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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-01

F. Queer things happen in Texas. A murderer, J. E. Shut by name, about to be hanged. was allowed just before the hour set to call up Governor Lanham at Austin by long-distance telephone and
 make a verbal appeal that his life be spared. The governor and the trembling prisoner had long conversation over the telephone Shut asked for execu- tive cIemency. The governor recited the enormity of the crime and informed him that the law would have to take it's course. Shut was led from the tele- phone" his cell in a state of collapse.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-01

A uniaue position is held in the city of St. Louis by Mrs. Graham Frost In one of the first banks there she occu- pies a position known as that of the sshostess." Her duty is to explain bank ing methods to the women patrons, thus relieving them os embarrassment and expediting the course of business Mrs. Frost finds that nearly all women need :. Instruction as to the clipping of coupons, renting safe deposit boxes, real estate matters, redemption and exchange of money and so forth. Beneficial results have accrued to the bank from Mrs. Frcst's employment, the volume of bus mess being greatly increased. It has already 6,0O0 women depositors.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-01

The American college professor in many institutions is only hired man : in cage" according to M. Leopold Mabilleau, the French sociologst, who is delivering series of lectures in French at the University of Chicago. He says that in American colleges founded by private individuals the professors are not free to think and write as they pleased, but are con- trolled to large extent by the opinions of the board of managers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-09
Report From the Reform School.

]. G. Gluck. superintendent, Prunty-
town. w. Va. writes: After trying
all other advertised cough medicines
we have decided to use Foley's Honey
and Tar exclusively In the West Vir-
ginia Reform School. l find it the
most effective and absolutely harm-
less. For sale by B. A. Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-09

convenience OF loading and unloading
the ordinary farm freight
as. Diminishing the height of wneeis
below thirty inches front and forty
inches rear increased the draft in
greater proportion than it gained in
convenience.
So On good roads, Increasing the
length of rear axle so that the from;
and rear wheels will run in Different
tracks, to avoid cutting ruts, did not
increase the draft
40. On sod. cultivated ground and
bad roads wagons with the rear axle
longer than the front one drew heavier
than one having both axles of the
same length.
al. Wagons with the rear axis
longer than the front one require wider
gateways and more careful drivers,
and are on the whole very inconyeni-
emit and not to be recommended for
farm use.
10. The best form Of farm wagon
is one with axles OF equal length.
broad tires and wheels thirty to thir-
ty-six inches high in front and forty
to forty -four inches behind
A knowledge of the above facts Is
important to farmers who are DESTROYS
of doing the best work with their wag-
ors and nj the same time conserving
the energy of their teams.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-09
TOPICS OF THE.
TINES = = =

Perry Heath declares that there is
no reason why he should resign from
the republican national committee.
Perry Is olotuse.
Some Of our railroads are ordering
electric locomotives weighing eighty
Ave toms each. with a rating of 1900
horse power. and "a capacity for haul
ing heavy trains at speed of sixty
miles an hour.
Charles T. yerkes. the street car
magnate. thinks common sense is bet
ter than education. Unfortunately Mr..
Yerkes does not define his conception
OF what constitutes either common
sense or education.
80
The Chicago restarranteur who
shot and killed customer who ate
20-cent meal when he had but Is cents
in his pocket very forcibiy Illustrated
the danger of living beyond ones
means.
What to do with s1o2, the amount
paid in by the Davenport 4 Suburban
road for the paving in front of the
pos toffice, is a question that has arisen.
The amount was handed over to the
government when It was paid in by the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-09
Draft Of Farm Waaons.

