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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12
"LAND POOR"

| There are a number of Iowa farmers
VINO have recently realized that it is
possible to have too much land When
the speculative craze in northern lands
WAS at its highest hundreds of farmers
took a flyer at $50 or 320-acre Min
nesota or Dakota farm. In many in
stances they raised the money for the
purchase by mortgage on their Iowa
holdings. In others they withdrew
their bank balance and left themselves
without ready money. Some of these
farmer spectators sold Immediately at
an advance. Some of them still have
the land and the mortgage and wish
they had neither
The sense Of possession is in gen
eral a very satisfactory feeling, but
the Iowa farmer with Dakota farm
which necessitates thousand mile
trip to rent 1t. another to protect his
interests at threshing time and who
taxes and repairs make his ownership
nominal, rapidly loses the keen enjoy
mis- money back or new barn on the
old place instead of the deed to the
North Dakota prairie. His investment
may turn out all right in time. but he
is cramped in his farming and feeding
operations at home by lack of funds
and in too many instances finds his
investment saving at a northern spigot
while wasting at an Iowa bung. In
the vernacular, he is land poor"
There Is no reasonable doubt that IL
all the money taken out Of Iowa to In
vest in northern and northwestern
lands had been used to improve Iowa
real estate and extend Iowa farming
operations the gain to the Iowa farmer
would have been immensely greater
than any advantages which have ac-
orued to him thru speculation in cheap
lands. Land speculation does not pay
the average farmer as we'll as strict
attention to his actual business of
raising crops and feeding hogs and
cattle, and this truth is being vigor-
ctlsly impressed upon many an Iowa
man who dreamed of sudden wealth
in land speculation and walked up to
financial embarrassment and vain re-
glets.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12
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THE CROOK OF BLYTfIE'S FINGER
tOdebolt Chroniclel
"The republicans of the Eleventh
district" says the Sioux City Journal
ought to be able to manage their own
affairs. They ought not to stand by
the wayside waiting for the crook of a
finger in the shadow of distant part
Of the state
Certainly not. Why should they wait
for the crook of J. w. Blythe's finger.
as Uncle George Perkins is waiting
Why should they take orders from
Burlington, the most distant part of
the state? Why should they not sup
port A. B. Funk. their home candidate
for Observation-Disclosures, regardless of
Blythe's wishes? Why should the lead
ing daily newspaper of the Eleventh
district permit its policy to be dictated
by the Iowa representative of the
Northern Securities Company and OPP
pose the election of Senator Funk as
delegate at-large?
The republicans Of the Eleventh dis
trict are able to manage their own
affairs" With the exception of Mr..
Perkins, they are not waiting for a
crook of a finger" in Burlington; and
they do not intend to give Mr.. Perkins
candidate for delegate-at-large a sim
gle vote.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12

and a London paper urges that thu
| ii be made the motive of novels, plays
/ sermons. lectures on economies, etc.
| that it be talked about not occasional
| ". but all the time. until some remedy
| the country.
| Joseph Smiths assertion that his
wives are like other women belongs il
the class of expert testimony.
THE unknown army, as the COM
missioner of pensions calls the living
soldiers of the civil war who have not
applied for pensions. numbers about
100000 or about 80 per cent of the
total number of survivors, who are
placed at about 100000. This 'un-
known army" is applying for pensions
at the rate of about $4,000 year.
So y
Drink. wife will raise
Cain with me if she discovers that I've
betil dIllhIHS.
Jagsby-All you've got to do is to
hold your breath when you go near her
Gadsby-That's all right; but Tn!
afraid it's too strong to be held.
Town and Country.
Panama has passed bill excluding
Turks, Syrians and Chinese from
Panama territory, which is likely to
bring the race question up against the
canal and have it's effect upon labor
conditions.
The Mississippi senate has denied
women the right to practice law in
that state. The senate is mostly made
the force and danger of female argu-
mentative opposition.
Joliet, H., with a population OF A.
600, is said by the Journal of Educa-
ton to have eighty acres given up to
rublic school grounds. Six schools
stand in grounds of native wood one
with four acres of timber around it,
another with five. One school has ito
peach orchard. where the fruit ripens
unmolested Last year the school sent
Il basket of it's peaches to the state
fair and took premium with it. A
school lot of seventeen acres is enough
to make teacher of nature study in
other public schools turn green with
envy, but Joliet not only has one, but
another of its schools has yard of
twenty acres, including fine grove.
and a delightful stream. On the pub
lie school grounds are 10000 trees. and
every school has its flower garden in
tho eaoSop
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12
ARTIFICIAL FUELS.

