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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04
BOARD OF
rDubunue Times.1

The Ease of ex-Mayor S. +. Smith,
the Davenport forger and embezzler, is
cited by the Des Moines Register and
Leader as evidence that Iowa should
have a board of pardons or an indie
terminate sentence law. The case is
hardly a happy illustration. 1t is one
in which the punishment, eleven years
In the penitentiary, fits the crime as
public opinion estimates 1T. Mr.. Smith
robbed the estates Of women, appropri-
ated trust funds and forged deeds.
There may be mitigating Circumstance
es. 1t may be that he became insol-
vent before he knew it and commioted
crime to conceal the fact and with tine
expectation of making restitution after
realizing upon some Of his investments.
But if he has a claim to clemency no
board need be created to give him a
hearing, for a %pardoning power already
exists in the state. And because the
governor has this power Of pardon no
to meet such cases. We need a board
of pardons in Iowa, not ITO release gull
ty men, but to punish them. This
board should relieve the supreme court
Of all appeal jurisdiction in criminal
cases., besides discharging the pardon
ing powers now exercised by the gov
ernor. 1t should decide appeals with
out reference to technical errors in the
trial court, grant a pardon If the de-
PENDANT was unjustly convicted, COM
mute the sentence if warranted by cir
cumstances, and let 1t stand If the err
rors in the trial court were not pre1u-
dicial to the defendant and If the evil
dence properly admitted warranted his
conviction. +. With such a board OF
pardons established no second trial
should be allowed. The second trial is
one Of the principal evils connected
with the administration of Justice. 1T
frequently results in the miscarriage Of
justice. Besides the supreme court
should be free to give it's exclusive at
tention to appeals in civil cases.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04

vote for itself. Its allegations against
the administration nave been disproven
and that party stands before the AM
erican people as naked of any just
claim upon public favor as an egg of
feathers.
IT. will all be over next Wednesday
morning and the ~bedraggled democracy
will have four years in which to make
itself presentable. Just at present 1t Is
very dirty, ragged and disreputable,
an army that Falstaff himself might
refuse to lead thru Coventry. But it
is on the way to Coventry.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04

had gnawed the meat off, 1t was Just
about large enough for the cork to a
whisky bottle, something else, a piece
Of skull about two inches across, COW
ered a poor quality Of brains once,
couldn't think of any use it could be
put to now. Stop, here is something
a splinter of a bone, might be scraped
down and make a nut pick of it. All
that was left of the man who was a
hard drinker al of his life" the cor
oner had the rest.
Children and wife will mourn the
departed, friends and neighbors will
say poor fellow, cranks will anathema-
TIE the men who sold him the whisky,
but he made his own choice. "a hard
drinker all of his life" 1t tells the
story, he took his chances, he held
life too cheap, thousands do the same
thing, they take their chances.
A deaf nan will walk on the track
if every friend he has on earth warns
him every time he sees him. A drunk
en- man will take hances that he
would shudder to think Of when sober
he will help carry the car door that
holds the remains of he who is man
gled to death, but it contains no warm
ing.
Such is human philosophy. 1t must
be philosophy for the wisest men do
the same thing voluntarily. If not the
'car door" then some other way, for
how often we see nv of the brightest
p~rematurely grey. and decrepid before
their time, fallen by the w%ayside."
His epitaph, gone but not forgotten
his obituary, "He was a hard drinker
all Of his life' verify man is a fool at
best, but when drunk he is an idiot.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04
INTERESTED IN THE APPEAL.
Veterans Of the State Forsee Victory in
Appeal of Shaw Case.