/ The Missouri experiment station has
| been doing good work for the farmer
| in making tests Of the relative draft of
| farm wagons and carts under varying
conditions as to height of wheels. width
of tires. macadam, gravel and dirt
| roads, in all conditions and on mead
ows. pastures, cultivated fields, stub
Bile land. etc. The results OF many OF
| these details have Just been published
in bulletin form by the station. The
draft was determined by means OF a
Giddings seif-recording dynomome;er.
The net load was in every case the
sanle-viZ. 1000 pounds. Three sets OF
wheels of different heights all with
six-inch tires. We're used as follows:
Standard front wheels fertyfour inch
es. rear wheels tifty-five inches. me-
dium. front wheels tllirty-six inches.
rear wheels forty inches: low. front
wheels twenty-four inches. rear wheels
twenty EIGHT inches. Without going
into the details of the trials contained
in the bulletin. for want of space. we
quote the following summary given by
the author T. l. MARS, assistant. N
agriculture:
Il For the same load wagons with
Wheels of standard height drew lighter
than those with lower wheels.
80. The difference IN favor Of STANG
ard wheels was greater on road sur
saee in bad condition than on GOO:
road surfaces.
%. Low wheels cut deeper ruts
than those of standard height.
II. The vibration of the tongue is
greater in wagons with low whesis.
3. For most purposes wagons with
low wheels are more convenient than
those Off standard height.
g. Wagons with broad tires ana
wheels of standard height are cumber-
some and require much room in turn
ing.
=. Diminishing the height Of wheel
from thirty-six to thirtyfive inches IN
front and forty-four to forty inches IN
the rear did not increase the draft IN
as great proportion as !. Increased the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-09

presidential nomination is so glaringiy
insincere that it is doubtful If he WISH
es for any public confidence in the
honesty of his professions of friendN-
ness to President Roosevelt On the
strength of them no supporter of the
president would trust him out of his
sight
Whatever Mr. Hanna's attitude may
be at present there are few men ready
to put possible presidential nominal
ton behind them. Doubtless Mr.. Han
ma would snap at the chance of cleo
ton were he reasonably certain or
nomination. Most public men would.
As an astuts politician he foresees Mr..
Roosevelt's certain nomination unless
something happens. Granting that Mr..
Hanna has presidential aspirations the
waiting attitude The rae. for nomi-
nation TO any office in the gift of the
people is an open one. When the
Press requires such complete renuncia-
ton of Mr.. Hanna even the most toy
al supporters of Mr.. Roosevelt for a
second term will concede that IS is
asking great deal and more than it
is likely to get. Mr.. Hanna as POI
litical Spectator is guarding his gran
aries on the chance of crop failure or
hailstorm in the Roosevelt territory.
This he has a perfect right to do, but
he knows that lacking cataclysm
Mr.. Roosevelt Will be the next niomi-
nee of the republican party and the
next president of the United States.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-09
SENATOR HANNA AND TINE NOMINATION.

Senator Hanna's attitude toward the
republican presidential nomination has
become a matter Of great interes, and
q subject of dispute among politicians
and political newspapers. While Mr.
Hanna.s spoken animation Is extan;
10 the effect that he IL ready to pro-
ceed to personal violence against all
who suggest or urge his candidacy,
there still remain many who think his
protestations bear the same relation to
his hopes that feigned vexation often
does to the value of poker hand. To
add fuel to the suspicion Hanna liter
ature Is flooding certain southern
states and anti-Roosevelt literature IS
pouring into Indiana. Senator Piatt
declares that the nomination could not
BE raranaed down Mr.. Hanna's throat
and the New York American. demo-
cratic paper. quotes . Hanna hench-
man as declaring that Mr.. Hanna Is a
candidate 80 long as Roosevelt Is In the
6eld. And there you are.
The New York Press very fully ex-
presses the suspicion Of large num-
her Of Mr.. Roosevelt's friends when :,
says:
III Senator Hanna was sincere IN his
wish to stop the talk Of running him
or any one else for the republican
nomination. he would not consider any
question of embarrassing himself. A
snort and concise sentence, telling his
1dent Roosevelt to dream Of contesting
the nomination with him, and carry
ing further conviction by saying that
oven IL he were nominated he would
not accept. and even IL elected he
would not serve. would put away for
ever all possibility of embarrassing
enin. People then would know where
Mr.. Hanna stood. Instead of this, we
and him flirting with the Lily Whites,
who are already organizing Hanna
delegations. One word from him and
that movement would stop But Mr..
Hanna is silent The Alabama delega-
tion and others from Black Belt states
that have always been purchasable at
national conventions are being organ
1xed for Mr.. Hanna. and II the time
comes that the trusts who are looking
for anybody 10 beat Roosevelt should
want these delegations for some one
other than Mr.. Hanna to serve the
strust'' purpose, they will be easily de-
liverable.
Senator Hanna's attitude toward the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-09
Wheat. Oats or Shorts for Hogs.