Everybody who have spent any time
on the continent of Europe has noticed
the economy practiced by Europeans
in the consumption of coal and mar
veled that the results should be Sc
satisfactory To be sure, the lofty
tombstone like, porcelain stove of the
Germans has chilly look ut first
and the cooler atmosphere of Germa :
houses may give one a homesitk long
ing for the furnac heated rooms OF
America, but gradually the open
minded stranger comes to look with
approval on the European arrange
ments for keeping. warm and 10 Won
der why his own people have not per-
ceived the beauty, the cleanliness. the
economy and satisfactory results that
some patent fuels have to recommend
them. That many Yankee has
turned the matter over in his busy
brain IL attested by a chapter on
artificial fuels in Edward w. Parker's
report on 'Ihe Production of Coal in
1902" which is about to be published
by the United States Geological Survey
as an extract from the annual volume
of Minera! Resources.
Prior to 1902. about 400 pateats had
been issued In the United Stites on
artificial fuels, but up to the close OF
1901 none had proved commercial
success. Mr.. Parker gives a list of
United States patents granted since
January 1, 1902. It remains to be seen
whether any Of them will De success
fully developed. The list includes
thirty seven patents, but contains TO
mention of fuels made from petroleum
or petroleum residue unless used n
connection with coal, Ignite, CIR peat
Neither does it include any compounds
that have for their object the increase
Of fuel efficiency unless they are used
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12

i'll the manufacture of the fuel itself.
Three patents Were ISSUED on briques :
ting machinery.
the steady advance in The price of
coal-no less than 40 per cent-wili2h
has taken place since 1898 has stimu
lated experiments looking :, the
invention of ARTIFICIAL fuels Result :
obtained in foreign countries from the
use of Ignite ard ucat in briauetted
form should encourage producers in
the United States to try s.n,ila- meth
eds of Manufacture. Small sizes os
anthracite c al fornierly wasted are
indeed rccovere! now by washeries
from the old culm banks and utilized
A large amount of coal lost in the
form of dust or finely pulveriZed
material might also be put into con-
vnnient shape for domestic consump-
ton, and slack now wasted at many OF
the btuminous mines in the United
States might be used to advantage If
compressed into DriQuetteS. There
are many indications that the time IS
not far distant when these neglected
fuel resources will all be utilized.
Without doubt the fuel capabilities
of Iowa peat beds will be thoroughly
tested by companies already to b.
formed. The price of coal in this state
is drawing hard toward a substitute
al. lower price. II the scientists are
right there are millions in the dry lake
and slough beds of the state await
ing enterprise. invention and hard
work. The consumer is anxiously
awaiting an opportunity to make a
trial of Iowa peat briquettes and Is
ready to continue their use if price and
service is satisfactory. The recent ex-
perience of the retail coal dealers has
put them in receptive state toward
an effective substitute and they would
without any doubt welcome and push a
competitive fuel likely to give satisfac-
ton. Let us have the Iowa briquette
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12

been at the capture of Hilton Head and
in the battle OF Secessionville. and then
under General Ben Butler in Virginia
until just before the engagement at
Fort Fisher when his time expired.
After the war he became member of
General Foster Post. G. A. r.. and rose
to the important position of vice de-
partment commander.
The general anxiety felt about him
after his sudden shock in the latter
part OF 1901 was slightly relieved by
the news that he had come out of a
state of Inconsistencies which had
lasted for five days. but as week after
week went by and he made no further
progress, one leg remaining paralyzed,
public opinion ruefully settled down to
the conviction that the highly honored
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12
GRAND ARMY STIRRED
WIDESPREAD SOLICITUDE ALMOST
Camp Fires Blaze With Joy Over Escape Of
Gen. Bedelps Orderly From a
Paralytic's Fate.

When it became known to the peo>
pie of Nashua, n. H., that Mr.. Ross c..
Duffy, of No. Is Russell avenue, had
been suddenly Frustrated by para
lytic shock in the street and taken to
his home in an ambulance, the deep
est concern was felt thruout the town
where he had lived for half a century
and had held prominent offices, such
as alderman, street commissioner and
representative in the state legislature.
Grand Army men were especially
solicitous, for Mr.. Duffy had gone to
the war in 81. where he had acted as
General Bedells orderly while serving
with Company f. Third regiment, New
Hampshire volunteer infantry; had
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12
EXAMINATIONS AID INFINITUM.
TIoWa Citizen.1

State Superintendent Riggs is of the
opinion that the number of examina-
tons given annually by the county
superintendent over the state should
be far less than what 1t is. That is
what the competent teachers of the
state have been thinking for years The
moment teacher gets outside of the
boundary line of his own county he
has as often as not been held up by a
county superintendent who desired to
examine him, and who even went so
far as to insist upon the privilege. This
has been one of the prolific sources of
the many examinations complained of
by the state superintendent There
should be system SO uniform as to
the examinations that there could be
established general recognition of
certificates granted by the different
counties. This could be managed much
as Is the accrediting of the high schools
Of the state by the standard colleges
of Iowa. The present chaotic condi-
ton is becoming unbearable. and one
of the unpleasant features of the mat
ter is that the extra and unnecessary
examinations are expensive both to
the teachers and the state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12
Colds Cause Pneumonia.

