would strike the av-
GRACE in the west as it does among the
small farms and thick,y settled rural
districts of the east. In fact it has
acted as bar to the west and favored
the eastern population 1T the expense
Of the western farmer. If continued it
will make the service sectional privi-
lege instead OF a national Improvement
The situation is well presented by the
Sioux City Journal, which says:
Analysis of the business transacted
along the routes already established
shows two things. The eastern routes
as rule have the most patrons. The
enforcement of the new regulation
would not hamper the development of
the service in that region. Out west
most of the routes already established
have less than the standard number OF
patrons. Many of them serve scarcely
half the number stipulated. On the
other hand, the western routes, other
thing; being equal, do the most bust
west will transmit more pieces of mail
than a much larger route back east |
The agriculturists down east are older |
and vastly more conservative than
their competitors out west. They do
business in an old-fashioned way |
They do not take so many newspapers |
and they do very little business by mail |
The young folks go into the towns or
cities or come out west. The old folks |
Who stay at home take comparatively |
little interest in what IS going on in |
tire world or in keeping in touch with
ttsig neighbors. Some of the patrons
C the populous eastern routes do not
i've a single piece of mail in a
oath. Out west things are different
younger blood is stirring. The farmer
is not satisfied with a single weekly
newspaper. He takes The dallies and
the magazines. He receives daily mar
ket letters, and he is net afraid to use
mails and the express In the transac-
ton of business. The consequence is
that the rural carrier can do more bust
ness in live western community of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
End of Bitter Einht.

1.-TWO physicians had long and stub
born fight with an abcess on my right
lung" writes j. f. Hughes, of DUPONT,
Ga, "and gave me up. Everybody
thought my time had ccme. AS a last
resort tried Dr.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption. The benefit 1 re-
ceived was striking ami 1 was on my
feet in few days. Now I've entirely
regained my health" Ii conquers all
coughs. colds and throat and lung trou-
bles. Guaranteed by George p. Powers
drug store Price so cents and 81. Trial
bottles free
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
J 10 w A n e w S.
: PAPERS - q - /,
L. Izo en1sAs'
AN IOWA MANS GRAvEsToN

Mason city IimeS-Herald.I
A. S. Russell, resident of Oak
street, has found quite a curio in the
shape of huge Niger head" Some
time ago While the workmen We're en-
gagged in putting in a sewer on Oak
street they ran onto a big boulder in
the ditch. Three charges of dynamite
were put into the rock and when the
explosion took place there were four
teen windows in the Henry Good home
and three in the home OF Frank Wheeler
broken by the shock of the explosion.
Mr. Russell went to the contractor who
was digging the sewer and asked per-
mission TO take away the large frag-
ment of the rock which had been blown
off with the charge. He took it to the
Dayton marble works and here 1t was
polished to finish like French plate
mirror. at the marble works the stone
was declared by workmen TO be of the
finest grade of granite. 1t will make
an excellent grave stone and for this
purpose it will be used by Mir. Russell.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
Dewitt Is the Name.

When you go to buy Witch Hazel
Salve look for the name DEWITT on
every box. The pure. unadulterated
witch hazel is used in making DeWitts
Witch Hazel Salve. which is the best
salve in the world for cuts, burns,
bruises. boiis, eczema and piles. The
of DeWitts Witch Hazel
Salve. due to its many cures, has caused
numerous worthless counterfeits to be
placed on the market. The genuine
bears the name of e. 9. Dewitt & Co.,
Chicago. Sold by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
s,s.ia, Reduced Excursion Rates

Will be in effect from all points on
the Chicago & Northwestern railway
for the occasions name. below:
Deadwood and Lead, s. D., Sept. to
IL. International Mining Congress.
Ogden and Salt Lake City Utah,
Sept. 10 to is, National Irrigation Con-
gress.
Baltimore. Md, Sept. 81 to &c. sover-
eign Grand Lodge, I. o. o. r.
Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo,
Oct Z to IL. Brotherhood of st. An
drew.
For information as to rates, dates OF
sale, etc. of these or other occasions,
call upon the ticket agent of the North
western line.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
SMALL VS.. BIG NEWSPAPERS
IIaol,ul, Cate civ

l>eokuk Gate I1tS.l
The Marion Register declares that
the big dailies would be better and
far more interesting newspapers if more
than half the stuff which appears in
their columns was never published.
The big dailies are unquestionably too
big. No one whose time is worth any
thing can afford to go thru the wilder
aess of matter they contain. To search
thru them for the general news of the
day is like hunting for needle in a
haystack. However, il doesn't become
the smaller newspapers, with thej more
condensed and Systematically arranged
accounts OF the worlds happenings, to
complain. The mistaken policy of pad
ding indulged in by the metropolitan
papers leaves clear field for the
dailies published in the smaller cities.
These contain all the important facts
presented in attractive form, and much
of the news they give their readers
does not appear in the early mail edi
tons Of the larger papers until next
day. There are two distinct advan-
tages enjoyed by patrons OF the local
newspapers: First, a saving of time
in becoming acquainted with the news
of the day, and, secondly, a gain of
twenty four hours or more in keeping
abreast with the latest and most i'm
portant events
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
There is But One NIAGARA.