vvuOdSs 0dlS OT SU0iSS I0t ttSSss
The following inquiry from SUB
scriber is answered as follows by the
Nebraska Farmer:
Il would like to know the relative
value of wheat and OATS ground fine
as a food for making slop for hogs. az
compared with shorts. What would he
the cheapest and best ration to use
when wheat is worth s1.15 per hun
dred. oats SIS cents with cents per
hundred In addition for grinding. ana
shorts al 90 cents per hundred?'
Something depends upon the object
sought in the feeding OF these hogs. If
the hogs are we'll grown and are being
fatted for the market 1. would be bet
ter to buy some corn instead of feed
ing a ration composed of either shorts.
wheat or oats. However as that is not
inferred In the inquiry, we shall take II
for granted that breeding hogs are re-
ferred to. In this case shorts at 80
cents per hundred Is che lper food than
either ground wheat or oats. Shorts
contain almost % per cent more of pro-
tein than either wheat or oats and con-
tain almost as large a percentage of
fat as oats. While we assert tina;
shorts Is the cheapest food mentioned
at the prices named. yet 1t might b
fully as profitable to feed smav
quantity OF other foods. In this case
one part oats and four parts shorts
would tend to keep the hog on its feed
providing rational methods of feeding
were employed.
Foley's Honey and Tar positively
cures all throat and lung diseases. Re-
frlsp subs tffutpS.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-09

4 Davenport g. Suburban. but the gov
| eminent sent it back, stating that the
title to the property had been coded to
state or whether the city gets it or
whether 1t goes back Is the question
that is puzzlng the officials. The MAJ
ter Will be brought UP at the mex,
council meeting for the aldermen 20
pass on.
/ Herman j. Schulties. a knights of
Labor lobbyist, had the temerity to de-
mand obedience from Speaker Joe
Cannon. who Immediately exploded and
fired the lobbyist out of the room.
Schulties evidently didn't know it was
loaded.
| John Becke'. sold bunch of hogs to
l.. E. Elliott Tuesday for s3.94.-Iowa
City Citizen.
To judge hv the amount of money
that changed hands In the transaction
the bunch" could have been scarcely
more than bouquet.
While no chariot of fire has called for
Mr. Dowie. the modern Elijah is prob
ably finding it hot enough.
You ought to have place in grand
opera" remarked the sarcastic passen-
ger who was trying to read.
"Oh. don't know, replied the fat
party across the aisle. who was giving
an imitation Of a song. Eve got a
place in Grand Rapids that's good
enough for me-
-Chicago News.
Missouri led all the states last sea-
son in the amount of cotton produced
per acre. Tie Missouri average was
232 pounds. Indian Territory stood
next, with 231 pounds, and Louisiana
and Oklahoma were third, with 223
rounds. Arkansas averaged 1876 pounds
and Texas Las pounds
P. II. Kell. the edito. of Des
Moines turf pa per. is an opposing cam
didate to NJ. j. Wragg, of Waukse. for
a member of the board or agriculture |
II is a question of harness horse or
horticulture.
prize to local versifiers on the sub
ject Dreams The contest appears
to rest between Al Moore ana the Des
Moines political reporters.
NJ. Neidermeyer a member Of the
earn barn gang of murderers, who
complains that the deeds of himself
and companions are no longer chroni-
cled on the first page of the nawspa-
pers. should console himself with the
certainty that he has at least one more
first page slug" coming.
Cause and Effs ct-Jack-So you
asked old Gotrox for his daughters
hand In marriage. Ell?
Tom-Sure. and 1t was regular
wa,kover for mo.
Jack-A walkover!
Tom-Yes; the old man walked ali
over me Chicago News.
YEAST see school has been
started in Washington where scholars
are taught to be ambidexirous.
Crimsonbeak Taught to use both
hands?
Precisely
Well. hope they'll manage to keep
the graduates out of the treasury
-Yonkers Statesman.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-09
Decline Of Rance Horses.

