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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-02
citizens will do the rest.

If there is a single country weekly
within trading distance of Marshall
town that has not featured the common
lie of sickness in this city to the eX-
tent of nine deaths per day, as the
Tama Northern at Gladbrook puts 1T,
that paper has not yet gone to press.
Our neighborS the merchants OF the
small towns and their spokesman the
local newspapers do not stop at n tale
to discourage travel toward Marshall
town. 1t is true hat this city has suf-
fered with a sudden outbreak of fever
and many victims have died but there
has been hardly Il single new case iii
the past ten days and the epidemic is
believed to be past. Most OF the
stories that have been told in neighbour
ing towns and about all that has been
written concerning sickness here, has
been pure fiction manufactured for
business purposes.
The people of this community are
deeply interested in the outcome of the
sale Of the Rhoades-Carmean buggy
plant. A local syndicate has been
formed to buy the plant and operate
it that this city might not lose SO
valuable an industrial institution. a
creditor from abroad holding a dis
puted claim is bidding on the property
for the purpose of protecting his claim,
and would close out the stock as so9n
as it could be done if successful. The
referee and trustee of course must
sell to the best advantage for the cred
itors, but it is the devout wish of Mar
shalltown people that the local syndi-
cate will secure the property which will
mean a buggy factory permanently for
Marshalltown.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-02
CARRIERS EXAMINATIONS HELD

Conducted in the County Superintend-
ent's Office-Many Applicants.
The civil service examinations for ru-
raj free delivery carriers of Marshall
county were conducted today In the Of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-02

casion April 90. 80 and May 1, and on
account of GOOD Roads Convention on
April 26 and 81, all with return limit
until May 4, inclusive. Apply to agents
Chicago & Northwestern Railway.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-02
TRUCK FARMING
in II SOUTH

Does Truck Farming in the South
pay? Write the undersigned for a free
copy of Illinois Central Circular No. 9,
and note what Is said concerning it
J. F. Merry, Asst GenI Pass'r Agent
Illinois Central Railroad. Dubudne. L.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22
JOSIAH PROPETTS
ARGUMENT
BY E. w. SARGENT

Mrs. Propett had decided that she
would have no Thanksgiving" this
year. To be sure, it would be the first
time since she had entered the old
farmhouse as Josiah Propett's bride
that the annual dinner had not been
spread. But even the customs Of a
lifetime go down under stress of cir
cumstances, and Mrs. Propett vehe-
mently declared that there was no use
having a dinner without Maude.
Mr.. Propett mildly suggested that
possibly 1t would be good time to for
give and forget, but Mrs. Propett
sharply advised him not to be an old
fool, but to look after his own affairs
and let her manage the house.
Thus admonished, Josiah lit the lam
tern and went out to do the chores, but
it was a long time before his more
energetic wife set about clearing the
tea table.
Even when ones own daughter has
deliberately several all family ties, it
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22

the Idiot. "You haven't been showed
off the earth by anybody yet, have
your
mot that I know Of" said the Bib
liomaniac.
you've attended to your business
every day since that Thanksgiving,
continued the Idiot. You've come and
gone daily and so far nothing has hap
pened to you. You haven't fallen into
the subway. You haven't been run
over by an automobile. You haven't
been jerked from the end of a trolley
car going round a curve, nor smashed
your ribs by being blown up against
the Flatiorn building by a playful
March zephyr. AS a bachelor, you
have no wife to run up bills you can't
pay at the Department Stores, and you
haven't, for the same reason, a we'll
beloved son playing centre on COL
square meals a day, a place to sleep
nights and you're not more than a
month behind in your rent"
I'm not a monitor even day be-
hind in my rent" snapped the Biblio-
maniac.
well then, you ought to be satisfied
and thankful" said the Idiot. There
are thousands of poor buffers in the
world who can't say as much. Then
cause business is rotten. What of it =?
1t might have been rottener, I'll wager
Suppose, instead of having nothing to
do all day long, he'd been called upon
to act as counsel for a Get Rich Quick
scheme? Suppose, yielding to the
temptations of the moment he had gone
into the business and done we'll enough
to salt away $25O,O0O of other people
money, and then been indicted by a
grand jury? Would he have been here
with us to-day? Would he have had
the delicious prospect of an individual
turkey, a special, private, pumpkin
pie, and all the cranberry sauce he can
eat staring him in the face. and due
to be consumed on Thursday next ?
Not he. He would be asserting bris-
ties up in Sing Sing, with a steady Job
of five years. duration in the same line
ahead of him, and a Thanksgiving din
ner of pork and beans, and corned beef
to look forward to. And yet he's lot
thankful. There are lawyers up there
in that prison who, If they could peer
out between the bars of their cells
upon this ungrateful man, would writhe
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22
McNALLY
ON THANKSGIVING
By LAWRENCE PoRCHER HExT.

