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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11
were not ignorant.

it were not ignorant.
These men are either fools or
criminals. 1t is by way of excuse to
call them fools.
1t is time that an example were
made of those whose carelessness with
firearms has caused loss of life. The
most severe penalty for criminal care
lessness is none too great for the man
who recklessly discharges a heavy
rifle or pistol inside the limits of city
or heedlessly sows bullets over the
country side. These killings we read
of are not accidents but result from
neglect of common precaution and such
neglect Is crime. Sorrow after the
shooting can not be substituted for the
common sense that should have pre-
vented 1t. Ignorance is not an eX-
cuse. The man who thru foolish
has taken a human life,
should be made to suffer for man
A few prosecutions and
would have a Statutory eff
feet upon the fool with firearms.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11
FOOLS AND FIREARMS.

| From Spirit Lake comes the story OF
a young working man shot and killed
by the bullet Of a carless target shooter
while going about his business on one
Of the streets of the city. Another
news story from Keokuk county tells
Of another party Of marksmen who all
unintentionally sent half dozen bull
lets thru a school house wherein by
pure luck everyone escaped injury. 1t
was not very long ago that fool and
| a firearm were responsible for the
death of young girl in Jasper county.
Not a week passes but the papers tell
of some fatal shooting or miraculous
escape from death, in which careless
ness and the ubiquitous 22-calibre rifle
| figure Not only these but men who
should and do know better fire high
power rifles and pistols the death
zone of which may be measured in
miles, at anything that offers a fair
target, reckless or forgetful of their
destructive range and the fact that it
is a hard matter in Iowa to get more
than a half mile away from human be-
ings.
1t is the % however that Is most
dangerous because of the general ig-
norance of its death dealing capacity.
Most people look upon the little rifles
with their tiny cartridges, as toys.
They are either ignorant or reckless
of the facts that 22-calibre short
cartridge will penetrate four inches Of
pine at close range, or pass entirely
thru the body Of chicken or turkey,
at 200 yards. One of these tiny bull
lets may sting man to death, any
where between the muzzle of the little
rifle and a half mile of field or forest.
Still almost any boy may have one of
these guns and pocket full Of ammu-
milton, and make himself the center of
danger zone mile in diameter. The
30-calfbre high power rifles can pitch
a deadly ball two or three miles. They
have a penetration of more than four
feet of pine. They render whole
township unsafe Still men, who ought
to know their power, fire them at
trees. unbacked targets. birds and
rabbits. with horrible heedlessness
Of human life, that would be vicious If
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
+ LOOKER.ON IN IOWA !
irkssss-

Eldora, Oct. 1.-THE next best thing
to having Uncle Sam build postoffice
building in your town is for him to
have one built to order and have 1t
for number of years. This is what
has been done here. Postmaster Har-
ris took the necessary steps and the
result is now he and his helpers
occupy a fine two-story brick corner
building, with room for his private Of
flee, money order department, and
places for seven carriers on the free
rural delivery. The room is 26hxS0
and the whole arrangement, fixtures,
plate glass front, and lock box draw
ers, strike the stranger very favor
ably. In fact many towns much larg-
a showing Since the rural free de-
livery was inaugurated in Hardin
county, the receipts of the Eldora
postoffice have gradually increased, till
last year, when the books showed an
income of $4,000 more than any pre-
vious year.
1--WE still have in our midst" many
wiseacres who will insist that this rur-
al free delivery business is killing the
trade in our Iowa towns, but Eldora
which has seven routes, and Hardin
county, which has free delivery prac-
tically to every farm house. ought
to show up this killing business if any
where, has hardly vacant store, and
no vacant residences, more than US
ual from inevitable changes Business
failures here in the past ten years
have been few and far between. There
doesn't seem to be anything the mat
ter with Eldora.
G.. E. Lawrence cashier of the Citi-
zens bank, Union last year had much
to do with inaugurating a corn judg-
ing contest in that town, Professor
Holden, of Ames College, delivered
lecture on corn, seed, growth and Gull
ture. Judges were appoMted and the
bank gave $25 in prizes. So much in
terest was taken the corn Judging
contest will be repeated this year,
probably in November. The business
mems association will probably run
itn this year, q trophy and many cash
prizes will be offered. Conservative
citizens claim that the result of last
YEARS contest shows tremendously
ed near Union this year.
And all this suggests that the farm
ers of Iowa, as a whole. are doing
more studying. than the workers In
any other kind of manual labor. 1t is
not all. for the sake of a holiday that
60 many thusand now make the annual
pilgrimage to the agricultural college
at Ames. These men and wives and
their children go to Arnes once a year.
listen to the theoretical, inquir into
tn scientific, and then go home and
combine the two with the practical.
For instance from Ames came the
statement in regard to the feeding
Qualities of soft corn The farmers
tried It. and carefully watched re-
suits And out OF this, one hears from
them, that under the prevailing condi-
lions at the barns at the college, GER
tain results may have been reached
but on the farm. under different con-
aitiony. soft corn does not produce the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11

