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Holbrook argus., 1903-10-24

The strongest peace argument yet formulated is a big navy.
Holbrook argus., 1903-10-24

WILLETT AND GRAY estimate the production of sugar from the new American beet crop of 1903 at 233,OOO tons.
Holbrook argus., 1903-10-24

HUNDRED that Mexico S coming new dollar will be named " un hidalgo." Then our dedtors will show their hidalguia by paying up.-Mexican Herald.
Holbrook argus., 1903-10-24

Grover has been telling Chica- goans about American Good Citizenship.
Holbrook argus., 1903-10-24

Columbia needs a good promo ter. There is another chance for Pierp Morgan.
Holbrook argus., 1903-10-24

We are now producing consider ably more than 300, 100000 tons of coal annually.
Holbrook argus., 1903-10-24
Territorial Officials

J. F. Wilson -e... Delegate Alex. o. Brodie .........Governor Isaac T. Stoddard- .......Secretary
 Edward Kent ........ Chief Justice
 Frederick L. Nave. U. $. Attorney
 M. H. McCord. .-..U. $. Marshal
 F. l.. Doan. Customs Collector
 Fen s. Hildreth. Register
 M. w. Moore re-R Register F. s Ingalls. Surveyor General Isaac M. Christy .,..T Treasurer w. F. Nichols ..............-.. Auditor E. w. Wells. Attorney General N. G. Layton. Supt. Instruction Thos. Rynning Arizona Rangers
Holbrook argus., 1903-10-24

Senator Tom Platt a gay de- ceiver! Think of it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-23

president of the state association, ala
the daredevil act in pointing the hnser
of shame at the tardy taxpayers. just
as a substance will often remain in
solution after temperature and every
other condition is right for crystaillza-
ton, until some one, carelessiy or 9TH
erwise, gives it Il shake and makes
it leap into crystal, just as a church
will often show no adequate results
OF a pastors faithful work until are
vivalist, often by questionable practice,
shakes the community up, so some
sections of Iowa did not adequately re-
spond to the noble work of Sabin and
Barrett until Sheldon shouted the pub
lie neglect from the housetops, but
now every nook and corner is alive.
and this year for the first time the cit
les are paying the salaries of teachers
during the days of the various con-
yentions and institutes, II salaries
are moving everywhere.
Three years ago / knew Iowa for the
first time by close contact; today there
is no section of the state that l have
not visited, in which l have not met
the people in the leading cities, whose
important industries l ave not studied
at first hand, and whoever knows her
thus can but appreciate the sturdy
manhood, the ardent purpose, the in
domitable pluck, which the keen Hawk
eye represents.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-23

all likelihood be noted by an intelligent
committee as the foundation of Ameri-
|can prosperity.
This country Is not drained of its
youth by a system of miiitarism which
takes away the strength of the soil and
makes consumers of those who should
be producers. The American farmer
has his boys at home to nelp him lift the
mortgage. This feature of American
farm life will doubtless attract atten-
ton from the German committee of in
vestigation.
The Germans will be able to carry
home many wise and helpful sugges-
tions resulting from their American
tour. They will, however, be unable to
graft American methods upon a Ger
man stem. The two are Incompatible.
The American order is the outgrowth of
its individual citizenship. There is lit
tie to which a citizen &C the United
States dare not aspire in finance, farm
Ing, politics or position. Men and meth
DDS grow broad in such an atmosphere.
The German must lift the plane of his
citizenship to the American order if he
desires to succeed after the American
method.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-23
VALUABLE WATER SYSTEM.
TCarroll Sentinel.1