Horse breeding is again reverting to
the farm and the big bands of horses
on the western ranges are fast being
decimated The public demand is elm
mating the range horse for the equine
industry. Consumers demand heavier
horses for draft and horses with more
quality for light harness purpose than
are being produced on the western
ranges. The many great enterprises of
breeding horses on the western plains
under primitive conditions have lost
their promoters millions of capital. a
western stock journal says: THAT
horse breeding is on the Increase there
is no doubt More mares were bred
this year than in any other since 1892
on the farms Of this country. But /.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-09
TINE LAST OF the McToRIANs.

| Herbert Spencer. scientist ana ph!s-
osopher who died yesterday at his
| English home. was one of the most
noted and possibly least read of that
which he belonged and which included
Darwin, Tyndall. Huxley and other
Victorian era His name was familiar
as household word. bu, his works are
not to ba found in the average private
library. During his eighty-three years
of life he issued twenty-seven works
and died poor Indeed, at the height of
his ability and usefulness 1t was
thought necessary to collect inves, a
fund OF $1,000 for his benefit and to
pay his expenses lest his work should
be suspended from lack of means for
his subsistence. Not long ago Lon
don paper estimated that In forty years
of the philosophers greatest labors the
gross receipts from his books were less
than $150,000. During the greater par,
OF his great career he was obliged to
do editorial work to keep up with his
expenses, while during Spencer's time of
struggle and scientific ana literary
travail thousand writers OF cheap fic-
ton and sensation have grown rich.
Herbert Spencer was born in Derby,
England, in April. 1890. He was the
son OF a sehoolteacher, exhibiting IN
his early years, however, little of the
scholarly tendencies watch characters
ICED either his father or his uncle, the
Rev Thomas Spencer. He abhorrea
the classics and did not care for mod
ern languages, preferring to raise
broods of butterflies from the cocoons,
and study habits of the animals ana
insects about him. Because of his dis
taste for his school work, he receiver
much of his early tarining from his ia
Their and his uncle. He offended Cam
bridge University for time, but qui.
to become a teacher: left teaching to
become an engineer on a railway sys-
tenn, where ne remained for about ten
years, until commercial depression
left him unemployed. Already he had
begun to form the foundations OF his
philosophy. and this cessation or ac,-
i've, Immediate interests is said by
critics to have fastened him in his
great life work.
He went to London. fell in with the
great scholars of that time, and then
began to write on his own account.
While still engaged In engineering ne
had begun the publication IN paper.
called the Non Conforlnist Of series
of letters on '.rhe Proper Sphere of
Government" His first book, social
Statics." was published IN 1850 ana ne
has toiled steadily ever since until
year ago. when his health failed utter
ly. The best-known volumes in his
comprehensive system are 'Tirs,
Principles OF Psychology" Principles
of Sociology" and principles Of Nor
ality"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-09
FIGURES OF INTERNAL COMMERCE.

Internal commerce conditions of the
United States for the month of October
are summarized by the department OF
commerce and labor. thru Its bureau o.
statistics as follows: The western
livestock movement. comprising re-
ceipts at five principal markets
amounted to a.245. 499 head in October
compared with 3.lS4.610 head in Sep
TENDER, and 2.742,5ss head in August
The corresponding figures last year
wera as follows. October, 3,547,714;
September, S,044,259 head, and August,
2.66S,00 head. Receipts OF all kinds
for ten months ending with October,
1908, were 2s.s1s.415, compared with
2e.395,966 head in 1902, and 27,724,701
head in 1901. The relative Importance
OF the eve market concerns is seen
IN the statement that Chicago is credit
ed with 12,664.s29 head. Kansas City.
with 4.S7l,S75 head. Omaha with A.
265.751 head. st. Louis with 3,096.352
head. and st. Joseph with 2.521.10s
head. Receipts at st. Paul were L.
427,162, and at Sioux City, 1.152.os7
head. Exports of livestock amounted
to 67.421 head during October and Inn
ports to $500 head. the net results
OF imports and exports being gain OF
1s,0sl head. For the ten months end
snx with October there was loss Of
A12,400 head.
Receipts Of wheat at eight principal
markets for the current crop year to
November / were ss.7s2.179 bushels.
compared with 11s.s31,417 bushels in
1902, and 10s,20s.333 bushels in 1901.
The current years shortage is partly
due to backwardness of season and al
80 to slow adjustment OF price levels
In the home and foreign markets. The
trunk line movement of -four during
forty-four weeks ending with October
II. from Chicago and Chicago points
eastward. was 3,565,o4o barrels. COM
pared with z,0s6.s1s in 1902 and g.
b6e,916 in 1901.
In grain shipments to the seaboard
trunk line trade amounted to 6s,s65.000
bushels to the end of October. 1903.
compared with 5s,9Ss.000 in 1902, and
es.4s5,000 in 1901, indicating tendency
10 recover the lost ground of the pre-
ceding year In provision traffic the
trunk lines have had fairly constant
record for three years, 1,159,071 tons be-
Ing carried to October 81, 1903. compar-
ed with l,122,225 tons in 1902 and L.
10s.247 tons in 1901. Shipments Of zinc
and spelter at St. Louis for ten months
amounted to 2,141.60s slabs, compared
with 2..154,350 slabs in 1902. Lead ship
ments were 1.6S4.02s pigs in 1903. and
1.i34156 pigs in 1902. Receipts OF pig
iron at Cincinnati show decrease
from s47,0l5 tons in October, 1908, to
64.025 tons In October 1902. For ten
months receipts were 4s6.904 tons In
1903. and 5s5,s93 tons in 1902. Ship
ments of grain by rail from Buffalo,
II lake trade to the seaboard We're, to
October 81, this year. 75.297.soo bushels.
compared with 72,707.127,. In the cor
responding months of 1902, and 1885,
O42 bushels In 1901.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-09
IOWA OPlNIoNs AND NOTES.

