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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-25

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plains how we teach barber trade in
short time, mailed free. Write. Moler
Barber College, Chicago, Ill.
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Wanted Everywhere Hustlers to
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Sun Advertising Bureau, Chicago.
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Wanted = Have a typewriter and
desire stenographic work to be done at
my home Address L. T. Armstrong,
2O8 North First avenue.
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Wanted cook. stoddard
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viavi - Mary p Dakin, manager OF
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For saic-On easy payments. bar Ok
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Wanted - The public to know that
we can sell their residence, store, livery
or any business, within thirty to nine
ty days. Advertise it in over 100
newspapers. N. B. Meade, agent, 207
West Grant street.
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Wanted - Five laaies to work in
'Marshalltown, as demonstrators. APP
ply Mr.. or Mrs. Porter, room 10, over
liS East Main street.
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Wanted-Energetic workers every
where to distribute circulars, samples
and advertising matter. Good pay. No
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Co. New York.
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ONE CENT A WORD
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Wanted-To rent, modern house for
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Wanted - You to try Richards
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acre. II you want to buy farm or
For SaIe-We have a large number
Of residence properties, business blocks
and building sites listed with us for
sale at prices that will surprise you.
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good stock ranch, send for description
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Wanted-Dining room girl and
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FOR RENT.

For Rent = Eight room modern
House, SAB North Third street. Frank
q. Pierce.
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For Rent - Furnished rooms, suit
able fortnight housekeeping. Mrs. A. c.
Fry in Fry block.
For Rent - Rooms and in Kirby
block over New England store; fine
large rooms: warm; steam 1eat, and
running water. Inquire at rooms.
For Rent - Strictly modern cottage
on North Fourth street. VIM. Andrews
Co.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS

1t must have been the birds who set
the fashion of going to Palm Beach or
Hot Springs when the cold weather
comes in search of summer. The dis
tances over which birds migrate are
often surprisingly great. The bobolinks,
which rear their young on the shores
of Lake Winnipeg, and go to Cuba and
Porto Rico to spend the winter, twice
traverse a distance exceeding 2S00
miles. The kingbird breeds as far
north as the fiftysseventh degree of
latitude, and is found in the winter in
South America. The biennial pilgrim
ages of the little redstart exceed 5000
miles, and the tiny humming bird 2000
miles. The beautiful little summer
yellow bird, which sometimes builds its
nest under our chamber windows, sends
some of its kin as far as the Arctic
ocean, where they arrive the last of May
only ten or fifteen days after the sun
has begun to ride continuously above
the horizon, and yet they have come
all the way from Guatemala. over g
distance of $500 miles, leaving members
even of their own species to spend the
summer among tropical scenes. In a
stomach no larger than pea and an
alimentary canal about six inches long,
one of these birds will manufacture
from two or three slim caterpillars, "a
fly, moth and a spider, it's own fuel,
and use it with such economy as to
transport itself through the air during
the whole night at the rate of fifty
miles an hour, and at the same time
maintain a temperature of 104 degrees
Fahrenheit.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
NEW YoRK,s FAT WOMEN

what has impressed me more than
anything else i'm New York. said q
New Yorker, who had been living in
the west for some years, when I got
back here last week and since I've
been about the town is the palpable
fact that the majority Of New York
women art fat. Not fat enough to
waddle of course, but unmistakably
stout. In some instances they are al
most gross / am more surprised be-
cause from pictures 1 had seen 1 had
come to the conclusion that the pre-
vailng New York woman was of the
long, lank and willowy kind. one
night at the opera, where l had a seat
that enabled me to look down upon
the women i'm the boxes, further con-
firmed my observation on the streets
and elsewhere, and / cannot be mis-
taken. When l lived here ten years
ago 1t was not so and ! am at loss
to account for it. One man has told
me that it was because they ate too
much rich food and took too little
exercise. Possibly that may be the
explanation. Speaking to an artist
friend on the subject he told me 1t was
almost impossible to find model any
more who did not have too much flesh
to make her available and he had to
get his models from points outside of
New York or do without them"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
A STRANGE THING

1T saw one of the strangest things in
a theater in Forty-fifth street the other
night" said a man from Chicago, that
ever saw, and would not have be-
lieved possible if 1 had not seen it. 1t
was a good sized house of first-class
people, and at the end of the first act
not a man went out. One man came
back to the end of the aisle to speak
to the usher about something or other
but he went no further. At the end
of the second act one or two came out
as far as the lobby, but soon went
back Not a man went out for a
drink or a smoke, and I wondered If
1 were in New York or the New Jeru-
salem. The following night at a thea
ter of the same class in Forty-fourth
street, only three or four from the big
audience went out, but night or so
after at one of the Broadway theaters
enough went out to make up for all
that didn't at the other two places"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
A FARM Err