The veterans of Iowa, who secured
the passage Of the soldiers preference
law by the last legislature, are much
interested in the appeal of the case
to the supreme court. The case for APP
peal is that of C. H. Shaw VS.. the City
of M~arshalltoWn, and the appeal will
be k on the ruling of Judge Cas-
we'll, who declared the law unconsti-
~tut1onal, because of it's class legislation
feature. MIR. Shaw desired the APP
polntment of city clerk, at the hands
of the council, and the council saw fit
to appoint Mr.. L.. Derby. The action
then resulted. and was dismissed in
the district cou by Judge Caswell,
after he had declared the law u%nconsti-
tutional. The grand army of the de-
partment of Iowa, as heretofore an
nounced by the T.-R., concluded to take
the case up. The Register and Leader
of this morning, in referring to the
prospective appeal, says:
"The grand army is going to appeal
the soldiers preference aw case which
was decided by Judge Caswell at Mar@
shalltown, against the interest of the
veterans Of the state. Judge Caswell
held the law unconstitutional.
~ lie SHAW was Liz fSlCldlI WIZ
was a candidate for the office of city
clerk of Marshalltown n brought
suit to test the law, it providing that
soldiers Who were competent should be
given preference in all public appoint
ments. After the case was decided
against him it was useless for him to
appeal in his own interest, for the case
could not be presented to the supreme
court and decided by it before the APP
pointment for which he was a candi-
late would expire. Therefore he was
inclined to drop it rather than prose-
cute thru at large expense a case
which meant nothing to him personals
ly.
"Thereupon the council Of adminis-
tration of the department Of Iowa,
Grand Army of the Republic, took up
the matter and after canvassing it
thoroughly decided to prosecute the
appeal for him.
Eminent lawyers in every section
Of the state have beer consulted by
the department with a view to forth
flying itself before beginning the ap-
peal. 1t was recognized to be useless
to carry a case of that kind to the
supreme court if the lawyers decided
that there was no chance Of winning.
TIC the surprise of the department Of
icers and the lawyers themselves
here appeared to be overwhelming
authority in favor of the law. There
are many decisions IN points involved
in it and there seems to be no doubt
of the validity Of the measure, accord
ing to the belief of the attorneys who
have been consulted"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04
MARCHING TO COVENTRY.

When the entire contention of the
democrats in this campaign has been
dispassionately recalled and analysed
after Mr.. Roosevelt has beer elected
to the presidency and the smoke and
turmoil of the battle has cleared away
it's utter weakness will be pitifully APP
parent. There has been nc meeting Of
great issues. no conflict of deep con-
viction. The democrats have advance
ed no worthy arguments during the
campaign. When the disorganized rab-
BILE that is shouting Inc running to and
fro carrying dragon pictures, and beat
ing gongs like a Chinese army under
the democratic standard is routed and
driven from the field next week, ex-
animation of its caissons and cartridge
boxes will reveal nothing but mud.
Mud has been the ammunition of the
democratic campaign of 1904. Not a
single honestly loaded cartridge has
been exploded this year by a demo-
crat.
Admitting the wisdom Of republican
finance. accepting the republican pro-
tective theory Of tariffs, falling in be-
hind the republican party on every
great question Of public policy as camp
followers behind a conquering army
the democrats burned their ammuni-
ton trains at st. Louis. They fell back
on mud. They revived the old cry,
"do o want your daughter to marry
a nigger?" MI. Roosevelt became the
target for every mud singing negro
phobist because he had the manliness
to recognize ability and sincere pur-
pose beneath a black skin. He was
pictured al wal lord because he upheld
the rights Of the American citizen to
walk the earth unframed and UNI
assailed. They accepted the canal and
threw mud at the man whose strength
and courage gave 1t to the world. Pos
ing as antitrust they bargained in
secret with special interests and
spouted slime at the administration
that enforced the law against illegal
combinations in restraint of trade.
They threw mud at James G. Blaine's
greatest successor as they villified
Blaine himself in the old days. Repub-
lican extravaganza and republican cor
ruption have been the themes of their
orators. And all this time the demo-
cratic party has not advanced one hon
est and acceptable claim to an honest
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04
HandIino the Herd Boar,