Mkt Thursday is Thanksgivin' Day."
said Pat, but L can't see
Phwat is tn good av SIGH a day, to
annywan lik' me-"
II 'spose we have a kick" said Mack,
"becoz Thanksgivin' Day,
Yell be compelled to knock off work,
an lose tin hours pay?
"Ye do not seem familiar wit tn pro-
gramme av tn day:
Yell have tn chico av nanny sports,
to while yer time away;
TIL football feends will kick an yell;
twill do we lots av good
To hear tn shouts an watch tn flow
av coolidge sportin' blood.
But, if We do not care FIR that-per-
haps it is too tame
TIL race track is another place yer pa
thronage might claim.
They'll be ballon ascinshuns; they'll
be fights av ivry sort
Ye'll find Thanksgivin' Day to be tn
day that's full av sport.
9TH rum shops love Thanksgivin'
Day, it means a rush av trade:
TIL idle mind wants somethin' more
than simple limonade;
TIL toilers wit no tasks to do, no jul
ties to perform,
Swoop down upon tn bar-rooms, an
take ivrything be storm.
AN in tn higher walks av life. tn
tables groan wit food;
Tn markets are ransacked f'r grub
that's costly an that's good;
TIL Nabob's pride is entered in how
much he has to eat
He talks Thanksgivin' turkey when he
meets We on tn street.
"Th' worthy poor is huddled up, an
led, in ragged gangs,
To feast on food that's been prepared
FIR hunger's healthy fangs;
An some good brother tells thin that
tn grub they eat is free;
Reminds thin av how much they owe
to wealthy charity.
"An' whin tn worthy poor goes home
wit baskets full av scraps,
They laugh to think that life contains
SIGH soft an easy snaps;
They brag amongst thimsilves about
how much they brought away,
An curse tn hand that feeds thin,
only on Thanksgivin' Day.
'Th' birds, that live in forest homes,
know Whin tn DAY comes roundi
The woods ring wit tn echoes av tn
huntsman an tn hound.
TIL fishes, in tn lakes an streams,
caught be abundant bait,
Find mans thanksgivin' momints
means FIR thin day av fate.
AN SO, I'm much surprised to hear
We do not seem to know
Why SIGH a day is set apart f'r
creatchers here below.
It seems to me, from phwat I've said
about Thanksgivin Day,
Ye'll hail IL wit delight, although we
lost tin hours pay"
II thought" said Pat, twas set apart
f'r folks, in all. life's ranks,
To spind in prayer, or give some signs
av gratichude an thanks"
perhaps il had that aim" said Mack,
but if We Jine tn squad
That thinks that way, yen find yer
silf almost alone wit God"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22
SHE LAUGHED CRIED

Mrs Propett was bitterly rehearsing
when her husband returned from his
evening tasks at the barn. She was
too pre-occupied to notice that his
deeply lined face shone with the light
of a great resolve.
MANDY" he began timidly, I've
been thinkin' what YOU said about
havin' no Thanksgivin'-
you can't be thankful for thank
less daughter" she interrupted grimly
II know" he said, soothingly but
s'pose we go away. There's Helen.
You amt seen her in years.
Mrs. Propett frightened. Helen
now Mrs. Johnson Coulter, the wife Of
a prosperous farmer near Wilkesbarre
Pa, had been her favorite sister.
Josiah Propett," she murmured, al
most admiringly, Il believe that
you've begun to get sense. I'll write
Helen this very night"
And so busy was she framing this
ePistle, that she did not notice how
long it required Josiah to write an
other letter renewing his subscription
to certain agricultural publication.
SO it happened that Mrs. Propett
and Josiah drove TO the railway station
for their first trip since that one dcliri-
Gus visit to Saratoga and Nj
agara Falls which had marked
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22

