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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10

greater than to any other country ex.
cept Germany. To Germany the in.
crease in the eleven months of 1903, fol
which figures are now available, was
$21 ,0O0,00O; to Mexico, the increase
was $2,000.O00; to Argentina, s1,500,000;
| to all of South America, S2,500,000; ano
| to al! of Africa, $4,000,1c0. Thus the
| actual increase in our expectations to
Canda in the fiscal year just ended will
be greater than to any other country
except Germany.
Meantime the imports into the United
States from Canada have grown, but
not with equal rapidity. The total i'm
ports for the year Just ended will
amount to about 100000, against a
total of S4S,000,000 imported from Brit
ish North America In the fiscal year
1902. Comparing 1908 with 1898, the
growth Will amount to about $4,000
900. the total imports from British
North America for 1898 having been
about $4,000, 900: while the growth IN
our exports to British North America
during that same period will be about
S77,000,000. Thus the total exports to
British North America from the United
States are little more than double the
imports into the United States from
that section. and the growth in exports
between 1893 and 1903 has been twice
as great as the growth in imports.
The most important articles which
form that expectation of s125,Oo0,0OO to
British North North America are, stat
ing them in the relative order of value:
Manufactures of iron and steel; COAL
breadstuffs; raw cotton: manufactures
Of cotton: agricultural implements;
chemicals; lumber, and manufactures
OF wood.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10

putrid stuff is taken to some out-of-
the-way place, melted, treated with
acids and worked over into process
butter. 1t is colored and nicely wrap
ped into pound bricks, and sold as
creamery butter. 1t is sold on it's
looks. and consumed by people whose
taste Is dulled by the bad air. dust and
filth of the city Men get this butter
for a few cents, and by working 1t over
they often make 500 per cent. profit
DR.. Jacques gives the following method
of distinguishing good butter from the
process" article: Good butter has a
grain, and fractures by medium tenn
perature. Process butter is pasty, like
salve. Good butter should not stick to
the knife when cut. while process but
ter sticks to the knife blade.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10
The Amos Presidency.

| Farmers generally are somewhat dis
appointed over the faiu!a of the trus-
tees of the agricultural college at Ames
to select president more thoroughly
fitted to care for agricultural interests
than the one selected seems to be. The
school is really a farmers school and
under Beardshear's regime, with the
aid of Curtis and others, the Ames
school won the approval and co-opera-
ton of the Iowa farmer The farmer
appreciated it because it had become a
practical aid. When his boy came
home and picked out steers with the
eye Of an expert and even showed the
father few points he had failed to
notice, or suggested an obvious and
practical improvement, the old mans
heart warmed to the school as he rec
ognized its utility. He found that IN
stead OF cheapening farm work as de-
grading the Ames school dignified
farming and taught its students to re-
spect and love the farm. Instead of
losing his boy by sending him away to
school, he found a better farmer than
himself and an educated man who real
lied the dignity and independence of
farm life. This suited the farmers and
led them to look upon the Iowa Agri-
cultural College as their own particu-
lar property All farmers will hope that
Mr. Storms may be able to turn from
theoretical discussion to practical APP
plfcation and that the school may not
lose its agricultural atmosphere under
his management. 1t must remain the
farmers school par excellence II 1t is to
be successful Still there are hundreds
of farmers who will regret Curtis any
way. They think he earned the presi-
dency
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10
the AUTO on COUNTRY ROADS.

An autocar service running thru the
country on a time schedule and making
connections with regula. trains at inn
portant railway points has been or
sanized In Ireland and bios fair to
prove successful. Lord Leitrin. the
organizer of the service. intends keep
iig the roads In suitable conditions FOR
he big wagons by system of heavy
steam rollers which will pack ana level
he highways at regular Intervals. The
,utos are powerfully constructed and
Mil carry sixteen passengers and one
,s,lf ton of baggage.
II has been suggeste! that automo-
vile lines making regular trips are
available and might be made profitable
in iowa as interurban adjuncts to rail-
way travel and city trade. II confined
fc q purely passenger ana express serf-
.ce II is possible that such ines Nigh:
sarn living where thick,y settled COM
munities might be tapped by them or
between lines of railway where connec-
tions are difficult. and may be made
more quickly and cheaply across coun-
try than by rail. Their value as freight
haulers is scarcely worth considering
Five times as much power is needed to.
move a load over macadam as upon
steel rails.
Certain highway engineers have ad-
vocated track OF wide steel plates or
rails along country roads as a feasible
sensible and not too expensive form OF
road Improvement. In recent number
of the Engineering Magazine" Syivesr
ter Stewart advocates this plan for au"
tomobiles and suggests that the tracks
used by day for travel might be util..
lied for freight traffic by night
Against this it is argued that IL such
plates were laid on a public highway.
all sorts of vehicles would use them
and would have a right 20 do so. Au-
tomobiles would contantly be oyertak-
ing teams. and collisions would inev-
itably result. The ease With which the
former could travel would be constant
and usually irresistible temptation to
dangerous speeds. Even when smash
ups were avoided, the suddennesS with
which most drivers would turn out
when necessity arose would often be-
ruinous to their tires. Still, the chief
objection would be the danger TO which
other carriages would be exposed.
There is much speculation and sug
gestion on the fitting of country roads.
for automobiles. but the auto can as yei
receive no consideration by the builde;'
OF country highways, especially IN
Iowa. These roads are primarily for
business, not pleasure. and the auto Il,
still largely a pleasure machine. The
agitation will do good and the suggest
tons prove helpful but the real need a..
a decent road over which to haul corn
and hogs to market and lumber, coal, |
sight of or ordinary Improvement dr.. |
layed by the fancied Meals OF automu.,
at present it a road for markets ard |
mail delivery. not.a pleasure drive. Let
us get the one before we speculate up
on the other.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10
The strawpile
Alfalfa in Iowa

