davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-23
Iowa Newspapers

A NEW INDUSTRY Y.
IRritt rrihune. 1


Spiri; Lake has started an industry
that ought to be emulated in every
town in Iowa. Now in retrospect we
will go back and admit that emulate
isn't the right word to use in that con-
nection at all times but this time IT is.
They are killing the worthless doSs ~
town and burning them in their heat
ing plants and if that isn't a piah
worthy of emulation we don't know the
meaning of words There are dogs
enoi,eh i'm Britt that are of no use on
top Of earth but to eat and sleep by tn ?
fire that could be utilized for fuel and
ought to be- \ dead dog is better
burned than buried or left on top OF the
errol1nd as so many of them aae, amt
nine out of ten dogs are better dead
than alive therefore get UP some mo- n
ing and burn your dog.
CONG GARDEN SEEDS.
James Times.l
The Times has received its spring in
stalIment of seeds from the depart
ment of agriculture and if the editor
table is scantily provided for 1T Won
be the fault of the ID. of A.. The
blushing beet, the roseate radlsh. the
majestic muskmelon. the pervasive
parsnip and the melinuous mustard
are the various vegetables represented.
Now we know that Senator DolliVer
himself must have gone to some nice
seed store and picked out these choice
samples for us, or maybe Mrs. DolliVer
had a nice little garden patch in her
back yard down there in Washington
and saved these these last fall and took
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-23
THE LANDLORDS LIEN.
TBritt Tribune

Why should the Iowa State legisla-
ture make the rent of the land a per-
ferred claim? Why shouldn't a man
who rents a farm have a right to seel
the crop and pay any other debt just
as we'll as the rent? Why shouldn't
the land owner have to "go in" after
his rent in the same manner the mer-
chant goes after the pay for his goods.
or the coal man for the pay for his
coal? Isn't that class legislation?
Did the army of land grabbers and
owners have a lobby at work at Des
Mones to get that law passed? What
are they making OF the renter but Il
serf? What are they making of the
land owner but landlord like the
landlord of England? Everybody
should agitate this question until that
law is swept from the statute books
of Iowa. A renter brings a load of
grain to an elevator and the buyer
dares not buy it until he finds out
whether or no the man has paid his
rent, or be liable for his debt. Cover
nor Cummins could have used the
great office to which he was elected to
a far better advantage in attending to
some of are fool state legislation than
in his eternal harping on tariff reform
Or other national issues.
There is no more reason why this
state of Iowa should step in with
paternalism and protect the interests
of the land owner than that it should
pass a law that a man shouldn't pay
any other debt until he had settled for
his newspaper We take our chances,
lie the land owner take his. 1t is an
outrage that such law was ever pass
ed. If renter buys seeds grain of
another farmer that debt is absolutely
no good until the rent has been paid.
If he buys a machine to harvest it
with. that debt is no good until the
has been paid. If he owns a team or
part of one the mortgage can get the
team, but the landlord can sit in HIS
Office care free, his rent is secure. The
argument was used that no crop could
have been raised but for the land it
self. Neither could it have been rails
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-23
Railroad Accidents.

Writing in Success, Frederick Up
ham Adams says:
will make a statement which will
be challenged but which can not be
dISproved The abnormally heavy To-
ComotiVe now the standard on Amerl-
can railroads, is the positive cause OF a
l. rye percentan@e of railroad accidents.
NEST of which are charged against
other factors of equipment or service.
The craze for powerful locomotives
set in about 1873. Prior to that time
the average locomotive weighed from
twenty five to fifty tons. Our roads
We're planned for engines of this type
and weight The railroads. switches,
bridges. viaducts and other features
We're in conformity to the medium
weight locomotive. 1t was discovered
that there was an economy in big
freight engines, hauling a large num-
Der of cars and thereby doing away
with trainmen. 1t was also discover
ed that the greatest source of sa1ety
in case OF the inevitable collisions was
a car so solidly constructed that it
would smash thru weaker ones.
To haul these heavy cars at high
speed required engines of increased
size. Inc methdHlcdl WORTH was SUI
prised when the seventy-ton locomo-
tive was announced. Then it went to
eighty, then to ninety. and there was
much acclaim when the hundred-ton
monster was turned out of the shops.
A passenger locomotive which does
not weigh one hundred tons is now
considered out of date. To meet the
terrific impact of these monsters the
size of the rails has been slightly in
creased. but we still hold them to the
ties by the primitive method of splk-
ing them down. What is the conse-
auence? The rails spread on curve.
and sometimes on a straight piece OF
track, and disastrous wreck ensues.
Such accidents have increased at an
alarming rate.
1t is AN open secret that hundreds of
accidents are charged against mis-
placed switches when the cause should
have read "ripped-up switches. IL
seems impossible to construct inter-
locking switches which are safe against
the well-nigh resistless impact or one
hundred or more tons of metal hurled
forward at a speed of seventy miles an
hour. The tracks and switches are too
weak for the locomotives. There is not
a. railroad man in the country who
does not know that this statement is
absolutely true.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-23
Topics OF the Times

