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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19
ACQUISITION OF LIFE OR DEATH.

There seems an opportunity for phil
anthropists in the rise in price of the
anti-toxin for diphtheria. Manufacture
ing chemists. thru greed or necessity.
have placed the price of this only
specific for deadly disease beyond the
reach Of the poor. This affects, not
tina. class of the miserably poor that
Is quick to require the aid of public
charity, so much as the independent
poverty which shrinks from depend
ence. The county will provide anti
toxin for It's patients in its own pro-
lection, if for no higher reasons. 1t is
the unfortunate poor who try to pay
who will suffer from the greed of the
manufacturer.
The deliberate and arbitrary action
OF the anti-toxin makers in the face
OF an assured rise in the mortality
from diphtheretic diseases. is a cold
blooded thing to contemplate. 1t is
the removal OF the life line from be-
tween the sinking VESSEL and safety.
The use of the serum means life or
death to the Giphtheria patient. Ad-
ministered in the early stages of the
disease It has reduced the mortality of
diphtheretic diseases ssventy-five per
cent. Life and death are scarcely
commercial propositions.
The general public has a deep in
terest in this matter Its safety is
concerned. Aside from the matter of
public safety, the question OF saving
life will appeal to public sentiment
and sympathy If the manufacturing
chemists are too greedy or are unable
to furnish anti-toxin at price with
In the reach of the poor, the labora-
tories of our state universities should
) be equipped with the facilities for its
manufacture and the specific furnished
II Unnecessary below the cost OF mann-
tacture.
To combat and extirpate disease.
save human life and guard commun-
titles against infection is quite as much
the duty OF the state as the suppression
OF crime and the reformation of GRIM
inals and inebrlates.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19
Saved From Terrible Death.

The family of Mrs. NJ. L. Bobbitt. of
Eargerton. Tenn. say her dying and
were powerless to save her. The most
skillful physicians and every remedy
used failed. while consumption was
slowly but surely taking her life. In
this terrible hour DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption turned despair
into JOY. The first bottle brought inn
mediate relief and Its continued use
completely cured her. It's the most
certain cure in the world for all throat
and lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles
at so cents and 81. Trial bottles free
at George p Powers drug store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19

not word Is heard about the best of
pasture last year every day from May
to Nov. 1. All kinds of stock got A
attention but an occaa!onal sailing.
No. these hard-times fellows have for
gotten that. They also fail to mention
the number of tons of hay put UP and
what it's worth. Our corn crops a
failure" Yes. but how about the poul-
try shipped out of here: how many
carloads of live chickens, ducks and
geese sent from this station this year:
Our corn crop Il a total failure.
Don't the farmers wives bring In but
ter and eggs enough to more than pay
the store bills? We'll, that doessi':
give man any money to pay debts
with when the corn crop is a failure
II was useless task - cheer up the
disconso,ate grain maj. The corn
crop is failure Just the same he
owned up that the same line OF eieva-
tors fifty miles from there was buy
ing considerable corn at 81 ceats.
only that don't help us here"
II has been the fashion ever since
Adam was a boy to decry the system
of county poor houses and the treat
ment the prosperous body Of citizens
give to the unfortunate poor. The
writer has INDUCED in such criticism
in these columns, and so is glad 10
mention the other side-the better side.
The board of supervisors of one of our
,>o a an fhpit. hands a
case. the county support being given to
young girl of 16 afflicted with
some disease ordinary treatment could
not cure. And what did these hard
hearted supervisors do hut take $3.50 of
the taxpayers money, send the unfor-
tunate girl to a hospital n Chicago for
surgical treatment, and al the time this
is written there is every prospect that
thds young woman will return in a
few weeks well, strong, healthy
me mber of society, able to earn her
cwn living and relieving the county of
al! further charge. Now as the writer
to me-" and there arose In the mind
of the listening citizen of Iowa feal-
ding of how phi'anthropic we" are be-
coming. Such an action on the part of
county supervisors even twenty five
years ago would have actually pre-
vented their re- election, the thing most
feared by county supervisors; in fact,
many Supervisors depeaa for re-elec-
ton upon a showing of feeding the
county poor Cor one and ninety-three
one hurdredths of a cent per meal in
stead of two cents per meal wasted by
their predecessors. And so the writer
felt proud of Iowa when he heard of
one board of supervisors that had
enough of the milk of human kindness
in them to spend $3.50 for surgical
treatment on one patient. one inmate
of the county poor house. But alas!
that wasn't why they did IT. The old
feeling of economy that Immediately
.akes possession of a man as soon as
he is elected a county supervisor
showed itself in his closing statement.
Wasn't that cheaper than for tho
county to support her az long as she
lives"
ap Nv1.Y4Ar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19
gumrpg Tuesday january 1904

