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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08

News Is mostly relative in value. re-
ceving Importance largely in proper
ton as ii affects ourselves and neigh
bors and losing in worth as the cir
Gle of It's influence widens. In other
words news of an event occurring In
Marshalltown might be OF interest 10
readers In Central Iowa, but would be
of little or no interest In distant cGun-
ties and OF still less interest I'm other
states In central Iowa we pay but
little attention to a collision of rail-
loss of two lives and the destruction
of considerable property. The same
kind of wreck on the Iowa Central
nearer home becomes at once a mat
ter OF much interest. A wreck near the
little town of Clifford some thirty miles
north Of this city. brought this fact
wildly to mind In this office. A light
engine going north crashed into Il
southbound train and bad smash-up
resulted. Two or three persons were
killed and the property loss was heavy.
The engineer and fireman on the light
engine had apparently forgotten all
about the southbound train although II
had been running on Il regular sched-
ule for years. Every detail of the sad
accident from the apparent lapse of
memory on the part of the light en-
gines crew down to the most trivial in
cidents. was read and discussed all
along the division on which the acct
dent happened. For the wreck brought
home to the people OF central Iowa
with terrible force the dangers of rail-
reading. Yet the accident was no
worse than hundreds OF others that are
happening almost daily In other states.
So that the correspondent In sending
news should take into consideration
the location of his story with respect
to the patrons Of the paper he serves.
A Times Republican correspondent
located near the borders OF the state
some time since made complaints be-
cause we did not publish minor news
sent In from his town He stated that
he had seen matters of much less
Importance in the paper and thought
he was being Disseminated against
He was a good correspondent and
readily saw the point when II was ex-
planned to him that he was located
outside the IRIS best field Of circu-
lation and that while we desired to
print matters of state wide interest
from all points of the state, minor
news could be printed only from those
points whence our circulation came
In fact such news would be of interest
only in that special field.
One of the most frequent excuses
made by correspondents I'm the small
err towns when urged to greater activ-
ity is that There is nothing to write
about here" One man made this ex-
cuse when his attention was called to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08
CROWDING A PROFESSION.

The last federal census gave $4,000
engineers and surveyors in the United
States and late number of the En-
cheering News is authority for the
statement 1850 students were OH the
rolls of the engineering colleges in
1908. The Inference Is that the pro-
fession is over-crowded. And this
seems to be true. The profession like
other professions is over-crowdei.
But 1t will be noticed in engineering
as in most other professions thai. the
real engineers are not being seriously
ljostled. The president searched long
for a man as big as the canal across
the isthmus. The highly competent
man in any profession is not starving
or getting bruised in a crush of COM
petitors. Ten thousand dollars is not
uncommon and $500 common SAL
airy for the best men.
What makes the best men? Not the
engineering college more than the
hardware store makes carpenter
when 1t sells him a saw and ham
mer The engineering college fur
nishes tools to work with. The real
engineer is made outside four walls. 1t
is the man who knows the duties Of
every man on the job. who can show
the laborer how to get the most out
of his pick, the one with the complete
knowledge of the task from its mag
nificence of conception down to side
drain and who hast executive ability
to bend it all to the accomplishment of
an undertaking that isn't crowded.
Too many socalled engineers bank on
their diplomas. Chuk full of theory
they await $4,000 job with a SUI
preme confidence that later ends in a
candidacy for the county surveyorship.
There is today no profession that is
not overcrowded-on paper. There is
none wherein real capacity and pra-
teal training does not bring success.
The professions are overcrowded by
incompetents but the corns of the men
who live their professions are not suf-
fering from the crowd.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08