| best results. This is not to invite any
discussion, but given to Illustrate the
fact that the Iowa farmer is testing
| theories as we'll as seed corn.
The other day the writer was in a
town where an old settlers piclnc was
held. They had a basket dinner on the
court house grounds. The writer walk
ed by lust as the baskets were being
opered and filled his note book with
memoranda on the good things coming
out of those baskets. And he saw, or
thinks he saw, something more note
worthy. And that's this: That the
women of Iowa are working towards
the Amazonian. Here in sight were
thousand women, over fifty years of
age, many of sixty, and some of sew
enty. On such an occasion in Yankee
dom one would have seen hundreds
of thin chested, small wasted, dried up
old women. These kind one sees down
east thin in flesh, sharp featured,
wrinkled by age, and lacking vitality,
many using canes and some crutches to
relieve their rheumatic joints and
pains In word "a lot of old women"
But in this crowd gathered from town
and country, the old women did not
look old in the sense we generally use
the word. The grandmothers were
spreading the tablecloths, they were
bossing the job. Youngsters were
working them for pie first. Grandma
with a weight of IT'S was giving
Johnny a bunch Of grapes. Grandma,
five feet six, with a waist measure of
forty two, was telling the men folks
to bring out that other basket"
Grandma was there, grand in physical
development. Then the Looker-On be-
gan to look at their daughters, thirty
five to fifty years of age. And there
was the same fine physical develop
ment. These women, full breasted,
broad shoulders, generous waists and
weighing from $50 up to 200 pounds,
naturally were the mothers Of those big
boys and girls. Boys with big legs big
calves, big feet big hands and good
sized heads. Boys Of ten that could
pick up sack of flour or bushel of
potatoes. Boys that could eat three big
slices Of bread and butter. filled half
an inch thick with grape jelly, half a
dozen doughnuts, two pieces (big
pieces) of apple pie and finish off with
whole (s1nalD watermelon, and not
have to send for doctor. The writer
began to understand why the Iowa boys
that enlisted for the Spanish war
locked so big in their new uniforms.
They were big. 1t wasn't a vivid i'm
agniation on the part of the Filipinos
when some of these soldiers disem-
barked from Dewey's gunboats. You
haven't said anything about the men at
that old settlers picnic. Were not they
big, too? Perhaps so. And perhaps
the old men of Iowa should have some
credit for this fine display Of muscular
ity. Now is the reader thinks this
picture overdrawn, notice the number
of large women over thirty-fve years
of age in the next big crowd Of Iowa
people you happen to have in your
vicinity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11
A Cheap Tour Around the WorI,

A Cheap Tour Around the World.
Most every evening after tea
I travel far as far can be.
I grasp the Wheel with both my hands,
And soon I'm off for foreign lands.
I see all countries that I can
Alaska. China and Japan,
Then round by Italy and Spain
And very soon I'm home again.
Then up about the Polar sea.
Where bears and walrus stare at mo;
At other times I take my way
To distant Burma and Malay.
In every land, down to the sea,
The people rush to look at me.
Good luck to you!" 1 hear them say:
wave my hand and speed away.
Our dining room is everywhere:
Ny ship Is just q rocking chair.
cruise about the world at sea
Most every evening after tea.
st. Nicholas
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11
Topics Of the Times

AS substitute for II regret to re-
backward movement?
If, as it is reported, Judge Parker
owns sixteen suits of clothes, he will
be sensible if he puts on most of them
November 8. Political weather reports
indicate cold wave on that date.
While Russia is more liberal than
Japan in dealing out war news it must
be considered that the Japs are making
most of it.
The Burlington Evening Journal has
given up the ghost after an unavailing
struggle against older and better pap
ers after costing its proprietor $4,000
loss. Mr.. Ansel Hard, the owner, is an
excellent newspaper man who made the
mistake of attempting with limited
capital to compete in a field already
filed and well filed. The Burlington
people naturally patronized the best
papers, and while they sympathized
with Mr.. Hard in his losing struggle
did not feel called upon to shoulder his
burdens.
The burning of pie wagon at Bur-
lington, entailing a loss of 500 need
awaken no fear that the flames will
reach the First district pie counter.
Burtonville. H., enjoys the curious
distinction of being the only incorpor-
ated town in the United States that
does not have to levy a municipal tax.
The towns population is only three
hundred, but it collects $1,000 annually
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11
Better Than Pills.