The process of pouring oil does not
seem to affect the waves of indigna-
ton in Kansas.
The Burlington Hawkeye criticizes
the Standard OIL Company for lack Of
"sagacious management" in its KAN
sas imbroglio. "Sagacious manage
ment" is good and shows that the
Hawkeye like other Burlington papers
has been well brought up.
80
Bill Richards was first rate hand
to run down another man who had
been guilty of some crime or other but
he did not learn from his experience
how hard it is to hide ones tracks,
Atlantic Messenger.
Doubtless Bill Richards knew as well
as any other the end of the trans
gressor's way. Lack of sound prin-
ciple, not of shreswdness, was Richards
undoing. The charm and temptation
of little easy money" were too
strong for him. And none may say
how much the easy morality of poll
teal ring facilitated his descent of
Avernus.
The Kansas menu Is likely to create
considerable dyspeptic disturbance in
that million dollar stomach.
The devilish malignity and ingen-
uity of the japanese was never bet
ter illustrated than by opening schools
in their prison camps to teach Russian
soldiers to read and write. The cap
ture of Port Arthur was reverse, but
this new plan strikes at the very foun-
dations of the empire.
Speaker of the Arizona kicker, how
is this from the Mapleton, Iowa,
Press: Its fortunate for some that
the Press is not running its police col
umn at present or we would have to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-23

ed without seed, without horses, with
out machinery. Unfavorable weather,
chinch bugs, rust and frost nave no
terror for the landlord. until he rent
is raised all creditors must take rhelr
chances.
That law virtually says; The man,
nor his wife and family, nor nls ami
mails shall eat until he has paid the
rent. If he can't sell the crop he en-
not legally eat or seed it until the feat
is paid. 1t is bad enough that the
renter often signs a lease giving the
owner a mortgage virtually OIL every
thing on earth that he possesses but
his appetite and the landlord has q
strns, on that. 1t is a continuance OF
a policy in this country that money
cash is sacred. The days work must
so into the lottery of wind, drouth,
rain or other obstacle to a good crop,
but the eternal darling S must be pro-
tected If the renters of Iowa would all
go on a strike for one year along with
the Workingnen in other lines weeds.
and a cropless farm, for the landlord
would clean out some of the Shylock
kinks from our statute books, land
values would not increase, b ut horse
sense in the landlord would, and he
would be too willing to take his chan
ces equally on his $ invested with the
wear and tear of the renters muscle
and his loss mentally and financially
i'm crop failures just as he did. A fix
ed value on the rentals that time tide
or inundation can't change, specula-
tive value on the brain and Drawn of
the renter. 1t is unAmerican and UNI
just. The dollar is always worth 100
cents on the dollar, the days work is
worth what is left after the landlord
gets his pay. Justice would make each
share alike in profit or loss with every
creditor entitled to his pay oft of the
rerter's share or with an equal chance
to collect it. Rentals are preferred
claims in Iowa and that is class legis-
lation if it is anything. We WOULD like
to see that law tried in the supreme
court
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-23
Closing Out Sale!