years ago they ran to $4,000 per
mosth; Chicago Tribune, $4,000; Gin
cinnati Enquirer $3.50; New York
World. $4,000: st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat, 1000; San Francisco Examiner.
$4,000: Boston Herald, $4,000, and st.
Louis Republic, $4,000 Then there
comes the most Misunderstanding ac-
count of all, the white paper bill. On
the New York World 1t runs to about
100000 per year; and on the New
York American about the same; on the
Chicago News about s250000; on the
Boston Globe and Herald, about $780,
900 each: on the Enquirer, about $780,
600, and on many other papers it runs
from 100000 to quarter of a million
dollars every twelve NOR :.
"a woman's bonnet VIZ not cost
much if it wasn't for the trimming"
said the miserly husband.
"Neither would mans whiskers,
answered his wife.-Chicago News.
An English barrister named Gill, IN
his speech in recent breach of prom
Use case, made some epigrarnmatic re-
marks about women which will not
make him popular with the sex. How
ever. he was counsel for the man i'll
the case. He said: Gall women have
a capacity for describing themselves
as martyrs" "They regard any 9TH
err woman that man knows as
creature" "The first thing woman
did when she was engaged was to take
the man round in triumph and show
him to her friends"
why He Kicked-The old gentleman
in the smoking car was declaring We
hemently that, in his opinion, was was
a disgrace to civilization. WAR" he
exclaimed us an abomination, a blot
on the universal" Upon which he arose
and left the car.
"The old man seems to feel pretty
strongly on the subject" said one OF
the passengers. HAS he lost some near
relative thru WARP"
eyes" answered friend, mis- VIE
fret husband. "-Harper's Weekly
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08
STREET ETIQUETTE.
While walking with lady, the gen
lcman should take the side next the

While walking with lady, the gen
tlcman should take the side next the
street.
One salutation is all that civllity re
quircs when passing a person more
than once on u public promenade.
II the lady with whom you are walk
ing is salutcd by another gentleman,
acknowledge the same Ivy removing
your hat
The gentleman should raise his hat
when asking . lads''s pardon for an In
advcrteilcc, whether she is known to
him or not.
Should you desire to converse with
lady yo, should happen to meet, do
not detain her. but turn and walk In
her direction.
While walking with lady in a
crowded tllorougllfarc and obliged to
proceed singly, the gentleman should
precede the lady.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08
: Topics Of the Times

1t would be an actual relief to read
Of successful bank burglary from
the outside. The old fashioned bank
robber with the mask and lantern.
seems to have given way entirely to
the smooth gentleman in the, white
vest.
The Denison Review has prospered
to the limit of fine new press which
the management promises shall make
the Review the best printed county
seat paper possible.
Council Bluffs has Carnegie library
on paper, but has no place to put it,
as Mr.. Carnegie refuses to buy the lot
upon which to erect it. Consequently
Council Bluffs Is suspicious that Mr..
Carnegie was bluffing when he made
that remark about the disgrace of dy-
ing rich.
The subscriber to q daily paper may
gain some idea of the cost of the news
service he enjoys by the announce
ment of the Postal Telegraph Cable
Company that effective July LIST the
rate to Korea will be reduced 90 cents
per word via the Commercial Pacific
cable. Chemulpo, Fusan and Seoul
will be one dollar and twenty cents
per word beyond San Francisco and
other points in Korea will be one dollar
and twenty-nine cents per word be-
yond San Francisco. Still the subscribe
er reads columns of news flashed from
the far east at rate that would abb
sorb his farm or his fortune if he paid
full rates for a single issue.
Zone of my travelling companions"
says Kansas man, writing from Ire
land to the Kansas City Journal, "is
a man who chews tobacco, and he had
neglected to lay in supply before
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08