The Castana, Iowa, Times has To-
cal paragraph of interest to all farmers
who have been thinking of experiment
ing with alfalfa. From this Times ac-
count alfalfa does fairly well in Monroe
county.
Hansen and Day secured at the nrst
cutting so loads of alfalfa from ten
acres of rolling land, which has been
in cultivation for about 40 years. This
land was seeded last year and 1t Is es-
timated the yield would equal 70 tons
of dry alfalfa or two and one-haff tons
per acre. They seeded about IS acres
last year, which produced an average
yield Of dry hay per acre. They will
be able to cut two and possibly three
more crops of hay from the land this
year"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10
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PAPERS = = =

BOB COUSINS BAD TASTE
Waterloo Reporter

w ateIlOO ItSpOTleT.J
Congressman Cousins of the fifth
district is not yet happy over the po-
sition of the Iowa republicans on the
tariff question. The suggestion that
Tariff rates must from time to time
be changed to meet the varying condi-
tons incident to the progress of our in
dustries and their changing relations to
our foreign and domestic commerce." Is
as unwelcome to him apparently, as
was the shelter plank of a year ago,
which he then denounced with so much
vehemence in the Slavery House lobby
at Des Moines. All things considered,
the speech which Mr.. Cummins made
in convention, after the platform had
been made and unanimously adopted,
was in as bad taste as was his more
incorporate and more spontaneous out
burst in the Slavery year before. The
more recent violation of good taste can
not find excuse on the same grounds
which charity allowed to cover the
previous offense.
But he does not seem to understand
that member Of congress is not great
er than the people who elect him. He
fails to recognize that the platforms
and policies of the party are to be
formulated by the party, as represented
in its conventions, and not as dictated
by its representatives in congress. Mr..
Cousins is young enough to learn a
good many things yet, but he is not
giving evidence of teachable dispo-
sition. If he would but learn these
truths and if. at the same time he
would cultivate q spirit of humility
and OF consideration for others, it would
be of untold value to him in his polit-
ical life.
He might with profit also learn that
those to whom he contemptuously re-
fers as "rhodents of REFORM because
they believe that revisions OF the tar
If should be made by protectionists and
in harmony with protective princi-
pies rather than to be left to be made
by the enemies of protection. are as
genuinely republicans as Is the con-
gresham from the Fifth district.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10
SELLING Process Butter.

Director jacques, of the city labora-
tory. says that the Chicago Drovers'
Journal, states that probably half of
the butter sold on the market is ''pro-
cess" product Bricks Of the process
stuff are veneered with pure creamery
butter and sold in large quantities. Pro-
secutions are to be started under the
pure food laws. While In a Michigan
country grocery recently, DR.. Jacques
saw a large quantity of spoiled butter
piled in a back room. and was informed
that it was sold in Chicago, to be made
into axle grease. This vils-smelling
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10
erutaIly Tortured.

A case came to light that for persist
ent and unmerciful torture has perhaps
never been eaualed. Joe Golobick. OF
Colusa, CAL writes: For fifteen years
l endured insufferable inain from rheu-
matism and nothing relieved me, tho
1 tried everything known. came across
Electric Bitters and it's the greatest
medicine on earth for that trouble. A
few bottles of completely relieved and
cured me-" Just as good for liver and
kidney troubles and general debility
Only so cents. Satisfaction guaranteed
by George r. Powers. druggist.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10
on their hats with shoe horn who fee
the same way"