L~t.
II. +. Pancrat2, of Boone, was in the
city last week installing the Northwest
ern.s water system. The new big pump
has been running for a couple of weeks,
but the settling tanks had not been
used before. Mr.. Pancratz is the sup
%erintendent of the company's water
purifying plants, of which they have
seven in operation, and are installing
others as fast as possible. The process
is very simple when understood. On
the lower floor is a tank in which is
mixed the purifying compound. Al
Carroll this consists simply of lime,
while at some places soda ash is used
and at others both lime and soda ash.
The lime takes out the iron in the
wafer. and the soda ash the lime. From
this tank an injector forces the lime
water to the top OF the building Where
there is a big fitting vat, holding 100
gallons on each side. When n side is
filled by the big pump the vat tits, at
the same time releasing the correct
amount of the lime water, and the lVo
gallons with it's necessary purifying
matter runs into one or the other OF the
big settling tanks. When this tank is
filed the water is forced around thru
a sieye-like arrangement which thor
DIV mixes it. 1t is then allowed to set
lie for at least six hours. when 1t is
ready to be pumped into the supply
tank, from which h locomotives Sc
cure their supply. The settling tanks
are cleaned occasionally of the sedl-
ment that deposits in the bottom.
Where water from these plants is used
the locomotives are entirely freed from
the trouble of scales in their boilers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-23
IOWA.
rJournal of Education.1

lJOuTTaI OIL
Iowa is a noble state, and she is no.
bier each year. She has aroused her
self heroically for a dead-in-earnest
grapple with the school salary condi-
lions. Her lands have increased in
value forty per cen in the past five
years, her agricultural conditions have
advanced with equal spirit. her manu-
featuring interests have kept the pace
well, her railroads are %expending for
tunes in the state, new churches are
being built regardless Of cost, houses
and barns are enlarged and improved,
and rural free delivery has blessed
her, but her rural schools Jagged sadly
after the procession of progress was
we'll under way.
DR.. Henry Sabin, the Nestor of ed
ucation beyond the Mississippi, headed
the great campaign of the N. E. A.,
and led the committee of twelve in the
making OF the Report on Rural
Schools" State Superintendent r. C.
Barrett has organized the county SUI
~perintendents into a committee Of the
whole for the purpose of increasing the
salaries of the rural teachers, and
last December, President Sheldon, of
the Methodist college at Indianola, as
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-23
Spring Rain.

The cry of the water courses for the
songs of the forest children,
The hint of the freshness of springing
green where the winter drift
has lain;
"A hope of the worldwide spaces in the
balm of the winds caresses,
And deep at the heart of the under.
world the joy Of the roots IN
rain.
The shiver of FLASHING footsteps where
the rushes drink and tremble.
The CLINT of the Apri.-changing sun
on the drop of Jeaf-held dew
The hope of the home returning of the
~wind-winged prairie chicken
To paths that the grasses bend above
and the wild things loiter thru
The strength of the horses blowing in
the breadth of the meadow
grasses.
The subtle sense Of the Garth astir be-
meath the plowrnan's feet;
The hopes of the hills at even ere the
twilight lamps ensemble,
The will to be going on and on where
the long, long highways meet.
The world is a world of distance for the
feet of the wildwood children,
The rivers would have them follow on,
the grasses bid they stay:
The near and the far are passions when
the south wind breathes upon
them.
And all of the rover Instincts wake
and the joys of the dream-rree
way.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-23
Eurninu Trmues-g 2rmbnra1 glarsha1Itnrum amua, Ffursdapu AprI 81 1903