The question has been asked-in
what way are Chamberlain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets superior to the ordl-
nary cathartic and liver pills? Our
answer is-They are easier and more
plea SAINT to take. and their effect is so
gentle and agreeable that one hardly
realizes that it IS produced by medi-
clne, Then they not only move the
bowels blu. improve the appetite and
aid the digestion For sale at 25 cents
rer bottle. All druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11

for saloon licenses, a sum sufficient for
it's municipal expenses. The fact speaks
volumes for the liquid capacity Of the
inhabitants who possibly order their
clothing made to beer measure.
Five mail sacks full Of catalogs ar
rived at Allison the other day from q
Chicago mail order house. There is an
object lesson for the home merchants
in the shipment. How much advertise
ing did Allison merchants send out on
the same day?
The sausage makers of New York are
on strike and foreign sausage is pro-
hibited by the Dingley tariff. This is a
case where worst comes to wurst.
Look here" exclaimed the irate
householder "dont you know gas
comes out of the furnace you sold
me?"
well, what do yo ueXpect to come
out of a cheap furnace?" demanded the
stove dealer. Electric lights ?"-Chi-
cago News.
DR.. Jacksons experiment in accli-
matizing Siberian reindeer in Alaska
has proved to be great success, altho
it was thought it was going to be dis
asterous failure at first. The animals
have learned to eat the Alaskan moss
and are multiplying rapidly. Their
milk is very rich, and they are also
used for sledge animals.
Stranger Cat the door)-I am trying
to find a lady whose married name I
have forgotten, but / know she lives in
this neighborhood. She is a woman
ca silv Described and nerhanS YOU know
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11
Save. Two From Death.

"Our little daughter had an almost
fatal attack Of whooping cough and
bronchitis" writes Mrs. w. K. Havi.
land. of Armonk, N. Y, "but when all
other remedies failed, we saved her
life with DR.. Kings new discovery.
Our niece, who had consumption In an
advanced stage, also used this Won
derful medicine and today she is per-
fectly WE'LL Desperate throat and lung
diseases yield to DR.. Kings new dis
covery as to no other medicine on
earth. Infallible for coughs ana
colds. soc and 81 bottles guaranteed
by Mcdonald & Mahood Co. Trial
hotties free
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11
PETITIONS AND PUBLICITY.

the Des Moines Ministerial Association
is preparing to put up a desperate
fight against the establishment of
brewery in that city says:
They expect to publish the names of
every person signing the petitions, ex-
pecting that by intimidation they can
defeat the plan. Their souls are just
about the right size to allow them to
do that sort of dirty work if they could
induce any printer. to publish the
names
The Democrat appears to have
spoken thoughtlessly, and in heat,
when it characterized the publication
of public petition as dirty work"
and put the souls OF the Des Moines
Ministerial Association in the dirty
class because such publication is con-
templated The petition referred to is
public business, and as such it is as
entirely within the legal and moral
rights of the ministerial association
to procure it's publication as to procure
the publication Of tax list Who
ever signs the brewery petition may
be presumed to have done so because
he is convinced of the benefit such
an institution would confer upon his
city, That he is ashamed of his name
on petition is sufficient proof that it
should not be there.
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be given the fullest publicity. 1t is
we'll that the public should know who
favors and forces an institution that
must be established by petition.
Whether or not brewery is a good
thing for Des Moines, every disreput-
able name in the city will be written
on it Along with hundreds Of sigma
lures that mean honest conviction
there will be thousands that are pur-
chasable commodities, to TIE owners of
which the establishing of a brewery
means nothing in business advantage,
and are written merely because they
count and were paid for in one way or
another. Every disreputable name in
Des Moines will be unit on the pc
tition. It's majority if it succeeds.
will come from class that does no
good to any city. 1t is not dirty
work." but good public policy to pub
lish the name Of the signers. The
people will be glad to know who it
is who worst wants a brewery.
The Christian ministry Of Des
Moines, convinced that brewery is
bad thing, and fortified by the law
have an unquestionable right to op-
pose its establishment by all legiti-
mate and honorable means. When
they publish the signed petition, they
are not only doing nothing dishonor-
able or dirty, but taking a common
sense advantage in what they, in
common with many others, consider
necessary fight against an evil. 1t
is without the province of any news
paper to characterize them as little
souled and dirty, because they accept
what seems to them manifest duty.
Publish the names? Certainly publish
them. If the signer is ashamed of his
signature, let him keep 1t off the Pc
tition. And what is true Of the brew
cry petition, is also true of any other
petition that affects public welfare.
They should all be published.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11
spen. More Than $1,000.

W. w. Baker, of Plainview, Neb.,
writes: "My wife suffered from lung
trouble for fifteen years. She tried a
number of doctors and spent over ST.
600 without relief. She became very
low and lost all hope. A friend rec
commended Foley's Honey and Tar, and
thanks to this great remedy, it saved
her life. She enjoys better health than
she has known in ten years.. Refuse
substitutes. For sale by B. A. Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11
A1 M,A44.AIs.I
chamberIain's Cough Remedy.