on their hats with shoe horn who fee
the same way
"If home made platforms are to make
this row a chronic condition in the fu-
ture, why not" suggests the Creston
Gazette, "'point with pride to national
declarations and act as did the sailor
man when he pasted the Lords prayer
10 the foot Of the bed and fastened his
nightly devotions by pointing 1T out
with the admonition, Lord, them's my
sentiments!
"Avaunt! the prognosticator Of a
crop failure in Iowa." excl.ims the Cas-
tana Times. You can't keep a good
state down. Corn, crushed to earth, will
rise again."
Noting that 1.-The Des Noines Capital
wants peace" the Nonpareil suggests:
IF the Capital will calm itself, there'll
be mighty little disturbance"
Joe Trigg notes -four things which
are common to all sections of the coun-
try, whether north or south-the box
elder tree. the Virginia creeper the
fool girl hanging around the depot and
the beer key"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10
COTTONWOOD LUMBER

| II is not necessary to turn to statis-
tics for proof that the supply of GER
tain kinds of valuable timber trees of
1 the United States is rapidly failing, of
others is practically gone. and of still
others has entirely vanished as a fac
| tor in the lumber market. For exam
pie. ten years ago the use of balsam
| in the manufacture of paper pulp was
lock is now valuable for its timber as
| well as for its bark. A more modern
| instance is the gradual Use in impor-
lance of the western hemlock. until
Very recently altogether discredited as
a timber tree. altho in fact, of great
commercial power. The red fir of the
rapidly invading markets formerly con-
trolled altogether by the white pine of
the north central states. while species
of peculiar value, such as black wal
nut and black cherry, have practically
vanished from the market in the grades
which once were common. The SOUTH
ern pines are being destroyed with
rapidly which finds Its parallel only
in the case of northern white pine. 1t
is true that the list Of commercial tim
bers lengthens from year to year. Just
as the balsam is taking the place of the
spruce, so are substitutes coming in
for other woods which no longer exist
III sufficient quantity to supply the de-
mand. But neither can this prove a
sufficient remedy. The supply of the
substitutes will be exhausted in its
turn. and the final situation will be
worse than that which confronts us
now. 1t is no longer q question of
methods of manufacture. or of substi-
tuees for exhausted supplies. The
time for us to look after the trees
themselves has in many cases already
arrived.
Until recently the cottonwood was
the most despised of trees, but neces-
sity has forced recognition of its uses.
In Vienna township, In this county.
two farmers have sawed thousands OF
feet of lumber from cottonwood logs
which they bought at so cents tree
Their lumber has cost them about $3.50
per thousand feet and they assert its
equality to pine or hemlock for dimen-
SION stuff and inside work generally. In
Jackson county progressive young
farmers have RATED cottonwood logs
down the Mississippi for lumber with
which to build large barns. One barn
b2x70 feet was built, with the exception
OF shingles and siding, entirely from
this cottonwood lumber and Is highly
to its owner. The cash ex-
pended outside Of the two items men,
toned amounted to about ST5. This
man owned land from which the cot
were logged and did his own |
cutting and hauling. The SIS was paid |
for saving.
These instances are two OF many
which might be cited of the utility of /
the despised cottonwood. If its lumber
will partially I'LL the place of the rap
idly disappearing pine forests it would
seem that some OF the lands subject to
food and untitled for cultivation gener-
ally might be made paying and pro-
ductive by planting them with cotton
wood forests No tree grows fastar or
needs less attention. Perhaps the tree
that the builders refused may help to
settle the problem offered by wasted
lumber supply.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10
Your prussist Will Buy II Back.

You assume no risk When you buy
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy Your druggist will re-
fund your money II you are not salts
fed after using it. It Is everywhere ad-
mitted 70 be the most successful rem
coy in use for bowel complaints and the
only one that never fails. It is pleas
ant. safe and reliable. All druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10
Ladies and
Gentlemen

Row II the time to place your orders
Sor fur garments, as prices are advanc.
ing.
Our stock was purchased before the
advance. consequently we arc able to
Dell goods much cheaper than we 9TH
erwise would be. We also have the
largest line Of fur boas, NUTS, collar.
cites and jackets. We are selling our
furs at wholesale prices. You don't
need to attend sales thinking you are
getting bargain. They buy the furs
from the furriers themselves and then
cell them to you. Go to the furrier and
buy your garments at factory prices.Ws
are positively sure we can sell you the
garments Is per cent cheaper than any
other place. We also do repairing and
remodeling. When up town please call
In and see my stock Of furs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10

Disc stirring plows are gaining con-
siderable favor on account of their
ease of operation. Four horses are
able to turn over more ground In a day
with these disc gangs than with the
ordinary gang plow. The question is
will they kill weeds or will disc plowed
ground grow foul as ground is likely to
when the common disc has been used
for successive seasons?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10

One OF Missouri's peculiar indus
tries is the growing OF a kind Of corn
whose cob is especially adapted for
pipes. A group Of farmers in Lafay-
cite county raise 1t extensively. One
field of % acres produced 1925 bushels
Of corn worth 1896. and the cobs sold
for $19s. The average per acre was
s21.36. Corn cob pipes are supposed to
dispose of nicotine without injury to
the smoker.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10
Pure spices have great value

Pure spices have great value in help
ing digestion. Bulk spices are gener-
ally adulterated and are frequently
actually poisonous by reason of the
foreign matter To be sure about
purity and strength, get Tones Spices,
which are always in wax paper lined
packages.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10
Compressed Fodder.