rs. H. Bras, before the South Dakota
Swine Breeders Meeting.]
The boar pig, having been selected
and purchased, has arrived at his new
home. Possibly the journey by rail
has been long, and he has come in a
crate where he has been for several
hours or days. The first thing, after
getting him out, is to give him a drink,
of pure water, say, a pint, If the
weather is not too cold. Then wash
him carefully with soap and warm
water; clean him up good and rub him
dry with a towel. Then he should
have a feed Of sweet milk, from a pint
to a quart, and should be placed in a
clean pen, with plenty Of good bed
ding. Give him a little ground corn
and shorts, mixed with water or swill
so as to wet 1t thoroughly, but yet
keep it stiff. Don't give him much;
not more than a pint. and give it 10
him often for a day or two till his fast
ia gradually broken, and continue the
milk twice or three times a day. 1t
will brace him up and whet his appe-
tite.
Have the pen strongly made and the
sides high enough SO that he cannot
get out. as he will likely try to, and if
successful, it will teach him to become
"~breechy." Keep him quiet a day or
two. If he is restless and tramps
about he is lonesome and home sick.
Nearly always a pig is taken from
.mona a lot of his mates and shipped
to a new place, and If kept away off
nv himself, he will squeal and walk
around showing every evidence of
1onesomeness and a want to go
home" manner that is unmistakable.
If .uch should be his condition, it is
better to put a young barrow in with
him. feed we'll and keep him thriving
and make him ~contented.
"A soon as he gets accustomed to
h,s quarters let him out into a lot or
a ward made for the purpose. where
there is grass and where he has a
chance to exercise and run about.
Then give him all he will eat up clean
of oats and corn ground together, or
shorts. and IL possible. continue to
give milk twice a day, as 1t Is natures
m,xt,,re for young and growing ami
mails. and 1t is a better compound than
man has been able to devise. A great
many Ways might be devised to keep
this lot In some kind Of forage crop
Fall rye, sown in the spring, or oats
and rape sown in the summer, makes
a good succulent forage crop n one
that would be renshed by the Doar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04
WHERE MILLIONS ARE MADE.
Interesting Letter That May Mean
Much to Residents of M%arshaIltown.

Much to Residents OF M~arshaIltoWn.
Probably there is not a reader Of the
Times-l2epublican who has not heard
Of the fortunes made in the Beaumont
oil fields. While the tales of fortunes
quickly made are interesting, they are
really not half as valuable to III read
ers as The following letter from L. X.
Preston president of the Caswell-
Preston Drug Company, of Beaumont,
one of the largest wholesale and re-
tail houses in Texas.
Mr.. Preston writes, Enclosed you
will find a letter that came to us un-
solicited. from ]. C. Reeves, ITO Pearl
street. I have known Mr.. Reeves for
several years. He is a reliable man
and very happy over his fortune.
about four years ago." writes Mr..
Reeves, "I lost the hearing in my
right ear and about three or four
months ago my left ear became al
most as bad. In fact, I was SO bad
that people had to shout at me to
make me hear. / had about given up
in despair all hopes of ever recover
ing my hearing when 1 saw that you
recommended Hyomei. 1 used two
bottles and a hear my watch
tick with either ear, and MY hearing
is now all right. This deafness must
have been caused from catarrh, for It
is now cured. Hyomei certainly doe
what you claim for it."
Hyomei has made many cures of
catarrh, and in combination with Hy-
omei balm, Of catarrhal deafness in
Marshalltown and nearby towns Nc
Bride & Will give their personal guar
antee to refund the money should 1t
not give quick relief. The complete
Hyomei outfit costs but one dollar,
while extra bottles can be obtained for
fifty cents.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04
AMERICAN MEATS IN GERMANY.

Reports from Germany afford con-
siderable probability Of a modification
of the restrictive measures enacted
against the importation of American
meats. Signs Of a meat famine in the
empire are apparent, and prices nave
become excessive and onerous. A
long drouth has had the effect of Gre
ating a feed scarcity and in conse-
quence livestock has been i'll fed and
unfinished and the meats procurable
are Of Door quality at high prices.
The city of Berlin is protesting to the
government against the quality of beef
passed by the inspectors and against
the measures that have destroyed COM
petition and placed meat consumers
at the mercy Of the meat producers.
The demand for the exclusion of
American meats came from the agrar-
fans and the erection of the barriers
against the importation was forced by
that element in the Reichstag thru
holding up appropriations and pre-
venting the passage of navy and army
bills. The claim. was made that Amer
lean meats were of poor quality, dis
eased, and a menace to public health,
and was accepted by the government
as an excuse for submitting to the
hold-up methods of the agricultural
lists. Then, with the law at their
backs, and knowing that the con-
sumers Of Germany were at their
mercy, the agrarians, or farming and
stock raising element, sent livestock
of poor quality to the cities for
slaughter. The meat from these. ami
mails is not desirable, and in some
instances, animals that are diseased
have been sold to the public. Now it
is frankly declared in Berlin that the
public health has actually suffered
by the exclusion of American meats.
In view Of the reasons advanced for
discrimination against the American
product this admission is as amusing
as the agitation is hopeful to Amer
lean livestock producers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04
JOE JEFFERSON.