N one who is acquainted with it's
good qualities can be surprised at the
great popularity of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. 1t not only cures colds
and grip effectuaIly and permanently,
but prevents these diseases from re-
sulting in pneumonia. 1t is also a GER
tain cure for Group. Whooping cough
is not dangerous when this remedy is
given. It contains no opium or other
harmful substance and may be given
as confidently to a baby as to an adult.
It is also pleasant to take. When all
of these facts are taken into consid-
GRAFTON it is not surprising that people
in foreign lands, as we'll as at home es-
TEEN this remedy very highly and very
few are willing to take any other after
having once used it. For sale by all
druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11

Thru to California Without Change.
The Iowa Central will inaugurate its
thru tourist car service to California
September 21st and continuing each
wednesday thereafter. Car will run
on train No. 2 by the way Of Kansas
City and the popular Sante Fe system
thru New Mexico and Arizona, arriv-
ing Los Angeles Sunday morning.
Very low rates in effect daily to Oc-
tober Is.
For particulars call on agents. or
address A. B. Cults, q. p. & T. A.,
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11

traced to the kidneys,
but now modern
science proves that
nearly all diseases
have their beginning
In the disorder of
these most important
organs.
The kidneys filter
and purify the blood
that ia their work.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11
Often The Kidneys Are
Weakened by 0Yer-Work

Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
II used to be considered that only
urinary and bladder troubles were to be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11
IOWA OPINIONS AND VOTES.

"Great Gosh!" calculated the aston
lshed Eddyville Tribune. when 1t read
Brewster's statement that Mr.. Lacey
has gained state and national prestige
by signifying his personal willingness
to meet him (Mr. Brewster) in debate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11
Good for Children.

The pleasant to take and harmless
One Minute Cough Cure gives instant
relief in all case Of cough. Group and
lagrippe, because it does not pass i'm
mediately into the stomach, but takes
effect right at the seat Of the trouble.
It draws out the Inflammation, heals
and soothes and cures permanently by
enabling the lungs to contribute pure.
live-giving and DEMONSTRATING oxygen
to the blood and tissues. Sold by all
druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11
"Watch the Kidneys"

.ewhen they are affected, life is in
danger" says DR.. Abernethy the great
English physician. Foleys Kidney
Cure makes sound kidneys. For sale
bv B. A. Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11

Therefore, when your kidneys are weak
or out Of osder, you can understand how
Quickly y6sr entire body is affected and
How every organ seems to fail to do its
duty.
II you are sick or "feel badly" begin
taking the great kidney remedy, DR..
Kilmsr' swamp-Root, because as soon
as your kidneys are we'll they will help
ali the other organs to health. A trial
will convince anyone.
If you are sick you can make no mis-
take by first doctoring your kidneys:
The mild and the extraordinary effect OF
Dr. Kilmsr's Swamp-Roet. the great
kidney remedy, is soon realized. 1t
stands the highest for it's wonderful cures
Of the most distressing cases, and IS sold
on its merits by all
druggists in 6fty-cent 4B 4 1l::ss4sssE33
and one-dollar size ~ ~ 81 y! la;[{s(a
bottles. You may s4l esssI
have sample bottle Home Of Swamp-Root
by mail free, also pamphlet telling you
how to find out if you have kidney or
bladder trouble. Mention this paper
when writing to DR.. Kilmer & Co., Bing
hamton, N. Y. Don't make any mistake,
but remember the name, Swamp Root,
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root, and the adj
dress, Binghamton, N. Y, on every bottle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-11


The Odebolt Chronicle warns the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil that 1t is
getting nightly independent for a
standpat newspaper, and that the SIM
on-pure Blythe organs will be reading
it out of the party If it doesn't watch
out.
cit doesn't seem possible" to the
Winnebago County Republican, in this
age Of quick travel and sweeping rail-
road facilities, that a man could be
found of the character and standing,
of Judge Parker, who has never pass
ed beyond the boundaries OF his own
state. Is it any wonder" it asks.
that he has wobbled about on
national issues in his efforts to over
come the necessities Of nation he
knows SO little about"
The Parkersburg Eclipse declares
"The preachers are a hard working,
conscientious lot of men and deserve
more at the hands Of the public than
they receive
ut is about time to leave the corn
alone and turn our attention to the
holiday festivities, the corn is all right
insists the Cedar Falls Gazette
The alidden Graphic suggests 10
Lincoln Steffins that he ought to strike
Frank Shercliffes trail right away The
Graphic feels sure ''he can furnish
material for an article which will lay
the Wisconsin and Missouri episties
away in the shade. He has been