CuZco, in the mountains of southern
Peru. there is a gap of nearly five
thousand miles to be built.
The cost of the missing link Will be
1t is estimated, in the neighborhood of
5000. O00, 900, or about the amount that
it cost to build the Trans-Siberian
railway. Fully ten years must elapse
before we can hope TO travel on thru
trains from New York to Bueno Ayers
and even then the time of transit will
probably prove disappointing to many
AT an average speed of twenty-five
miles an hour, day and night, some
seventeen days would be consumed
making the trip.
Great as are the present projects for
our intercontinental system. there is
every evidence that by the time of its
completion they will be greatly ex-
tended. The Argentine Republic and
Chill are both building southwark to
Cape Horn, while Canada is construct
ing a railway to Alaska which it is
expected American capital will carry
much further north, perhaps to meet
the railroad already building southwark
from Cape Nome; so that at the end
of ten years America may have a cape
to-cape railway some fifteen thousand
miles in length, or. if the scheme of the
Denver company recently incorporated
with a capital of 100000. 900 is ever
carried into effect, we shall be able
TO travel from any part of the two
| Americas by rail t. Paris; for this
company-encouraged by Remnants
travels across Alaska and Siberia, sur
veying a telegraph route. before the
Atlantic cable was laid. and De Windt's
later OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to put an
iron girdle about the earth. The Rus
sian engineers of the Trans-Siberian
railway express their opinion that the
American-Asiatic route, tho expensive.
is feasible, but their energies are turn
ed southwark to connect the cars
Trans-Asian railway with the Indian
system in Asia, and eventually, per-
haps, with the proposed Arabian rail-
way, which will have Cairo as a south
ern terminus. So that when all these
projected railways are built-and there
is no doubt of their eventual construc-
tion-we shall have a.Cape of Good
Hope to Cape Horn all-rail route,
while every important city of America
will have direct railroad connection
with every large city of he five con-
tinentS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-23
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW
Wasted Missionary Effort.

One of the most conservative daily
papers in this country Is The Hartford
(Conn.) Courant. No paper is more
careful in its editorial ~utterances, and
no paper has greater editorial influence.
So when we read in a late issue the fol-
Lowing on missionary Work and Its
Results it seemed worth r%eprinting. II
says:
General Chaffee rather Jared the
members of the Methodist Social Union,
in New York, last Friday evening. The
company were assembled to consider
missionary matters, and General Chat
fee said tina when in Pekin he made q
point of learning the opinion of promi-
nent Cinnamon, and of he better class
in general, about the objects for which
our missionaries in foreign lands so un-
selfshly labor. i must say, he contin-
ued, that | did not meet a single intelli :
gent Chinaman who expressed a desire
TO embrace the Christian religion
The same thing is true In Persia.
There has been a well-crganized Pro
testant mission station at urumiyah
for about forty years, made up OF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-23
Mualzeza
All Over the World by Rail.
TCoiliers.l

lSOillSI 81
Moved by national pride. or possibly
spurred to action by the universal and
continued praise bestowed upon the
car now that he has actually com
pleted the longest railroad in the world,
Mr.. Carnegie has actively embarked
upon a rival scheme of even far great
er magnitude, for his plan contemplates
nothing less than carrying out James
G.. Blaine's life project of connecting
the railway systems of the United
States with those of the South Ameri-
can republics.
From its inception to its finish, the
Latin-Americans seem quite willing
that Yankee thought and energy shall
predominant in the carrying out of the
great ntercontinental project. 1t was
fifty years ago that the Pan-American
railroad vas first nooted. a patriotic
American offering a prize of $4,000 for
the best essay on the advantages of q
railroad binding together he countries
of North and South America. This
prize was awarded many years ago
and its donor, now a very old gentle
man, still lives in Washington, hoping
that he may vet see the idea he origin
ated become Il reality.
In 1890 the project was taken up by
James G. Blaine. then Secretary of
State. A Pan-American conference
was held at the National capital, and
until the time of his death Mr.. Blaine.
worked indefatigably to carry the plan
to success. The United States gov
eminent appropriated 100000 for sur
| veys, which were made, and it seemed
80, ttNo ,At,,, x,,N cr ,,-n,n "a hN,,f - M
| gin; but after the death of Mr.. Blaine
little progress was made until last Il
| when, at the Pan-American Congress
held in h City of Mexico, 1t was re-
commended that the United States take
the initiative and appoint a commits
| sioner to carry out the recommends
tons made by the congress-. Secretary
Hay has in consequence just appointed
| Mr.. Charles NJ. Pepper as special rep
resentative to the heads of the South
American republics, and Mr.. Carnegie
| will pay the expenses of this inyestiga-
ton.
1t is a strange coincidence that Mr..
A. j.. Cassatt, chairman of the first
| Pan-American Congress. in 1890, is now
| president of the Pennsylvania railroad,
| which has a mileage just equal to the
| distance from New York to Buenos
| Ayres, and annual gross earnings ex-
actly sufficient to build the missing
links of the intercontinental line. The
Pennsylvania railroad, too. will form
the first section of the thru route.
Altho the quickest way to reach
Buenos Ayres is still via Europe, the
| intercontinental railroad has made
some progress since our surveys We're
made for it's extension, so that it will
soon be possible to travel by direct
train from New York to Ayutla, on the
border of Guatemala. a distance of
some $3.50 miles. But from Ayutla to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-23
GERMAN STUDY or AMERICAN METHODS