washington, Ia, Press.1
Aren't you sorry now that you never
saw and heard Joe Jefferson? He will
never play again, he says. He has
done more good than any other man IN
the United States, and he did it by his
beautiful art. Millions of people have
seer his sweet creations, laughed and
cried over his exquisite pictures of hui
man life, and regard him as a saint.
a missionary Of the good, the true and
the beautiful. There are myriads of
ways to do good, but he who hangs a
beautiful picture on the walls of the
memory has no superior as a blessing
to mankind. No one who ever saw
dear old Joe in one of his creations will
ever forget his service. He gave them
an intangible thing - something that
can not be eaten, or worn, or burned
for fuel, or utilized in any waterfalls
tic gross way-but nothing more real
and soulful could nave been given. All
thru life his images will go with us,
by our side, as we walk, or sit and muse
in reverie, thinking Of the sweetest
things that have passed our way and
his characters will be "the genius OF
the Shore as Lycidas was, In Millions
poem. The things that last are the
things of beauty and grace and sweet
ness and light. And these were the
wares that that consummate artist
dealt in. 1t was an fdeal. life.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04
Iowa Newspapers
ROMANCE OR 1D1ocY?
TSpirit Lake Beacon.1

The papers are telling of a girl who
sacrificed the jewel of maidenhood to a
brutal rake. She had known him but
a few hours. He proposed a walk and
the girl doubtless thought 1T so roman
tic to have a strange young man pay
ing her such attention. She was led
into lonely paths with a not unusual
result. No punishment too severe can
be meted to her brutal %assailant, but
in the name of common n why
should a good girl walk into such a
trap. Yet every day in every state
foolish girls are batting base men in
their silly yearning for male society
and adventure. Most of the harm re-
sultant does not get into the papers,
but the harvest Of sin and sorrow is
large and not simply for a season, but
for all time.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04
Mothers Praise IL.

Mothers everywhere praise One Min
ute Cough Cure for the sufferings 1t
has relieved and the lives of their little
ones it has saved. A certain cure for
coughs, Group and whooping cough. A.
l.. spafford, postmaster Of Chester
Mich, says: "Our little girl was un-
conscious from strangulation during a
sudden and terrible attack Of Group
One Minute Cough Cure quickly re-
lieved and cured her and I cannot
praise it too highly" One Minute
Cough Cure relieves coughs, makes
breathing easy, cuts out phlegm, draws
out Inflammation, and emoves every
cause Of a cough and strain on lungs
Sold by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04
MIGHT HAVE USED MORE.
[Council Bluffs Nonpareil.l


Two Council Bluffs women went to
Omaha the other day to shop. 1t was
rainy and muddy. They tramped about
the quasi streets Of the city across the
creek until their dresses were drabbled
to the knees, without buying a thing
except a dimes worth of calves brains
which happened to take their fancy.
One of the m arrived home just
in time for supper and flung herself
into a chair.
what did you buy?" asked a mem
Der of the family.
Nothing but a dimes worth Of
brains,'' she said YEARLY.
Couldn't you have used a quarters
worth between you?" asked the william,
politely.
The Council Bluffs is still
wondering whether anything personal
was intended.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04
Not a Sick Day Since.