The undersigned will sell at Public
Auction, on the E. B. Howard farm,
2h miles southeast of Bangor, and 6
miles northwest Of Albion, commencing
at 10 o'clock a. M, on Monday, Feb. ~.
1905, the following described personal
property:
Six head of cattle, consisting of one
span Buckskin mares, weight about
$500 lbs; one span driving ponies 8
years old, broke; one 3-year-old mare,
weight HOO lbs.
Twenty-Five head Of cattle, consist
ing of nine milch cows, some fresh and
more to be fresh soon; five yearlfngs,
(four heifers and one steer) eight
calves; (six heifers nd two steers.)
Twenty-one head Of hogs, consist
ing of twelve brood sows bred to a
thoroughbred Chester White boar, nine
shoats, barrows.
Twelve tons good timothy hay in
barn. quantity of corn in crib; also
ten bushels seed corn, fodder in stack.
Farm Machinery, Etc.-Consfst1ng
of one disc, one gang plow, one four
section harrow, one feed grinder, one
riding cultivator, one covered spring
wagon, one single buggy. one sled,
quantity of household goods and other
articles too numerous to mention.
| Free lunch at noon.
Terms of Sale.-Al sums of So or
under, cash. On all sums over IS a
credit of IL months will be given, the
purchaser giving bankable note at s
ner cent interest from date. No prop
erty to be removed until settled for.
G. F. Smith, Auctioneer; w. H. Ar
ney, Clerk.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-23
SEEN FROM Cup a TREE"

"Strained relations" between the
president and the senate over the arbi-
tration treaties, have brought out much
very interesting public comment, both
in this country and abroad. The Liter
airy Digest, which is one of the best
if not the very best and fairest coll
laborator of public expression, has
winrowed out comment upon the
deadlock by newspapers and public men.
Thus Sir Thomas Barclay, an English
advocate of arbitration, calls the seq
ate's action ':disgraceful," and says it
is 'sthe severest blow the peace move
ment has received in years." Oscar S.
Stratus indorses the presidents posi-
ton AT the presidents dinner in
Little Hungary in New York, last
week, Congressman Sulzer and District
Attorney Jerome, both democrats,
praised the president and scored the
senate, amid wild applause. The Chi
cago Record Herald thinks the anly
commemorate feature of the senate's
action is the fact that it has given
added impetus to the movement for
popular election of senators. Other
papers that approve the presidents
course are the New York Evening
Post, Evening Mail, Press and Journal
of Commerce, and the Philadelphia
Press and Inquirer. The New York
Tribune, whose editor, Mr.. Whitelaw
Reid, is expecting to be appointed
ambassador to the court of ST. James,
an appointment upon which the presi-
dent and senate must agree, is main
tanning complete silence upon the pres
ent unpleasantness
In the senates attempt to keep the
president from belittling it, observes
the Hartford Courant, it has belittled
itself. Indeed, says the New York Eve
ming Post it has actually crippled ou-
diplomacy" a reflection that several
other journals share. The burking Of
all these arbitration treaties by this
quarrel cannot fail to impair, for a
time, the influence of this country in
the general council of nations" for
the foreign powers can not commune
cate with the senate, and they are in
formed, in substance, that it is hardly
worth while bothering themselves with
the president" remarks the Brooklyn
Citizen. So, too, thinks the Boston
Herald, which asks what weight the
European powers will attach to future
notes OF Secretary Hay on such topics
as the integrity of China, comment
that is echoed by the st. Petersburg
Novoye Vremya, as reported by cable.
which inquiries sarcastically if the Hay
notes in regard to China are worth
anything in view of this revelation that
the real dicator in foreign affairs is
the senate, which has never said word
about China.
Turning to the other side we find
ex-Secretary Foster, Wayne MacVeagh
and NJ. Carnegie indorsing the SEN
ates position. Senator Lodge has pre-
1nrel statement showing that in
practically all the European powers
signatory to these treaties the con-
templated agreements" would have 20
be acted upon by one or both of the
legislative bodies; and in reply to re-
Elections upon the senate's motives an
other prominent senator is quoted as
saying that 1.-The fact that the senate
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-23
Fraud Exposed.