leaving America. No one else used the
for him. The Irish chew and smoke
the same plug tobacco. very dry ana
not tasting like American tobacco. For
n week my friend had been looking
thru shops trying to find something
that would touch the spot. Last night
soon after reaching Killarney he came
to me greatly excited and said, 'Hur-
ny, the finest scenery since we left
home Away we went down the mar
row street, and he led me up to Il
window In which was familiar sign
OF a brand much chewed in America
Possibly Messrs. Shea, Driscoll and
others considered the contributions
levied on Chicago business firms as an
Indemnity"
The practice Russia is getting sink
ing her own Black sea fleet should be
invaluable in another naval war.
With a view to affording the general
reader an idea of the immense cost of
printing n modern newspaper, particu-
arly In the large cities OF America. the
following authentic figures are submit
ted for inspection: Composition
(weekly pay rolD-Baltimor Ameri-
can, $4,000; Boston Globe, $4,100; Gin
cinnati Enquirer, $4,000; st. Louis
Globe Democrat $500; New York
Herald. $4,000. and other papers in
proportion. Another very heavy item
OF expense is the bills for special tele-
grams. On the Chicago Herald few
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08
Iowa Newspapers
sPoNG1NG ON DAD.
Rockford Register.1

A sixteen-year-ol lad lounging
about depot not long since at the
time for the midnight train, was asked
how he managed to stay up half the
night and work the next day. His reply
was significant and characteristic of
quite class: ''You won't catch me
doing lick so long as can sponge Oft
the old man." While there is little
question that the "old man" and "old
woman" were jointly in a large meas
ure responsible for the deplorable
state the boy seemed to be in, yet ha
ought for his own sake, present and
future. to take brace. He'll have
to paddle his own canoe sooner or lat
er anyway; the only question being
whether he prefers 1T to be trim wat
er-tight craft, well equipped and easy
to handle, or forlorn and leaky scow,
in the manipulation of which he must
spend most of his time bailing out
water with rusty tin can. The SOON
err the lad and others of his kind quit
"spongin' off the old man" and ac-
quire somewhat of independence and
self-respect, the less likelihood there
will be that they will spend the rest
of their days bailing water to keep
from getting swamped.
~
MODERN EDUCATION.
George Fitch in the Nonpareil.1
We are worried over Willie; he's at
tending public school,
He's dear, the teacher tells us, and he
never breaks a rule.
He has learned to sing quite sweetly
and to weave things out of grass,
While at making paper baskets he's the
brightest in his class.
To his course in mudpie sculpture he is
paying careful heed
But were worried for our Willie isn't
learning how to read.
He can name the birds correctly and
he knows the flowers too;
He has learned to blow soap bubbles
that are nearly two feet thru.
He can make horse of putty; he can
make a map in sand
And he's learning how to hammer at a
nail with either hand.
Yes, he's got lot of learning and no
doubt these things he'll need,
But somehow we can't help wondering
if he'll ever learn to read.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08
No False Claims.

The proprietors Of Foley's Honey and
Tar do not advertise this as a "sure
cure for consumption" They do not
claim it will cure this dread complaint
in advanced cases, but do positively
assert that it will cure in the earlier
stages and never fails to give COM
fort and relief in the worst cases. Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar is without doubt
the greatest throat apd lung remedy.
Refuse substitutes. B. A. Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08
Bent Her Double.

II knew no one, for four weeks. when
/ was sick with typhoid and kidney
trouble" writes Mrs. Annie Hunter. Of
Pittsburg, Pa, "and when got better,
although had one Of the best doctors
could get. l was bent double, and had
to rest my hands on my knees when l
walked From this terrible affection I
was rescued by Electric Bitters, which
restored my l.salth and strength, and
now I can walk as straight as ever.
They are simply wonderful" Guaran-
teed to cure stomach. liver and kidney
disorders; at Mcdonald & Mahood
Co.'S drug store. Price soc.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08
TERMS:
Eoretoodinos.

-
The winds and the waves are wailing.
And the night IL full Of tears,
And over my spirit forebodings
Are borne from the coming years.
] fear for the child heart in me.
with its oneness OF faith and sight.
Lest the glow Of Its strong endeavor
Go out In tho passionate night.
] tear for the swift feet running
Full speed through the morning dow
Lest they fail In the arid race course
With the goal. unwon. in view.
fear lest the motive for striving
10 petishinE In the strife;
fear lest the glory Of living
u darlening In the life.
fear. and In tears SILVER
A. the feet OF coming years;
The winds and the waves are wailing.
And the night is full Of tears.
George e. Woodbury.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08
Deafness Cannot be Cured.