delegation of Germans has been
appointed by an agricultural association
of that country to visit America and in
yestigate the methods of farming in
vogue here with a view to migrating
linon the German mode such portions of
our system of farm management as may
seem adapted to conditions there. Ger
man farm hands have gone from their
native villages and neighborhoods to the
United States and a few years later
have returned to visit old friends and
tell the story of a marvellous success in
the new country, where Industry and
economy have enabled them to grow
wealthy beyond the widest dreams of
the sto,id residents of their birthplace.
The German farmer believes that the
secret of American success lies largely
in American methods 4 this delega-
ton is sent to spy out the secrets of our
superiority.
1t is to be hoped that the Germans
will gain more thru the efforts and OBJ
seryations of their commissioners than
has the British workingman from the
report of their labor committee which
visited this country last year to inves-
tigate labor conditions. This report
has but recently been made and the
commission after thorough investiga-
ton and study of the American situa-
ton reached the conclusion that the
British workingman has nothing to
learn from Americans. Admitting that
clothed, lives in a better house and is
advanced beyond his British contempo-
rary in education and sobriety, the COM
mission Of British workingmen found
nothing actually worthy oe their emula-
ton in the system and methods which
have produced these conditions. Per-
haps the German delegation may prove
as stupid.
The German farmers will find that the
secret of American success lies in hard
work directed by common sense. They
will find the American farm hireling
who is to succeed to a farm of his own
working hard without asking If he is
doing too much. They Will find the sue
cessful farmer directing his own farm
Ing o%peratiins instead of sitting stein
in hand at some convention lusthaus.
They will be struck by the distance
from the farm to the beer saloon and
perhaps %astonished to find the American
farmer and farm worker able to work
hard all day, eat his meals with zest and
sleep soundly at night without befud-
ding himself with liquor. The posi-
b9ity of getting on in the world and the
desire awakened by opportunity will in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-23
A Great Sensation.

There was a big sensation in Lees
Vile, Ind, when w. II. Brown. of hat
place, who was expected to die, had his
life saved by DR.. Kings New Discovery
for consumption. He writes: II en-
dured insufferable agonies from asthma
but your New Discovery gave me inn
mediate relief and soon thereafter eff
fected a complete cure" Similar cures
Of consumption, pneumonia, bronchitis
and grip are numerous. It's the peer
less remedy for all throat n lung
troubles. Price SO cents and s1.00.
Guaranteed by George F. Powers. drug
gist. Trial battles free.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-23
PROVINCE OF A PLATFORM.