The Sioux City Tribune thinks ut Is
| probably a mistake to agitate the re-
| peal of the bankruptcy law. There are
| doubtless thousands of men who prefer
| not to take out discharges in bank
! ruptcy until they have exhausted
every effort to pay their debts, and
these would take alarm at any serious
purpose to repeal the law. Let 1t once
be known that congress intends to re-
peal, and there would be mighty rush
for the bankruptcy court that would
cause more loss to creditors than could
statute"
"All over Iowa" observes the Daven-
port Democrat, farms are worth more
than they were three years ago. And
in 1907 they will uniformly represent
more money than they do today The
man who has put his money into Wall
street stocks haH seen 1t grow less and
less. Every acre OF Iowa land that has
been bought during the past thirty
years has steadily enhanced in value.
that is in selling price,
The report that Harry Lehr is now
preparing to entertain the smart set"
by appearing in woman's clothes, leads
the Sioux City Journal to confess
there are times when one is tempted
to believe the smart set would con-
slider 1t a huge joke If the funny Mr..
Lehr should appear at some paticu-
larly smart social function In the garb
OF the late Mr.. Adam"
To the Iowa City Republican "the
fact that considerable number of any
party would suggest such a man as
Hearst for the presidency Is an evil
dence of moral decay that Is distress
ing"
IF Perry Heath refuses to resign as
secretary of the republican national
committee" says the Odebolt Chron-
icle, "the committee ought to kick him
out. II Heath is retained there is no
use making a fight to elect q republican
president"
To the Union Star 1t appears Curious
how moderate an expense a dollar a
day for drinks seems when you pay 1t
out In quarters and, how extortionate
a water tax bill of s24 a year when
you pay 1t out in lump sum-"
The Nevada Waterman declares that
"the world has reached such a stage
of politeness that a man can make all
kinds of fool of himself and nobody
will tell him about it."
The Tama Herald is not trust bus
ter where trust at the grocery is con-
cerned.
Report From the Reform School.
]. G. Gluck, superintendent Prunty-
town, w. Va, writes: after trying
all other advertised cough medicines
we have decided to use Foley's Honey
and Tar exclusively In the West Vir-
ginia Reform School. I find it the
most effective and absolutely harm
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-09

is noteworthy fact that the horse
business on the range is not increasing
as it is elsewhere. but is actually on
the decline. OF course there are some
sections where breeders are building
up their herds, but many of the range
breeders are taking advantage of the
present boom to close out and quit the
business. The range country is beins
settled up, cattle and sheep are taking
the place of horses. the number OF
bulls and rams going to the ranges is
growing while the number of stations
is decreasing. 1t is the old law Of the
survival of the fittest. The horse $
being crowded back to the pastures too
remote from water for sheep or cattle
and to those which are too exposed Of
have not the hay reserve considered
essential now to successful cattle and
sheep ranching. So that while horse
breeding is an expanding industry on
the farms 1t is the reverse on the
ranges"