A farmer in the Isle of Butte has sue
reeded in growing a fine crop of peas
from seed found in a tomb of an an
cient Egyptian king. The peas were
estimated to have been 1000 or 5000
years old. They were sown in open
ground, and the plants have grown up
strong and vigorous to a height of
about six feet. They possess certain
characteristics. The flower of the an
tient Egyptian variety has a beautiful
red center surrounded by white CO.
roma and looks very chaste and hand
some. The pods average from two to
three inches in length by one-half
inch in breadth and the peas are said
to be of excellent flavor.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26

able by no smaller phrase than mil
lions of tons; a profusion of splinters,
limbs and logs, every fragment of
which, as it lies, would adorn the col
lectors cabinet, and, polished by a
lapidary, might well embellish q
crown. Some of these huge PROSTATE
trunks are over a hundred feet long
and seven or eight feet in diameter,
although they are most frequently
broken into sections by transverse
fracture.
One of these huge trunks, its integ-
rity still spared by time, spans can
yon fifty feet wide-a bridge of jasper
and agate overhanging a tree fringed
pool.
Some of these petrifications assume
queer, strange, even fantastic shapes.
The accompanying photograph fur
nishes a rather striking instance. What
was once short tree trunk has been
transformed into stone. The lower Sec
ton retains the original shape of the
trunk, but the upper part has ex-
banded for some reason and reminds
one of a colossal cabbage. So striking
is the resemblance that this strange
object has been dubbed "The Giant
Cabbage Head" 1t rises to consid-
cradle height and may been seen for
a long distance.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
THE UMBRELLA ANTS

It is not the sluggard only who may
observe the remarkable habits of the
ants to his profit. With their intelli-
eence and perfect organization the
ants, especially those of South Amer
lea, could give generals and admirals
some valuable hints. The umbrella
ants are in some ways the most re-
markable of their race. Along the for"
est paths the great mounds which they
throw up are conspicuous, and from
them radiate we'll beaten roads, four
or five inches in width, running in ev-
cry direction. There they do no harm;
but when they make nest near a
garden or plantation it becomes ques-
tion which is to survive, the ants or
the garden, for one or the other will
be destroyed. Their food consists al
most entirely of leaves and of trees
and other plants, and so numerous are
they in a well-established colony and
such indefatigable workers that they
will strip a good-sized tree, such as
an orange tree, in a single night, car
rying off the spoils, cut into bits about
the size of ones thumbnail. These will
be stored for future use.
Like the bees, the ants are divided
into different classes. There are the
queens, drivers, workers and builders.
The queens are nearly as large as hor-
nets, with well-developed wings, though
why they have these appendages is a
question unless they be for ornament,
for the royal ladies are never found out
side the nests and devote all their time
to the propagation of the race. The
drivers are nearly half an inch in
length, and are provided with formida-
BILE nippers in their jaws. They are
absolutely fearless, and will attack an
enemy of any size without the least
hesitation. They do not work them
selves, but run up and down the roads
when the workers are out, keeping
them in order and seeing that all goes
we'll with the procession. The work.
ers, though half the size of the driv-
ers, cut the leaf and carry 1t in their
mandibles, which they hold perpendic-
ularly over their heads.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
SMALLEST COIN

The smallest coin now current in
Europe and the one having the least
value is the Greek lepton. The lepton
is, according to the decimal monetary
system, current in all countries be-
longing to the Latin union. Some idea
of this valueless little disk of copper
may be gathered from the fact that
the lepton is the one-hundredth part
of dachma. The Greek drachma usu-
ally passes for the same value that a
franc piece does; that is, it is about
equal to twenty cents of our money.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
SIGNATURES OF THE FUTURE

The time will probably come when
the natural signature, the impression
of the thumb or finger tip, will be
widely used for purposes of identifi-
cation. If the thumb be lightly pressed
upon a surface smeared with printing
ink and then pressed upon clean paper
an impression is obtained which is
distinctive for the particular individual
who owns the member. No two thumbs
or fingers are alike in the arrangement
of their multitudinous lines; each,
therefore is a seal which is unique
and a seal which cannot readily be
mislaid or lost. The French police use
this test to assure themselves of the
identity of a prisoner; but surely the
system could be usefully extended. A
newspaper correspondent who recently
pleaded for such an extension of the
thumb mark test stated that once
when he was abroad he was in great
straits for money, although he held
checks for a considerable amount,
simply because he could not prove his
identity If the local banker had only
had an impression of his finger tip,
as we'll as authority to pay. all diff
Guilty would at once have vanished.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
STRENGTH OF ARMIES