BY local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional rem
edies. Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lin
ing of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is inflamed you have rumb-
ling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when 1t is entirely closed, deafness is
the result and unless the inf1amma-
ton can be taken out and this tube
rertored to its normal condition, hear
ing will be destroyed forever: nine
cases out OF ten they are caused by
catarrh, which is nothing but an in
famed condition Of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hairs
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars
free F. j. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, O.
Sold by all druggists, rs cents.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08

met them on railroad journey or on
shipboard Since that note was firm
ly struck not only has the attend
ance at the fortnightly club meetings
increased, but the proportion of men
in the pews on Sunday has grown also.
That particular clergyman breaches
probably to as large a proportion of
men as any man in the city.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08
Low Rates to Portland, Ore, via Chi
oaoo Great Western RAILWAY.

Tickets on sale frequently beginning
May gard till September 29th. Also
very low rates to Seattle Tacoma,
Eellingham and Everett, Wash, Vic
foria and Vancouver. B. c., and San
Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego,
Cal For low rates, dates of sale and
other information apply to J. r. Hard
ing, agent. Marshalltown.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08
BUY Il Now.

Now is the time to buy Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. 1t is certain to be needed
sooner or later and when that time
comes you will need it badly-you viii.
need 1t quickly. Buy 1t now. 1t may
save life. For sale by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08
THOSE FIVE CENT MEALS.

The board Of control after investiga-
ton of the charges made by Scott
county against the food furnished in.
mates OF the insane asylum at Mt.
Pleasant, finds there was no just foun-
dalton, for the accusation. Much enr~
phasis having been placed on the
cheapness OF the meals served at an
average cost per meal of $40 cents.
the board explains that the first cost
OF the food materials Is about cents
for the average meal in the hospitals.
For the week ending on April Is, last,
such cost at Mount Pleasant hospital
was 4 $40 cents. This was not the
cost Of any particular meal, but the
average cost of each Of more than "a
900 meals served to people in various
conditions of mental and physical
health, many Of whom could take but
little food.
It viii be noted that the five cent
charge is made only for the first cost
OF the raw material for a single meal
for one individual and does not in
clude the cost of preparation, service,
etc. How does this cost compare with
the wages Of an ordinary laboring man
ct say $3.50 per day? Taking for ex-
ample d family OF father mother and
four children the raw materials for
single meal for the six persons is 80
cents at the Mt. Pleasant rate, for the
day $1.05, for the month Of thirty days
$3.50. If he was employed during the
twenty-six working days his wages
amounted to $39. He has $3.50 left
with which to pay rent, fuel bills, buy
clothing and spend for other necessi-
ties. Sixty dollars a month is above
the average wages. If the worker re-
ceivingr this sum spends S cents for
Z the raw materials for Individual meals
for six persons his first charge against
his salary must be $3.50. Take $40
rent, SIG for colthing (this is an aver
age annual expense of 500 1-3 for
clothing for each person)), IS for fuel
but 1t is unnecessary to go farther on
credit.
The fact seems to be that an ex-
penditure of cents first cost for food
IS greater than the average family,
say Of five, can afford, ard still the
heartiesta hardest muscled boys and
girls are coming from families that live
on or under $40 a year. There are
many men and women who have rear
ed and are rearing healthy fairly fed
and fairly clothed families on wages
that rarely ran higher than $45
lated neat little properties. Many Of
them own their homes. These fathers
and mothers belong in the class OF
public benefactors. The father Is a
business man and the mother heroine
ana even the board Of control might
learn something to Its advantage by
studying their system Of domestic
economy.
There is no desire to "scrimp' the
inmates OF our public institutions and
it ID pretty evident that no such sys-
tom has been attempted. The inmates
get better food and better beds than
they have ever been accustomed to.
II the Scott county complainants will
take the trouble to investigate the rea-
sons for the savings bank accounts of
the thrifty and prolific German labor
ing families of their own thriving city
the expenditure of Is cents on the ma
terial for single meal will take on a
very different appearance.
Ak.eo,oaA 4s6i aaancc
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08