One of the most remarkable cases OF
cold, deep-seated on the lungs. caus-
ing pneumonia is that of Mrs. Gertrude
f. Fenner, of Marion, Ind, who was
entirely cured by the use of One Min
ute Cough Cure. She says: 1.-THE
coughing and straining SO weakened
me that ran down in weight from las
to ninety-two pounds l tried a nuns
Der of remedies to no avail until used
One Minute Cough Cure. Four bottles
of this wonderful remedy cured ME en-
tirely of the cough, strengthened my
lungs and restored me to my normal
weight, health and strength Sold by
an druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12
HuLI'S RESPONSIBILITY.

4
initiate Governor Cummins before the
people of Iowa ana before the nation
| by selecting from his home county a
delegat ton of men a majority of whom
are his personal enemies. the RESPONSE
hility should be definitely fixed. 1t is
useless for Captain Hull to attempt to
| wrigge from under the responsibility.
| His denial of any knowledge OF a pub
l;shed agreement is scarcely consistent
with his reputation as an astnte poll
| tician. Captain Hull was fighting for
his political existence, spending his
| money and energies in a desperate
struggle for Representation. 1t is
scarcely credible that an agreement so
| important to Hull's success as the one
honestly made with Governor ('ummins
and afterward repudiated with dis
honor should have been made without
Hull's complete knowledge and ap-
prevail The truth of the matter doubt
less is that Hull knew all about it.
Perhaps he meant to keep his agree
ment-"when the devil was sick the
devil monk would be'-but the op-
portunity it's reputation offered Mr..
Cummins personal enemies was not
newspapers and Hulls managers have
denied that any agreement was made.
Moines correspondent in another coll
umn shows how little dependence may
be placed upon the assertions Of Hull
and his henchmen.
Captain Hull who all along has de-
clared he desired to be fair to Cum
Minis and who refused to make his
campaign in the form of any fight
and who had it in his power to decide
what the convention should do, has
state the impression that there was no
agreement 9etween himself and the
governor. He has denied any knowl-
edge of any agreement to which he
was a party.
But on the Sunday morning; before |
the primary election in Des Moines. |
after the campaign was all over and
after Governor C,mmins had appeared
as listener at the last of the Prouty |
meetings, Captain Hull. thru his COM
nittee and over the signature OF his
manager. caused to be printed as a
paid advertisement in his newspaper |
this statement: "The governor is not |
involved in this contest. He is to have
his delegation without any contest.
Captain Hull has agreed to this"
No denial OF such an agreement was
ever made until after the betrayal of
the governor of Iowa by men who had |
given their solemn pledge to him that |
they would see that 1t was delega-
ton of his friends. No pretense was
made either In the Hull newspapers or
in the Hull paid advertisements or in
the Hull committee, at the time that
committee paid for the advertisement |
in which the above appeared, that |
Cummins had done anything to alb
solve them from their pledge They
simply denied any agreement. Hull
denied any knowledge of it; but his
money paid for the publication of the
fact that he had agreed to 1t.
The responsibility for the muddle in
the Seventh district should be clearly
fixed somewhere. The record is open
and all men may Judge for themselves.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12

six divisions of the railroad are stay
ing an indefinite time in Chicago hold
in a two hours session each day with
the general superintendent or his rep
resentatives, and in this way arriving
Tat satisfactory ARRANGEMENTS for both
operators and company, and the men
ton of this continuous meeting will
strike the reader as a much better way
of doing things than for the employees
to strike, or the company to order a
lockout. In meetings of this kind
labor and capitol arrive at a knowledge
of mutual conditions of both employer
and employe.
nD Toe%e7a-.,e
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12
Best Remedy for Constipation

1.-THE finest remedy for constipation
1 ever used is Chamberlain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets" says Mr.. Eli But
Ter, of Frankville. N. Y. "They act
gently and without any unpleasant eff
feet and leave the bowels in per-
fectly natural condition" Sold by all
dri,peisfS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12
Il Saved hi. Leo.

p. A. Danforth. of LAGRANGE. Ca.
suffered for six months with fright
full running sore on his leg; but writes
that Bucklens Arnica Salve wholly
cured it in five days. For ulcers.
wounds and piles it's the best salve in
the world Cure guaranteed. Only 25
cents Sold by Mcdonald & Mahood.
dr,JoOisfa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12

1T is sometimes true remarks thf
Fonda Times, that when a party be
comes so strong in state that poiitica!
opposition almost disappears, the party
In power defeats itself
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12

In fact" observes the Brooklyn
Chronicle, almost the sole issue re-
naming is whether Abe Funk, one Of
the ablest and most honorable men In
Iowa politics, or j. w. Blythe Wouiu
best represent Iowa republlcanlsm IN
a national convention"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12

lknow that my Rheumatism Cure will
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12