The egg market is one that is never
overstocked. There are thousands of
dozens of eggs shipped to market, but
no matter how many may arrive, there
is demand for those that are choice.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10

Joe Trigg says whenever flour sells
at a dollar a sack 1t will pay the farmer
to raise his own bread If he has land
suited to wheat crop.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10

The boys on the farm are anxiously
awaiting the importation and propa-
cation here of the new French potato
which kills its own potato bugs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10

If the low patches where water
killed all profitable growth and which
are now covered with weeds are thor
oughly plowed in August or September
the weed problem will be settled. An
old Illinois farmer used 10 say that If
he could plow all his ground in August
he would never have a weed on the
farm.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Eldora Herald says: "The re-
publican state convention held on
Wednesday last was real party love
feast, and the platform adopted is one
upon which loyal republican, no mat
ter where he may be found, can stand
with both feet and hold ais head erect.
The ticket nominated is all right, too,
and we are all glad we are members of
the G. O. p OF this state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-10

There are a good many people in
Creston." observes the Advertiser, who
are Of the opinion that the man who
wrote every day will be q holiday bye
and bye should be mobbed. The VIC
tins OF the deadly toy pistol and the
idiots cane are wishing that holidays
would be abolished by statute. And
then there are others who are putting
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-06-12
The Kind of a Man He Is.

"Quinine was never cheaper than 1t
Is now," remarked Mr.. Bowersox as
he laid down his newspaper. "It can
be obtained in a wholesale way at
twenty cents per ounce. Some years
ago the price was in the neighborhood
Of a dollar" ..... ...
How do you know?" asked Mrs.
Bowersox.
"WeH, I ought to know if anybody
ought. Many an ounce of quinine have
l taken, for l was a terrible sufferer
from ague in my younger days, can
tell you"
"Well, that's just like you exactly,
Benjamin Franklin Bowersox." ..
"What is just like me?" asked Bow
ersox in some surprise, for his wife's
tone was one of severity.
"Why, it was just like your extrav-
agant nature to contract the ague
when quinine was very expensive, and
now that the drug is cheap enough
to place the shakes within the reach
of all you are as free from 1t as if
there wasn't any such thing as ma
laria in the world. Benjamin Frank
lin Bowersox, If there is a more ag-
gravating man than you on this foot
stool wish some one would point him
out to me. That's what WISH"
At this point the aggravating man
put on his hat and went down street.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-06-12
FEARS CONDUCTORS PUNCH.
Messenger Boy Who "F1ips" Stree
Cars IL Getting Wary.

Messenger Boy Who "F1ips'' Street
Cars Is Getting Wary.
The street-car conductors punch is
becoming the nemesis of the messen-
ger boys who Zip" the cars. The
sage carriers head, punches a hole
in the visor, and the work is done.
That little hole in the bill Of the cap
Is a tell-tale mark, and when the en-
ployers see it they know the boy has
been hitching on to the street cars.
The use of the punch for tagging
the clippers" has made the young
sters deadly enemies of the street
railway men, and has incidentally en-
riched the curbstone vernacular by two
picturesque names. One is nickel
snatcher," a name given to the con-
ductor, and the other Is wire biter."
as the messengers have dubbed the
gripman. rsr-.. -..
The other night three clippers
were "hitching on" to North Clark
street cable car. While one Of the
gripman reached out his long arm
and lifted the boys cap from his head.
He handed the cap to the conductor,
saying: Put your mark on it."
Nav, gimme it," yelled the boy.
"Doncher punch it. You want to get
me fired? l amt done nuthin'."
The conductor set the jaws of the
punch over the visor, and the mes
senger set up wall. He knuckled his
eyes and cried like baby.
The conductor placed the boys cap
back on his head, took him by the
coat collar, and set him down in the
street. When he was safely out Of the
clutches Of the "nickel snatcher," as
he called the conductor. he lifted his
cap off his head and carefully exam
ing it to see if the punch had taken
out bite. When he saw it was all
right he clapped it back on his head
and "hitched on" to the rear end Of the
last car, yelling wire bitter" and
''nickel snatcher" at the gripman and
conductor-Chicago Inter Ocean.