Future Lamp stick of Daylight
New Workers who have strolled late
ly at night along upper Broadway haVe
had their attention arrested by bril-
liant wand of light afforded by long
glass tube hanging in one of the store
windows. The illumination is intense
making the nearby gas flames pa'e
trenors of white. the big street ares
zones of dim blue, and the CHEEKY litt'e
iineandescent bulbs nothing but red
hot hafrpins The new lamp. due
to Peter Cooper Hewitt, is said to he
by long odds the cheapest form OF lighs
known. beating all other electric IL
lumnants several times over for eff
.ficiency and life.
But 1T has a CHASTITY hue. lacking red
rays, because of its production of vap-
ori2ed mercury. The "greenery-yai-
lery,' of Grosvenor Gallery and Gilt
pertain comic opera is well exempt
fled in the grim color effects produced.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19

low A N E w S..
!, PAPERS = = =
FARMERS DON'T QUIT
Manson Democrat

Say, MIR. business Man. Are you
going to lie down on your back and
kick up Your heels and holler like
spoiled kid because business was not
as good as you thought it would be
the past year? Are you going to give
up and take out your advertisement
and pull down your sign? Are you
going 10 sit around and grumble and
imagine that 1t will help trade? You
know that the farmer has had three
almighty hard years all in heap. but
do you think he has quit and begin to
holler? Not yet! hes mp early in
the morning. throwing a nice little COB
of hay and oats into the roam horse.
touching up the black mare n little ex-
ira with the curryconlb and brush.
giving the colt he broke last year
little condition powder to loosen his
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19

unions. Let them know there is no
place in Chicago where they can have
rest. There can be but one conse-
quence. The outsider will either have
to move away or join with us" Sec
rotary Wallis motto if he We're allow
ed TO work up to it unnolested would
probably achieve results. The "unpleas-
ant methods of making it unpleasant
for outsiders" heretofore used by Chi
cago unions do not however jibe with
the American public's ideas of good
morals and its ideals of fair play
Making it unpleasant for outsiders
is likely to develop considerable UNI
pleasantness in Other quarters
There is a general impress
sion in this county that a man has
a right TO live where he pleases and
earn his own living without having
unpleasant" things done to him simply
because he is alive and working.
The women of the northwestern
states are trying to raise mon
ey TO erect a statute TO Sacajawea.
the Indian woman who acted as a guide
to the Lewis and Clark expedition in
1904. The memorial is to have tenn
porsry place in the Lewis and Clark
Centennial. in Portland, Ore, and af-
terward to be permanently erected in
that city. The statue is to be of bronze.
heroic in size and to cost $1,000.
They do some things we'll in the east.
The MiddleseN county New Jersey has
recommended that a chain gang be
organized and the tramps be rounded
up and put to work on the public roads.
Accordingly provision has been made
for the payment of a bounty on tramps.
instead of the cutomary fee of 30 cents
for making an arrest. the constable OF
MiddleseX county will get $3.50 for each
.Sauntering Sammy they gather in.
The tramps will be taken before justic-
es of the peace and committed under
the vagrancy law. which provides for
their confinement at hard labor. The
Middlesex county officials expect TO
have fine system of public roads at
comparatively small cost unless the
tramps give the county wide berth"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19
A. prisoner n Her Own Hous,.

Mrs. W. II. Layha, of 1901 Agnes
avenue. Kansas City. Mo-, has for sew
eral years been troubled with severe
hoarseness and at times hard cough,
which she says Would keep me In
doors for days. was prescribed for by
physicians with no noticeable results.
A friend gave me part OF bottle Of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with In
structions to closely follow the direc.
tons. and wish to state that after the
first day 1 could notice decided
change for the better. and at this time.
after using 1t for two weeks, have no
hesitation in saying 1 realize that am
entirely cured" This remedy Is for
sale by all druggists:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19
FUEL AND FARMS.
IRockford Register.