And that is the greatest cataract on
earth. The Michigan Central is the
only line whose trains run directly by
and in full view of the falls, stopping its
day trains at the bast point of observ-
alton, that passengers may enjoy the
panorama. Ten day stop-over is al
lowed on thru tickets. Send for de-
scriptive tour book. o. w. Ruggles, G.
p. and T. A., Chicago
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
Eurtg narsEaltnut na, Saturday ugu5i g.

chise. Biennial elections Will no doubt
have tendency to dctract interest
from public AFFAIRS, and the distanc"
between the people and their chosen
officers viii become greater; there will
be less of responsibility and account
ability. 1t should be remembered too
that it is when public opinion is asleep
that things go wrong. -Four year terms
would also be the logical sequence of
biennial elections. The Observer be-
lieycs sincerely that annual elections
viii secure the best results because
they maintain public interest because
more people will have a better know
ledge Of who is running and what MS
record has been. and principally be-
cause there is closer relation between
the people and their servants. There
is always an inclination TO adopt y
change, but it will be we'll TO think
twice before abandoning system
that has served Well for many years
and against which there is only the
argument of a small expense that IS
really incansiderable when compared
With the education of the individual on
public questions and with faithful and
honest public service.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
Half Rates to Des Moines.

For the Iowa state fair at Dies
Moines, Iowa. Aug. 21-2s, the Iowa Cen
trail will sell excursion tickets at one
fare for the round trip, good to return
until Aug. 81. The attractions and ex-
hibits this year promise to excel any
thing attempted before. For particu-
lars call on agents.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Dubuque Times favors "requir-
ing each teacher TO hold state certii-
cate. Let the competition for places be
limited to teachers thus equipped and
the question of wages viii regulate it.
self"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29

Wanted Immediately fifty five
young ladies with pimples. black heads,
nasty compleXions to take Rocky Noun
tain Tea and have beautiful face.
80 cents. Mcbride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
He Viii Sing His Solos. You Can't
Afford to Mics IT,
SEATS MIL Br IvRFF,

SEATS WILL BE FREE.
And it was plain talk so plain that
Deacon a. was glad his t5-year-old boy
was not present. In fact the deacon
"sorter' biushed htsnselt TO hear such
language on a public platform. And the
! following Wednesday afternoon there
was more plain talk" for women
only" And tine deacon's wife row has
some doubts whether man ought to
talk that way even If heis an evangelist
She's afraid all of the boys and girls
in town have heard what he said Both
Sunday and Wednesday, for there We're
some 1G-year-old boys and 1S-ysar-oi
girls in the audiences and they Will as
sociate with the younger ones. But the
deacon and his wife mast be rrudlsh
and oldfashioned in their ideas. for the
church raised him severl; hundred doll
lars as a free-will Offering" for four
weeks services. In fact they paid this
rlain-talking evangelist as much for
four weeks work as they pay their reg
ular minister for n whole years labor.
p. S.-There's no use trying to ge;
the services OF this great evangelist
;his year. He's "hoolsd'' from Oc,
1909, to May l, 1904.
In these days of rag, me music, In
the good old summer time" when the
fortunate composer of one popular song
cleans up $4,000 at lime, when We
have college university preacher de-
claring that there's no poetry or music
in Rock of Ages or Nearer, My God.
10 Thee ii was satisfaction the other
Sunday night at the lakes to see and
hear a crowd at one of the hotels that
thinks otherwise. And it was such
mixed crowd! The young man that
played the mandolin was from Kansas
City, the young lady who accompanied
on the guitar lives in Omaha, the
motherly woman at the piano claims
Sioux City as her home. and the sing
ers. young and old, were from more
than seven states. And the religions
represented-w there were two
young ladies fresh from convent. reg
ular communicates from the Roman
Catholic churcn, we had for leading
soprano a Methodist who runs the Sun
gay school singing in an Omaha
church: we had four Presbyterians. two
Baptists, six Congregationalists, three
two agnostics, one intidel
and great big sprinlliing of worldly
ones. But, strange to relate, they all
know gospel hymns. Better than that,
they could sing them And they did
with vim that would have made some
evangelist eager TO engage them for his
series of meetings. And one old grand /
mother. who constituted the audience,
said she almost felt as tho she'd been
10 church." Curious world. Actually
some of these sweet Sunday night gos-
pei hymn singers had danced over to
The other hotel till O'clock Sunday
and the mandolin player
caught a seven pound pickerel that
very Sunday afternoon!
Il % Izo eDttan,'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29