Explaining its own attitude in the
current platform discussion the Bur-
lington Hawkeye says: 1T does not
undertake to forecast the platform, but
1t does expect to be content with 1T, II
1t does not conflict with the national
PLATFORM This is a common form of
expression that al found frequen use
In the columns of the standpat press,
but 1t seems to us to plead for a princl-
pie in platform making which, II
adopted. would destroy the very pur-
pose of a platform. What is a state
platform for if not to express what the
republicans of Iowa believe to be wise
public policy? If a state platform is TO
be denied the liberty of expressing for
the republicans of the state Iowa op1n-
ion upon a public question. why let a
state platform speak at all? We can
see little in the divergen. views of Iowa
republicans that would lead n one to-
desire a state platform out of harmony
with national republican platforms, but
H OOSS SCCll d. Az ~ SAAS
of a state platform to give expression
to Iowa ideas first and then 1t would be-
come the duty of Iowa republican dele
gates to a national convention to labor
to bring the national platform as near
j to the Iowa idea of things as possible. If
state platforms are merely to cry Polly
wants a cracker, too" when a national
platform declares its principles lets do
without state platforms of that kind.
Iowa is young and beautiful and has
ambitions. The companionship of par
rots has not yet become a comfort to
her.
Furthermore, following the process of
platform making farther. How is a ma
tional platform to be formulated that
will adequately express the ~concensus
OF all opinion upon live subjects unless
the state platforms have individual
opinions upon said subjects. If plat,
forms are TO come from the people it
should be eminently proper for 1000 re-
publican delegates in state convention
assembled to decide upon a platform
plank h would adequately express
their opinion upon the public questions
Of the day. With this occasion for de-
liberation and mean for expression of a
states individual ideas denied. a few
delegates to a national convention are
deprived of their greatest opportunity
to determine Iowa opinion which they
are to represent. When all the dele
gates from all the states get together
their various opinions are compromised
and harmonized into a platform which
shall express the opinion of the ma
jority and we can all accept 1t consist
emily, but to deny to the state platform
any liberty of individual state opinion
would seem to be an effort in platform
making to silence the wishes of the peo-
pie for the will of the politician.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-23
CURING CANCER.

Prominent medical men who have
the nus Of cancer in the hope that
some effective method OF treating the
disease may be discovered have recent
ly published results of their expert
ments. The reports come from Bellevue
hospital in New York, where Drs. Bux-
ton and Witthaus have conducted their
Investigation, and from Il similar insti-
tuition at Rangoon, India, where Cap
tain Rost, a British expert Of high re-
pute in diseases of a cancerous nature,
has pursued similar studies. The ter
rible characteristics of ANGER and its
certainty of q fatal ending have stirred
the efforts Of specialists for years
toward the unearthing OF its cause and
a specific for Its cure. Hundreds of
failures have been heralded as cures.
but no hope for the removal of cancer
exists as yet outside of radical elimina-
ton by the surgeons knife. OF those
thus operated upon no la:ge percentage
permanently ecove Much had beer
hoped from the recent Investigations,
but the American and Indian specialists
are so opposed and contradictory in
their conclusions as to lead to the opin-
ion that little Of real value has been
discovered.
HI rY.- r,-f2s-l ,-n1~ N1Y;1x,2- Al1& -
Ger is a disease caused by a character
istic germ. The American specialists
do not. Captain Rost attributes cancer
and its handmade aroma to a def
cheney of chlorine in the system and
supplies the lack by the administration
of common salt in large quantities. Drs.
Buxton and Witthaus claim to have dis
covered that sarcoma exercises the
power of fermentation and TO have
into the patients system of the germs
of e~rysipelas. Each report claims the
credit of cures for its methods.
Whether these experts have or nave
discovered important facts upon the
cause and treatment of The terrible dis
ease they are engaged in investigating.
there is hope in the manifest interest
and necessity which are stirring spe-
~cialists all over the world to expert
menting and investigations. The statis-
tics of cancer are as appalling as he
statistics of a battlefield. Soone or
later its specific is likely to be discov-
cred thru the special efforts and studies
OF such men as Buxton. Witthaus and
Rast and its Importance second only to
the discovery of anasthetics.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-23

three years. on IL person convicted of
nialiciously defacing or destroying any
letter box or other receptacle estab-
lished by order of the postmaster gen
eral. or approved or designated by him
for the receipt or delivery of mail mat
ter on n rural free delivery route,
ing open boxes, stealing or destroying
mail or assisting In any of the above
mentioned vandalism is punishable by
the same fine.