!
And now we are told that the greaF
northwest may make itself indepen-
dent Of the coal monopolies by using
mud for fuel. 1t is claimed that ali
the immense peaty deposits of sloughs
and swamps when mechanically treated
and dried are rich in heat making quai-
tiles and may be made ton for ton the
equal of any of the biturninous coal o;
the market at half the cost. This we
know: Years ago when living on &
pioneer farm in Minnesota we dug OFT
ard dried Q lot of the petty deposit OF
a slough on the farm. it looking exact
ly like we'll rotted manure when taken
out. We further know that this stuff
burned with clean white ash and
made the hottest kind of fire. We
firmly believe that with suitable ma
chinery for mixing and pressing this
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19

ing, hut the quantity of 7s4.094,19s
bushels has been exceeded more often.
The average price of s4.l cents per
hushel is exceptionally high for recent
years.
of potatoes. the value is reported as
s151,63s,osi, ranking next to oats and
surprising all previous records. The
increase was due 10 the high averass
price of 6l.4 cents per oushel. for the
quantity of 24I127Sso bushels was
often exceeded in earlier years. These
few leading crops testify to the very
large returas received by the agrcul-
tural community during the past year
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19
npICS OF The
TINES = =


The thirteen. hoodoo appears to
hoia over the rabbits foot judging from
:ss news REPORTS OF negro lynchings In
are. aarthc.n states on January is.
The recent decision at Davenport
holding that man cannot make a
binding contract for the sale of real es-
,ate when he is drunk is likely TO make
business men in that line stop LOT
lime. II Is now as necessary for the
4,,rchaser Ia secure an abstract on the
real estate owner as of his realty mold
ings.
a good road thru country commun-
.ity is a certificate OF character.
The no, infreauent fires which fairly
wipe out the business buildings OF the
smaller town should teach the neces-
sity and ACCESSIBILITY OF some respec-
table means of fire protection. The
fire which lately destroyed the thriving
town OF Rowan in Wright county IS an
example OF the helplessness OF the
smaller towns and villages against ire.
Doubtless Rowan will invest In chem
ica1 engine or some other protection
apparatus. Other towns would do well
10 lock the stable door before the horse
is stolen. Some sort of a fire fighting
outfit is q true economy.
Baron Kuno Freitherr Won Eitz, q
member of the German nobility. about
twenty six years old. is employed on
"scrape;" in the locomotive department
of the Michigan Central Railroad. at
Jackson Junction. Mich. He is connect
ed with the railway department. of the
German government as special APP
prentice to learn what he can OF Ameri-
can methods of railroading.
go
Senator Hanna, chairman of the ma
tional republican committee, has issued
the formal call for the national ton-
vention of July IL at Chicago. "ssaid
national convention shall consist of
a number OF delegates at large from
each state, equal to double the number
OF United States senators to which
each state is entitled and for each re-
preventative at large in congress. two
delegates at large; from each congress
sional district and the District of Col
ombia, two delegates; from each of the
territories of Arizona, New Mexico,
Oklahoma, Hawaii and Indian territory,
six delegates; from Alaska four dele-
gates. For each delegate elected to
said convention an alternate delegate
shall be elected to act in case of the
absence of the delegate such alter
nate delegate to be elected at the time
and in the manner Of electing the del
egate."
In discussing the cause of typhoid
fever in Waterloo the water and the
milk have been brought under suspi-
cion but nobody has suggested analysis
of the other beverages on the principle
probably that 1t never is the beer.
Robert G. Wall, secretary of the Chi
cago federation OF labor is reported to
have said picket the individual, not
the factory-that Is our motto, make
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19
EDITORIAL OPINION.

Boston has started crusade agains-
public school teachers who chew gum.
Nothing is said about those who chew
tobacco.-Philadelph Inquirer.
Hills Mkening of Roosevelt to the
great Barnum was apt. in at least one
respect. Teddy has got show.-Bos
ton Herald.
Stock in the Hanna presidential
boom, Ltd, is now reported firm hut
auiet."-New York Press.
1t seems to be all over but the fight :
ing in the far east.-Washington
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19
Il n.d Four Week. with e 6ripps.

In Bed Four Weeks With L. 6ripps.
We have received the following Lett
ter from Mr.. Roy Kemp. OF Angola.
Ind: IT was In bed four weeks with
Is. grippe and tried many remedies
and spent considerable for treatment
with physicians. but received no re-
lief until tried Foley's Honey and
Tar. Two small bottles Of this medic
cine cured me and now use 1t exclu.
sively in my family" Take no suhsti.
tutes. b. A. Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19
Home.eek.r. and settIers.