Before the Russian-Japanese war, in
the table of the armed strength of vari-
Gus countries it was customary to put
Russia first among the nations of the
world, with an active army of 1,125,000
soldiers, a first reserve of 2,500,000 and
second reserve of 1,375,000, bringing
up the total number of available SOL
diers on war footing to about 100000.
as against 100000 in Germany 4S0O,-
900 in France, 2,5OO,O0O in Italy, 100000
in Austria Hungary, and 100000 in
Turkey.
But recognized authority among
military men, the Militaire Of Paris,
some time since disputed the correct
ness of the popular belief that Russia
can put in the field the largest army
of the world in time of war, and says:
"The United States are not great
military power from the point of view
of these effective foot forces in peace,
but in time of war their permanent
contingent would form the nucleus Of
the vastest army of the world"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
ONE FORM oE euNcoIsT

A well dressed man got on a Mad-
son avenue car going south from the
New York Central station, New York.
Half way through the tunnel he prof
fered a five dollar bill to the conductor,
who could not make the change. At
Thirty-fourth street the man got off
with his bill and had paid no fare. APP
parently he had done all that was re-
quired Of him in rendering his fare.
He went to the transfer man for a
ticket. Don't give that fellow a
Transient" called the conductor, and the
man was refused. The conductor
passed few left handed compliments
out to him, and the man skunk off up
the steps without a word in reply.
"Oh. they try to beat us that way all
the time" the conductor explained to
an tnquiring passenger. "They get on
a. car at Forty-second street, as If
they had just come off of a train, and
when they hand out five dollar bill
and we have no change they say they
are very sorry and reach for a trans
fer as If they had paid their fare. But
they don't do us any more except the
green hands. We are on, good and
hard, and when any passenger comes
at us with five dollar bill, we drop
him at the end of the tunnel and the
transfer man does the rest. Did you
notice how that one sneaked off? Nice
looking man, too, that you wouldn't
think would do a thing like that for a
nickel, would you?"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26

army has invented a humanitarian
projectile in the form of shell that
on explosion distributes not fragments
of lead and steel, but vast quantities
of gas which stupefies all who come
within it's sphere of influence. One
shell is said to contain enough gas to
place 1000 men hors de combat. The
nature of the gas is the inventors Sc
cret. Its humanitarian character is to
be found in the fact that the stupefy-
ing effect is only temporary.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
COST OF POSTAGE

According to the figures furnished by
the postoffice department, the average
person in Massachusetts, including
men, women and children, spends $3.50
on postage per annum. New York
comes second, with an expenditure of
third, with $2.16. Colorado is fourth,
with $1.93, and Connecticut is fifth,
with $3.50. The states ranking lowest
in this regard are South Carolina, with
25 cents per capita; Mississippi, with
kansas, with 81 cents, and North Caro-
lima, with Al cents.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26

territory never before touched by the
feet of white men, in search of this
valuable bloom. 1t will be readily
realized that the orchid fad is quite
expensive, but those who indulge in
1t never seem to abate their enthusi-
asm. Recently the first white orchid,
valued at a fabulous figure, was ex-
hibited in London and attracted wide
spread attention. In some primitive
spots of the globe the flowers are so
plentiful that they are sold on the
street, as is shown by this picture of a
Bhootea Vender.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
PETRlEIEp TRREE

n NE Of the greatest natural won
ders of America is the famous
petrifed forest of Arizona. The
most remarkable of these petrifications
are found near Adamana. To the
scientists It has long been a puzzle
what giant forces of nature have
wrought these wonders. What were
once soft, yielding, hbrous substances
have been transformed into solid stone.
The most of the masses of petrifica-
tions are very beautiful.
Literally thousands of acres are
thickly strewn with trunks and seq
ments of trunks and covered with
chipike fragments. There are several
separate tracts and one of these will
seem to the astonished beholder an
exhaustless store of gems, measur-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26

The visitor to the Falkland isles sees
scattered here and there singular
shaped blocks of what appear to be
weather beaten and moss covered boul-
ders in various sizes. Attempt to turn
one of these boulders over and you will
meet with a real surprise, because the
stone is actually anchored by roots of
great strength; in fact you will find
that you are trif1ing with one of the
native trees. No other country in the
world has such a peculiar forest
growth.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
PORTRAIT OF ;. SEAL

TT is not generally known that the
voice of the seal is more nearly like
the human voice than that of any
other of the lower vertebra. Its cry of
despair when heard at distance Will
often deceive one. A remarkably good
photograph of a seal is reproduced
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
VALUABLE GAME COCK