The Sioux City Journal asserts that
.sThe child labor bill bumped against
commercialism. an obstacle which US
uaIly requires time to surmount.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12

the ablest and most honorable men IN
! Iowa politics, or j. w. Blythe would
best represent Iowa republicanism in
a national convention"
The Odebolt Chronicle declares The
Eleventh district is solid for Abe Funk
for delegate at large, with the eNcep-
| ton Of Uncle George Perkins.
| "When such men as Ed Hunter and
LATE Young go into campaign. IL IS
anything to VIM says the Glidden
Graphic 1T is UP to the people oil
the state to pronounce Judgment on the
men and methods used to accomplish
/ this result. More especially Is this
| true of the republicans Of the Seventh
district. Using the power granted on
one issue to endorse another which ev-
| ery sane man knows would have been
overwhelmingly defeated had it been
referred to the voters, constitutes a
breach of faith which men who be-
Ilieve in fairness and honorable con-
| duct cannot fail to condemn.
The Greene Recorder lays the blame
| of the suicides on account OF Iowa
bank failures on land speculation and
SAYS: Other banks there have sue :
| cumbe1 whose managers did not nave
| the good sense to put bullet into
| their brains as their atonement for
abuse of trust in risking deposits in
speculative ventures that went away.
Somebody has to do the dirty work. "
observes Joe Trigg of the Rockford
Register. mo matter to what degree
of refinement we may attain as peo-
| pie. that which we term the dirty, dis
agreeable work of life can never be
eliminated or lodged. Somebody must
wash the dishes do the family wash
ing. milk the cows, clean out the barns.
The very effort to be refined and civ
ilized but makes more OF this dirty
work to do. A type of education which
leads one to look contemptuously upon
and avoid If possible these omnipres-
ent and disagreeable duties of life IS
defective to the core. That education
which enables the possessor to do this
sort of disagreeable work With true
manly and wonanly dignity is of the
right kind. The true American is a
man not ashamed to be seen dressed
in wamus and overalls."
GENERAL EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Sermons would be shorter If they had
to be practiced before they were
preached Paul Dispatch.
The Russians have been insulte1
again. Every American who volun-
teers to help Russia is doctor or a
nurse-Great Falls Leader.
A few more winters like this and
Canada's national emblem will be 4
snow shovel rampant and lame back
couchant.-Toronto World
Now that the Standard Oh Company
has gobbed up the Ice Trust it Will
be able to sell its water in concealed
form.-Augusta Chronicle.
Dreyfus himself is not present a.
this rehearing. He seems disposed
to let the government skin Its own
skunks without his help.-Boston Hec-
aid.
Should the lawyer enter politics? 1t
all depends on the kind of man he is.
The scholar in politics Is of no avail II
he is the puppet6 a bass.-Philadel-
! phia Public Led
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12

II they didn't the crockery and brio
a-sbrac dealers would go out OF busi-
ness, and we wouldn't keep cement
The next time one these didn't mean
20" accidents occurs come and see us
about 1t. We have dement's for all
purposes. Glass and China cement-25
cents: for your broken dishes ana bric-
a-hrac Leather Cement--15 cents:
Tor repairing boots. shoes and leather
goods. Rubber Cement-15 cents: for
rubber boots. shoes, waterproofs. UNI
breuas. etc. LIQUID Glue-1e. Is. 20
! and % rents; for furniture and all
wooden srticles.
PETER MAYER
Pharmacist l9 W. Main
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12

Forty cases of relics Of the state of
Nebraska and the Mississippi valley,
will be displayed in the Nebraska
haildank at the worlds fair.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12
IOWA OPINl0Ns AND NOTES.

The Scranton Journal says that the
Polk county convention "pleases every
democrat in the nation. 1t did just
what the democratic orators and press
have been accusing the party OF do
ing"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12
indigestion Causes
Cata.rrh of the
Stomach.

For many years it has been supposed thai
Catarrh OF the Stomach caused indigestion
and dyspepsia. but the truth is exactly the
opposite Indigestion causes eatarrh. Re
peated attacks Of indigestion inflames the
mucous membranes lining the stomach and
exposes tho nerves of the stomach, thus caus-
Ing the glands to secrete mucin instead OF
the Juices Of natural digestion. This Is
called Catarrh Of the Stomach.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12

The Odebolt Chronicle declares The
Eleventh district is solid for Abe Funk
for delegate at-large, with the eNcep-
ton Of Uncle George Perkins.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12

Some time ago was mentioned
this column the conference going on
in Chicago between the operators of
the c. r. l. & p. Railroad and the
management in Chicago. Now, the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st Paul rail-
road has a similar "contab" on hand
Six agents or operators. representing