." was taken severely sick with
kidney trouble. tried all sorts Of med
icines, none Of which relieved me. One
day I saw IN ad. of your Electric Bit
tiers and determined to try hat. After
taking g. few doses / felt relieved, and
soon thereafter was entirely cured, and
have not seen a sick lay since.
N%eighbors of mine have been cured
of rheumatism, neuralgia, liver and
kidney troubles and general debility"
This is what B. F. Bass, ef Fremont,
N. G., writes. Only SOC, al Mcdonald
& Mahood's, druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04
Thousands Cured.

Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salve has cur
ed thousands Of cases of Piles. Il
bought a box Of DeWitt's Witch Hazel
salye on the recommendation Of our
druggist so writes G. H. Lacroix,
of Zavella, Tex, land used 1t for a
stubborn Ease of piles. 1t cured me
permanently" Sold by all druggists
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04
onnortunities.

Good openings for all lines OF bust.
less and trade in new towns. Large
territory thickly settled. Address Ed.
win B. Magill, Mngr.. Townsite De.
partment, Chicago Great Western Rail
way, TT. Dodge, Ia.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04
Topics Of the Times

There a,c no voters this year except
registered voters. Have you register
ed?
The Cherokee Indians are said to
have taken up with the vicious cocaine
habit. The stuff is taking even a
firmer hold upon their savage appe-
titles than did whisky, and is apparent
ly easier to procure. The noble red
man is falling into a more vicious Gus
tom when he lifts his lid with cocaine
than obtained when he lifted his en-
emy's scalp without the use of an an
aesthetic.
First Senator Spooner a up against
LaFollette and fell down. Now a
Raraboo man has shaken hands with
the governor and fallen dead. La
Toilette seems to be loaded.
Ceda county has a Fremont Voters
club, numbering twenty-four
which is at once a tribute to the COM
mon sense and salubrity of Cedar
county.
Itinerant vendors of shaving outfits
have their opportunity at Perry where
the BARRIERS have formed a trust and
have fixed the price of shaves at III
teen cents. Possibly this is a scheme
of Tom Watson's to increase the pop
ulist vote.
Sheldon district school in Cedar
county has achieved distinction by
winning a prize off cred by the
Companion to be awarded to the school
making the best improvements in and
about the school grounds. The prize
however, was not the best thing won
by the school.
Perhaps Mr.. Rockefeller's success
with Chicago University gave him the
impression that he has something COM
ing from the electoral college. He has
something coming straight enough. but
not in the line of his hopes.
He Cat the reception)-Neurich
doesn't behave as if he belonged to the
best society, does he?
She-No indeed; he behaves as if he
imagined the best society belonged to
him.-Chicago News.
The report that a Russian torpedo
boat is missing from the Baltic fleet is
c%oincident with Rojestvensky's claim to
have sunk a japanese vessel suggests
the theory that the missing vessel be-
came separated from the fleet and the
Russians crazed with fear and vodka
sunk her under the impression hat she
was japanese. The theory Jumps
with the Russian admiral's statements
just how long such a fleet commanded
after such a fashion would Last be-
fore 1'ogo's squadron is scarcely a
matter OF conjecture.
He courted Sue nor sued in vain,
The wedding rites were "toney."
Now Sue in court is suing him
And asking alimony.
It's a cinch that Parker beats Port
Arthur to it.
Mayme-What a gossip, Mrs. Gadby
is!
Edita-Yes, indeed. I never tell her
anything without finding out that she
has already told it herself.-Philadel-
phia Bulletin.
MI. Knabenshue should not forget to
leave his name hooked to the airshir
and thus prevent future escapades.
Dad" said little Reginald, what is
a bucket shop"
A"bucket shop, my son." said the IA
ther. feelingly-"a bucket shop is a
modern cooperage establishment to
which a man takes a barrel and brings
back the Observation-Disclosures Journal.
AS a prominent instance Of the pre-
vailing political apathy "Pa" Smith of
the Scranton Journal and Hungerford
of the Carroll Herald are holding a
theological controversy over the ex-
estence of a personal God.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04

There is no cough medicine so pop
ular as Foley's Honey and Tar. 1t con-
tains no opiates or poisons and never
| fails to cure. For sale by B. A. Nor
gan.