In the opinion of tie democratic
Creston American, the reason Mr.. Bry-
an draws so well on the platform is
that the people go to hear him be-
cause they love the man for his inner
ent worth"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29

A woman up in Canada sold her hus-
band for $500, and now. according to-
the Gate City, lots of women are,
fairly aching to know now she managed
to bunco the buyer like that"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29

ooh, Gsoen, ace haze had such ride"
tience and submission to wild young
thing from whom all this is suddenly
snatched forever-and this was very
life to her, too, remember"
Then he sprang up and we rode hard
for On hour till we came to the mouth
of the canyon. Here the trail grew diff
ficult, and we came to a walk. AS we
went down into the cool depths the
spirit of the CANYON came to meet us
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29

The Cedar Rapids Gazette says
Having gained the surport of all OF
his own papers in his rare for the pres
i6ency, Mr.. Hearst is waiting for some
other great editor to be convinced''
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29

Tho "twenty-six hundred hogs are on
exhibition at the great Iowa state fair
and Iowa is the greatest nog state. yet,
observes the odebolt Chronicle, 1T isn't
the most hoggish commonwealth in the
uaion, by long shot
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
.L00KER=ON in IOWA

Okoboii. Aug. 2S-It didn't happen
here. for we have no Nj. e. church here;
in fact. so far as the writer knows
churches around the lakes are scarce
But the season for revivals Will sooh
commence, and SO it is Of interest TO
know that some of these soul -saying
Will soon be in session, and
men that can draw the crowd will be in
demand. The following IS copy OF the
bills that he usually circulates on Fri
DAY and Saturday. His n&ma is omitted,
also the Hanae of the Gown where he
vas nj work. for the reason that ad-
ver,ising Of this kind is worth $l00 a
column. and this writer does not be
long to the advertising department..
Here's the hand bill
PLAIN TALK
To Men Only!
Things Called by Right Names.
Boys Under 10 Years Net Admitted.
EVANGELIST -------
viii Address Men Only
SUNDAY,
At 500 p. m
NJ. +. CHURCH,
IA VII, ci,r IJle G.,1,,- Va, T,,-,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29

Bryan having saved the Des Moines
Chautauqua from financial failure this
year, the Fairfield Ledger concludes
that, after all, the Nebraska states
man was kept in private life for good
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA.

RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA.
tOsage News..l
Certain papers in Iowa are dtnounc-
ing the idea of reciprocity with Canada
as a move that Will be detrimental TO
the Iowa farmer. If this is true it
ought to be known. We should like 10
know what Canadian product it is pro-
posed to bring in competition with the
product OF the Iowa farm that is not
already a competitor on as favorable
terms from the fact that the farmers
of Iowa produce a surplus over and
above the home need, and that surplus
being sold in the foreign market. must
compete with the world. If there is any
article Of considerable importance 1t
Should be included in the list of articles
admitted free under the reciprocal ar
rangepent. on the other hand If low
erlng or removing the tariff on Cana
dian wheat does no harm. but does add
10 the work that is brought to the
Minnesota mllers, why not lower or
remove the tariff, even If we do benefit
Canadian farmers?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29

The fence about the Fort Belknap
Indian reservation, when is forty miles
wide and sixty miles long, has been
finished, according to a dispatch from
Helena, Mont. It probably is the long
est fence in the world ard has taken
years in building. The rlan is to pro-
tect the fiocks and herds of the Gros
yentres and Assiniboines from intru-
sion, as we'll as to keep them from
straying.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
TRUCK FARMING
IN THE SOUTH

Does Truck Farming in the South
say? Write the undersigned for freq
COPY of Illinois Central Circular No. 8,
ana note what is said concerning It
J. F. Merry, Ans't Genl Pass'r Agent
Illinois Central Railroad. Dubuque T.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
CHAPTER MI.
cwTN's CANYON.

- iWEN'S hope and bright cour-
|; aE age, in spite of all her pain,
-. sss.-,r-s- We're wonderful to witness.
- But all this cheery hope and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29

A corn crop of not less than 1000,
100000 bushels, with a diminished
wheat crop, estimated at outside call
culations at 65O,oOO,OOo bushels, is the
estimate by government and other au-
tho,ities for the harvest year 1903.
Oats are in low condition. but the
minor cereals, rye, barley, etc, and po-
tatoes are above the average. There
will not be so much for export as we
have had in some years. but there will
be plenty for everybody.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29

Marshalltown has the reputation of
its size in the state.-KeoiSuk Gate City.
Something of the sort is to be ex-
pected by hot town, but the real rea-
son Marshalltown appears to have more
fires than keokus and other small
cities in the state lies in the fact that
when a fire breaks out in Marshall
town it simply has to burn something
valuable. That's why it attracts atten-
ton.