is not easy to resign ones self to sit
ting down to an ordinary dinner on
Thanksgiving Day. Yet to forgive
Maude was not to be considered.
That undutiful daughter had gone,
the year before, to New York to spend
the Christmas holidays with their sum-
mer boarders. From this scene OF UNI
wonted gaiety had come to the Propett
farm a most amazing letter. one
Henry Barton wrote that he desired to
marry Maude, and that right quickly.
His firm was sending him to Europe,
and the opportunity Of combining with
the business tour honeymoon voyage
was too good to miss. With this letter
came also a pleading missive from
Maude.
The Propetts we're scandalized.
There was barely time for them to
rush into New York and witness the
unseemly ceremony. And Barton was
obviously a travelling mana drum
mer." Mrs. Propett set her lips firmly
and indited to Maude a seven-page let
ter, the longest she had ever written.
Maude should come home at once. Mrs.
Propett explained that New York men
were trihers. once before an Ellen
town girl had married man from New
York, and FIVE years later he had de-
serted her No daughter of hers should
be sacrificed to the passing fancy OF
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22

New Yorker. Maude must return at
once.
But in Maude's stead had come an
other letter, saying that she had mar
ried the man she loved and they were
sailing the next day. She hoped that
her parents would forgive her. AS for
the Ellentown example, she considered
that beneath her notice. 1t was well
known that the examples shrewish
temper had led first to her legal sepa-
ration, and later to an exaggeration
of her tale of ill-treatment, until the
heavy alimoney, her poor victims
price of peace. had been entirely over
looked. Henry Barton was not that
sort of a man, and she trusted that
her mothers excellent precepts and ex-
ample would enable her to avoid all
family jars.
When Maude and her husband re-
turned from their brief trip, they
found her trunk. addressed to her
maiden name, at the home Of the
friends she had visited. Every letter
forwarded to the farm thereafter was
returned unopened.
All these things, and more, the tri-
fling incidents of Maude's girlhood,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22
The Value of Charcoal.
Few People Know How Useful II Is
in Preserving Health and Beauty.


in Preserving Health and Beauty.
Nearly everybody knows that char
coal is the safest and most efficient
disinfectant and purifier in nature, but
few realize its value when taken into
the human system for the same cleans
ing purpose.
Charcoal is a remedy that the more
you take of 1t the better; it is not
drug at all, but simply absorbs the
gases and impurities always present in
the stomach and intestines and carries
them out Of the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after
smoking, drinking or after eating on
ions and other odorous vegetables.
Charcoal effectually clears and i'm
proves the complexion. 1t whitens the
teeth and further acts as natural and
emine1tly safe cathartic.
1t absorbs the injurious gases which
collect in the stomach and bowels; it
disinfects the mouth and throat from
the poison of catarrh.
All druggists sell charcoal in one
form or another. but probably the best
charcoal and the most for the money
is in Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges; they
are composed of the finest powdered
Willow charcoal, and other harmless
antiseptics in tablet form or rather in
the form of large, pleasant tasting loz-
enges, the charcoal being mixed with
honey.
The daily use of these lozenges will
soon tell in a much improved condition
of the general health, better complex
ion, sweeter breath and purer blood.
and the beauty of it is, that no possible
harm can result from their continued
use, but on the contrary, great benefit.
A Buffalo physician in speaking of the
benefits of charcoal, says: Il advise
Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges to all pa
tents suffering from gas in stomach
and bowels, and to clear the complex
ion and purify the breath, mouth and
throat; I also believe the liver is great
ly benefited by the daily use of them;
they cost but twenty-five cents box
at drug stores. and although in some
sense a patent preparation, yet I be-
lieve I get more and better charcoal in
Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges than in
any of the ordinary charcoal tablets"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22
BUSINESS LOCALS.

HI. H. Peoples & Son, 125 Congress
street. is a splendid place to buy your
hardware, stoves, implements, firearms,
cutlery and builders supplies, guns
and ammunition.
The Richmond Business College Is
daily receiving pupils from North and
South Carolina, Florida, Alabama and
from all over the state OF Georgia
Thoroughness Is our motto.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22

1t is believed that Seth Lows
term of office as Mayor of New York
has cost him somewhere in the neigh
borhood of $4,000 He provided out
Of his pocket entertainment for numer-
Gus distinguished guests. including
Prince Henry of Prussia, and in order
to be near the city in summer he rent
ed an expensive place at Rye. The
salary is $4,000 per year.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-01-08
Down the River.