On the first and third Tuesdays of
each month round-trip excursion tick
cts are on sale to points in the west.
south and southwest at one fare. plus
50; return limit, twenty-one days from
date of sale; stop-overs allowed.
on the same dates special one-way
settlers tickets are on sale at trifle
,,ore than half the regular fares.
THE Iowa Central operates thru
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19
VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.

!.
Ofiicial reports ass:: l:aea published
regarding the ;osa. ls,s.. Ct the islnes-
s pal crops Gums ~. isa-. ,as on
~ import a-sns so.ten.
AS ussa.. .csn &c .ae
farmers .'aa sny
--S,rs-.i wsz nlsa
compia,1. ~. 81
an arg s.-.ase
yield MSS - .:s -. nak-
ing an a:s.s::eca;e Q. 2.si..iis.se5
bushels. c: ba; So, t-.aw .ae a!sa-
est reco..i essab..s.., 4 II ,ae fcseeIas
year, waal.s ~ ,a.ue Mas ss5e,ssS.so sol.
The averass prize or .,.5 cents was 20
cents above .he Pre- ss.ay years aver
sgs. but the decree n eranli,: made
the tosa, va.re s::snsiy ,ess ,hsn In
1902, when 1t was sl.oi7.a.77.sia. All
previous reccrss as 10 Na.ue were far,
surpassed. a,san t.,e qIaa..ty was no..
quite equal 20 TIA. o. 1870. In thai;
year. however. the a:erase price of
2l3s cents was mech TIE lowest ever
recorded, and TIE value caiy si91,0o6.-
S67, also the lowest record of recent
years. Cheap prizes attracted foreign
buyers al: tia. tine aai exports at
tanned new h.gl-watcr mark, fol-
lowed the re-; year by ovsr 20o.0o0,O00
bushels exported. In the las. few years,
however. Nquotaticr,s have been almost
prohtbiti.lvs. ana foreign trade has
fallen 10 los- poln: Production was
greatest in Illinois. Iowa, Missouri, Me-
braska and IA. sas. the states ranking
In the order named, jus; as in the pre-
vious year. but each showing q mate
rial loss. The moss notable increase
occurred in Texas. lao.75o,s3s bushels
being raised, against 44.s67.415 bushels
In 1902, but the acreage was not ex-
tended materially. While not in the
same striking proportion. other south
ern states also recorded noteworthy
gains,
Th!ri in total value comes hay, a
crop OF 61,So5,9A0 tons being valued at
$556.316.Ss0. These figures have been
exceeded. in,ee times as to quantity,
hut only in 1898 was the value larger
and tn.n the difference was but $14,-
100000 on an area ten million acres
nd Missouri
were again the leading states. these
three producing ona-fourth of the to-
tai There was l.t:ls change in value
from 1902, when the average was
slightly above 50 per ton. and the av-
erage yield per acre haid close to one
end a half tons.
Wheat stands fourth with a total
value OF $443024.S26. a sum exceeded
in 1901, 1891 and the four years end
ing 1882, but in all of these years, ex-
cept 1901. the average price was much
higher and the total quantity less than
the 637.s21.S35 bushels reported in 1908.
The acreage was close to the highest
ever recorded. but the yield averaged
only about thirteen bushels per acre.
Kansas secured the best crop. with the
three leading spring wheat states next.
The increase over 1902 was about 80
per cent in Kansas, but Minnesota and
North Dakota lost heavily.
Oats rank next to wheat with VAL
ue OF $267, 6S1, 665, sum only surpassed
IN the two years Immediately preced-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19
Where There 10 Life There Il Hope

i was afflicted with catarrh; could
neither taste nor smell and could hear
but little. Ely's Cream Balm cured It.
Marcus G. Shautz, Railway, N. j.
Cream Balm reached me safely ana
the effect Is surprising. My son says
the first application gave decided res
lief. Respectfully. Mrs. Franklin Free
man. Dover, N. H.
The Balm does not irritate or cause
sneezing. Sold by druggists at so cents.
or mailed by Ely Brothers. Sc Warren
ST. New York
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19
TRAVELLING FAKIRs' VICTIMS.