TIME was when cock fighting was a
popular and legitimate sport, and
the raising of game birds was
something Of an industry. Apart from
his prowess, however. the game cock
is a fine style of a bird, combining
dellcacy of line with strength and SYM
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26

Life saving runs in the family of Mr.,
j. Parsons. a young lighterman, Of the
Hollows, Brentford. England. who on
his twenty-third birthday received tha
Royal Humane society's certificate foI
rescuing two boys from drowning. His
father saved forty-elght persons from
drowning. and the son now has total
Of twenty-three lives to his credit.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26

Every bee carries his market basket
round his hind legs. Any one examin-
ing the body of bee through micro
scope will observe that on the hind
legs of the creature there is fringe
of stiff hairs on the surface, the hairs
as to form a sort of cage.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
HIGHEST oE BRIDGES

THE highest bridge in the world
beyond any question will be the
steel structure now planned for the
Zambesi falls, Africa. 1t will be sus-
pension bridge, somewhat similar to
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
ORCHID PEDDLER

of dollars are annually
spent and frequently lives are lost
in the collection of orchids in the
worlds out of the way places. Men
have penetrated the twilight jungles of
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26

Turkish women do not come into con-
troll of their private fortunes until
after marriage. After that they can
dispose of one-third of it without the
husbands consent.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
SAVAGE TOYS

A MONG the most backward and
II savage tribes great attention is
often paid to the children. The
toys and playthngs made by savages
in all parts of the world are often sur
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26

Russia has a larger proportion OF
blind people than any other European
country. Two out of every thousand
Of her people are sightless.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26

For each child born in the families
of the municipal clerks in Kansas City
the civic authorities promise to add So
a month to the fathers salary.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26

At Wardbury, Norway, the longest
day lasts from May 21 to July % with
out interruption.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26

The Bank of England destroys about
$4,000 of its bank notes every week
to replace them with freshly printed
ones. One evening in each week is set
apart for the making Of this curious
bonfire.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26

THE peasants Of France. like those oi
other countries, are giving up the
native costumes and clothing them
selves in cheap limitations of city cloth
ing. In Beaulieu, a charming winter
resort of the Riviera between Monte
Carlo and Nice, one may occasionally
see native costume in its purity
The water carriers of that region
are women, who ride a donkey, with
two kegs OF water lashed pannier wise
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26

TN Germany the farmers have utilized
the bicycle to operate threshing ma
chimes and mills. The motive
power is gasoline and very few cents
worth supplies the farmer for couple
of days running of the mill. The
miller, who stands by the motor cycle
engine, has connected the same by a
pully with the grindstone which was
evidently first worked by hand
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26

fell. Here is shown typical Arab slave
trader. He is a venerable looking man
OF not unpleasing presence. whom one
would expect to be given to religious
deVotions and acts of pure benevolence.
And yet both of these may be of his
doing because. according to his re-
lisious code, there is nothing wrong in
his business more than some of the
economic industrial things against
which we cry out In our civilization.
The leader., 1905-11-01

pie room for improvement In our coun-
try, the only foreign country from
which the United States can possibly
learn anything is Denmark. There the
best creameries are models Of cleanli-
ness, good order, and systematic man
agement. But all these details are &C
complished only through a lavish ex-
penditure Of labor which would appal
an American creamery manager. 1t is
not an uncommon thing for six or
eight persons to be constantly en-
ployed for six or eight hours a day,
turning out a quantity Of butter which
is ordinarily made in this country by
a man and a boy who have all the work
finished daily at or o'clock in the
afternoon.
Major Alvord found it impossible to
draw any comparisons between the
methods Of cheese-making and the re-
suits in this country and those abroad.
1t Is believed that the American fac
tory system. common to the United
States and Canada, is superior to any
thing elsewhere. In variety and fancy
cheese this continent can not yet. at
The leader., 1905-11-01

large scale. The ordinary big green
cucumber pickles are usually quite
free from cider vinegar. The only way
to make them edible is to soak the
pickles in strong brine, to extract the
acid, then to soak them in water to
get out the brine, and finally pickle
them in real vinegar.
Pure vinegar can be made as well
from other fruits as from apples.
Grapes, plums, and other fruits which
contain considerable proportion of
sugar, which is converted into alcohol
and then into acetic acid, make good
vinegar.
The Department of Agriculture has
in press short bulletin on vinegars,
which can be had upon application to
members of Congress. It is known as
Farmers Bulletin No. 2S3 and is COM
piled from the work Of the various
agricultural experiment stations on
this subject.