The roads are in very bad order
at present.
Hay will be very scarce by
spring if the snow keeps on much
longer.
Harvey johnson went to Valen-
tine the first of the week to work
on the ice.
Mrs. Lon Nollett and Mrs. Robi-
dou went to town Tuesday and re-
turned home Wednesday.
The Xmas tree given by school
district No. 1874 was we'll attended
and all enjoyed a good time.
The New Year opened with nice
weather. Hope it will stay nice
weather the remainder of the year.
Dock Grooms is breaking horses
these days. This snow is a bad
thing for the horses but all right
for the rider.
A. W. Grooms had very good
luck in turning over his summer
herd, he found everything except
one red yearling heifer, branded
III on left side.
MI. and Mrs. VIM. Taylor gave
a New Years dinner this wear.
There were about 40 people pres
ent. New Years was also their
anniversary.
YoUNGsTER.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-01-08

An exchange says: "A mar
came in the other day with what
he thought to be a conundrum:
Why isa newspaper like a WON.
an?" The various answers given
are: Because it has someone to
run it. Because both have to be
known to be appreciated. Be-
canse both are good advertising
mediums. Because it changes its
dress. But the correct answer is:
Because every man should have
one of his own and not be running
after his neighbours.
An amusing extract from a Bel
gian paper gives the following in
cident: A woman whose husband
had lost his life in a railway acct
dent received from the company
ten thousand francs by way of
compensation. Shortly afterward
she heard that a traveller who had
lost a leg had been paid twenty
thousand. The widow at once put
on her bonnet and shawl and went
to the Office of the company.
Gentlemen, how is this" she
asked. you give twenty thous-
and francs for a leg, and you al
lowed me only ten thousand for
my husand." Madam" was
the reply, the reason is plain.
Twenty thousand francs won't pro-
vide him with a leg but for ten
thousand you can get a husband"
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-01-08
A SIGN OF
Reason For the Great Increase In
the Socialist Vote.

The Republicans are looking for an
explanation of the great increase in the
Socialist vote at the recent elections.
The party Of stand patters" in special
privileges and distributors of vested
wrongs need not look far for the expla-
nation. Henry Fawcett gave it when
he said:
1T has repeatedly been shown that
the friends of revolutionary changes de-
rive their motive power from the bigot-
ed opponents Of progress and from the
stubborn %upholders of unwise laws and
unjust privileges. 1t might as we'll be
supposed that the railway engine would
move if it were deprived of steam, that
wheat could grow without soil or that
nan could live without food rs to imag.
iinc.tkat Il revolutionary propagandism
could be maintained if it were not kept
alive by the recollection Of some wrong
inflicted and by the continuance of
some evil unredressed."
Not only will socialism continue to in
crease rapidly. but it will soon be the
law Of the land if effective measure
are not taken to curb the power of the
trusts. The people may do some fool
ISL things and jump in wrong direc-
tons when they see danger ahead, but
they will not much longer stand still
while the trusts plumber them. Posi-
bly, Herbert Spencer was right when in
1894 he said, THE movement toward
dissolution of existing social forms and
reorganization on q socialistic basis 1
believe to be irresistible" He then
.prophesied civil war, immense blood
shed and eventually military despotism
Of the severest type"
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-01-08
A TAX ON TEA.
Coddlfng an Infant Industry That
VIII Want Protection


The ghost of the lamented lie Due
still walks in Washington. 1t still glib
bers of American tea. Here, for ex-
ample, it bobs up in the annual report
of the secretary of agriculture:
1.-The work IN the growing of Amer
lean tea was continued during the year
ut Pinehurst, near Summeryille, S. c..
In cooperation with DR.. Shepard.
There are now about 100 acres in tea
gardens. The yield Of tea in these gar
dens last year was about $500 pounds.
and this year will be about 5000
pounds Of marketable tea. During the
year careful attention was given to re-
ducing the cost of the production of
tea, with very satisfactory results. A
tea farm will be established in Texas
If suitable land and cooperation can
be secured"
But let not the American tea drink
ers rejoice over the development of this
new industry. The success of these
experiments will mean, not cheaper
tea nor better tea, but a tariff on i'm
ported tea for the protection Of the
new infant, and a tariff on imported
tea will mean dearer tea. 1t will mean
a taxed breakfast table. 1t will mean
a new grab for the widows mite.
The American people may justly look
with apprehension upon every such eff
fort to diversity industry. Tobacco
users for a generation have paid royal
tribute to a handful of Connecticut to-
bacco growers whose pitiful industry
has been coddled by the government at
the cost Of the people. Better tobacco
h Connecticut has ever grown or
can ever grow can be had from Cuba
at a fraction of the labor cost, yet peo-
pie who use tobacco are robbed at
wholesale by a tariff tax under which
a few tobacco growers enrich them
selves through forcing upon consumers
an inferior product at an extortionate
price.
Secretary Wilson's tea farm is only
another menace to the happiness and
well being Of the American people,
Johnstown Democrat.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-01-08
Why Build Good Roads:

The first bill introduced into the
mouse of representatives was one to
appropriate money for the establish
ment in the department of agriculture
Of Z bureau Of good roads. Good roads,
We are told. would do good to all men.
But why have good roads? Do we
really believe in them? They are GER
tainly opposed to our system of gov
errment. which builds tariff walls and
barb wire fences between us and for
eiglers. Our tariff wall Is harder to
cross with goods than the highest
mountain range or the widest ocean
\ pouAd Of sugar can he carried from
he Philippines to the United States
for one-half cent. but cannot be got
over the tariff wall for less than about
; cents. Why build good roads to
rheapen the east Of transporting goods
wl;en We are living behind artificial
barriers ~ nbStrrct the passage Of
goods why not abolish the tariff
Will
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-01-08
SOCIETIES.

SOCIETIES,
X. OF II. ChERRY LODGE NO. 100 meets Let
and Bird Friday OF each month. ut 8 80.
M. V. NICHOLSON, MARTIN CHRISTENSEN.
C. X, of X. g.. SO
VALENTINE LODGE NO. EOS 1. o. O.. +
Meets Thursday night each week,
MOS RANDALL, J.T. KELLEY,
N, q. Sec'y.
MINNECHADUZA LODGE A. r. Il
A. N. Nj. l92.-Meets 2st Tu. sday each month
&c HoRNsY, w, w, THOMPSON,
w. M. Sec'y.
A. O. U. w. No. 20. Meets LIST and 3rd Mon
day oil each month.
Ma. PETTYCREw. U. &, DUNN,
M. W. KecOrdel.
DEGREE OLE HONOR NO. ITO. Meets
End and 4th Monday each month.
JENNIE PE~TTIJOHN, W.. A.~PETTYCREw,
G.. Of H. Recorder.
NJ. w. A.-Meets LIST and srd Wednesdays each
month.
NV. NICHOLSON. W. f, HALEY.
W.. ClcEA
EKATERNAL UNION NO, 56S-Meets
every Satur,a, nigh
j. A.hOKNBACK, K. d, CLARK,
+, M. Sec'y.
ROYAL NEIGHBORS.-Meets End and
4th Wednesdays each month.
MARY QUIGLEY, MINNIE DANIELS,
oracle. Rec.
sons and Daughters Of Protection
Lodge NJ. 6.-MeetS End and 4th Fridays each
month.
A, +. PETTYCREw, WA. PETTYCREw,
Pres. Sec'y
Royal Highlanders, Devon Castle No.
29I.-Meets End Friday each month.
CLARK, e. HALEY,
Up. Sec'y.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-01-08
AN En,peror,s strange Fancy.

Strange fancies have taken hold Of
some men regarding the in
which their bodies were to be disposed
of after death and the ceremonies to be
observed at their funerals.
The great Emperor Charles V. had
the curious idea of celebrating his own
funeral. Shortly before his death he
caused q tomb to be made in the chapel
of the monastery Of Estremadura, to
which he had retired after his abdica-
ton, and OIL it's completion he was car
ried to it as though dead. Placed in a
coffin and accompanied by a process
sion, he was borne along. while chants
were sung, prayers said and tears shed.
After the solemn farce was over he
was left alone in the chapel, where he
remained q short time before rising
out of the coffin.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-01-08
Too Good Highlanders.

Some years ago a vote IA taken
among the men of q certain highland
regiment (at that time not wearing the
kilt to find out how many would be in
favor Of wearing the highland costume.
In due time the sergeant major ap-
peared before the commanding officer
with the result of the voting.
c. Dwell. sergeant major, how
many are in favor Of the kilt?
S. M.-Two men, sir.
c. O.-Only two. Well, I'm glad
there are at least two good highland
ers in the regiment. What are their
names. sergeant major?
S. M.-Privates Patrick O'Brien and
Michael Rooney, s~ir.-Scottish Ameri-