Red Oak Express.l
For a package containing cloth
enough &c make two suits of clothes an
overcoat, a woman's dress. and a horse
blanket. number of farmers in this
part of the county have lately been
talked out of s4s in cash as its equiv
alent. Smooth tongued agents claim
ing to represent Chicago department
store did the fakir act in this. case.
They have completed their work in this
county and the Express is only sorry
that 1t did not learn of the work sooner
So that an exposition of their deal
might have saved a few dollars for the
farmers hereabouts.
THESE goods that we are selling for
S4S. cost us just $3.50" said one of
these agents to n citizen of Red Oak
whom they had engaged TO take them
about the country. The above men,
toned citizen. very honest and re-
spectacle man, took the CRATER on one
trip only. and then told him to look
for another driver. who didn't mind
seeing his fellow citizens held up"
The grafter's method OF procedure was
to represent to the farmer that he was
advertising for a certain large depart
ment store of Chicago: that 1t wasn't
his object to sell any great amount of
goods on this expedition. about the
country. but he did have bargain
package which he was selling. more as
an advertiss ment than anything else.
ana If the farmer wished to take adj
vantage OF the firms desire to become
known in these parts. he had the
chance of life time. The package
contained as already stated goods
enough TO make two suits of clothes,
one overcoat, horse blanket and
lady's dress.
The company had an expert (?) tall
or stationed temporarily in this city
who would measure the Marty. cut the
goods and have them sent TO Chicago
to be then made up as or,iered. The
artist with the scissors ard tape got
$3.50 per suit for his trouble. and the
farmer paid the express charges both
ways on the goods sent TO Chicago.
A number of Montgomery county men.
respectable and Industrious farmers.
who bought packages of GOODS now as
ser. that the suits they got don't fit
at ALL
III Is useless 10 manu- aaN1Ns -,
who has been che2ted in some little
scheme of the travelling fakir. for the
victim realizes his folly himself. ane
will probably evade such snares in the
future. But to the public in general
a word of caution never comes amiss.
Believe nothing you hear and only nan
YOU see when urged to buy goods from
a total stranger. is n rule that might
he observed with profit to the average
man, and to buy nothing at all from the
travelling fakir is sound business pol
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-19
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

ne IleSSISe VI N1OS
to the genera assembly of Iowa rea
before joint session of the house and
senate Tuesday by that distinguished
statesman himself, is but another dem
onstration that in Mr.. CuTnmins the
state of Iowa has man in the chair Of
the executive who is fitted. capable and
in every way worthy of any office
within the gift of the people of the
state or nation" declares the Ida
Grove Pioneer. Governor Cummins IL
today one OF the biggest. broades, and
deepest men in America"
The Mount Vernon Record says:
THE primary law is on of the impor-
tant subjects discussed in Governor
Cummins' message. Governor Cummins
favors the primary system. but be-
lieves that delegates to conventions
should be selected instead of the nomi-
nees themselves" 1t seems to the
Record that Governor Cummins hits
the very strongest feature of the pri-
mary system. that of doing away with
tics employed there. Let the people
select tnSlr own Canulstles.
"Of course, bills providing for pri-
mary elections will be introduced in
the legislature" says the Burlington
Hawkeye. at Is another of the fads
for running everything by the state.
PaternaEsm IS one of Its many phases.
Political parties are to be estimated as
something to be regulated instead or
being accepted as a valuable and nee
essary element OF popular government
IN which the citizen should exercise
the utmost freedom"
Congressman Hepburn enjoys TAX
ing semi-occasional fall out of the
civil service law, and as it doesn't
hurt the law everybody enjoys the sx-
hibition," says the Sioux City Journal.
The Register and Leader thinks at
Is a. least suggestive that the leading
republican paper of New York City
(.he Tr;bune) should devote its leading
rews columns to Rumors of Treaeh-
cry with Senator Hanna's post as
chairman of the national committee for
subject matter.
It was necessary to check a certain
speculative craze. and President Roose-
Welt had the courage to do It," observes
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil. Men
who believe In sound business princ.-
pies have renewed faith in his wisdom
and favor his nomination and election.
He is no longer an experiment, while
another man would surely be for a
time"
To the Wall Lake BLADE at seems
certain that Mark Hanna wants to be
president It Is also certain that many
republicans-who have no trust stock
prefer Roosevelt
"some one ought to break in the
iudgeship caucus with an AK" says tn.
Fonda Times. There Is such dead
lock that 1t begins to smell