A few counterfeiters have lately been
making and trying to sell limitations of
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, Coughs, Colds, and other
medicines, thereby defraudinss the pub
lie. This is to warn you TO beware
of such people, who seek to profit, thru
stealing sthe reputation of remedle
which have been successfully curing
diseases for over thirtyfive years. A
sure protection, to you, is our name
or the wrapper. Look for it, on all
Dr. Kings or Bucklen remedies, as all
others are mere limitations. H. e.
BUCKLEN & CO, Chicago ILL.,, and
Windsor. Canada. Mcdonald & Ma
hood Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-23
SAVE THE BIRDS.

This has been a hard winter on. the
birds. Correspondents and newspap-
ers have told of quail freezing and
starving al over the state. Huge
drifts along the hedges and in the
cover these little birds inhabit have
shut them away from food. The fierce
cold and starvation has killed thous-
ands of them. 1t need not astonish
If the ensuing spring shows quail
practically extinct in sections of the
state where they have been common.
The freezing up of the great pays
and sounds along the coast has been
an evil thing for the wildfoWl. Whlle
the sea ducks, like broadbills. red
heads, canvasbacks and many others
commonly shift from north to south as
the water closes or opens, there are
many marsh ducks whose attachment
to localities seems to be so great that
when their usual winter feeding
grounds close UP they sit about on
Tie ice MC.lllllS9 Iol q SiAAAASN " W
err or resort to open warm spring holes
where they dabble in the mud, and,
instead OF migrating, starve to death
where they are.
Still, this season there has been a
greater organized effort to protect the
! land birds than ever before by fur
,1,o Tlo
commissions of several states have
been active in the work, but their
work has been necessarily limited. The
farmers are the only class of citizens
that can 90 effective work in the pres
eryation Of the birds by scattering
feed in times of distress. Some of
them have done this. Many more have
neglected it.
And yet the farmer is the one most
life. The birds are his most active
servants. Their value to him is ines
Unable. From a purely selfish stand
point, It few pecks of grain scattered
to the starving birds are an excellent
investment. Even if this We're not the
case a single bob white whistling to
his mate from a meadow fence in the
spring is worth the grain and the
trouble.
If the birds are to be preserved the
farmers must be their active friends.
Not only in the fall when the hunt
er is abroad but in the winter when
the birds die of starvation and cold
In the orchards and along the hedges.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-23
A Nioht Alarm.

Worse than an ALARM OF ire at night
is the brassy cough of Group which
sounds like the children's death knell.
and it means death unless something
is done quickly. Foley's Honey and
Tar never fails to give Instant relief
and quickly cures the worst forms Of
GROUP. Mrs. P. L. Cordier, of Man
nington, KY, writes: MY three year
old girl had severe case of Group;
the doctor said she could not live.
got bottle of F'oleys Honey and Tar
and the first dose gave quick relief and
saved her life" Refuse substitutes. B.
Nfo,epau
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-23
That Tickling IN the Throat.

One minute after taking One Minute
Cough Cure that tickling in the throat
is gone 1t acts in the throat-not the
stomach. Harmless-good for chill
dren. A. L. Spofford, postmaster at
Chester, Mich, says: "Our little girl
was uncohycious from strangulation
during a sudden and terrible attack of
Group. Three doses of One Minute
Cough Cure half an hour apart speed
ily cured her. I cannot praise One
Minute Cough Cure to omuch for what
it has done in our family" 1t always
gives relief. Sold by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-23
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW

We are told that every moving body
of water has an undercurrent NOV
ing on with irresistible force, ana
that so quietly, so silently, so unop-
served is this mdercurrent, that SAIL
ors on the surface of the water ire
ouently and generally have no knoWl-
edge of it's source, direction or power.
1t is equally true that in the affairs
of men. lust such an undercurrent eX-
lists bearing exactly the same relation
to the outward trend OF events. we
notice results and wonder the cause.
Surely things were floating in anoth-
err direction but behold the opposite
the unexpected, the unforeseen. IN
affairs national, social, polltlcal anu
religious, the unexpected always nap
pens. Traced to a cause, we ma inc
heretofore unknown undercurrent. All
reforms begin, not with publicity, but
secretly. An undercurrent of sentt-
ment made possible the writing OF un-
Gle Toms Cabin The resultant pub
licity freed the slave.
We are after all nothing but autom-
atoms. Quiet influences work IN
communities till current OF thought
is formed. This runs at first With so
little force, so little apparent speed, II
can had hardly be characterized as
movement, much less a movement.
But other thought is drawn into the
slow moving stream, till its volume,
still below the surface, equals the cur
rent above. Even then. observers rec
ognize only what's on the surface But
after a while like the muddy waters OF
the Missouri entering the clear stream
called Mississippi, is attention called 10
the two currents that glide on LOT
miles. refusing to mix in a common
current Eventually the currents OF
public opinion do blend, do harmon1z2
and become the one force that upllfts
humanity and saves our civilization.
Just now in this world of ours, UNI
dercurrents are being formed that
promise much. The war between Rus
STA and Japan means much more than
the killing of thousands and spending
of millions. Out of this crash of arms
NAV come results whose beginning to-
dav mavbe in China, maybe in Finland,
mavbe in Russia itself. In the new
found powers of Japan may exist at
this moment Il Sllcll uIlQCl iSiis W.
tined to revolutionize the affairs Of the
whole world. We do not recognize
now the forces silently at work, but
fifty or hundred years from now,
students of history will look back and
easily trace the beginning of the I'M
dercurrents that led to such momen-
tous results.
That this country is about to change
some of the present outrageous con-
ditions in our POLITICAL social and eco
nomic life, strikes many close ohserv-
ers. The uppercurrent of thought, the
apparent satisfied public conscience, the
Indifference of our best citizens, the
honesty of the individual, losing itself
in the corporation, the working out
Of a new religious form of thought, all
seem on the point of changing. Inc
undercurrents are coming to the sur
face. Fifty years from now the Won
der will be that the American public
of 1900 drifted so long and so far in
the big gulf stream of Indifference.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-23

big stick is mighty good thing The
Sentinel suggests lit might be we'll
for the Iowa people to send Il few let
ters to Senator's Allison and Dolliver
and let them know what the Iowa far
mers are thinking about
The Cedar Rapids Gazette is aston
ished to find ION the authority of the
standpat editors themselves. that they
are the only newspaper men in the
state who read congressional bills or
make a general effort to inform them
selves"
The Des Moines Mail and Times
talks good sense when it calls on the
mayor and chief of police to issue a
proclamation warning the people and
ordering the immediate arrest of any
and every man found carrying conceal
ed Weapons, and insists it might have a
good effect in the city. Let the peo-
pie know this law is to be strictly en-
forced and good will come of it," de-
clares the Mail and Times
IF acts instead of names decide a
mans politics. Mr.. Roosevelt is GER
tainly a democrat" asserts the Algona
Courier (dem.) Democracy halls him
as Il brave and strong man, and it will
sustain him in ali that is right"
The DEBORAH Republican does not
like the intimation from Washington
that the senate will be antagonistic to
the president on any question. 1t will be
bad for the grave and reverend sena-
tors if such proves the case; and they
cannot afford such an attitude. The
people are with Theodore Roosevelt;
they believe i'm HMM his wisdom,
Judgment, honesty of purpose. and
ability to grasp and master any situa-
ton They have no such regard for the
senate as an entirety
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-23
Houseseekers' Excursions.

The Chicago Great Western railway
will on the first and third Tuesdays
of each month. January 10 April in
elusive, sell homeseekers' tickets at
one fare, plus 50 for the round trip to
points in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona,
Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indian Ter
ritory, Iowa, Kansas, Kent ucky, Louis
lana, Mexico, Michigan, Minnesota,
Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New
ada. Tennessee, Texas. Utah, Virginia
and Wyoming. For furtE er informa-
ton apply to ]. r. Harding, agent.
Marshalltown. Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-23
Credit.

Harper w eekly.I
In a certain town of Connecticut a
reacon of the church charged with So
liclting subscriptions for charity re-
Gently experienced considera BILE diff
Guilty in getting the townsmel to con-
tribute.
TO one of his neighbors, the willy
deacon said:
"oh. come. Ricard; do give some
thing"
Sorry. deacon" answered Richard;
but L don't see how l cam"
Why not? Isn't the cause good
one?"
ooh, yes; the cause is cool enough,
but l owe too much money.
But Richard, you owe God lar
ger debt than anyone else
That's true, too" drawled Richard,
"but God amt pushin' me-"