Foley's Kidney Cure purifies the
blood by straining out impurities and
torres up thu whole system. Cures
kidney and bladder troubles. B. A..
Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08

Iowa may have lost out on popnla-
ton" says the Marion Register. but
when the totals in the savings banks
and other banks are published 1t Will
be found that the multiplication table
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08
Washington Post.

had to be used In showing the increase
of the deposits
"rhe role Of the prophet Is easy, If
you don't set any dates" declares the
Iowa Falls Citizen.
The Cedar Rapids Republican has
discovered that "a great deal of the
trouble in the world comes from look
ing for the easy dollar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08

/ have seldom known any one who
deserted truth in tribes that could be
trusted In matters Of Importance
paley.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08

The greatest system renovator. Re-
stores vitality, regulates the kidneys.
liver and stomach. If HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea fails to cure, get your
money back. That's fair. 35 cents, tea
or tablets. Mcbride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08
Growth Of the Men,. Club Movement.

Growth of the Mems Club movement.
Critics Of the churches have often
made much of the charge that religion
appealed chiefly to women. The Brook
lyn Eagle finds, however, that sheer
has less and less foundation. Hard
ly a week passes that the Eagle does
not report the public meeting of some
mems club in connection with one OF
the churches. There must be SONS:
fifty of these organizations on social
lines in Brooklyn, and the movement
is growing now more rapidly than at
any time since it started some four
wears ago. OF course, there We're mems
societies long before that, but they
lacked the social quality which is the
dominating note of the mems church
club of today.
'DThe keynote of the most success
full church clubs is the free and friend
Nv acquaintance Of the men of the par
ish or of the neighborhood. Brother
hood is one of the fundamental doc
trines of Christianity. The beginning
of brotherhood is acquaintance and
church clubs like other social clubs.
promote acquaintance on the basis OF
character and mutual liking and not
on any platform or profession. The
cigar is a helpful medium of friend
ship in the most successful of these
mems clubs, as it is outside OF them.
The pastor and leader of one of the
strongest of these clubs makes the club
meeting night his occasion for main
| tanning his friendship with the men OF
| his parish, not on the basis of his Of
| fee as pastor. but on his qualities as
| a man precisely as he would do II he
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08
Low Round Trip r. o. Daily to Port.
land, via The Northwestern Line,

Account Lewis and Clark exposition,
via direct routes or at slight advance
via San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Send 2-cent stamp for Illustrated fold
er and full information as to extensive
choice Of routes going and returning,
with low rate side trip to Yellowstone
National Park and Alaska.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Ames Times says II lhe pol-
traits of John D. Rockefeller IN eh.
July Mcclure are a just portrayal OF
the man, and no doubt they are, the
public would in vain look for tender
ness Of sentiment in the brain behind
that masklike face For mask 1t is.
No emotion of any kind looks out OF
those eyes and the line of the mouth,
If it shows anything at ALL shows
greed and self containment to a de-
gree. The riddle of the sphinx is an
easy one besides the puzzle of those
immobile features. 1t Is the concen-
trated type Of the commercialism OF
the age.
keep 1t up--the agitation for good
roads and good drainage says the
Sloan Star. Both are coming sooner
or later and the sooner the better for
all concerned"
This starving ones way through
college was all right years ago, when
our fathers lived on corn bread and
salt pork and times were SO hard that
people had to go visiting to get a
square meal. but it all nonsense now,
declares the Manson Democrat. when
there is an opportunity to earn big
wages at every turn of the road and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-08

While 1t may be considerably like
knocking down man of straw there
is a widespread disposition to sit
down on Secretary Shaws presiden-
tial aspirations" observes the Eagle
Grove Eagle.